Little reaches 1,000 points in Eagles win
Little finished with a game-high 29 points to become the 21st Screaming Eagles to score 1,000 or more points in program history and has 1,005 career points in two-plus seasons. The junior forward also had a double-double with 13 rebounds and reached 625 career rebounds, moving into a tie with Chris Thompson for seventh all-time at USI
The Eagles and the Lions traded buckets through the opening eight minutes that featured six lead changes and a 15 minute delay due to shot clock problems. Lindenwood took command with 11:27 left in the opening stanza with a 14-3 run to post a 31-20 advantage.
USI responded with a 12-2 spurt to cut the deficit to 32-31 at the 3:36 mark when senior guard Joe Laravie buried a three from the left corner. The Eagles were a blistering five-of-six from the field during the run and were led by junior forward Emmanuel Little’s four of the 12 points.
The Lions would maintain their advantage in the final minutes of the half as the Eagles went into the locker room down four points, 40-36.
Little propelled the Eagles back into the lead, 45-42, with the start the second half by scoring seven of USI’s nine points in the first three minutes and leading a 9-2 run at 14:25 remaining. After taking the lead, the Eagles never looked back and began to expand the margin.
USI would double up Lindenwood over the next 10 minutes, 26-13, to post its biggest lead of the game, 73-59. Little scored 10 of the 26 points during the surge, while junior forward Josh Price added six more.
The Lions would cut the Eagles’ lead under 10 points twice more, closing to within eight points, 79-71, with 26 ticks left before Little and junior guard Mateo Rivera closed out the game with free throws for the 83-74 win.
In addition to Little’s game-high 29 points, Price and Rivera followed with 18 points and 12 points, respectively. Laravie closed out the double-digit scorers for the Eagles with 11 points.
USI starts the second half of the four-game road swing Thursday when it visits Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri, before finishing the longest road trip of the season February 8 when the Eagles travel to Missouri University of Science & Technology in Rolla, Missouri.
Maryville finished this weekend’s GLVC action with 76-65 loss at Drury University and is winless in the league with a 0-12 mark, 4-15 overall. Missouri S&T saw its record to 4-14 overall and 2-10 in the GLVC after falling, 93-76, at Southwest Baptist University.
Strong efforts propel USI Women’s Hoops to 13-point win at Lindenwood
Senior guard Ashley Johnson matched her career-high of 22 points Saturday afternoon as University of Southern Indiana Women’s Basketball earned an 81-68 Great Lakes Valley Conference road win over league-newcomer Lindenwood University at Robert F. Hyland Arena.
Johnson’s performance, which included five rebounds, six assists and two steals, highlighted an all-around impressive performance for the Screaming Eagles, who were facing a Lindenwood team that advanced to the NCAA II Central Region Tournament in 2018-19 before joining the GLVC last summer.
USI (12-6, 8-4 GLVC) used a strong defensive effort to set the tone in the opening half as it held the Lions, who entered the game as the GLVC’s third-highest scoring team after dropping 103 points on McKendree University Thursday evening, to just 28.1 percent (9-32) shooting before the intermission.
The Eagles, meanwhile, went 15-of-30 (.500) from the field in the first 20 minutes as they finished a first half that featured four ties and eight lead changes with a 33-27 lead.
A pair of three-pointers and a layup by junior guard Emma DeHart in the first four minutes of the third quarter helped the Eagles extend their halftime advantage to 48-33.
Lindenwood (11-7, 7-5 GLVC), however, surged back as it scored nine straight points in less than two minutes to trim the Eagles’ lead to 48-42.
After a three-point play by Lindenwood senior forward Kallie Bildner cut the Eagles’ lead to just six points with just under four minutes to play in the third quarter, freshman forward Hannah Haithcock answered with a quick layup to briefly halt the Lions’ surge.
The Lions, however, continued to threaten USI’s lead as they scored the next four points to get to within four points with just under two minutes left to play in the period.
Haithcock, who scored 11 of her 15 points in the second half, once again ended Lindenwood’s run after scoring on an offensive put back. Senior guard Kiara Moses got a steal and a fast-break layup on Lindenwood’s next possession, while an old-fashioned three-point play by Johnson put the Eagles up 57-46 heading into the fourth quarter.
Moses’s three-pointer a minute into the fourth quarter put the Eagles up by 12, while a three-pointer by Johnson less than two minutes later put USI up 63-53. Lindenwood got to within seven points late in the game, but the Eagles hit 12-of-13 free throw attempts in the final 90 seconds to secure the 13-point victory.
In addition to Johnson and Haithcock, the Eagles got 12 points from DeHart and 10 points from freshman guard Addy Blackwell. Nine different players scored for the Eagles, including freshman forward Tara Robbe, who had nine points, and sophomore forward Ashlynn Brown, had had four points and a team-high seven rebounds. Moses added five points, all of which came in the second half.
Bildner led the Lions with a game-high 25 points and 12 rebounds, while sophomore guard Devin Fuhring added 21 points. Senior guard Lindsay Medlen, who surpassed the 1,000-career point plateau in the loss, added 15 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists.
USI returns to action Thursday at 5:15 p.m. when it visits Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri. The Eagles close out their four-game road trip with a stop in Rolla, Missouri, next Saturday to take on Missouri University of Science & Technology.
Celestial Milestone For USI’s Satellite Project
The UNITE CubeSat, a satellite designed, built and maintained entirely by undergraduate students at the University of Southern Indiana, marked one year in orbit on Friday, January 31. In that time, the satellite, deployed from the International Space Station, has remained operational and, despite unforeseen changes to its timeline, on track to complete its scientific mission.
Of the 23 undergraduate-only teams funded by the NASA Undergraduate Student Instrument Project, USI’s satellite is the first to be placed in orbit and one of two to date to have successful missions thus far, according to Dr. Glen Kissel, associate professor of engineering and director of the CubeSat project. Kissel added that NASA officials have heaped numerous accolated on the project, with UNITE team’s critical design presentation described as a “model of perfection.†As many as 25% of CubeSats are deemed lost upon deployment; a testament to USI’s satellite reaching one continuous year of operation in orbit.
The UNITE CubeSat “not only put USI on the map as a space-faring institution, but this speaks volumes as well for the State of Indiana and space exploration,” said Angie Verissimo, operations manager for the Indiana Space Grant Consortium/NASAÂ in a message to Kissel and the team. “USI is well recognized with the Indiana Space Grant Consortium as well as NASA for this great accomplishment.”
UNITE’s mission is three-fold: to measure plasma levels in the lower ionosphere, record its own internal and exterior temperatures and measure its orbital decay as it reenters the Earth’s atmosphere at the end of its mission. While the original timeline for the project was 15-months after deployment, the project has now been extended to at least the end of 2021.
“The CubeSat was deployed at a slightly higher altitude than we had anticipated, and the Sun has been much quieter during this solar minimum period than had been expected,†said Kissel. “These circumstances have resulted in less drag and less orbital decay, meaning a longer mission than had been originally planned for.â€
In addition to the experience working on the satellite, students participating on the UNITE CubeSat project, which first began in 2017, have had the chance to visit and use equipment from aerospace laboratories, engage with NASA professionals and other industry experts and publish and present their findings at national and international conferences, including the Small Satellite Conference at Utah State University and at the International Astronautical Congress in Washington DC.
“For many people who want to work one day in the field of astronomy or engineering, knowing that there are teams like UNITE that can give that type of opportunity at the college level is immensely important,†said Ryan Loehrlein and Nathan Kalsch, USI students and UNITE team members, in a presentation to the International Astronautical Congress on their experiences building and operating a satellite.
Five students currently operate the UNITE project, and Kissel anticipates that a majority of the team will turnover each year due to graduation. In addition to operating and collecting data from UNITE, Kissel and other engineering faculty are actively researching new opportunities for students to be involved in projects that directly tied to the space program.
“I and two colleagues from Engineering were recently at Caltech’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to understand their technology needs for upcoming space missions,†said Kissel. “The intent of the visit is to assist us at USI in proposing technology developments or collaborations that could be used on future space missions.â€
For more information about USI’s Engineering Program, visit USI.edu/engineering. A gallery detailing the design and construction of the CubeSat can be found at usiphotos.zenfolio.com/cubesat2018.
Commentary: Senate Republicans Bear Witness To Their Own Mess
TheStatehouseFile.com
INDIANAPOLIS – Thanks to former National Security Advisor John Bolton, it’s now the Republicans in the U.S. Senate who are on trial.
The reports of the revelations in Bolton’s forthcoming book that President Donald Trump in fact did attempt to extort campaign help from Ukraine by withholding military aid has changed things.
The GOP’s strategy of searching for the truth about the president’s actions by imitating ostriches and burying their heads in the sand no longer is tenable. No matter how far the Republicans try to run from the truth or how hard they try to hide, the truth is going to find them.
Truth is like that. Just like the sun, it may be hidden from view for a while, but it never goes away. It’s always there.
And, eventually, it comes out from behind the clouds and shines its light once more.
In this case, the truth puts Senate Republicans in a bad, bad spot.
They have two choices.
They can continue to follow the course demanded by President Trump and urged by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Kentucky, and continue to stonewall. They can refuse to call any witnesses and vote to acquit the president on the two counts of impeachment in a state of pretended blissful ignorance.
Following that course means defying the 75 percent of Americans, according to a Quinnipiac University poll, who want the president’s Senate trial to include witnesses. That’s not just Democrats. Roughly half – 49 percent – of Republicans polled want to hear witnesses. So do 75 percent of independents.
If the Republicans in the Senate hold firm and exclude witnesses – including Bolton – from the proceedings, they’ll be giving Democrats a huge gift. From now until the November election, incumbent GOP senators on the ballot will hear their opponents use the term “cover-up†as if it were punctuation, sprinkling the charge through their stump speeches as often as they use commas and periods.
But, if Republicans opt to include witnesses, they’ll hand Democrats another big present. The GOP will give their opponents wall-to-wall media coverage of the president’s transgressions – the lies Donald Trump has told and the laws he has broken.
Not only will the public get confirmation of what everyone already knows – that this president treats the Constitution of the United States with the same respect he gives Kleenex – but they’ll also see how much he concealed from the members of his own party, the Republicans who have fought with ferocity to protect him.
They’ll look either like dupes or like henchmen. Neither portrait will be flattering.
Frying pan or fire.
That’s where the president has placed them.
Trump doesn’t see it that way, of course.
He’s doing his best to blame Bolton for this debacle. He and his mouthpieces have tried to argue that the staunchly conservative and fiercely partisan Bolton somehow has become a stooge of the Democrats.
Because that charge isn’t sticking, Trump also has worked to discredit Bolton by accusing his former national security advisor of being a war monger. The president says this as if Bolton’s aggressive and confrontational attitudes somehow should be a new revelation, some sort of grand surprise.
If Bolton was trying to hide his jingoistic tendencies, he chose an odd way to go about it. Giving high-profile speeches and interviews over two decades, as Bolton did, calling for military responses to just about every foreign-policy challenge isn’t an effective way to conceal one’s hunger for conflict.
If Donald Trump just recently discovered that John Bolton likes a fight the way pigs like slop, the president clearly hadn’t been paying attention to, oh, anything for the past 20 years. And the Trump administration must use the equivalent of Ouija boards to vet candidates for high-visibility, high-responsibility jobs rather than traditional background checks.
It’s not John Bolton’s fault that Republicans in the Senate are in such a fix.
It’s Donald Trump’s fault.
And their own.
If just a few Republicans in the Senate had summoned up the nerve to remind this president that he needs them just as much as they might need him, they might have been able to put a leash on him and force him to honor his constitutional obligations.
But they didn’t.
So, they are where they are.
On trial themselves.
FOOTNOTE: John Krull is director of Franklin College’s Pulliam School of Journalism and publisher of TheStatehouseFile.com, a news website powered by Franklin College journalism students.
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VANDERBURGH COUNTY FELONY CHARGES
 Evansville, IN – Below are the felony cases to be filed by the Vanderburgh County Prosecutor’s Office today.
Richard W. Rogers Jr.: Theft (Level 6 Felony)
Katie Marleen Overton: Possession of a narcotic drug (Level 6 Felony)
David K. Wilkinson: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 5 Felony)
Gary M. Moore: Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony)
Roosevelt Jason Van Clay: Assisting a criminal (Level 6 Felony)
Angelica A. Johnson:Â Attempt Battery against a public safety official (Level 6 Felony), Domestic battery by bodily waste (Class A misdemeanor)
Keyvan Shamaal Fellows: Failure to register as a sex or violent offender (Level 6 Felony), Possession of marijuana (Class A misdemeanor)
Melvin R. Solomon: Intimidation (Level 5 Felony), False informing (Class B misdemeanor)
Emerald S. Guard: Criminal confinement (Level 6 Felony), Resisting law enforcement (Class A misdemeanor), Criminal trespass (Class A misdemeanor), Battery (Class B misdemeanor)
Debra Anne Kramer: Unlawful possession of syringe (Level 6 Felony), Possession of methamphetamine (Level 6 Felony)