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“I think any election is important, but not even I can say I show up to them all. I think this is a very important primary especially with such a contentious congressional race. But also my boss, Dick Durbin, was on the ballot, and I’m also a big supporter of Sam Rosenberg. A mix of reasons, but I’m happy to be here. As much as I hate that there was no line, it’s good because I can go back and study really quick.”

graduate student in Law and former Illini Media employee

“Professor Gollin was running, and he was a teacher of mine. I think we need more people like him in Congress, especially since I plan on going into government and maybe even Congress myself. I mean voting is kind of a duty as a citizen, so it’s a good thing to do.”

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“I voted today because I really was focused on the state representative election primary. I was concerned that the main issues were concerned about funding for this University and protection for worker’s rights and labor unions; that’s what brought me to the polls today.”

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‘What brought you to the polls today?’BY BRYAN BOCCELLI

STAFF WRITERCarol Ammons, Urbana City Coun-

cil member and former member of the Champaign County Board, defeated Sam Rosenberg in Tuesday’s Demo-cratic primary election for state rep-resentative of the 103rd District.

Ammons won with 3,298 votes, or 56.91 percent, while Rosenberg received 2,497 votes.

After winning, Ammons said she felt great and was a bit overwhelmed.

When asked about her future plans she said, “We’ll regroup and expand our campaign for the November election.”

Ammons’ career in public service led to endorsements from local orga-nizations and community members, including the Illinois Federation of Teachers, the Service Employees International Union - Local 73, and the Graduate Employees Organiza-tion - Local 6300.

Ammons said she looks forward to working with all the Democrats in the house and advocating for issues including environmental regulations, a new graduated income tax and pen-sion reform, among many other plans.

Ammons said her plans include to “expand this very huge effort ... we’ll get more people involved in the cam-paign, we’ll grow the campaign fur-ther, we’ll raise more money for the general election, and we’ll go and be successful in November.”

She also noted there are a lot of bud-getary issues to work on.

“We also have education issues that are important — access to education is important and we have to rep around our retirees who are going to be affect-ed by this pension change,” she said.

Previously, Ammons stated that if she were elected to the position of state

Ammons wins nomination for District 103

District 13 Democratic nod goes to Callis

Davis wins Republican primary once more

With primary over, Illinois GOP in strong position for governor raceBY BOB SECTER CHICAGO TRIBUNE

CHICAGO — President Obama’s Illinois has been one of the most reliably blue on the political color scale, but Tues-day’s primary here positioned Republicans for a strong shot at retaking the governor’s mansion in a state mired in chronic fiscal disarray.

Venture capital tycoon Bruce Rauner, a politically influential player among this city’s corpo-rate elite but a first-time candi-date, narrowly captured the GOP nod for governor over three par-ty veterans in a race fueled by

the new nominee’s vast person-al wealth and biting disdain for public employee unions.

“Let’s go get ‘em,” Rauner declared as he claimed an unex-pectedly slim victory over state Sen. Kirk Dillard, who had court-ed union support and attacked Rauner for trying to demonize hardworking civil servants.

“This is about shaking up Springfield, shaking out the cor-ruption by its roots,” Rauner said.

Rauner, 58, in November will face incumbent Democrat Pat Quinn, who has low voter approv-al ratings but catlike political survival skills that for decades

have kept him in the public eye as a populist outsider in his own party.

The general election battle, possibly the GOP’s best hope of picking up a governorship from Democrats, promises to be expensive and bruising. Special interests on the right and left are pouring in resources to help two shoot-from-the-hip rivals paint each other in broad, unflatter-ing stereotypes. Think Inspec-tor Clouseau versus Inspector Javert.

To Rauner, Quinn is “the worst governor in America” whose bumbling management of state

finances has driven away busi-ness and jobs with a big tax increase. To Quinn, Rauner is an exemplar of the so-called 1%, a rich, out-of-touch execu-tive who is forcing the working class to bear the brunt of eco-nomic troubles.

There is little doubt that Quinn, 65, is vulnerable.

Governors always love to brag about how their states lead the nation in this or that, but the list of Illinois chart-toppers these days has become a major Rauner talking point. Among the states, Illinois has by far the worst pen-sion debt and the worst credit rat-

ing, a fiscal drag that Rauner lik-ens to “a death spiral.”

Yet Quinn, who replaced the impeached and now imprisoned Rod R. Blagojevich as governor in 2009, narrowly won election in his own right the next year in a con-test where Republicans highlight-ed many of the same complaints.

Rauner’s bet is that voter fatigue with Quinn, coupled with a relentless ad campaign financed from his deep pockets and those of well-heeled peers in the business world, will be a dif-ference maker this time around.

Underlying Rauner’s campaign from the first has been a war on

unions that represent govern-ment workers, which he contends are all-powerful in Springfield, the capital, and responsible for laws and policy decisions that hurt taxpayers.

Both candidates have obvi-ous vulnerabilities. Quinn must answer for the state’s dire financial shape despite a major tax hike he signed into law in 2011. Rauner has been forced to defend his business record, including his role as a director of a document imaging firm caught in a major account-ing scandal that sent three top executives to prison.

BY ELEANOR BLACK AND JOSH WINTERSSTAFF WRITERS

Ann Callis defeated George Gollin and David Green in the Democratic primary for the 13th congressional district.

Callis won the race with 54 percent of votes, with 96 percent of precincts report-ing at press time, according to the Chicago Tribune. However, Gollin, a physics profes-sor at the University, won Champaign County with about 53 percent of the votes.

“I’m looking forward to continuing my con-versation with voters about my record of working with Democrats and Republicans to bring people together to get results,” Callis said in a press release.

Callis served as the chief judge of Madi-son County for 18 years, where she created

the first Veterans’ Court in Illinois, as well as a foreclosure mediation program to help homeowners.

“Illinois voters will have a clear choice between my record of protecting middle class families and Congressman (Rodney) Davis, who voted during his first year in Congress to end the guarantee of Medicare and raise Medicare costs on Illinois fami-lies,” she said.

During her campaign, Callis said her top priorities included creating jobs, protecting seniors with Social Security and Medicare, and ending income inequality.

In terms of education, she supports increas-ing Pell Grants and Sen. Dick Durbin’s stu-

BY ELEANOR BLACK AND AUSTIN KEATINGSTAFF WRITERS

Incumbent Rodney Davis defeated Univer-sity alumna Erika Harold and Michael Firsch-ing, a veterinarian, in the republican primary for the 13th congressional district.

Davis won the race with 54 percent of votes, with 96 percent of precincts reporting at press time. Though Davis won the overall vote, Har-old, an attorney and former Miss America from Champaign-Urbana, won Champaign County with 70 percent of votes.

“I feel great, I’m very humbled by the opportunity that the voters of the 13th Dis-trict have given me, not only to be their con-gressman but to carry the Republican ban-ner for the next seven-and-a-half months,” Davis said.

Davis, of Taylorville, Ill., curently serves on the House Agriculture Committee and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee.

During his campaign, Davis said that man-aging government spending is his highest pri-ority. After Tuesday’s results, he said he would continue to do what he has done during his 15 months in office.

“(I’m) going to Washington, doing the job that the voters sent me to Washington to do, to continue to work on bipartisan solutions, like the Farm Bill,” Davis said. “The Farm Bill has saved taxpayers $23 billion in mandatory spending and also ensures that our landgrant universities like the University of Illinois are

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DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTOAnn Callis won the Democratic candidacy for the 13th District on Tuesday. She spoke at a public forum held for candidates for Congressional representation of the 13th District of Illinois last month.

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BRYAN BOCCELLI THE DAILY ILLINICarol Ammons, the Democratic candidate for the 103rd District, speaks to a community member about voting Tuesday. Ammons won the Democratic nomination to represent the district with 56.91 percent of the votes.

DAILY ILLINI FILE PHOTORodney Davis, left, at a press conference in 2012, on Tuesday won the Republican candidacy for Illinois’ 13th congressional district. SEE DAVIS | 3A

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WEATHERPOLICE

Champaign Theft was reported on the

100 block of West Green Street at 1 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, two offenders took a taxi to their des-tination and fl ed without paying.

Criminal damage to prop-erty was reported at the Delta Delta Delta sorority house, 508 E. Chalmers St., at 3 a.m. Sunday.

According to the report, an unknown suspect broke a win-dow at the sorority.

Criminal damage to proper-ty was reported at the Barnes & Nobles, 65 N. Market St., at 12:30 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offended damaged the

victim’s vehicle.

University Theft was reported on a mass

transit bus at 6 p.m. Monday. According to the report, a stu-

dent reported that his backpack, which had been left unattended and containing a laptop comput-er, was stolen. The laptop is esti-mated at $1,000.

Urbana Theft was reported on the 700

block of Wabash Avenue at 7 a.m. Monday.

According to the report, an unknown offender stole a cast iron clawfoot bathtub that was in the

victim’s driveway. Disorderly conduct was

reported at Carle Hospital, 611 W. Park St., at 4 p.m. Monday.

According to the report, the reporting person is a patient at the hospital who was heavily sedat-ed told a security offi cer that his girlfriend threatened to blow up the hospital.

A 34-year-old female was arrested on charges of theft at Walmart, 100 S. High Cross Rd., at 4 p.m. Monday.

According to the reported, the offender attempted to conceal sev-eral unpaid items in shopping bags while she was exiting the building.

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BY CLAIRE HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

University researchers are working to incorporate new flexible technology into everyday life for professional and at-home health care devices.

John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering, said his team is interested in working with electron-ics that lie beyond what is possible with the current technology. Rogers said they want to make devices that have similar traits to the human body, such as thin-ness, softness and flexibility.

“It turns out the skin is a great window into the health of an individual,” Rog-ers said.

He said the devices are like a child’s temporary tattoo — they rest on the skin, are hardly noticeable and do not irri-tate the skin. The device gives precise, hospital-like assessments of a patient’s health. The patch will then send the data to a home base, usually a smartphone, and can be viewed from there. He said this could be useful in sports, home and clinical medicine.

“It’s like a portable hospital in a skin patch,” he said.

Rogers said they work closely with MC10, the main company that is work-ing to commercialize this technology with businesses such as Reebok, L’Oreal and Walgreen Co. A product to be worn on the user’s skin will soon be released with the collaboration of L’Oreal that measures the amount of sun rays the body is exposed to and alerts the wearer before a sunburn occurs, he said.

Reebok released an athletic product in the summer that is incorporated into a skull cap under helmets, Rogers said. The device can measure the force of a head impact, then one of three colors will light up to show the severity of the hit. It has the added capability of keep-ing track of the number and severity of hits an athlete receives throughout the entire season.

Rogers said they are most interest-ed in the medicinal use of the research

because of its potential for societal impact. It is also applicable to industri-al and commercial use, he said, and he is sure that these other purposes will come about in time.

Chad Webb, researcher and gradu-ate student in materials science and engineering, said this technology helps focus health care at home, allow-ing patients to send large amounts of information to their doctors without an appointment.

Webb’s research is focused on map-ping temperature on the skin, he said. His devices’ main area of use exam-ines if there is a relationship between the data collected and different medical conditions. He said researchers can use this technology to research skin disease and breast cancer, areas that have been difficult to look at before.

L’Oreal is interested in using Webb’s research to create a device that can detect skin diseases noninvasively and diagnose the level of treatment required.

Howard Liu, doctoral candidate in materials science and engineering, said devices placed on the skin can get more accurate results with less interference than other devices. He said this technol-ogy works in real time and can be used not only to control drones wirelessly but also to control prosthetic limbs. The mil-itary could use the technology to keep soldiers safe by sending in drones to dangerous areas to perform tasks, such as disarming bombs.

Canan Dagdeviren, researcher and graduate student in materials sciences and engineering, said she is looking at using this technology for blood pres-sure monitors and implant management.

She said that when the device mate-rial is worn, it feels just like another layer of skin and that her devices moni-tor blood pressure more accurately than the standard cuff because they adhere to the skin.

She also emphasized her devices’ high degree of being able to be customized, which current technology lacks. The

new technology can form to a specific person’s skin and better monitor their health.

Dagdeviren tested her devices on patients and achieved good results. The doctors involved were excited about the timeliness of the results for their patients, she said. The devices are time- and lifesaving because the results are so quick and current; thus, action can be taken if need be, she said.

“I show them the results and (the patients) become so excited, and even the doctors are getting excited,” she said, because it is “easy to explain, and for them to use and share with their patients right away.”

Liu praised Rogers’ talent at taking research and creating useful products that the public wants or needs.

The research is in varying stages — some products are used currently,

but others will not be ready for sev-en years.

Overall, Rogers said, “We are hope-ful that some of the technologies will have a real impact on the way clin-ical medicine is done and the way that people think about biomedical devices.”

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UI researchers develop ‘sock’ to monitor heart behaviorBY STEFFIE DRUCKERSTAFF WRITER

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Washington University in St. Lou-is have developed a device that could one day save human lives by prevent-ing heart attacks.

Current technology on the market to treat irregular heart beats include pacemakers and defibrillators, devic-es that are implanted and apply thera-peutic electrical shocks to correct the heart’s rhythm.

“The way that they do the electrical mapping is pretty primitive,” said John Rogers, co-leader of the University’s research team involved in the project and professor of materials science and engineering.

Igor Efimov, leader of Washington University’s research team and pro-fessor in the department of biomedi-cal engineering, said existing technol-ogy gathers information from basically a single spot on the heart and limits doctors to making decisions in ther-apy based on information from that one spot.

While existing technology maps the heart’s electrical activity in a point-by-point fashion, the device the team developed is equipped with many more electrodes and fits over the entire sur-face of the heart, allowing it to make contact with and monitor more points on the vital organ.

“What we’re saying is if you can go from single point to very large numbers of independently address-able points ... then you can improve — qualitatively — the sophistication with which you’re electrically interacting with the heart,” Rogers said.

“A device that is being developed for any cardiac application needs to contract and change shape with every heart beat,” Efimov said. “In fact, one of the major problems with technolo-gy that’s currently on the market ... is failure of electrodes due to this con-stant flexion ... over a very long peri-od of time.”

The “sock” — as Rogers called it — that the team invented was creat-

ed using a 3D printer. He said this is the first time they’ve made something that adopts the full 3D shape of the tar-geted organ and that it enables inter-action, measurement and stimulation across the organ’s entire surface. It is currently being tested on a rabbit’s removed heart.

The mechanism’s various sensors and wires are arranged in a mesh configuration that will not reduce the sock’s overall elasticity.

“We’ve been working for a while on the topic of how you can better inte-grate ... the kinds of things that you find in the consum-er electronics world with the human body, with the idea that if you could do that in a more effective way then ... it could advance the art in human health care,” he said. “It’s kind of in that broader con-text of, ‘How do you monitor the behavior of the heart while it’s beating?’ that this particular project kind of grew up.”

Still, there is a lot of work to be done.Michael Brottman, a University

alum and cardiologist at Elmhurst Hos-pital who was not involved in the proj-ect, expressed several practical con-cerns about the apparatus.

Coronary arteries are located on the outside surface of the heart. If sur-geons needed to do a bypass surgery, Brottman said he thought the sock might get in the way.

Brottman also said it was unclear how the monitoring of different bio-chemical reactions in the heart would translate to actually preventing heart attacks.

“The concept of this thing — to test the metabolics of the heart and the rhythm — in theory sounds great,” he said. “However, I feel that, in the real-ity of testing, there are many unan-swered questions.”

Rogers said that at this point pre-venting heart attacks is an ambition of the team’s, as the device hasn’t actually been implemented to prevent an attack.

“That’s a possibility we think has been made available by these capabil-ities but it has not been demonstrated at that level,” he said.

The idea is that the apparatus would pick up on unusual patterns of electri-cal activity and other indicators before the heart attack actually manifests itself and then would apply treatment

to get the heart’s beat back on track.

Brottman also questioned how the invention would be powered.

The group is exploring how to pow-er the mechanism once it’s in clinical use, as it’s currently powered externally. Batteries wouldn’t work since they’re still large and have a finite lifetime. The vision, Rogers said, is to eventually inte-

grate everything onto the sock so that it can be self-powering.

Rogers said he is pleased with the project’s progress so far, and that it provides a foundation for thinking about how to integrate devices with the heart in ways that haven’t been possible before.

He estimates that the device is 10 to 15 years away from being made avail-able to humans due to rigorous testing requirements. The next step, he said, is to test the device in living, freely-moving animals.

“I definitely think there’s some potential in it,” Brottman said. “We need to keep an open mind on all tech-nology. Something like this could end up finding a therapeutic niche for treat-ing some form of heart disease. Only time will tell.”

Steffie can be reached at sdrucke2@dailyillini.com.

Skin-tight technology aids home, sports medicine

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN ROGERSUniversity researchers have developed a device using a 3-D printer that adopts the shape of the organ and enables interaction, measurement and stimulation across the organ’s entire surface. This device could prevent heart attacks.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CHAD WEBB Newly developed flexible medical technology acts similarly to a child’s temporary tattoo and adheres to the user’s skin. John Rogers, professor of materials science and engineering, said his team is interested in working with electronics beyond the capabilities of current technology, including developing a device that measures a user’s exposure to sun rays.

BY MEGAN JONESSTAFF WRITER

The full membership of the Campus Student Election Commission withdrew its position to run student elections Tues-day at 5 p.m. via email. The commission is responsible for approving referendum questions, along with organizing candi-dates for student senate, student trustee and the Student Organization Resource Fee Board.

“Rather than further discuss the issues of jurisdiction and procedure, we believe that it is in the best interests

of all parties involved to step aside so that ISS, SORF and the Vice Chancel-lor for Student Affairs can collaborate to reconstitute a body that serves their purposes,” a statement from the com-mission said.

Three complaints were submitted by ISS members, and a hearing was sched-uled for Wednesday at 7 p.m. to vote on removing the commission. Complaints consisted of misrepresenting the sen-ate’s constitution, insufficiently work-ing with the SORF Board and failing to submit a budget as well as failing to

hear a formal complaint on incoming student trustee Lucas Frye’s campaign spending.

The commission receives funds from students, and reportedly spent $500 on an advertisement within The Daily Illini. According to The Daily Illini records, the commission last bought advertise-ments in 2012, which Matt Misichko, chairman of the CSEC, confirmed.

Megan can be reached at majones5@dailyillini.com and @MeganAsh_Jones.

dent “bill of rights,” which would pro-tect student loan borrowers.

“The burgeoning student loan debt and predatory student loans are going to be the next huge financial crisis with our nation,” she said during a debate held in Champaign on Feb. 20.

Gollin had a viewing party Tuesday night at the Esquire Lounge, 106 N. Walnut St., in Champaign.

“No matter how hard our primary fight might have been, we must remem-ber the differences between us Demo-crats are tiny compared to the differ-ence between us and the Republican Agenda,” he said during his conces-sion speech.

When asked what’s next for his politi-cal career, Gollin laughed and said he was going home, adding, “It’s too close to really think straight about this.”

Green, a policy analyst at the Insti-tute of Government and Public Affairs at the University, released a conces-sion statement.

“I appreciate the efforts and votes of those who were convinced by my philosophy and views, and I accept the blame for not being able to reach and convince more voters than I did,” he said.

Callis will compete against incum-bent Davis for the 13th District seat in the Nov. 4 general election.

Eleanor and Josh can be reached at news@dailyillini.com.

able to still access research dollars that are crucial to the financial success and lower rates of tuition in Champaign-Urbana.”

Last week, a bill sponsored by Davis, the Hire More Heroes Act, passed in the House by a vote of 406-1. The bill gives an incen-tive to small business owners to hire veter-ans by exempting those who already receive health insurance through the Department of Veterans Affairs, or the United States Department of Defense, from being counted toward the number of employees required by the employer mandate under the Afford-able Care Act.

Erika Harold called Davis around 10:30 p.m. Tuesday to congratulate him on his victory because “I wanted to run a positive campaign, and I wanted to make sure I end-ed it in the same way.”

She addressed her supporters at the end of the night, thanking them for their help.

“At the beginning of this evening, I talked about a scripture verse that really has been significant for me and it’s Hebrews 12:1,” she said. “It talks about running the race set before you with endurance. And that for me really symbolized what I wanted to do over the course of this campaign.”

Firsching, a veterinarian from Midway, could not be reached for comment.

Davis will face off against Ann Callis, former chief judge of Madison County, for the 13th District seat in the Nov. 4 general election.

Eleanor and Austin can be reached at news@dailyillini.com.

representative, she would focus on a bipartisan effort to pass the graduated income tax, drug policy reform and environmental regulations, specifi-cally regarding fracking and drilling.

Ammons is a supporter of moving toward a graduated income tax, which she said she believes would be benefi-cial for the state.

She is also a major proponent of the FairTax amendment and said she

believes it will bring in necessary rev-enue — but she said it is important that this revenue is used toward education and paying off the state’s debts.

Ammons stated she looks forward to being involved in environmental regulations, which she believes are not strong enough in areas of air and water quality protection.

“I’m hoping to be able to come to the table and come up with a solution that helps everybody, and that’s what we’ll be doing,” she said.

There was no incumbent for the 103rd state representative seat, as cur-

rent Rep. Naomi Jakobsson decided not to run for re-election.

Rosenberg, Ammons’ rival, was endorsed by many local big name poli-ticians, including Jakobsson, Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing and Champaign Mayor Don Gerard. Rosenberg was scheduled to be at a viewing party. How-ever, he did not make an appearance.

“I’m just really trying to enjoy the moment,” Ammons said after her vic-tory was announced.

Bryan can be reached at boccell2@dailyillini.com.

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EDITORIALAlma Mater’s return a welcome change for

always-evolving University

F or those of you who may not re-member, it wasn’t always stu-dents posing atop the vacant marble slab just outside Altgeld Hall. After temporarily leaving

her post for restoration in August 2012, as well as a slight tease of her reappearance for the Class of 2013’s commencement, the 10,000-pound Alma Mater statue is said to return to campus for May commencement — we hope.

With an extra year of restoration and over $200,000 above the estimated cost, Alma is receiving the full treatment: bolt replace-ments, laser cleaning to fix corrosion, wax seal to protect the metal. And with these changes will come a new Alma — a bronze-colored and improved Alma.

Just as Alma last waved farewell to the outgoing Class of 2012 donning a green flow-ing, antiqued robe, she will send off the Class of 2014 with a brand new look. But many students are hesitant to embrace Al-ma’s face-lift — frankly, we’re all a little hesitant to accept change, especially when it’s as meaningful as this one.

But Alma’s restoration goes beyond her appearance — her transformation is also symbolic of changes the University has gone through, too. In 1962, Alma was moved from her former resting place near Foel-linger Auditorium to the corner of Green and Wright streets. At the same time, Da-vid D. Henry was nearly halfway through his presidential tenure following WWII, the number of dorms on campus tripled and the Graduate College saw rapid growth. In 1981, Alma faced her first round of repairs from the University, primarily fixing rusty bolts and parts. At the same time, the former Uni-versity of Illinois renamed itself to what we know it by today: the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The University and the Alma Mater are ever-changing. While many of us will miss the old green Alma that welcomed our cam-pus with open arms, it’s time for her to change, just as our University has been changing around her.

Ebertfest continues mission of celebrating

underappreciated !lms, shorts

S ince 1999, Roger Ebert, the late, famed film critic and former edi-tor-in-chief of The Daily Illini, has been hosting Ebertfest, former-ly Roger Ebert’s Overlooked Film

Festival, in collaboration with the Universi-ty of Illinois. This year’s festival will be the first without the Urbana-native, and the first his wife, Chaz, and co-creator and festival director, Nate Kohn, will be taking over.

But that doesn’t change the mission of Ebertfest: giving second chances. Ebert-fest will continue providing second chanc-es to underappreciated films, and Chaz and Kohn will give Ebertfest a second chance to thrive following Ebert’s death.

And beyond that, this year’s Ebertfest doesn’t just call for celebrating great films, but also for celebrating the great man who put these films back into the spotlight. It calls for celebrating a man who reinforced film as a part of Champaign-Urbana’s cul-ture, and who never forgot to give back to the community that gave to him.

In 2009, Roger and Chaz donated $1 mil-lion toward the formation of the Roger Eb-ert Program for Film Studies in collabora-tion with the University’s College of Media. And recently in 2012, Ebert pleaded to the public for donations to save the financially struggling Daily Illini and Illini Media Com-pany, which he once worked for as a stu-dent.

Through keeping Ebertfest alive, the C-U community is acknowledging and ap-preciating all that Ebert has contributed. He’s been there for us, and we’ll keep being there for him.

Spike Lee, Patton Oswalt, Oliver Stone and Steve James, who all plan to attend Eb-ertfest this year, keep the festival alive. And its attendees — students, faculty, com-munity members and individuals around the country — keep the festival thriving. This year’s Ebertfest is about honor and ap-preciation, but, most importantly celebra-tion.

A look at Huffington Post’s list of gross things that are really harmless:

1) Hair in your food: Apparently digesting a piece of someone else’s DNA is completely harmless, who

would have thought?2) Public toilet seats: Even if this article says they’re

harmless, we still prefer the squatting method.3) Eating bugs: We’ll stick to McDonald’s.

Q U I C K COMMENTARY

Quick Commentary delivers bits of relevant and important issues on campus or elsewhere. We write it, rate it and stamp it. When something happens that we are not

pleased with: DI Denied. When something happens that we like: Alma Approved.

Recently a Facebook group called “Support for Grayson” was created in support of a young, 9-year-

old boy from North Carolina after his school told him not to bring his “My Little Pony” backpack to school as a solution for the bullying he had been

experiencing. The school claimed this backpack was a “trigger for bullying.” Thousands of people have

come to Grayson’s support in an attempt to fight back for what many consider a social injustice.

Remember how you always loved baby carrots, because, well, they’re so damn cute and tiny? They’re fake. A lie. A conspiracy. They’re actually just normal-

sized carrots chopped and whittled down. This is honestly worse than finding out Santa is really just your dad. We’ll never look at baby carrots —!we

mean carrots — the same way again.

A Denver television station, KDVR, bared all on a recent live newscast — literally. During one of its

segments, one of the anchors was scrolling through Twitter pictures related to the story. Clearly, some

of these TwitPics were completely unrelated as one of the images displayed a penis, much to the other

anchors’ shock and embarrassment. And THIS, ladies and gentleman, is why we love live television.

New KoFusion in Urbana caters to students on a budget

Sorority girls rejoice — KoFu-sion is opening a dollar sushi restaurant in Urbana.

Though rumors have been swirling around sushi-snob cir-cles for quite some time, the offi-cial soft opening of the restaurant happened over the weekend and employees attest that everything went according to plan. The soft opening was used as a trial run for the restaurant so that employ-ees could work out all of the kinks before the restaurant opens to the public.

KoFusion’s main restaurant is located in downtown Champaign and is famous on campus for hav-ing a dollar sushi menu on Sun-days and Mondays. Students typi-cally order the delicacy online and pick it up at the restaurant because dining in would require the removal of sweatpants and no one wants to journey down that road.

Dollar sushi at KoFusion seems to have become an overnight sensation because it allows stu-dents who are on a budget to eat sushi without breaking the bank. On any given Sunday evening, you can observe sorority girls in

clumps of three waiting for their online sushi order or couples lean-ing in over the tiny tables await-ing their sushi platter. Dollar sushi is the perfect place to go on a date — the lighting is dimmed, the decor is modern and the food is delicious.

For those of us still in the single group, we can watch the perfect couples on their romantic date from the online order line by the register. The sushi still tastes as good even if you’re by yourself, I promise.

On a regular day, KoFusion can be considered a pricier place to eat, which makes its dollar sushi deal all the more enjoyable. Stu-dents would not dare go to the res-taurant on any other day besides a Sunday or Monday for fear of increasing their student loan debt.

When KoFusion announced it would be opening a restaurant composed completely of dollar sushi, students on campus were thrilled because it is a nice res-taurant with great food at a man-ageable price. Its decision to make the dollar sushi menu a staple at its new location in Urbana was an excellent choice because students only seem to frequent the Cham-paign location on the days when the deal is present.

So, in the beginning of the school year when sorority girls from Urbana walked past Grego-ry Place and saw the “KoFusion:

Coming Soon” sign on the glass window, they jumped for joy, spread the word and wanted to make T-shirts about it.

Since then, students have been patiently waiting for the restau-rant on campus to open up that only serves dollar sushi (good call KoFusion, that’s the only part of the menu we cared about anyway). In addition to their dollar sushi menu, the new restaurant in Urba-na will also offer make-your-own sushi pieces and stir-fry.

This new location in Urba-na is perfect for the sushi buffs on campus because it does not require a car to pick it up and is in walking distance from almost any location on campus.

When the new KoFusion opens in Urbana, many will want to try sushi for the first time. Here is a breakdown of my favorite, must have pieces.

While all the dollar sushi items are created equal, there are some staple pieces that make dollar sushi nights stand out from other restaurants. Students occasion-ally want to dine out with their friends, but don’t always want the typical Jimmy John’s sandwich. KoFusion offers exotic food at a reasonable price, something oth-er restaurants on campus should strive for.

The one and only Big Roll takes the cake for best item on the dol-lar sushi menu. Though it can be

characterized as “Americanized” sushi because it is deep fried, that does not deter restaurant goers from ordering it time and time again. The Big Roll is stuffed with cream cheese, avocado, crabmeat, tamago and black mushroom — making it one of the fattest pieces of sushi I have ever seen.

The creamy shrimp is anoth-er delicious choice that is stuffed with fried shrimp and cream cheese. If you prefer your sushi to be a little bit sweeter, I would suggest this option. The cream cheese brings out the sweetness in the shrimp that is sure to sat-isfy even the most reluctant sushi goers.

If you prefer a more traditional route, then the Volcano Roll is for you. The Volcano takes a twist on the traditional California roll by adding shrimp, scallions and scal-lops on top of it. Don’t just get the plain California roll, that’s boring. The California Roll should only be used as a transition between other exotic sushi rolls.

With the soft opening of the new restaurant behind us and a bright future with dollar sushi ahead of us, students are anxiously await-ing the final opening of the restau-rant that will soon bring perma-nent hours.

Kate is a senior in LAS. She can be reached at cullen9@dailyillini.com.

I-Connect needs new approach to connect with students

As I enter my I-Connect Diversity and Inclusion Workshop, which is man-

datory for first-year students dur-ing their spring semester, I notice various signs put up on the wall of the classroom.

They read words such as “race,” “sexual orientation,” “reli-gious beliefs” and many more.

We students awkwardly scatter to find seats, while we are occu-pied with our phones and talking to our peers until the discussion starts and we are asked to put all distractions away.

The University’s most recently required workshop, I-Connect, is important in opening our eyes to the diversity on campus but lacks in substance and a creative way to engage students.

If you’re going to throw 30 ran-dom strangers into a room on a Tuesday evening, then the point you’re trying to get across should at least leave an influential mark. Because of the way participation was forced and activities were structured, students’ comments on diversity and inclusion were not as substantial as they could have been.

The workshop started with the student facilitators reading off statements such as, “Which have you thought about most on cam-pus,” in reference to the signs on the wall, and students then scampered toward the catego-ry they felt most apt. While this is an interesting icebreaker, the questions could be more effi-cient if they were initially not so personal.

Students, otherwise, seem to flock to the category they feel is most “socially-accepted,” because who wants to admit to a room full of their peers, who judge them, that they think most about their sexual orientation? Rather, these statements should be framed more generically, and not so per-sonally, by being phrased as: “What do you think your peers have questioned the most while on campus?”

Especially because this is the first activity, it’ll suffice as an introduction into the topic of diversity. Later on in the program would be a better time to bring up more personal questions since the group will likely be more com-fortable with the topic, and each other, and more apt to open up.

The discussion and situation-style setting that followed seemed almost obvious. We were num-bered into groups where we were then given a scenario about a dif-ferent diversity issue, and were

asked how we would approach that particular issue. For instance, my group talked about a scenario in which our hypo-thetical friend was upset about being chemistry partners with an international student because they didn’t speak proper English. As a result, we were supposed to decide how we would address this topic with that friend and the international student and create conversation.

While these situations provid-ed an outlet for us to think about such issues, which we may have not acknowledged existed on cam-pus, it was another activity in which we would simply use com-mon sense in order to appeal to our other peers.

Even if it’s unsaid, there is a morally correct answer on how to deal with your friend who doesn’t want to be chemistry partners with an international student — and that’s the method I-Connect students would use to answer the question. A morally correct way to approach this scenario would be to acknowledge that the inter-national student may have a good understanding of chemistry and that your friend should attempt to communicate with them. How-ever, realistically, most students probably would be extremely frustrated with the situation and attempt to do the project them-selves — but my I-Connect group

obviously wouldn’t say that as it is not a socially acceptable answer.

In real life, however, these hypothetical scenarios may not help students reflect on their actions because they are not personalized.

This workshop could be used to truly reach out to the diverse stu-dents on campus and have them share their experiences and feel-ings. This could be implemented by an anonymous comment box in which everyone in the group could write down how they have been discriminated against or have discriminated others. Then, a student leader or facilitator could read out the scenarios.

While it is more personal, it would enhance the experience by pushing us to be in the same room as real people who have experi-enced these things instead of just hypothetical people. Not to men-tion, these anonymous real-life examples would allow students to have a more honest discussion about diversity issues.

While these workshops are key in emphasizing and opening our eyes to certain issues, the way they are constructed could be modified to enhance everyone’s overall experience. After all, a personal touch goes a long way.

Simran is a freshman in Media. She can be reached at devidas2@dailyillini.com.

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aspects of the planning. Antho-ny Dombrowski, first-year grad-uate student in Architecture, is working on the documenta-tion process by drawing out designs. However, not all stu-dents involved are in the School of Architecture. Xinshi Zheng, first-year graduate student in Engineering, works on energy analysis by calculating the best level between amount of insula-tion and cost.

The team will be partnering with Habitat for Humanity in the construction phase of the

project hopefully within the next few months, Taylor said. Together, they seek to provide the community with designs suitable for their needs. Habi-tat is the driving force behind the volunteer recruitment for the physical building process of the homes.

Beyond just working local-ly in Gifford, Taylor also said the team plans on designing models so that other tornado-prone regions can adapt the designs. The main difference is in insulation.

“We feel what we are doing is not only relevant for Illinois but for all those who are forced to rebuild following a tornado,” he

said. “The details we are devel-oping can easily be adapted to provide optimum performance through the different climatic regions from here down to the Gulf of Mexico.”

The community and students at the University can contribute by volunteering in the rebuild-ing stage of the Re_home proj-ect, and donations are also welcome.

Student organizations or indi-viduals who would like to help with the rebuilding of Gifford may contact Mark Taylor at mstaylor@illinois.edu.

Victoria can be reached at vpai2@dailyillini.com.

BY ALEXANDER VASSILIADISSTAFF WRITER

The average cruising time to find parking in the U.S. is 7.8 min-utes, and about 30 percent of traf-fic is caused by people looking for parking. Alumni Yudhi Seotono and Shagun Pradhan recently released an application to help solve this problem.

ParXit, whose name is based off the phrase “park it,” is a crowdsourcing app that allows people to list and find parking spots in metropolitan areas around the United States. As an New York City-based start-up, this mobile app helps users find and profit from public on-street parking.

A ParXit user can be a finder or a lister. A lister finds a park-ing spot, lists its location, time of availability and a short descrip-tion of the parking spot (size, meter, etc.). The finder lists his or her destination, time of arrival, search radius and monetary offer for information on a parking spot. The search then reveals a variety of parking spots within the find-er’s radius and allows the finder to receive that information after payment is received. Because finders can set the price they want from listers, the predicted aver-age transaction will be $3. The lister then gains access to the pay-ment after a 24-hour holding peri-od. The app then receives a 20 per-cent service fee from users.

The app also includes a rating system to evaluate the trustwor-thiness of each lister and finder.

“ParXit is the convenience in finding on-street parking, and it is a way to help people get paid for parking,” said Seotono, ParXit cofounder and CEO.

Seotono, who received a B.S. in Finance from the University in 2001, worked in finance until 2009. He then put a team together and

work on the idea of providing a convenient form of selling infor-mation about parking. Seotono is responsible for overseeing man-agement and design of the ParXit app project and team.

“Our main priority right now is getting investors and marketing the app,” Pradhan said.

Pradhan received a B.S. in communication from the Uni-versity in 2013 and is now on the ParXit team conducting market research and customer service. The team also consists of Serge Kannon, cofounder and design specialist; Anthony Nakaar, vice president; and Stephanie Hen-dricks, legal adviser.

The team is working with ven-ture capital and other investors to get the app on the map.

“We want to fully blow it up with a marketing campaign and get it out there for people to use,” Pradhan said.

The app was released on Apple’s App Store on Feb. 24, the

same day Ellen DeGeneres vis-ited campus. Pradhan marketed the app “guerrilla” style, taking a pizza box and writing “What is ParXit?” on it. He stood out in the cold on the Quad among thou-sands of others and had quite a few individuals approach him with questions.

“It really sparked the curiosi-ty of people and got them asking about it,” Pradhan said.

Seotono hopes to find an oppor-tunity to make a big “public launch.” Pradhan said they plan on finding an investor who can afford “a little bit more risk” because of the early stage the app is in right now.

“It’s got a good starting amount of traffic, especially for the stage that it’s at right now,” Pradhan said. “We launched a couple weeks ago, and we want to expand it to the Android market as well.”

Alexander can be reached at vassili2@dailyillini.com.

Alumni create new mobile app ParXit to help drivers

Epsilon Delta offers social ties, teaching experiences

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BY CHRISTINE OLIVOSTAFF WRITER

As University underclassmen continue to celebrate their accep-tance into the College of Educa-tion, there is one organization that should be kept in mind: Epsi-lon Delta.

Students who applied to the Col-lege of Education last fall semes-ter found out their acceptance into the program last Wednesday. Although becoming an education major is a big step to starting a future career, it is also impor-tant to gain hands-on experience in the field. And the professional teaching organization, Epsilon Delta, can help students obtain that experience.

“We are open to all students interested in the field of educa-tion,” said Chris Cirrincione, social chair of Epsilon Delta and junior in Education. “No mat-ter the grade, major or involve-ment in other interests, all are welcome.”

According to the organization’s website, Epsilon Delta “seeks to foster an exchange of experienc-es and ideas among those stu-dents of education active in its meetings and events.”

Louise Mathews, president of Epsilon Delta and junior in Edu-cation, believes that this organi-zation is beneficial to all of those involved.

“It’s a good way to make con-nections,” Mathews said. “It’s a great way to get leadership if you’re on the executive board and a good way to learn things about education through the speak-ers we have. You can be more involved, and it looks good for jobs.”

Mathews explained that mem-bers meet every other Wednes-day in the Education Building, and the organization brings in speakers to discuss hot topics in education. In the past, they have brought speakers such as school principals and have had discussions on getting a job in the field and technology’s role in the classroom.

What sets Epsilon Delta apart from other education organiza-tions on campus is that it is the only organization sponsored by the College of Education. The alpha chapter, which was found-ed on campus in 1989, is the only chapter in existence.

Although the Epsilon Delta is a professional organization, it has some of the same perks as a real Greek organization, such as phi-lanthropy events.

Riannon Szofer, philanthropy chair and freshman in Education, said that every two to three weeks the organization volunteers for various events in the communi-ty, such as events with the Urbana Free Library, surrounding park districts and local schools. She also explained how participating in these events can make mem-bers feel more involved in the organization.

“We did Relay For Life, which was this past weekend, and I became really close with some of the members,” Szofer said. “It was a great experience to bond as an organization while helping for a great cause.”

Szofer added that students on campus can get involved in their philanthropy on April 10, when Epsilon Delta will be selling grilled cheese for a fundraiser along Green Street.

Epsilon Delta’s social events also make the organization simi-lar to official Greek organizations on campus.

“We have a variety of activi-ties,” Cirrincione said. “This can include getting dinner, going to Curtis Apple Orchard, ice skating, Mom’s Day BBQ; we normally try to make them holiday-themed.”

LeeAnn Hayes, second-year member of Epsilon Delta and

sophomore in Education, said her favorite social event this year was the ice skating social.

“It was so much fun to watch everyone trying their best to skate around the rink,” Hayes said. “Everyone was laughing, making jokes and having an over-all great time trying to keep from falling on the ice.”

Hayes joined the organization her freshman year in hopes to find friends in her major and to meet people with common inter-ests. She explained that becom-ing a member of the organiza-tion was a simple process, only requiring students to fill out an online form and pay a new mem-ber fee.

Hayes said she believes that there are multiple reasons why education majors should join Epsilon Delta, the first reason being the people.

“Epsilon Delta is a great way to make new friends in your major and college — everyone is real-ly friendly — and I’m sure any-one could feel like they fit in,” she said. “Next would have to be the information we receive. Every meeting is filled with informa-tion that will help you apply to the major, guide your way through courses, apply for a teaching posi-tion and understand concepts that will help you be a great teacher for your future students.”

Christine can be reached at caolivo2@dailyillini.com.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SHAGUN PRADHANAlumnus Shagun Pradhan, one of the creators of ParXit app, holds a pizza box with the phrase “What is ParXit” among a crowd on the Quad on Feb. 24. Pradhan visited campus during Ellen DeGeneres’ social media event to publicize his app.

PHOTO COURTESY OF EMILY SHERIDANEpsilon Delta president Louise Mathews, left, and member Melissa Boyce partake in the education program’s Fall 2013 Initiation Pinning Ceremony, on Dec. 8.

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ParXit your problems at the door

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BY BRIDGET HYNESSTAFF WRITER

For every Big Ten home bas-ketball game this season, Brian Tucker and Nate Leonardi have stepped onto the court of State Farm Center to perform — while wearing suits and ties.

Tucker, senior in Engineer-ing, and Leonardi, junior in AHS, are members of the Uni-versity’s Basketball Band. Leon-ardi, who plays trombone, and Tucker, who plays saxophone, have been performing at men’s Big Ten basketball home games since the beginning of the 2013-14 season.

After playing the “Three-in-One” during halftime, the pair have about five minutes to trans-form from orange polo-wearing band members to the black-suit-and-sunglasses-wearing Jake and Elwood Blues — the famous, fic-tional “Blues Brothers” duo.

This basketball season, Leon-ardi danced as Jake Blues, the shorter Blues Brother, and Tuck-er as the tall and lanky Elwood Blues at center court.

While both claim to be terri-ble dancers outside of the Blues Brothers skit, the two choreo-graphed the entire routine them-selves. In fact, band director Bar-ry Houser and the rest of the band did not even see the routine until its first live performance at the

basketball game against Iowa at State Farm Center on Feb. 1.

The 45-second routine consists of a mixture of swing dancing, cartwheels and energetic slides across the court. Much to the enjoyment of the crowd, the dance culminates in a dunk by Tucker, who uses Leonardi’s back as a springboard.

Tucker has only missed the dunk once, according to the duo. Leonar-di said this was partially because the referee was standing where he usually kneels on the ground for Tucker to spring off of.

Before the first performance, Leonardi and Tucker practiced the routine on the basketball court at the ARC. Dressed up in black suits and dancing to the rhythm of a metronome, they initially stuck out among the students in T-shirts and shorts playing pickup basketball games. As the basket-ball season went on, Leonardi said, the number of confused onlook-ers decreased and students began recognizing them.

“Now people know us; some-times they even say ‘good job’,” he said. “I’m sure there are much weirder things that happen at the ARC.”

The duo, who are good friends and members in the student-run brass band called Sixth Street Brass, have been key players in bringing back the tradition of the

Blues Brothers routine at Univer-sity basketball games, which went on during the ’90s for a few years but then fizzled out, according to former band director Gary Smith.

Smith, who directed the band from 1976 to 1998, said the idea for the routine came about at band practice one day when the band was brainstorming ideas on how to keep the crowd entertained during the breaks of basketball games.

No matter how the basketball team was doing in the game, the Blues Brothers routine in the ’90s would always get the crowd riled up, Smith said.

“I had two kids in the band that looked just like the Blues Broth-ers,” he said. “When they came out, the crowd just erupted, because they looked so authentic.”

After the original Blues Broth-ers portrayers graduated, Smith said he and the band had trouble continuing the tradition because they could not find two guys who looked as authentic and could evoke the same crowd reaction.

On March 1, 2013, which was Unofficial St. Patrick’s Day, cur-rent band director Barry Houser posted on the band Facebook page wondering if any band members would be interested in resurrect-ing the Blues Brothers tradition at home games. Specifically, he asked if they would be willing to do it at the game the next day versus the University of Nebraska.

Within five minutes, Tucker and Leonardi both commented that they were interested. Ben Wool-ey, junior in Engineering, who is

Tucker’s prospective successor as Elwood, commented third.

Leonardi and Tucker woke up early the morning after Unofficial to create a routine and were ready to perform it for the March 2 game against Nebraska. However, they ended up not being able to perform because the band did not yet have the copyright for “I Can’t Turn You Loose” from the “The Blues Brothers” film.

Therefore, this season was the first time the tradition has been back at the University since the ’90s.

“We have a common goal and it’s fun,” Leonardi said.

Leonardi and Tucker perform their routine during the first com-mercial break of the second half of the game.

“You can’t get up there and be nervous. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime thing,” Leonardi said. “Who else can say they’ve been on a Big Ten basketball court and danced as a Blues Brother?” he said.

Wooley, who hopes to fill Tuck-er’s shoes to the best of his ability next year, said he is excited for the opportunity and that he can quote “The Blues Brothers” movie prob-ably too well.

“A lot of people from this uni-versity are from the Chicago area, and as ‘The Blues Brothers’ film is very centric in that location, I think there’s something special about it,” he said. “It’s a little slice of home.”

Bridget can be reached at bhynes2@dailyillini.com.

BY VICTORIA PAISTAFF WRITER

Last November, the town of Gifford, Ill., and surround-ing areas survived a torna-do that left trees uprooted, homes destroyed and people helpless.

Architecture Assistant Professor Mark Taylor said he saw the Gifford Tornado disaster not only as a tragedy but an opportunity for sus-tainable housing to provide for the future.

“When a disaster hits a town, there is an opportuni-ty to replace what was lost with buildings that perform better and use less energy,” Taylor said. “I think most people are interested in that; however, it can be difficult to find how to build back better. Our hope is we can provide drawings that help explain what can be done.”

Taylor’s research is focused on two areas: post-disaster reconstruction and energy-efficient building. For instance, Taylor and a group of mostly graduate students entered in a project called Re_home in 2011 for the U.S. Department of Ener-gy’s Solar Decathlon compe-tition on cost-effective and energy-efficient housing, and won seventh in the competi-tion overall.

And so, designing hous-es for Gifford is right up his alley, being able to draw from his two research areas in a complementary manner for a greater cause. Accord-ing to Taylor, “it is important for students to understand the construction process to help inform their design decisions.”

From seminar courses that he teaches at the Uni-versity, Taylor gathered a team of students eager to apply their coursework to a real-world cause.

Brian Cruse, a senior majoring in Architecture, was one of the students to join the team.

“It is different from a design studio; I like being involved with something that is going to come to life,” he said.

Not only is the project a good opportunity for possi-ble future architectural con-cepts that the students will use, but it also adds a human side to the field. The work is an independent study in the School of Architecture, and students are able to gain real-world experience in architectural design.

“I have met a family whose home was destroyed by the tornado, and I really think we are helping these fami-lies rebuild their lives,” said Marjorie Souza, applicant to the Architecture Graduate School.

According to Taylor, their designs try to use as much insulation as the budget allows, because it will most effectively reduce long-term energy usage.

Different students are responsible for different

UI to design Gifford houses after storm

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SPORTS1BWEDNESDAY

Done being underdogs, Illini must contain Terriers’ 3-point shooting

I llinois is done being the underdog.

The Illini have been labeled as underdogs in their past fi ve games, at least. The stretch started with three straight games against ranked oppo-nents and then culminated with Illinois being a 9-seed in the Big Ten Tournament. Illinois has embraced a giant-killer’s mentality throughout the sea-son, but now the Illini will have to adjust to being the giant.

No. 2 Illinois will face No. 7 Boston in the fi rst round of the NIT Tournament on Wednesday.

The Illini are heavily favored in this matchup, as they should be.

Illinois hails from the Big Ten, while Boston won the Patriot League regular sea-son title this year. Chances are you’ve never heard of the Patriot League or seen any of the teams from the conference play in a game this season. If American was able to dominate Boston in the fi nals of their con-ference tournament, Illinois should especially be able to sti-fl e an underwhelming Terriers attack.

Boston’s record of 24-10 is intimidating, but the Terriers have faced just two major con-ference teams this season. Bos-ton did face tough mid-majors in Harvard, George Washington and St. Joseph’s, but they lost all three contests.

The Terriers aren’t particu-larly good on either side of the ball, ranking 166th in offen-sive effi ciency and 111th in defensive effi ciency. Boston’s best chance of pulling off the upset is their profi ciency from downtown.

Boston is 23rd in the coun-try in 3-pointers made and 18th in attempts. The Terriers 3-point attack is led by sopho-more John Papale, who makes two 3-pointers per game at a 42.2 percent clip. Illinois has only been a middle-of-the-pack team defending the 3-pointer, ranking 165th in the nation in opponents’ 3-point percentage at 34.2 percent. If Illinois doesn’t come prepared to defend the perimeter, Bos-ton could jump out to a quick lead.

Boston’s 3-point shooting prowess can especially be dangerous in front of a home crowd. Although Illini nation isn’t buzzing about this NIT matchup, this game is going to be a big deal for Boston. Bos-ton’s Agganis Arena holds just 7,200 fans, but Illinois should expect a rowdy environment.

Illinois was given a surpris-ing challenge by Stony Brook in a similar atmosphere in the fi rst round of the 2010 NIT. Stony Brook had just 4,423 fans in attendance at that game, but the arena was buzzing for the pro-gram’s fi rst postseason appear-ance. Illinois eked out a 76-66 win, but Stony Brook put up a fi ght and even led late in the fi rst half.

The way Illinois has been playing away from home, the

Illini might be secretly glad that State Farm Center is closed for renovation.

Illinois is 5-2 in its last seven road or neutral games, com-pared with a 1-6 record in its last seven home games. Illinois tends to play more free and easy away from home. The Illini would need to win three true road games and two neutral games at Madison Square Garden to win the NIT championship.

“I know we’ve played some pretty good basketball on the road here of late,” Illinois head coach John Groce said. “Nor-mally with the 2-seed you’d get a game or two at home at mini-mum, but that’s OK. We’ve been dealt cards all year and we’ve played them, and that’s what we’re gonna do in this case as well.”

Boston is a classic trap game for Illinois. Illinois knows it’ll have to travel to either South Carolina to face Clemson, or Georgia to face Georgia State if it moves past Boston. The Illini can’t play any differ-ently than they have in recent weeks. Illinois isn’t deep with talent or offensive weapons, so playing hard is a necessity for this team to advance. As long as Illinois continues their grit-ting and grinding ways, Boston doesn’t stand a chance. But if they don’t come ready to play, the Terriers could send the Illi-ni home early.

Michael is a senior in Media. He can be reached at wonsovr2@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter@The_MDubb.

BY JOHNATHAN HETTINGERSTAFF WRITER

Editor’s note: The Daily Illini sports desk sits down Sunday nights and decides which Illinois athlete or coach is our Illini of the Week. Athletes and coaches are evaluated by individual performance and contribution to team success.

T racy Abrams struggled to climb the stairs to the microphone in front of the media at Bankers

Life Fieldhouse in Indianapo-lis on Friday afternoon after a 64-63 loss to Michigan. With every step he took, he grimaced, slowly lifting each leg, one after the other.

Minutes before, Abrams had missed an eight-foot fl oater with the chance to win the game.

He fi nally made it to the top and hobbled to a chair in the mid-dle the table. He sat and waited for the barrage of questions that was sure to come.

“That last shot was right there, what happened?”

“You kind of stood there for a while, what was going through your mind?”

No one has ever doubted Abrams’ toughness. John Groce has called him a bulldog since becoming head coach at Illinois. But Abrams has never been an elite Big Ten talent. He has yet to develop a consistent outside shot (he’s shot 3-pointers at a 28.1 per-cent clip this season). His deci-sion-making was the target of criticism in the fi rst half against Indiana, and it was again with 22 seconds remaining against Michigan when he heaved an air-ball 3-pointer as the shot clock expired instead of calling a time-out to run a set play.

But Groce left the ball in Abrams’ hands for a reason. Before the reporters were able to ask any questions, Groce was already defending his point guard.

“Tracy has made big plays for us all year,” Groce said. He

mentioned the Braggin’ Rights win over Mizzou, when Abrams led the Illini with 22 points and sank two free throws with 4.6 seconds remaining to give Illi-nois a 65-64 win. He mentioned Thursday’s Big Ten Tournament win over Indiana, when Abrams played arguably the best game of his career, fi nishing with 25 points, seven rebounds and only one turnover.

“His ability to lead and be vocal is a big key to our team,” Groce said. “I just told him it’s not about that last play.”

When Illinois fell behind Mich-igan, Abrams didn’t give up. He scored all 11 of his points in the second half, including seven straight to cut Michigan’s lead from eight to one. He left it all on the fl oor; he could hardly climb the stairs.

Abrams said he knew the Illi-ni would win. Because he wasn’t going to let them lose.

Illinois shipping up to Boston for 1st-round gameBY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

If Illinois basketball fans need to know anything about the Boston Terriers, it’s that they shoot a lot of threes and share the ball well. The team isn’t a household name in col-lege basketball, but John Groce and his team have been doing their homework.

The Illini (19-14, 7-11 Big Ten) will travel to Boston’s Agganis Arena to take on the Terriers (24-10, 15-3 Patriot League) in the NIT opening round Wednesday.

Illinois comes into the game as the No. 2 seed in its eight-team region but will not host any games in the NIT because the State Farm Center is under-going renovations. Agganis Arena holds roughly 7,200 fans, making it easily the smallest arena Illinois has played in this season.

Boston fi nds itself in the NIT by virtue of winning the Patriot League regular season — the school’s fi rst season in the conference after years in the American East Conference — but losing in the conference tournament.

Teams in such situations are awarded an automatic bid into the NIT, and this year’s fi eld of 32 features 13 automatic bids, the second most since 2006. Getting matched up with Illi-nois means Boston fi nds itself in position to host a game despite being the lower seed.

But the Illini aren’t worried about playing on the road. That is something they have proved they can do. Their concern is the Terrier offense.

Boston shoots more than 22 3-pointers per game and has attempted the 17th most 3-point fi eld goals in the nation. The Terriers are spearheaded by point guard Maurice Watson, Jr.

“He has spectacular vision and ability to put balls on time on target, which feeds right into their shooters,” Groce said.

Watson isn’t a spectacular 3-point shooter, only 33 per-

cent, but his ability to get the ball to Boston’s other shooters causes concerns for the Illi-ni. He averages 6.9 assists per game and had 17 assists in a game two weeks ago against Army. He still leads the team with 13.5 points per game.

John Papale shoots the three at a 42 percent clip and team-mate Dom Morris shoots 39 percent from deep.

“Papale is a kid that is shoot-ing 53 percent from three in 18 Patriot League games,” Groce said. “If that was the Big Ten he’d be No. 1 in our league.”

Of Boston’s 10 losses, six came at the hands of teams that are playing in the NCAA Tournament this week.

Illinois enters the NIT play-ing some of its best basketball all season. The Illini have won fi ve of their last seven, both losses coming to Michigan — the most recent one a one-point loss in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfi nals.

“As good as we played in the Big Ten Tournament, I think we have another gear for the NIT,” center Nnanna Egwu said.

While Illinois fans might be thinking of the NIT Final Four as a possibility for this Illini squad, the team isn’t get-ting ahead of itself. It started with practice on Monday and Tuesday.

“We felt good, we had a cou-ple of days of good practic-es with a lot of energy,” Tra-cy Abrams said. “It’s a good opportunity to just be in the postseason.”

With the allure of Madison Square Garden looming and the prospect of having every game on national TV, every team has something to play for in the NIT.

“There’s a carrot out there for all 32 teams,” Groce said. “There’s teams in the NIT that are plenty good enough to win NCAA Tournament games, but not everybody gets in the NCAA Tournament.”

Sean can be reached at sphammo2@dailyillini.com and @sean_hammond.

BY SEAN HAMMONDSENIOR WRITER

The fi rst time Dave Downey walked into Assembly Hall in Champaign, he wasn’t think-ing about the spectacle of the building. In March of 1963 his Illini were a game back of Ohio State in the Big Ten champion-ship race. He was thinking about beating Northwestern the next day.

Then he stepped onto the new-ly laid court. Most of the Illini players had rarely played in an arena as spacious as Assembly Hall. Shooting without a back-drop was an adjustment.

Illinois had two games remain-ing in the season and Downey and his teammates didn’t want to leave Huff Gymnasium, where they played their games back then. They were abandoning a home court where they hadn’t lost all season.

Huff had a raucous atmo-sphere. These days a sellout crowd for an Illinois volleyball

game at Huff Hall holds some 4,000 fans. In 1963, Illinois bas-ketball was cramming 6,700 fans into the gym.

“You had to ask the people on the front row to move their feet so you could take the ball out of bounds,” Downey said.

Downey was told when Illi-nois recruited him out of high school that the arena would be opened by his sophomore year. That promise proved to be well off the mark.

Assembly Hall opened on March 2, 1963. It wouldn’t be offi cially dedicated for another month, but that fi rst day it played host to an open house that fea-tured entertainment from J.J. Johnson, a well-known compos-er, as well as recording artists Les Paul and Mary Ford.

A day later, Downey and his teammates got to shoot in their new home for the fi rst time. Then on March 4, Illinois host-ed Northwestern in the arena’s fi rst basketball game.

The crowd of 16,137 was sub-dued. There were no seats on the fl oor as there are today. Orange Krush did not exist. Compared to Huff, the crowd felt distant, the atmosphere almost austere. As many heads were craning upward to look at the concrete dome as were watching the game in front of them.

Midway through the fi rst half, Downey made the game even more historic when he scored his sixth point of the night on a free throw and broke Johnny “Red” Kerr’s all-time scoring record of 1,299.

Downey’s parents were in attendance — the only time dur-ing his Illinois career they saw him play in person. His dad, a coal miner, worked seven days a week at home in Canton, Ill. Downey bought them tickets in section A26, row 10.

He kept those seats and has had season tickets since then, rarely missing a game. Downey sat in seat A26, row 10, seat 7 —

right on the aisle — when Illi-nois lost to Michigan on March 4. He watched John Groce’s Illini get drubbed by the Wolverines 84-53, the worst loss in the his-tory of the building.

The contest was Illinois’ last home game of 2013-14, and it was played 51 years to the date after Downey and his teammates played the fi rst game in Assem-bly Hall. As Downey walked out of the arena that night, he walked out of a building he has

known well for 51 years. Three years from now, when all six phases of the $165 million reno-vation project are complete, it will look much different.

‘I can’t imagine anything we can’t do with it’

When it opened, Assembly Hall was the largest edge-sup-ported concrete dome in the country. The 10 million pound concrete dome stands 128 feet

above the fl oor. In many ways, State Farm Center — as it has been known since March of 2013 — remains an architectur-al marvel.

It was designed by architect Max Abramovitz, a graduate of the University. Plans for a new student center began around 1958. The University needed somewhere with space for cer-emonies and athletic events. The

Changes coming to Illinois’ home arena

TRACY ABRAMSAbrams missed the fl oater to beat Michigan in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfi nals,

but it was his play and his 25 points against Indiana that gave Illinois a shot.

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» » » » » »Honorable mentionsThomas Detry and Charlie Danielson (men’s golf) — The sophomore duo shared Big Ten Co-Golfer of the Week honors after leading the Illini to a dominating tournament win. Both fi nished 7-under-par on the weekend.Kevin Duchene (baseball) — The sophomore ace pitcher struck out fi ve in a complete game and was perfect through six innings in Illinois’ lone win in a weekend series against Southern Illinois.

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He was wrong. He did every-thing he could, but it wasn’t enough. Illinois did all it could, too — outshooting, outrebound-ing and outplaying top-seeded Michigan.

Abrams answered questions about the missed shot — “It’s obviously an uncontested shot that I probably could make” — and about what was going through his mind — “I was shocked that we lost, shocked the shot didn’t go in.”

And he left the media with one final message: “It is what it is.”

He was dismissed to go back to the locker room, where he

knew he would face a new bar-rage from more reporters. He’d have to answer the same ques-tions again, recount what hap-pened again.

He would have to relive a shot that he should’ve made, that should’ve changed the season for Illinois.

But, he was the one who put Illi-nois in the quarterfinal, he was the one who put Illinois in a posi-tion to win after falling behind by 13. After the barrage of questions stopped, he could finally sit down. As he sat there, a photographer wouldn’t let him get his peace. He could hear the rapid “click-click-click” of the lens each time a photo was taken, trying to grasp the emotions of Illinois’ bulldog.

Finally, the reporters were

kicked out. There were no more questions, no more photos.

He would turn his mind toward the next game, just as he had during Illinois’ eight-game los-ing streak earlier in the season. There was no point in dwelling on the shot.

“That’s over,” Abrams said. “You can’t do nothing about that game.”

Abrams’ teammates still respect him. His coach will still give him the ball with the game on the line. Fans will still wear orange No. 13 jerseys to games.

And he will continue to give his all.

Johnathan can be reached at hetting2@dailyillini.com and @jhett93.

student population was growing rapidly at the time and had out-grown Foellinger Auditorium.

While most identify the build-ing with basketball games, its real significance has been the ability to host graduation cere-monies and convocations, as well as other non-basketball events.

Abramovitz — who died in 2004 — was quoted in the May 3, 1963 edition of The Daily Illini as saying, “I can’t imagine any-thing we can’t do with it.”

No other arena has the ability to bring high-profile perform-ers to central Illinois. From Jeff Dunham in February to Elvis in 1976 to Les Paul on the opening night in 1963, State Farm Center has given central Illinois a multi-purpose arena much closer than those of Chicago, Indianapolis or St. Louis.

As the renovation project kicks into high gear this month, Illinois is dreaming big once again.

Tom Michael, senior associate athletics director at Illinois, has been one of the people oversee-ing the State Farm Center reno-vation project for Illinois’ Divi-sion of Intercollegiate Athletics.

A former Illinois basketball player who played in the early ‘90s, he has worked to take this project from an artists’ render-ing to a reality. Simply getting to the construction is a relief, but Michael fears that by the end of the three-year project, he might have a few more gray hairs than he does now.

“This is unique,” Michael said. “It’s certainly the largest proj-ect so far on this campus. And it’s fun.”

The biggest challenge has been scheduling the renovations so that Illinois men’s and wom-en’s basketball teams can still call the arena home during the ’14-15 and ’15-16 seasons. Keep-ing it on track with its $165 mil-lion budget has also been a major concern.

When the University first explored renovation possibilities in 2008, maintaining the histori-cal significance of the building was key. The arena is an icon in the Champaign-Urbana commu-nity and tearing it down — which was explored — would have been hard for many.

“At times, even today, archi-tects and engineers marvel at how the building was built 51 years ago and what an ingenious structure it is,” Michael said.

‘Our fans will adapt’

Walk past State Farm Center these days and one hears the roaring of bulldozers, the clack-clack-clacking of construction equipment. Behind the construc-tion fences is where the magic is happening.

When Illinois basketball fans walk into State Farm Center in November, evidence of con-struction will be everywhere. The most notable signs will be at the entrances, particularly the west entrance. Temporary walls will be erected in certain areas and Do Not Enter signs will be visible.

Despite obvious signs of con-struction, not much change will be visible after the first offsea-son. There is a lot of structural work being done that fans won’t see: shifting of mechanical spac-es, changes in the venting, and foundation work inside the are-na’s bowl.

But there will be one notice-able change. The 9,000 to 10,000 drab gray seats in the C-section will be replaced with new blue seats. When the project is com-plete, the arena will be as orange and blue as the Illini’s uniforms. And it starts with the C-section this year.

“We wanted to try to do some-thing from a fan’s perspective,” Michael said. “Putting the C-sec-tion seats in there now was going to give some noticeable change in the bowl.”

Construction will continue behind the scenes during the 2014-15 basketball season, as it did during much of 2013-14. The phase of the project following the 2014-15 season will be the most intense.

The seating in the A-section and B-section will be redone. Loge seats — seats with a coun-tertop, dining services and television monitors — will be in place at the north baseline behind the student section.

Legacy Club seats will be in place behind the student sec-tion at the south baseline. The 12 suites will be in place on the east side, each accommodating up to 14 guests. Student seating will surround three sides of the court in what is today the A-section.

Work will begin on the four clubs — the Legacy Club, the Traditions Club, the Orange Krush Club and the Courtside Club — but only the Traditions club will be ready for the 2015-16 season.

Because this phase of the proj-ect is so intense, Michael said the bowl would not be ready to host basketball games until December of 2015. This poses a scheduling problem that Illi-nois has not quite worked out yet.

“Our fans adapted when we renovated Memorial Stadium (between 2006-2008) and they’ll adapt as we go through the next two basketball seasons,” Michael said.

‘Designed for maximum efficiency’

When Greg Brown visited State Farm Center for a bas-ketball game, the most obvi-ous problem he noted with the building was the lack of conve-nient concession and bathroom availability.

Brown is a project designer for Aecom, which designed the renovations. He has devoted most of his energy to the proj-ect since the summer of 2011.

When the arena was original-ly designed, Americans attend-ed sporting events differently than how they do today. In the 1950s and ‘60s, fans would go to the game, watch the game and leave. Sports arenas weren’t full-fledged entertainment venues. They simply served their pur-pose as a place to watch a game.

When State Farm Center opened, it had six refreshment stands each manned by four ven-dors. The Daily Illini stated they were “designed for maximum efficiency when large crowds are present.”

In today’s world, State Farm Center is far from maximum efficiency. When the build-ing is fully renovated, it will have four times as many con-cession stands, as well as rest-rooms on all levels. This will solve the circulation problems that are caused by so many peo-ple flocking toward the B-level restrooms.

Brown said Aecom has had a team of seven or eight people working on the project for the past three years. That team has expanded at times up to 15 or 20 people during crunch time. Aecom also currently has one person working on-site in col-laboration with the construction company, Turner Construction Company of Chicago.

One of the toughest challeng-es of the project from Aecom’s perspective is pulling the fans closer to the court. The circular-ity of the arena’s bowl combined with the rectangular nature of a basketball court creates a lot of dead space on the sidelines and baselines. Aecom’s design changes the geometry of the A-section, and enables seats to be closer to the action.

Part of that challenge was striking the right balance between celebrating what the arena has meant to the Cham-paign-Urbana community and enhancing it in a way that feels appropriate.

Brown has worked on a num-ber of high-profile sports arenas and stadiums for Aecom, includ-ing the construction of the Bar-clays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., and renovations to Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wis.

Often times, having to design a renovation to an arena, rather than an entirely new arena, is welcoming.

“Designers are creative peo-ple by nature,” Brown said. “We can come up with any number of designs. But when you don’t have a blank canvas to work with, when you have real con-straints, it helps you identify where the opportunities lie. It designs itself a little bit based off what feels right.”

‘It hasn’t changed much at all’

When Downey walks into State Farm Center on game nights nowadays, he can look up into the rafters and see his own No. 40 jersey hanging among the Illi-nois greats. He and teammate Bill Small led Illinois past North-western with 19 points apiece that first night in Assembly Hall.

The Illini won by six and they won again five nights later against Iowa. Hours after they beat the Hawkeyes, Ohio State stumbled at Indiana and Illinois earned a share of the Big Ten championship and a trip to the NCAA Tournament.

The Illini fell in the region-al finals to Loyola Chicago, the eventual national champions. But it was a historic season for Illinois. Downey’s 53-point per-formance in a Feb. 16 loss to Indiana is still the Illinois sin-gle-game record.

After 51 years, Downey entered State Farm Center prior to Illinois’ meeting with Michigan knowing it wouldn’t be quite the same building when he comes back next fall.

Sitting a row back, just across the aisle from Downey’s seats, sat Mike Thomas, Illinois’ direc-tor of athletics. Downey often crosses the aisle to sit with Thomas for portions of games.

There is, of course, pressure on Thomas. When Illinois foot-ball and basketball struggle, fin-gers inevitably end up pointed

at him. But it is under Thomas that the State Farm Center reno-vation project has gone from an idea to a reality.

When Thomas watched Illinois and Michigan, he saw the same thing everyone saw. The Illini lost to a Michigan squad that was better than them on that Tues-day in March.

The game ended and Michigan walked off the court as Big Ten champions. Thomas was court-side after the game, as he always is. He left the bowl through the same tunnel the players do. Downey left the seats he had bought for his parents all those years before and followed the crowds out of the arena.

“It hasn’t changed much at all,” Downey said of the arena’s first 51 years.

After the building emptied, the State Farm Center mainte-nance staff stayed and packed up concession stands, tables and chairs. Offices were emptied and miscellaneous items lined the concourse.

The court was lifted off the floor for the final time, piece by piece. The arena was noisy and more active than it normally is after a game. One staff mem-ber rolled out a round table on its side, another labeled boxes with a marker.

The construction company was giving them 36 hours to get everything out of the arena. Change was coming.

Sean can be reached at sphammo2@dailyillini.com and @sean_hammond.

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3 YEARS, 6 PHASES, $165 MILLION

State Farm Center is undergoing a $165 million renovation project that spans nearly three years and two full basketball seasons. The project is broken down into six phases and will result in an arena far different from the one fans walked out of on March 4.

Phase 1Dec. 2013 – March 2014Behind the scenes work mostly on the exterior of the building

Phase 2March 2014 – Nov. 2014Shifting of mechanical spaces, changes in venting, drilling and micropiling inside the arena’s bowl, work on the ramps and plazas, replace the C-section seats Phase 3Nov. 2014 – March 2015Mostly mechanical work during basketball season, expanding the glass curtain windows that ring the outside of the arena outward by about 15 feet Phase 4March 2015 – Dec. 2015Reseating of A-section and B-section, begin work on the four clubs, insertion of 12 suits, arena’s bowl will not be ready to host basketball games until December 2015 Phase 5Dec. 2015 – March 2016More behind the scenes work during basketball season, continued work on the clubs, east and west entrances will be nearing completion Phase 6March 2016 – Nov. 2016Finish working on the clubs, work on C-section concourse, renovation will be complete by the 2016-17 basketball season if all goes as scheduled

SOURCE: TOM MICHAEL, SENIOR ASSOCIATE ATHLETIC DIRECTOR

PHOTO COURTESY OF CARY FRYEThe southwest ramp of State Farm Center is taken down for the renovation of the arena March 7.

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BY NICHOLAS FORTINASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR

All the Illinois baseball team needed to break its slump was a trip home.

After going 1-2 against South-ern Illinois over the weekend, Illinois was able to get back to its winning ways with an 8-0 victory over Indiana State in the Illini’s home opener Tuesday.

“It felt great,” starting pitch-er Rob McDonnell said. “We had people out here. The dugout was pretty rowdy, cheering my name. It made me feel good, and it was just good to get a win.”

Illinois was solid in all aspects against Indiana State, but the offense proved to be a bright spot as the Illini scored eight runs on 11 hits. Illinois had solid contri-butions from second baseman Reid Roper and catcher Jason Goldstein, both going 3-for-3 in the game.

“Overall we played very well today,” head coach Dan Hart-leb said. “The offense came out early. I thought there were some advantage counts where we could have put some better swings on some balls, but overall I thought we really improved today.”

After going down in order in the first inning, the Illini tallied their first two runs in the sec-ond inning. Illinois scored its first

run when Indiana State’s pitch-er Trent Lunsford walked right fielder Casey Fletcher with the bases loaded. Ryne Roper hit a single to the gap that drove in another run and the Illini led 2-0 after the second.

Illinois tacked on another run in the third before tallying four more in the fifth inning to push the team’s lead to 7-0. The four-run fifth started with center field-er Will Krug singling up the mid-dle and advancing to third on a wild throw to first base.

The Sycamores changed pitchers but didn’t slow the Illi-ni offense as left fielder Ryan Nagle drove in Krug on a double. Goldstein drove in two more runs before Roper singled to bring in Illinois’ seventh run of the game.

The Illinois offense was silent for an inning before Goldstein hit the first home run of his Illi-ni career, nailing the left field scoreboard in the seventh. Gold-stein’s home run was a fitting explanation point for the Illini, who broke out of an offensive slump in a big way.

“(We played) a lot better then we have been,” Goldstein said. “We’ve had a bad approach for the first few weekends, and we came out and we put it together for a game. Hopefully we can con-tinue that into the next series.”

Illinois’ offense was backed up by a solid defensive perfor-mance that included several sprinting catches by Krug and an outfield assist from Nagle, along with three double plays in the game.

McDonnell, who threw five innings of shutout baseball and struck out six, picked up his first win of the year. After a shaky first inning that included a double and a walk, McDonnell was able to settle down, striking out the side in the second inning.

“We applied pressure early,” McDonnell said. “It was impor-tant to get out there and, as soon as we scored runs in an inning, to put up a zero. I was able to do that.”

McDonnell said he thought playing at home contributed to the team’s improved play. He also added that with the Illini hosting four games against Xavier this weekend, he wants the team to string some wins together.

“In the home opener we always want to get that W,” McDonnell said. “We have a four-game series this weekend. It’s good to get the W now so we can hopefully get a win streak going.”

Nicholas can be reached at fortin2@dailyillini.com and @IlliniSportsGuy.

BY SEAN NEUMANNSTAFF WRITER

It’s not the end of the road for John Scully.

The Illini hockey senior signed a 3-game contract with the Bloomington Thunder on Mon-day night — a semi-professional team in Bloomington, Ill.

Scully thought he had played his final competitive game ear-lier this month when the No. 18 seed Illini were knocked out of the ACHA national tournament by No. 2 Oklahoma.

“It’s a dream come true,” Scul-ly said. “Just having an opportu-nity like this isn’t something that comes around every day. It’s a pretty cool opportunity, and I’m going to make the most of it.”

Illini head coach Nick Fabbri-ni said it’s becoming more com-mon for ACHA players to sign semi-professional contracts after the collegiate season ends, as the club hockey league grows bigger. “If he produces and does what the coaching staff’s looking for, then he’ll absolutely have a shot at getting a contract next year,” Fabbrini said. “They’re pushing for the playoffs and wanted to bring him on, so I think that says a lot about him.”

The forward led the team with 24 goals this season and also add-ed 10 assists, scoring a career high 34 points in 41 games.

Illini teammate Nick Clarke called Scully one of the team’s best players this season.

The senior goaltender, who also played his final competitive game in Illinois’ 6-1 loss to Okla-homa, said the rest of the Illini are excited to see Scully continue his career professionally.

“We’re really happy for him,” Clarke said. “It’s not a normal thing. Some of (the seniors) had it in mind, but Scully’s really the only one that went out there and made the moves to actual-ly make it happen. He put in the extra work.”

Scully’s contract with the Thunder isn’t only a success for the forward, but for the Illinois hockey program as well, accord-ing to Clarke.

“It’s a fairly respectable league, so it’s not only great for John but great for the (Illinois) program as well,” Clarke said.

Bloomington is a part of the Southern Professional Hockey League and is coached by Greg Pankewicz, who briefly played with the Ottawa Senators and the Calgary Flames.

Scully joined the Thunder on Tuesday before their road trip to Peoria to face the third-place Rivermen — a former affiliate of the Vancouver Canucks in the American Hockey League.

Scully said he stopped in the

U.S. Cellular Coliseum — Bloom-ington’s home arena — in Decem-ber and met with Pankewicz by chance, expressing his interest in playing semi-professional hockey after graduating.

But Scully didn’t have to wait until graduation and received a phone call from Pankewicz Mon-day night asking him to play for the remainder of the Thunder season.

“I really wasn’t expecting anything,” Scully said. “It just happened that something came about a week after (Illinois’ season ended). It was pretty fortunate.”

While the Thunder most like-ly won’t make the SPHL play-offs — as they sit five points behind the Mississippi Surge with three games left in the reg-ular season — Scully will look to impress Pankewicz and extend his 3-game contract into a big-ger opportunity with the team. Either way, Scully is thankful to squeeze three extra games out of his hockey career.

“It’d be pretty cool to continue playing hockey,” Scully said. “I had a great time at U of I and if I could stay on the ice for a little bit longer that would be ideal.”

Sean can be reached at spneuma2@dailyillini.com and @Neumannthehuman.

Illinois baseball shuts out Indiana State 8-0

Hockey forward Scully signs with semi-pro team

MELISSA MCCABE THE DAILY ILLINIIllinois’ Rob McDonnell pitches the ball during the game against Indiana State at Illinois Field on Tuesday. The Illini won 8-0 after only winning one out of three games last weekend.

Editors note: As a March tradition, the Daily Illini sports staff sits down and creates a bracket of its own. This year’s bracket is a collection of 64 sports personalities from the signifi cant to the comical. We’ve voted for our winner, but we want you to get involved — check us out on Twitter and Facebook or in the comments section of this article on DailyIllini.com to contribute.

The regional fi nals have begun.

And one thing is clear in the Twittournament: The Dai-ly Illini sports staff loves its basketball.

At least half of the Twit-ter accounts who advanced to the Final Four in the tourna-ment have some connection to basketball.

The fi rst account into the national semifi nals is Yahoo Sports reporter Adrian Wojonowski (@WojYahooNBA), the NBA reporter extraordi-naire, who also goes by the name of “Media Sources,” if you ask SportsCenter (@SportsCenter). Note: We decided to use common sense, and call the second round the second round, not the third or the First Thirty-Two or what-ever NCAA has it now.

Woj beat out local favorite The Champaign Room (@Champaign_Room), which is your one-stop shop for all things Illini.

This was the most highly contested of the Elite Eight: You have Woj, who’ll send you more information about the Association than one would want. Tagged with teammate Marc J. Spears, they give ESPN football reporters Adam Schefter and Chris Mortenson a run for their money as the

best sports reporting tandem on the planet. Maybe next year we’ll have a bracket for that.

The Champaign Room, which is run by one of our former sportswriters Jack Cassidy, gave Woj a challenge before coming up short in its Elite Eight matchup. The Cham-paign Room was an underdog, but combined with its humor-ous commentary during Illini games and with being your defi nitive source for all things NIT, it gave Woj a formidable challenge.

In the other regionals, Michael Wilbon

(@RealMikeWilbon), who pre-viously was highly involved in ABC’s and ESPN’s stu-dio shows for NBA telecasts, soundly defeated Sports Illus-trated media guru Richard Deitsch (@richarddeitsch). Although Deitsch shares many articles that make journal-ists “ohh” and “ahh,” Chicago native and Northwestern alum-nus Wilbon was a staple Sun-day afternoons of the basket-ball season.

Although the whole North-western thing was debated, Wilbon advanced because of his smart commentary, along

with his sheer ability not to fl ood your Twitter feed with endless retweets and stories that have been posted before.

In the third region, after escaping to defeat No. 1-seed-ed SportsCenter in the second round, Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) advanced passed Bill Simmons (@Bill-Simmons). Here at DI Sports, we love when broadcasters screw up. And we laugh at them. Just take Chip Carey’s “Line drive. Base hit. Caught out there” call, which has leg-endary broadcaster Jack Buck rolling in his grave. This was

an easy matchup for Awful Announcing, so much so it’s hard to fathom that it was an underdog. Just look at the fol-lower differential in the match-up: More than 2.37 million tweeters. This blows away oth-er matchups by nearly a mil-lion followers.

The fi nal region came down to a toss-up between Brandon Paul (@BP3) and world-con-quering writer Will Leitch (@williamfl eitch). Paul has been a diligent tweeter throughout his Illini career and even after, while Leitch has recently offered to write a

column for anyone on the topic of their choosing if they win his ESPN bracket pool. That’s pretty cool, and it earns him a spot in the Final Four.

All that remains is the Final Four, where matchups between Woj and Leitch and Wilbon and Awful Announcing remain.

Give us your input so we can determine the true champion of tweeting about sports.

Darshan is a senior in Media. He can be reached at patel174@dailyillini.com. Follow him on Twitter @drshnpatel.

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In the sports world, March Madness is all about the bracket.

People come together every year to form bracket pools in the hopes of taking money from their less-knowledgeable — or less-lucky — friends.

But brackets aren’t always limited to the NCAA Tourna-ment. This year, Daily Illini Sports came up with the Twit-tournament, a competition to crown the best athlete, fan or sports journalist on Twitter.

So I’m unveiling a different kind of bracket, one devoid of an actual structure, but hope-fully entertaining nonetheless. It has been my goal since this time last year to narrow down

the weirdest, funniest and most nonsensical mascots in all of NCAA Division I Basketball and determine the king of them all.

In an attempt to be system-atic, I’ll assess mascots by con-ference. Though right off the bat it would seem that the con-ferences with a larger national following are the least creative.

Southeastern Conference

The SEC wins “most boring” with three teams — Auburn, LSU and Missouri — that claim to be home of the Tigers.

If this were an actual brack-et, the SEC wouldn’t make it past the round of 32.

The only exception to this monotony is the Alabama Crimson Tide. Ever watch an Alabama sporting event? Remember the elephant on the sidelines, Big Al? There wouldn’t be any connection

between Crimson — one of Ala-bama’s school colors — and an elephant, if it were not for 1930s sports writer Everett Strupper.

“The earth started to trem-ble, there was a distant rumble that continued to grow. Some excited fan in the stands bel-lowed, ‘Hold your horses, the elephants are coming,’ and out stamped this Alabama varsity,” wrote Strupper.

And thus, Big Al earns his spot on the Alabama sidelines. Pretty random, huh?

Big Ten

The Big Ten is marginally more creative than the SEC. You’ve got the standard “Fight-ing” moniker for the Illini, the Spartans and the Wildcats, and a weird penchant for some kind of rodent mascot — see Gold-en Gophers, Wolverines and Badgers.

But the Big Ten also has the Cornhuskers, Boilermakers and Buckeyes.

Ohio State athletics is nor-mally intimidating to the rest of the conference because the Buckeyes win stuff occasion-ally, but as far as the mas-cot goes, I don’t know if a less scary thing exists.

A buckeye is a tree nut, and it’s poisonous to humans, so I guess that’s something. But I think even a corn farmer or a badger inspires more fear in an opposing team.

Atlantic Coast Conference

I Googled “Terrapin,” and apparently the University of Maryland in College Park loves turtles. I get it; the turtle is the offi cial state reptile of Mary-land, but not all turtles are named Testudo and have giant red M’s branded on their chests.

That fact, and Syracuse’s

choice to revere a color — Orange, obviously — rather than an animal, insect or person is all I need to know.

Elite Eight for you, ACC!

Big South Conference

Three teams in my Mascot Madness Final Four are mem-bers of the little-known Big South Conference.

Campbell University of Buies Creek, N.C., earns its spot by way of comedic effect, because it may be impossible to see “Fighting Camels” on a web-page and not laugh.

But facing the Fighting Cam-els for a spot in the champi-onship is Big South counter-part the Presbyterian College Blue Hose. Originally the “Blue Stockings,” the name was offi -cially changed in 1954 under the assumption that Blue Hose was more intimidating to opponents. Really?

Rounding out the Final Four, we have the fi nal Big South participant, Coastal Carolina University Chanticleers — a medieval word for rooster, tra-ditionally used in fables and children’s tales — and the Mast-odons of Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.

It’s a close call, with the Fighting Camels and Chanti-cleers advancing to duke it out for the Mascot Challenge crown. But in the end, the Camels keep me laughing, and therefore earn the right to the title.

Honorable mentions: the Stan-ford Cardinal, the Texas Chris-tian Horned Frogs, the Divi-sion III California-Santa Cruz Banana Slugs and the Division II Delta State Fighting Okra. What? Okra is a vegetable.

Aryn is a senior in LAS. Contact her at braun17@dailyillini.com. Follow her on Twitter @arynbraun.

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A new kind of bracket: 2014 Mascot Madness ranks the weirdest and funniest Division I mascots

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Jackson was introduced Tues-day morning as Knicks president. Madison Square Garden execu-tive chairman James Dolan said he “willingly and gratefully” gave control of basketball operations to Jackson, who has 11 NBA rings as a coach and two as a player with the Knicks.

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“Jim knew I wasn’t going to come if this didn’t happen,” Jack-son said. “As we move forward, we have a great chance, a great opportunity. This is the best place to play basketball.”

This partnership also would not have happened if not for Irving Azoff, a manager who represents the Eagles music group and is a business partner of Dolan’s. He invited Jackson and Dolan to a party at his California home in December. They began talking

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Jackson stressed Carmelo Anthony “is in the future plans,” but he is also preaching patience as he tries to rebuild the Knicks.

A key member of the Knicks’ last NBA championship team in 1973, Jackson said he’s committed to bringing back the teamwork principles he learned from Red Holzman and that he stressed as coach of the Bulls and Lakers. He hopes to have the same success — in time.

“That’s why Jim brought me here — his desire to win a champi-onship,” he said. “We hope to take that load off him a little bit and take the team forward in bring-ing the process forward toward winning a championship.

“This would be a pinnacle, a capstone, on the remarkable career that I’ve had.”

Jackson answered critics who said he has no front-offi ce expe-rience by saying he was very involved in personnel decisions in Chicago and was behind the 1988 trade of Charles Oakley to the Knicks for Bill Cartwright.

He plans to move to New York but will be bicoastal at fi rst because his family and his fi an-cee, Lakers executive Jeannie Buss, live in Los Angeles. He also said he has a few medical issues that will bring him back to the West Coast. But Jackson said he’ll “establish” himself in New York, and he’s not worried about his legacy as he takes over a 27-40 team in danger of miss-ing the playoffs.

“Jim came to me with this opportunity of pick a position you’d like to take, and I said if I want to make this change, I think I can make the change, I have to jump in with both feet,” Jackson said. “I’ve got to move to New York and I’ve got to do this job the right way.

“I think that this is an opportu-nity, and that’s what I look at it as, not as a possible failure chance. It’s just a wonderful opportunity to do something that I love, and that’s be with a basketball team and hopefully create a team that loves each other and plays with each other.”

Jackson was respectful of coach Mike Woodson and said they would talk after the season about his future. It’s not expected Woodson will be retained.

Jackson spoke of his triangle offense and his belief in “sys-tem basketball,” so he likely will look for a coach who feels the same way and is fluent in the triangle.

BY JERRY TIPTONMCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Still smarting from how the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee judged his team and his confer-ence, Kentucky Coach John Cali-pari called Monday for Southeast-ern Conference leaders to look into the process for picking and seeding participants.

Three bids equaled a low for the Southeastern Conference, and one of the three, Tennessee, must play in a so-called play-in game. Calipari also questioned an 8-seed for Kentucky.

“Why (in) the world did this happen?” Calipari said on an SEC coaches’ teleconference Monday. “Someone’s got to fi nd out.”

Calipari accused the com-mittee of changing the criteria year to year to create a basis for decision.

Wake Forest Athletics Direc-tor Ron Wellman, the chair of the Selection Committee, said Sun-day night that members were

“strongly supportive” of making Kentucky an 8-seed.

“We scrubbed the seeds,” he said, “and we scrubbed the seeds going from 1 to 68, comparing one to two, two to three, three to four, all the way from 67 compared to 68. When we did that for Ken-tucky, the Committee was strong-ly supportive of their seed line and where they ended up.”

Jim O’Connell, who has been college basketball editor for The Associated Press since 1987, judged an 8-seed for Kentucky as appropriate.

“I think it’s fair,” he wrote in an email. “Does the SEC hurt? You bet. Kentucky’s last win over a team in the NCAA tournament fi eld was Jan. 18, Tennessee. Since then all the wins were over teams that didn’t help them at all in terms of quality. Other con-ferences had good wins through the middle of the conference and that’s a big thing... Kentucky has a tough argument whether you go by the numbers or go by the ‘eye

test.’ One of the biggest things that hurts in an eye test is incon-sistency and the Wildcats have had plenty of that. Just don’t see anything egregious about it.”

Speaking to reporters in the Georgia Dome Sunday night, UK Director of Athletics Mitch Barnhart questioned whether the Selection Committee had been “respectful” of the SEC.

When reminded that the SEC had a 4-15 record against top-25 teams in the non-conference portion of the schedule, Barnhart said, “But go look at the records of some of the other teams in other leagues. They’re not much better. There’s not that huge dis-crepancy that people make it out to be.”

Calipari echoed that sentiment Monday when asked about the SEC’s 4-15 record against top-25 teams. “Compared to who?” he asked.

Of the fi ve major conferenc-es, the SEC had the worst record against top-25 competition. The

Big 12 was 8-9, the Atlantic Coast Conference 9-13, the Big Ten 4-9 and the Pac 12 4-7.

Florida Coach Billy Donovan, whose team is the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, seemed to suggest the SEC got what it deserved.

“Could Arkansas and Missouri go into the tournament and win games?” he asked. “Without ques-tion, they could. They came up a little short, but they put them-selves in position to be right there.”

Calipari noted UK’s strength of schedule, which he said was ranked No. 2 in the country. But the Cats had only a 1-6 record against ranked teams, with the lone victory coming at home against a Louisville team in fl ux.

Missouri Coach Frank Haith sounded unconvinced.

“Everybody can talk of sched-uling,” he said, “But I think it boils down to one thing: winning in the non-league. It’s just win-ning games.”

Calipari demands answers about Kentucky’s controversial seeding

Phil Jackson named president of New York Knicks

DAVID SANTIAGO MCLATCHY TRIBUNEThe New York Knicks’, from left, Raymond Felton, J.R. Smith, and Carmelo Anthony sit during a game against the Heat in Miami on Feb. 27. Phil Jackson, a former Knicks coach and player, was named team president.

CURTIS COMPTON MCCLATCHY TRIBUNEKentucky head coach John Calipari yells for some defense during a game against Florida in the Southeastern Conference Tournament on Sunday in Atlanta. The Gators defeated the Wildcats 61-60.

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