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Musical Art In Motion

When the clock strikes midnight the first Friday of every month, audiences at TheatreWorks get their freak on. Some University of Memphis students even do it on stage.

FreakEngine, the longest running improv show in Memphis, began in 1997. Michael Entman, producer and host of FreakEngine, said the show is “short-form improv” that relies heav-ily on audience participation.

“Basically, we try to involve the audience as much as possible,” he said. “FreakEngine tries to give the crowd what it wants.”

The show is based around 60 games on the “Wheel of Bacchus,” which actors on stage spin to determine what game they will play next. There typically go through 10 to 15 games each night.

“We don’t even know what games we’re going to play until the wheel is spun,” Entman said. “So the entire show is impro-vised. We have no idea what’s going to happen until it happens.”

One of the games, “mouse-traps,” is a blind-folded, barefoot version of Marco Polo, played on a stage lined like a minefield with

mousetraps.“It’s not the most comfortable thing

in the world, but it’s entertaining,” Entman said.

Another, “scene three ways,” relies on audience members to shout out movie titles, and actors then try to perform a scene in the style of a sug-gested film.

Entman said that U of M students have participated with FreakEngine since its origin.

“You can’t do better than a U of

fly the freak flags highBY CHRIS DANIELSNews Reporter

Earthquakes, forest fires, hurricanes, tsunamis and more will be at the center of discussion in today’s symposium, “Natural and Unnatural Disasters.”

The event will run at the University Center Theatre from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.

Four disaster experts — U of M associ-ate research professor Beatrice Magnani, associate earth sciences professor Arleen Hill and guests Lee Clarke and Simon Winchester, the keynote speaker — will address the audience at the event.

History professor Jonathan Judaken said the basic goal of the symposium is to explore the ideas of disasters from several different angles, from the science behind disasters and from the relation-ship between a natural phenomenon

and the way people respond when it happens.

The symposium will address disaster-related issues, such as discovering the disconnects between scientists and the population as a whole in understanding them, looking at how that disconnect affects public policy, and talking about the way people give meaning to these disasters — in particular, the way reli-gious and scientific explanations define them.

“This is an opportunity for students to explore disasters from a lot of differ-ent perspectives,” he said. “It’s just a chance to explore a huge social issue.”

“Natural and Unnatural Disasters” is presented by Center for Earthquake Research and Information, the Marcus W. Orr Center for the Humanities, and the Rhodes College Environmental Studies and Sciences Program.

BY CHRIS DANIELSNews Reporter

Dialogue about disaster

Tigers smite KnightsWith 11:50 left in the game, University

of Memphis men’s basketball coach Josh Pastner angrily met senior forward Will Coleman at mid-court after the big man fouled UCF guard Marcus Jordan. He asked Coleman what was wrong.

The truth? Not much.Virtually nothing went wrong for the

Tigers (16-4, 5-1 Conference USA) in a 77-61 romp against the Knights (14-5, 1-5) Wednesday night in front of 17,086 fans at FedExForum.

The Knights came into Wednesday’s game as the league’s best scoring defense, allowing opposing teams to score only 60 points per game. The Tigers’ 77-point out-put was the second-most UCF has given up given up this season.

“It was a good win for the Tigers,” Pastner said. “I felt we did a lot of good things. I thought our first half was terrific. I was really proud of the guys’ first half.”

The U of M took its first lead of the game, 6-5, after a layup by freshman guard Will Barton with 17:10 in the first half.

After a 7-0 scoring run by Barton, UCF regained the lead with 12:13 left in the half, 13-11, due in no small part to its offensive second chance opportunities.

A minute later, though, freshman for-ward Tarik Black finished inside to give The U of M a 15-14 advantage with 11:18 left in the half.

And the Knights never got closer, as the Tigers closed the first half on a 32-14 run.

The Tigers shot 49 percent for the game.

“We have to put two halves together,

and we can’t do that when we are up a bunch,” Pastner said. “That is a maturity thing and one of those things of growing. We will take that as a positive because it gives us something to hammer on the next few days.”

The Tigers moved to 4-0 when sopho-more guard Drew Barham starts. Barham led the team with 30 minutes and had a career-high five assists. He also led the Tigers with seven rebounds.

“He stayed on the floor for his effort,” Pastner said. “He battled, competed, and gave tremendous effort. That’s why he was our leading minuteman tonight.”

The Tigers also did a solid job defen-sively and held the Knights’ sophomore guard Marcus Jordan -- their leading scor-er -- to 13 points. The son of NBA Hall of Famer Michael Jordan had only four points at halftime. He finished with 13 points on 3-of-11 shooting. He also had four turnovers.

The Tigers forced 22 turnovers overall, which led to 26 points.

“I felt like we got our offense off of defense,” Pastner said. “I mean, Central Florida – I cannot stress the job Donnie Jones does. He is a terrific coach, and they’ve got good players. And they defend. We were fortunate, with the way we played, that we got some open looks that we knocked down. But we got a lead based on our defense in the first half, and that’s the whole thing.”

Barton, whose father, William Barton Jr. was in attendance for the first time at FedExForum this season, led the Tigers with 17 points.

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U of M theatre performance senior Jerry Kimble, left, performs with fellow FreakEngine improv member Sam Rodriguez at Theatre Works in Midtown.

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Artist Nick Cave doesn’t use your typical sculptor’s materials. You’ll find him in the studio with anything from flea market finds to human hair.

And now, he’s asking for help from University of Memphis students.

Cave is currently working on a collaborative project with The U of M, the Art Museum at The University of Memphis and other members of the Memphis community.

“We don’t know what we are producing, but that’s part of the fun,” AMUM director Leslie Luebbers said. “It’s organic; it grows; it starts here and ends there. It’s a community celebra-tion meant to be artistic and fun, colorful and noisy.”

Cave, director of the gradu-ate fashion program at School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has become a star in the art world for his “soundsuits,” full-bodied costumes composed of recycled

fabrics, beads, bottle caps, toys, twigs and hair.

Freshman studio arts major Randa Frazier’s concentration is painting, but she said she’s step-ping out of her comfort zone for the chance to work with such a renowned modern-day artist.

“The project is about breaking boundaries by bringing people together and doing something productive for everybody — we want as many people to get involved as possible,” she said.

The STAX Museum of American Soul Music, the Natural Learning School and Homeschool Resource Center, Overton High School and Hutchison School are also participating in the project.

Cave’s theme for the Memphis project is “Heavyweight.”

Lisa Abitz, assistant director of AMUM, said she does not think the theme is a slight at high obesi-ty rates in the city or the country.

“I don’t think there was a meaning — just two words with multiple possibilities,” Abitz said.

Cave’s soundsuits have served

as stationary gallery art but can also be worn by dancers, becom-ing costumes of sound through movement.

“They are like a music cos-tume,” Frazier said. “They make sounds when you move around in them.”

A performance march of the art created in the Memphis col-laboration is tentatively sched-uled for early April.

Megan McRae, senior English major, is an anchor for a team of cyclists, band and color guard members, and dancers in the project. She said students are free to come up with their own soundsuit ideas along the lines of the “Heavyweight” theme.

“We are encouraged to inter-pret it any way we want,” she said. “It’s meant to bring out themes that are heavy to Memphis.”

AMUM, which is funding the project, will turn into a daytime workspace for the groups six days per week from March 21 to April 16.

The museum will then show-case the art, beginning July 15 and

running through the first week of October. The extended run will allow incoming fresh-men a chance to see the collaboration in the fall.

An informa-tional meeting and workshop for the collab-oration will be held Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in room 3 of Jones Hall. Cave is scheduled to attend via Skype f r o m Chicago. A n y o n e from the Memphis commu-nity is welcome to participate.

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Artist and educator Nick Cave, appearing here on Chicago’s 31st Street beach, is the creator of full body “soundsuits,” which are made from layers of metal, plas-tic, fabric, hair and other found objects.

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With gasoline prices rising, the new chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee wants to drill for more oil.

“In a down economy, it seems to me we ought to be exploring more domestic energy produc-tion, wherever it may be,” said Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., who got to bang the commit-tee’s gavel for the first time Wednesday.

As the new Congress got fully under way this week, the politics of oil moved quickly to the front burner.

Seeking to block any more drilling on the West Coast, two Democratic senators — Washington state’s Maria Cantwell and California’s Barbara Boxer — introduced leg-islation on Tuesday that would

permanently ban offshore drill-ing off the coasts of Washington, Oregon and California.

“One of the lessons learned from the disastrous BP oil spill is that without a fundamental transformation of the oil indus-try, another spill is possible, even likely,” Cantwell said. “That’s not a risk I’m willing to take for Washington state’s beautiful coastlines and the communities that depend on them.”

Hastings, however, said the White House should be doing everything it can to increase U.S. energy production. He wants to speed up the process for approving federal permits for more offshore drilling in the Gulf of Mexico.

“We need to have a robust domestic energy production area, and clearly the Gulf of Mexico is that right now,” he said.

After getting trounced in the 2010 congressional elec-

tions, Democratic opponents on Hastings’ committee are ready

to play defense.“The ‘drill, baby, drill’ folks

won the election,” said Rep. John Garamendi, D-Calif. “And I would expect them to do everything they can to do just that: ‘Drill, baby, drill.’”

Cantwell said that more drill-ing won’t lower gasoline prices and that the U.S. should focus “on the promising clean energy alternatives that are better for consumers.”

After being in place for decades, the moratorium on offshore oil and gas drilling expired in 2008. Cantwell said the West Coast is only protected now by a pledge from President Barack Obama that there will be no new offshore drilling there.

Hastings countered that fam-ilies struggling to make ends meet “cannot afford to have American energy develop-ment slowed down.” He said that Congress needs to ensure that offshore drilling meets the highest safety standards, but he added: “As gasoline prices con-tinue to rise, we cannot allow ourselves to become increasing-ly dependent on hostile foreign nations for our energy needs.”

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An active ingredient in the chemical dispersants pumped deep into the Gulf of Mexico after BP’s oil spill didn’t break down but remained for several months in a deep layer of oil and gas, according to a study published Wednesday.

The study provides the first data about what happened to the 800,000 gallons of dispersants that were pumped into the oil and gas that gushed a mile below the surface from the broken BP well. Additional studies are under way to find out if there were toxic effects from the dispersants in the deep water.

Elizabeth Kujawinski, a chemist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts, and a team of colleagues analyzed sam-ples from three research cruises: two near the wellhead while the oil was gushing, in late May to early June and again in mid-June, and a third in September in a loca-tion southwest of the well, where currents had carried a deep plume of oil and gas.

The scientists found a key com-pound of the dispersants, dioctyl sodium sulfosuccinate or DOSS, in concentrations of parts per mil-lion in May and June. They found lower concentrations, in parts per billion, in September, after the well was capped on July 15 and the use of dispersants ended.

Kujawinski said her team mem-bers were somewhat surprised to discover that the compounded had degraded at a low rate or not at all. Calculations showed the lower concentration in September was the result of dilution. If bio-degradation had occurred, the concentration would have been much lower.

Environmental Protection Agency scientists previously reported that they detected no lin-gering dispersants in waters near shore. Kujawinski, however, said her team used a mass spectrom-eter that was 1,000 times more sensitive than the method used by the EPA.

“We can see it further and lon-ger than the EPA can,” she said in an interview.

Most toxicity studies of disper-

sants have assessed their toxicity on small fish and other animals that live in coastal waters, Kujawinski said. Her deep-water study found toxicity levels that were below the limits in these published reports. However, additional studies may be needed to nail down the envi-ronmental impact on the unique environment and organisms in the deep water.

Some of those studies on corals are under way, but “they’re just inherently difficult and slow,” said Charles Fisher, a professor of biology at Penn State University who has studied deep-sea cor-als in the Gulf of Mexico, at a conference on Wednesday at the University of Georgia.

It’s also not known yet how effective the dispersants were in breaking down oil droplets in the deep water, Kujawinski said. She said her team’s study would help scientists design further studies. It was published in the journal Environmental Science and Technology.

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Now there’s another reason to be careful about what you post on Facebook: Your insurance com-pany may be watching.

Nathalie Blanchard found out the hard way.

Struggling with depression, the 30-year-old from Quebec, Canada, took a medical leave in early 2008 from her job as an IBM technician. Soon after, she began receiving monthly disability benefits from her insurer, Manulife Financial Corp.

A year later and without warn-

ing, the payments stopped.A representative of the Toronto

insurance company told Blanchard that Manulife used photos of her on Facebook — showing her frol-icking at a beach and hanging out at a pub — to determine she was depression-free and able to work, said Tom Lavin, Blanchard’s attor-ney.

“They just assumed from the pictures that she was a fraud,” Lavin said, “without investigat-ing further before terminating Nathalie’s benefits.”

Blanchard sued Manulife, accusing Manulife of failing to talk to her doctor and neglecting

to inform her before cutting off payments. The case is scheduled for trial next January.

Manulife, citing ongoing legal proceedings, declined to comment on the case but said in a statement: “We would not deny or termi-nate a valid claim solely based on information published on web-sites such as Facebook.”

Social-networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace have become the go-to places where employers, college admis-sions officers and divorce lawyers can do background checks. Armed with the information, police have caught fugitives, lawyers have dis-

credited witnesses and companies have discovered perfect-on-paper applicants engaged in illegal or simply embarrassing behavior.

And now insurance compa-nies are exploiting the free, easily accessible websites.

Such sites have become the lat-est tools in detecting fraud, which the industry said costs the U.S. as much as $80 billion a year and accounts for 3 percent to 10 per-cent of total annual healthcare spending.

Investigators who once fol-lowed people with cameras now sit behind desks “mining databas-es and searching Facebook,” said Frank Scapili, spokesman for the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a nonprofit that investigates suspi-cious claims for insurance partners such as Allstate and State Farm.

“They look out for things that don’t add up,” he said, “like someone who claimed they hurt their back too badly to work and then bragged on Facebook about running a marathon.”

Social-networking sites have become such “standard tools” that Peter Foley, vice president of claims at American Insurance Association, said that investiga-tors could be considered negli-gent if they didn’t conduct at least “a quick scan of social media to check for contradictions.”

But the evidence gathered on these sites, Foley and other insur-ance experts caution, should be used only as a launch pad for further investigations and never as final proof of fraud.

More ambitious insurance companies are even exploring the possibility of using online data to help underwrite policies.

Celent, the insurance consult-ing arm of financial and insur-ance brokerage firm Marsh & McLennan Cos. recently pub-lished a study titled “Leveraging Social Networks: An In-Depth View for Insurers” and suggested that social-networking data could be used to help price policies.

Mike Fitzgerald, a Celent senior

analyst, said life insurance com-panies could find social media especially valuable for comparing what people will admit about life-style choices and medical histo-ries in applications, and what they reveal online.

That could range from “liking” a cancer support group online to signs of high-risk behavior. “If someone claims they don’t go sky diving often, but it clearly indi-cates on their online profile that they do it every weekend they can get away,” Fitzgerald said, “that would raise a red flag for insurers.”

Social media is “part of a new and emerging risk to the insur-ance sector” that could affect pric-ing and rating of policies in the future, said Gary Pickering, sales and marketing director for British insurer Legal & General Group PLC.

“The situation is coming up more and more in court where lawyers for insurance companies lay traps for the insured based on pictures or postings on Facebook or Twitter,” said Vedica Puri, a partner at Pillsbury & Levinson, a San Francisco law firm that spe-cializes in insurance.

“Photos can be years old. People joke or write things in jest, but insurance companies use everything. Even if it’s not true, it can be very damning,” she said.

Lawyer John Beals of Piering Law Firm in Sacramento, Calif., requires all his clients to either shut down or tighten privacy set-tings on their social media profiles as a precaution, he said.

Insurance companies will “bring up anything — photos of you drinking to prove that you have bad character,” he said. “Even if it’s unrelated, just the impres-sion that you are doing something wrong can sink a case.”

Lawyers and industry experts said that one of the dangers for consumers is people’s desire to present themselves in the best light, even if it hurts an insurance claim.

Or as Lavin puts it: “No one puts pictures of themselves crying in a dark room, even if that’s what they’re doing 18 hours a day.”

“The whole thing is just symp-tomatic of technology running ahead of the people who are using it,” he said. “It’s kind of like the early years of flight, when planes are crashing all over the place. Society has not come to terms with how to manage social networking.”

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“When you play rock ‘n’ roll, you have to be loud, don’t you? Otherwise, what’s the point? You may as well be playing folk music,” said Lemmy Kilmister of Motörhead, who’s proud of the band’s sonic blast.

He’s 65 years of age, has been the head of the band for 36 years, and he hears just fine. His band touts itself as the “loudest, coolest and most ironic rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle around,” and its new album, “The Wörld Is Yours” comes out in two weeks. Motörhead’s last album, “Motörizer,” broke all the group’s sales records.

“The music is exactly what you’d expect. We’re pret-ty much set in our ways,” Kilmister said. “It’s straight-ahead rock ‘n’ roll. It is not heavy metal. People call us a heavy-metal band. We are not heavy metal. We are heavy rock. We were rocking way before heavy metal, way before

punk. It’s what we’ve been doing for 36 years, and I’ve never tired of it.

“Well, you can get tired of any job, but I’d get tired of plumbing quicker than I will of playing rock ‘n’ roll.”

In a different medium, Kilmister is also the star of a documentary that follows him from New York to Melbourne to London. It is appropriately called “Lemmy” and will be released this month. He typi-

cally downplays it, saying sim-ply that “two guys showed up one day and asked ‘Can we do a documentary about you?’ and we said to come with us for a week and they did. It’s already shown in New York.”

Motörhead wine also debuted in Europe this past year.

“I’ll bet it’s terrible,” Kilmister said. “Didn’t taste it. It’s red wine. I don’t drink red wine.”

Motörhead is touring the United States and then Australia and South America. After that, it’s off to Europe for the sum-mer festivals, probably another album and another tour.

Kilmister, the only original member of the band, has no intention of quitting.

“What I have got to go to?” he mused. “I have no grandchil-dren. I have no porch. Besides, rock ‘n’ roll needs me to keep it clean. A lot of people try to kill it. The boring stuff is here, like that boring hip-hop. It’s an absence of music with the same beat year in and year out.”

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Now hear this: Lemmy and Motörhead still blasting their way around worldBY MEL SHIELDSMcClatchy Newspapers

Legendary Motörhead frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister looks on as Motley Crüe is honored with the 2301st Star on The Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles in 2006.

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“When you play rock ‘n’

roll, you have to be loud, don’t

you? Otherwise, what’s the

point?”

— Lemmy KilmisterSinger/bassist, Motorhead

The Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it has begun investigating the possible con-nection between breast implants and the increased risk of a rare form of cancer.

While the number of women who may develop the disease is small, there is apparently no way to identify those who are likely to develop it — making it a source of potential concern to all women with the implants.

Among women who do not have implants, the cancer — ana-plastic large cell lymphoma or ALCL — develops in the breast tissue of about three out of 100 million women nationwide.

But among women who do have implants, FDA investiga-tors said they have identified as many as 60 women who have developed ALCL worldwide, out of an estimated global popu-lation of 5 million to 10 million women with implants.

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M student,” he said. “Part of improv is (that) you’ve got to have a quick and intelligent mind to be able to think on your toes.”

Jerry Kimble, senior theatre performance major at The U of M, described FreakEngine as very “Rocky Horror Picture Show”-esque.

He said that his four years participating in the show have challenged him and helped with his other acting roles.

“The improv helps me come up with dif-ferent charac-ters,” he said. “Characters that I can sometimes translate when I’m doing the-ater or film. It’s definitely a good training tool for an actor.”

F r i e n d s invited Kimble to his first F r e a k E n g i n e p e r f o r m a n c e , where he said he had a thrill-ing but terrify-ing experience.

“One of my friends was a magician for FreakEngine, and he wanted me to come up and be part of his act,” he said. “Part of the act was laying on the ground while he juggled three or four sharp blades in the air right over my face. I about peed my pants.”

Kimble introduced fellow U of M student and theatre major Shakiera Adams to

FreakEngine a few months ago.

Adams said FreakEngine is “loads of fun” and that there is always a lot of new, fresh energy.

“You go into it, and you don’t know what’s going to happen,” the sophomore said. “It’s completely improv. We just really feed off of our audi-ence. It’s a ton of fun and a great experience.”

As the only actress in the cast, Adams said she thinks she brings great things to the perfor-mance and allows the troop to do things they wouldn’t be able to do otherwise.

“I have to put up with a lot of boy jokes and a lot of boy humor, but it does add a new dynamic to the troupe,” she said. “I have to keep up with the boys a lot. But because of that, you can go further and try new and different things.”

Adams said that crowd involvement is very important in FreakEngine, and actors basically feed off what is given to them.

“If the crowd gives us really off-the-wall humor, off-the-wall ideas, we’re going to present an off-the-wall show,” she said.

The next FreakEngine per-formance begins at midnight Feb. 4, and tickets are $5 each.

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The University of Memphis rifle team opened its spring sea-son last weekend at the Ole Miss Rifle Range.

The No. 16-ranked Tigers lost to No. 3 Kentucky by an aggre-gate margin of 4,691-4,593. They also dropped a narrow contest to No. 12 Jacksonville State, 4,628-4,614.

Sophomore Kelly Audet set a new personal best in the air rifle category with a score of 588 to lead The U of M. Freshman Dan Hermsmeier tied his personal best of 586 in air rifle.

“We had a really solid week-end despite the losses,” said U of M rifle coach Butch Whoolbright. “We had several personal bests, and I’m confident we’re headed in the right direction.”

The Tigers will compete in the Skyhawk Invitational in Martin, Tenn. on Wednesday, Jan. 26.

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No. 16 rifle team opens season 0-2BY JOHN MARTINSports Editor

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“Basically, we try to

involve the audi-ence as much as possible. FreakEngine

tries to give the crowd what it

wants.” — Michael Entman

Producer and host, FreakEngine

UM tennis earns best ranking in five years

In the national rankings released by the Intercollegiate Tennis Association on Wednesday, The University of Memphis men’s tennis pro-gram was ranked 58th in the nation.

The Tigers (1-1, 0-1 Conference USA) are coming off a 5-2 win over 47th-ranked Oklahoma State on Saturday in Tulsa, Okla. The Tigers’ rank-ing is the highest in program history and their first since being ranked No. 74 in 2006.

While this is the first team ranking in five years, several individual players and dou-bles teams have appeared in the rankings since then. Most recently, freshman doubles pair Joe Salisbury and David O’Hare were ranked No. 52 in the doubles rankings released Jan. 4.

The Tigers are joined in the Top 75 by two other Conference USA schools. The Tulsa Golden Hurricane, to whom the Tigers lost in their season-opener last Friday, are ranked No. 35, and the Southern Methodist Mustangs come in at No. 68.

The Tigers will look to maintain their ranking when they take on Tennessee Tech this Friday at 6:00 p.m. at the Racquet Club of Memphis.

BY SCOTT HALLSports Reporter

him),” Barton said. “He’s been watching me play my whole life. It was more of an, ‘I’ve got to put on a show for my dad.’ He drove all the way from Baltimore to Memphis. That’s a long ride.”

After The U of M allowed UAB forward Cameron Moore to go off for 24 points in a 76-73 overtime victory Saturday, Jan. 22, the Tigers limited UCF sophomore forward Keith Clanton to seven points on 2-of-9 shooting.

Freshman guard Joe Jackson, who had been strug-gling the last several games, broke out of his slump and chipped in with 12 points

and three assists. He also had three steals.

Wednesday’s win was the Tigers’ third win against a team with an RPI of 65 or higher.

“I don’t want to speak too soon, but it’s about that time that we should gel and click,” Jackson said. “We’re learning how to play hard and win, and that’s the most important thing at this level. We know how to win, and we know what it takes.”

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