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UE scores 59 second-half points in 98-56 win
UE defeats Oakland City on Saturday
Blake Simmons scored 17 points, just one off of his career-high, To lead four double-digit scorers in a 98-56 victory over Oakland City on Saturday afternoon at the Ford Center.
“We did some things very well in the second half and we are hoping to build on that,†Purple Aces (6-2) head coach Marty Simmons said. “Playing well and playing hard were two things we wanted to accomplish today. We passed the ball very well today and that is a real asset for this team.â€
Simmons’ final of 17 points was the top tally in the game. He also notched five assists. Duane Gibson notched 14 points for his top total of the season while Noah Frederking and Marty Hill each hit four 3-pointers on their way to 12 points. K.J. Riley totaled nine points and nine helpers. John Hall and Evan Kuhlman each had their top games at UE. Hall hit four out of five shots to finish with 9 points and 7 rebounds and Kuhlman was 4-6 from the field on his way to 9 points and 8 boards.
“We wanted to execute and get better. Without Ryan, we are still trying to fill that void,†Frederking said. “We really played well today.â€
Logan Worthington was the leading scorer for the Mighty Oaks (4-1) as he notched 16 points and 8 rebounds. Andrew Scott finished the day with 13.
Evansville notched the first two buckets of the game before Oakland City got on the board. Back-to-back triples gave them a 6-4 lead just over two minutes in. Another trey by OCU’s Austin Robertson gave the Mighty Oaks a 9-7 lead before Noah Frederking got in on the scoring.
His long ball gave the Aces the lead for good at 10-9. The freshman connected on four of his seven 3-point tries in the first half as he led all players with 12 at the break.   Also finding his shot from outside was Marty Hill, who played in his second game on Saturday. His shot saw UE take a 26-18 lead with eight minutes remaining in the half.
Oakland City kept the intensity up as they rallied to get within four points at 31-27 inside of three minutes remaining in the period. The Aces matched their effort, scoring the final eight tallies to take a 39-27 lead at the half. Frederking added two more triples in the final minutes to cement the 12-point advantage.
After regrouping during the halftime break, Evansville came out on fire in the second half, shooting an unbelievable 76.7% (23/30) while outscoring OCU by a 59-29 margin. The final score of 98-56 marked UE’s highest lead of 42 points.
As a team, the Aces hit 11 out of 18 3-point tries while finishing the game shooting 66.7% (38/57) from the field. Along with its offensive prowess, the Aces also dominated defensively, outrebounding the Mighty Oaks, 40-23, while holding them to 36.4% shooting.
It is back to the road for the Purple Aces as they head north to Bowling Green, Ohio to face the Falcons. Game time is 6 p.m. CT on Tuesday. The game will be carried on ESPN3 while 91.5 WUEV will have the broadcast.
Noe scores 29 as Aces fall to Austin Peay, 82-73
Graduate guard Hannah Noe scored 29 points as the Aces dropped a close battle to Austin Peay, 82-73, on the road Saturday afternoon in Clarksville, Tennessee.
“Our big emphasis was to attack and I thought we did okay and we made really good reads in that first quarter,” said Aces head coach Matt Ruffing. “We played really hard at the end and that’s positive and that’s something that will serve us really well moving forward. Credit to Austin Peay. They made open shots and pulled down offensive rebounds.”
Noe’s 29 points are the second-most in her career, just four shy of her 33-point outing in the Aces’ season-opening win over Murray State. Senior guard Brooke Dossett added 10 points, four boards, and four assists, while redshirt sophomore guard Marley Miller contributed eight points and six rebounds. Five Governors finished the contest in double figures with Brianah Ferby leading the way with 17 points.
In an opening quarter that featured six lead changes, a late run from the Aces helped provide Evansville with a 23-20 lead after the first ten minutes. Noe helped fuel an 8-2 Evansville run, knocking-down back-to-back three-pointers that tied the game at 10. Tied at 18 with 3:13 left in the quarter, the Aces put together a 5-2 run to earn a 23-20 lead heading into the second period.
Evansville carried its momentum over into the opening stages of the second as the Aces hit a pair of triples to open up a 29-23 advantage. The Governors responded with an 11-0 run that gave Austin Peay a 34-29 lead before the Aces closed back within a point at 35-34 at the half.
The Aces kept pace with Austin Peay to begin the third quarter as the deficit remained just one at 40-39 with 5:43 on the clock. From that point, the Governors mounted a 12-0 run that pushed Austin Peay’s advantage to 52-40 with just over two minutes left in the third.
In the final stanza, the Governors pushed their advantage as high as 17 points, but Evansville responded with pressure late to cut the deficit as thin as nine at 80-71 with 24 seconds remaining in the 82-73 loss.
The Aces outshot Austin Peay, 42.3% to 40.3% from the field and 57.9% to 35.5% from three-point range, while the Governors held a 44-34 advantage on boards.
Evansville wraps up a three-game road swing on Tuesday when the Aces take on No. 22 Kentucky at 6 p.m. in Lexington, Kentucky.
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Hudson and Pattinson represent the Aces at Winter Nationals
While the rest of the team took on the Bears three states over, sophomore Brandt Hudson and freshman Credence Pattinson were representing the Aces on the national stage. The two competed in the Friday morning session of the USA Swimming Winter Nationals meet at Ohio State.
“I am excited for Brandt and Credence to have earned the chance to represent UE at a national level meet,” said head coach Rickey Perkins. “Their times were a little off, but the more they are in those high level meets, the more their performances will improve.”
Both men participated in the last event of the morning, the 100 backstroke. To qualify for the meet in this event, a time of 49.89 must have been achieved through November 1st, 2016. Hudson registered a time of 50.54, good for 31st place. He moved up 11 spots from his seeded place of 42nd. Pattinson kept close behind, finishing in 32nd place with a 50.58.
The meet marks the end of fall competition for the swimmers. They will return to Evansville to prepare for the team’s annual training trip before returning on January 13th for a home contest against Eastern Illinois.
Aces primed for inaugural track and field seasons
In preparation for the start of their inaugural seasons, the University of Evansville men’s and women’s track and field teams have released their indoor schedule.
The Aces open program history on January 20 at the Fort Wayne Duals at 11 a.m. hosted by Fort Wayne. Evansville then travels to Carbondale, Illinois to compete in the Don Denoon Invitational on February 3 before wrapping-up the indoor regular season at the EIU Friday Night Special in Charleston, Illinois on February 16. The Aces will make their first-ever MVC Championship appearance on February 24 and 25 in Cedar Falls, Iowa.
On Thursday, the Missouri Valley Conference released the conference’s men’s and women’s track and field preseason coaches polls. The Aces’ men’s team received 11 points in the poll and was picked ninth while Evansville’s women’s team earned 13 points and were selected 10th. In the poll, Southern Illinois received five first-place votes and was tabbed as the conference favorites after finishing second in the indoor championships a season ago. On the women’s side, Illinois State picked up eight first-place nods after earning runner-up honors in both indoor and outdoor last season.
Indiana Joins Bid To Upset Prohibition Against Sports Gambling
December 1, 2017
“By limiting the involvement of the federal government in the internal affairs of states, the Tenth Amendment provides indispensable protections against all sorts of congressional mischief that otherwise would erode the rightful roles of state legislatures and agencies,†Hill stated in an email. “Even with this important bulwark in place, states continually must stand to defend their legitimate regulatory authority. That’s what New Jersey is doing, and that’s what we are supporting.â€
Johns does not see anything unusual in Hill’s action even though Indiana’s top attorney is taking the side opposed by the NCAA.
“I don’t view the state attorney general’s position to necessarily be contradictory to the NCAA,†Johns said, explaining the state is taking the stance that federal statutes much comply with the 10th Amendment. “This challenge is not directed at the NCAA.â€
The PASPA was enacted in 1992 by Congress to prevent the potential harm on sports by gambling. Capitol Hill noted the revenue from wagering on athletics could be substantial but the potential payout was not worth the risk gambling posed to the one of the nation’s popular pastimes.
The final bill prohibited all states, with the exception of Nevada, from sponsoring and operating their own sports-gambling schemes as well as from licensing or authorizing a third party to run a sports wagering program. It also contained a caveat for the handful of states that already had some form of sports gambling by exempting them from the PASPA prohibitions. In addition, it included a special provision that gave New Jersey one year to allow sports betting at the casinos in Atlantic City.
New Jersey did not take advantage of the year-long window and, instead, maintained its prohibition of sports gambling.
That changed in 2012 when the New Jersey Legislature passed a bill licensing casinos and racetracks to take bets on athletic contests. The Garden State claimed it was motivated to act because of the booming illegal gambling industry.
In response, the NCAA and several professional sports leagues filed a lawsuit, asserting the 2012 law violated the PASPA. New Jersey countered the PASPA was unconstitutional because, in mandating how states regulate gambling, the federal law ran afoul of the anti-commandeering doctrine.
The district court granted summary judgment to the sporting groups in the case now known as Christie I, and the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed. While the majority of the appellate panel acknowledged constitutional problems with PASPA, it reasoned the federal law sidestepped such entanglement because it only prohibited the licensing or authorization of sports gambling. In fact, the majority noted, the PASPA did not prohibit New Jersey from repealing its ban on sports wagering.
In 2014, the New Jersey Legislature did just that. It passed a bill that repealed its sports wagering ban but the sporting groups again went to court on the grounds the new legislation was essentially authorizing gambling on athletic events.
Again, the 3rd Circuit panel and, later the entire court, in Christie II affirmed that the 2014 measure violated PASPA.
In its petition for a writ of certiorari, New Jersey argued the en banc decision from the 3rd Circuit contradicted its earlier decision in the first Christie lawsuit. “The majority thus reached the remarkable and unprecedented conclusion that the Constitution’s federal structure affords to Congress the power to prohibit States from repealing their own laws,†the petition stated.
The Supreme Court has just two times in the last 55 years struck down federal legislation as violating the 10th Amendment’s anticommandeering doctrine. Those cases were New York v. United States, 505 U.S. 144 (1992) and Printz v. United States, 521 U.S. 898 (1997).
Johns believes a ruling by the justices in favor of New Jersey would be a “watershed decision.†It would be the first time the Supreme Court abolished federal legislation on anti-commandeering grounds even though the statute did not specifically require the states to act.
The NCAA echoes that point in its briefs to the Supreme Court. In part, the collegiate athletic association argued commandeering concerns arise only when Congress mandates states do the federal government’s bidding. With the PASPA, Congress is just prohibiting states from establishing sports-gambling operating.
The American Gaming Association has submitted an amicus brief supporting New Jersey and urging the Supreme Court to reverse the 3rdCircuit’s ruling. In particular, the AGA contended states are prevented by the PASPA from combatting the black markets for illegal sports gambling. It estimated Americans are illegally gambling $149 billion annually on sporting events and much of that revenue is going into the pockets of organized crime.
Sara Slane, senior vice president of public affairs at the AGA asserted the PASPA is not stopping sports wagering nor protecting the integrity of athletic contests.
“Sports betting is taking place right now but it’s just happening illegally,†she said.
Moreover, allowing the betting windows to open in all states would not corrupt the sporting games or lead to players and coaches purposefully tanking. Slane pointed to Nevada as providing a model for other states to follow in how to license and regulate sports gambling.
Already, Slane said, 15 states are preparing to legalize sports betting in anticipation of the Supreme Court overturning PASPA. The AGA is bolstering its arguing for a repeal by citing an economic impact study completed by England-based Oxford Economics. For Indiana, the study concluded that allowing sports gambling at the states’ casinos would create 2,565 new jobs, bring an increase of $110.1 million in wages and pump up the GDP by $195.2 million.
FOOTNOTE: Christie v. NCAA has been consolidated with New Jersey Thoroughbred Horsemen’s Association, Inc. v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. Oral arguments are scheduled to start at 11 a.m.