State allocates millions to complete infrastructure projects on UC medical, branch campusesRYAN HOFFMAN NEWS EDITOR

The University of Cincinnati will receive more than $40 million in state funds to help start or complete various infrastructure projects on its medical campus and other branch campuses.

The funding is part of the $2.38 billion state capital bill, which allocates funds for infrastructure projects around the state, signed by Ohio Gov. John Kasich Wednesday.

UC will receive $40.72 million of the $454.5 million designated for public higher education projects. That portion is the second largest awarded to Ohio’s 37 public universities and colleges, trailing only the $71.35 million given to Ohio State University.

“Thank you for the support and confi dence you placed in me and my colleagues as you reappointed the Ohio Higher Education Funding Commission to develop

funding recommendations for the 2015-16 capital funding bill,” said President Santa Ono in a statement.

Larger universities with more square footage tend to have more buildings that need to be renovated so it makes sense that they receive larger portions of the funding, said Margie Rolf, associate vice president of government relations.

Ohio University, for example, with its large main campus and multiple branch campuses, received $19.85 million.

The vast majority of the $40.72 million for UC is designated for renovations to the Medical Sciences Building on east campus. Renovations to the building, which is primarily used for research but also contains classrooms for the College of Medicine, started in June 2013, said Dale Magoteaux, project manager.

The $28.8 million for the Medical Sciences Building will be used to help complete phase four of a massive renovation process on east campus that started with an overhaul of the Center for Academic and Research Excellence building.

The CARE renovations were completed in 2008. Phase four renovations, which include a complete “electrical tear-out” of the south quadrant of MSB, are expected to be fi nished in January 2015, Magoteaux said.

The university still expects another $28.8 million from the state to reach the projected $80 million cost of the renovations, Magoteaux said.

Additionally, UC will receive $8 million to complete roof repairs in the Health Professions Building. That work started in April 2013.

The projects on east campus are vital to ensuring UC’s medical campus — the largest in the region — has top-of-the-line facilities.

“The needed renovation … will benefi t not only UC students, but also the Cincinnati community and contribute to the transfer of research technology to the business of health care,” Ono said.

UC’s branch campuses are also set to receive money: $1.17 million for roof repairs at UC Blue Ash, $1.75 million for HVAC and roof repairs at UC Clermont and $1 million for renovations to Muntz Hall at UC Blue Ash.

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Broken glass and trash littered the yards on Stratford Avenue where a series of parties got out of hand early Sunday morning, forcing police offi cers to clear the area.

Nearly 1,000 people were partying on the street when police responded around 2 a.m., said District Five Police Offi cer Lisa Johnson.

Some people started throwing beer bottles at police cruisers, which led some offi cers to use riot control gear to disperse the crowd.

“It was just a party that got out of control,” said UCPD Capt. Rodney Chatman.

Three students were arrested, and some police cruisers were damaged, Johnson said.

The police fi rst arrived on Stratford around where hundreds of students had gathered 2 a.m., said Chris Magarian, a second-year communications student who lives a block from away from Stratford. Once the police arrived, some students started throwing beer bottles and beer cans at the police cruisers.

“I don’t want to say … but I guess you could say [the partiers] were kind of asking for it,” Magarian said. “That’s what

it looked like to me.”Hosts of the party tried to stop

members of the crowd who were throwing the bottles, but it was nearly impossible to prevent because of the sheer number of people on the street, Magarian said. Once the police broke out the riot gear, the crowd dispersed without incident, for the most part.

Students took to social media Sunday morning using the hashtag Stratfordpalooza, which started trending on Twitter.

President Santa Ono said he was briefed about the incident Sunday morning, but he did not have enough knowledge to comment on it.

He would not comment on possible punishment for the students who were arrested, instead referring all questions to UCPD, who aided Cincinnati Police in clearing the street.

Since CPD is leading the investigation, UCPD has no extra information, Chatman said.

Daniel Cummins, director of judicial affairs, could not be reached for comment.

Johnson said she hopes the administration acts in some way so as to act as a deterrent for any possible situations in the future.

“It’s not going to be tolerated,” Johnson said. “Hopefully people will be suspended. If someone would have gotten hurt, then what?”

BRYAN SHUPE CHIEF REPORTER

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) likes Committee Chair Paul Ryan’s budget proposal, except when it comes to higher education.

Tim Ryan proposed an amendment to the Budget and Finance’s budget Wednesday that would prevent $90 billion in cuts to federal Pell Grants and $41 billion to the federal loan program.

“I just think that’s a ridiculous burden to ask the student — or the parents of the student — to take on while they’re trying to make investments and get an education,” Tim Ryan said in a conference call. “I just want students to know that it’s time to get active and get involved with this.”

Paul Ryan’s offi ce did not respond to phone calls made by The News Record. Under the plan, titled “Path to Prosperity,” that he proposed April 1, the maximum award of $5,370 for the current year would be frozen for the next 10 years. The budget also proposes a maximum-income cap for eligibility and would disqualify part-time students.

The changes are necessary to combat the rising cost of the program, which has expanded from $16.1 billion in 2008 to an estimated $26.9 billion in fi scal year 2015, according to the budget document.

The $41 billion cut from the loan program would mean that student loans would not be subsidized while they’re in school.

“So not only will you have to take out a loan with the rise in tuition costs, you’re going to have to pay back interest on the loan while you’re still in school,” Tim Ryan said.

According to the Institute for College Access and Success, the average debt for college for a student after graduation is $29,400.

“This is a heavy burden and a real drain on our economy,” Ryan said. “Given the fact that if you come out with nearly $30,000 in debt, you’re less likely to buy a house, buy a car, start your own business, whatever the case may be.”

However, Paul Ryan’s proposal, which he said would “tighten the belt” of the U.S. economy, will likely not see approval for the 2015 fi scal year, due to spending levels already set in place under a bipartisan budget co-authored by Paul Ryan and signed by President Barak Obama in December.

Furthermore, the Democrat-controlled Senate has said it will not draft a budget for the fi scal year, and is unlikely to consider Paul Ryan’s budget should it pass in the house.

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Annual Relay for Life fundraiser collects more than $100,000 to benefit American Cancer SocietyFERNANDA CRESCENTE CONTRIBUTOR

The soft glow of luminaria bags became beacons of light Saturday as darkness descended on campus. Candles inside the bags illuminated the black ink of drawings, names and messages written on the sides, honoring loved ones who have battled and are currently battling cancer.

The Luminaria Ceremony is a somber installment of Relay for Life, a celebratory fundraising walk benefi ting cancer research and patients.

Students who assembled for the event Friday and Saturday on McMicken Commons had more in common than simply raising money for cancer patients. In supporting Relay for Life, they were also funding research for a cure and honoring patients who have already fought and are still fi ghting cancer.

“My grandfather died of breast cancer, which is really rare for men,” said Christine Pope, second-year marketing and international business student and Relay for Life public relations and marketing committee member. “I wanted to not only educate people about breast cancer and help fi nd a cure for it, but also to contribute in some way to end cancer for everybody.”

Pope participated in the 2013 Relay for Life and

decided to do it again because of how moved she was by students’ contributions in the fi ght against cancer.

“No one should have to grow up without a grandfather like I did,” she said.

Several student organizations set up camp on the commons and raised money through food sales and games. Beanbags fl ew and balloons popped as part of the event’s activities. Ping Pong balls were hurled at a board of bras in rounds of “bra pong,” which raised money by challenging participants to sink the ball into one of the undergarments.

Members of each organization, who registered in teams to participate in the event, also took turns walking around a track and supporting other teams.

Money raised went toward the American Cancer Society and will help fund medical research and programs that support and save the lives of cancer patients.

“Sometimes teenagers and college students are so self-involved with their own problems or schoolwork that they neglect what is happening in the world around them,” said Buse Aydöre, fi rst-year fashion student and captain of the Students Pursuing Eye Care Science team. “By incorporating a fun event that brings students together with music, food and games, we see how beautiful life is and we want everyone to enjoy it and live long.”

This year, the University of Cincinnati was able to raise over $100,000 for the American Cancer Society

and help budget cancer research, said Farah Hussain, second-year neurobiology student. Hussain is also a member of Colleges Against Cancer and a volunteer in the oncology and hematology unit at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center.

“I see children suffering from cancer on a weekly basis, and it is defi nitely heartbreaking,” Hussain said. “I work at a research lab in Cincinnati Children’s Hospital as well, and I can see that this sort of funding from Relay for Life events from all over the country directly affects research. This eventually improves treatment and saves lives.”

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Jonathon Jurcenko, a fi fth-year mechanical engineering technologies student, bends over the mechanical hand his group is developing. The hand, which is compatible with wireless technology, was one of many projects created during the hackathon.

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The Bearcat stops to greet a dog while cheering on Relay for Life participants Friday evening.

Sleepless technology lovers thrive during hackathonRevolution UC challenges participants to create apps, websites, moreNICK THOMPSON STAFF REPORTER

Low on sleep and running largely on caffeine, high school, college and graduate students came together at the University of Cincinnati in an effort to create the next big thing in technological achievements.

Revolution UC — informally known as the hackathon — began at 3 p.m. Saturday and continued through 8 p.m. Sunday in the Engineering Learning Center.

Throughout the friendly competition, students hammered away on their computers, creating a variety of technology wonders varying from apps, games, websites and even mechanical limbs.

“[Hackathon] is basically an event that’s all about students getting together and making cool shit,” said Curtis Schumacher, third-year computer science student.

“We have groups in here making Windows Phone apps, Android apps.”

Outside the Engineering Learning Center, the lobby had tables and shelves full of snacks for students while they worked.

One table was covered with plastic dispensers of candy and another was overtaken with bags of chips, snack cakes and cans of Red Bull.

Some students fell asleep upright in their chairs, while others occasionally yawned and fought the urge to rest. Walls used for writing ideas and lists of code became adorned with incoherent scribbles and humorous, sarcastic insults.

But those who were still awake kept their eyes glued to their computer screens and their hands close to the keyboard, keeping a creative spirit alive and well.

Jeremy O’Brien, a computer science graduate student, and his group were busy making a website for sharing ideas and projects.

“It’s a website where people can get together to create ideas and share them with other people, and a person can ask someone on the site to help them with their projects and ideas,” O’Brien said.

Another group hard at work used coding and intricate algorithms to operate a mechanical hand created from a 3D printer.

“We’re working on making it controllable from a computer and even an Android app,” said Nick Malott, a third-year computer engineering student.

“It’s defi nitely a lot of work.”Meanwhile, Mike Perry, a fourth-

year physics student, and his group were working on an app that updates people with information about different locations on campus anytime they enter them.

“It would be a very convenient app for prospective students to use when they take tours around UC’s campus,” Perry said. “My boss and I over at the App Lab are actually talking about making it an actual, available app for people to download.”

All of the hard work and creativity being poured into these different projects will not go unrewarded.

The winner of the competition will receive a PlayStation 4. Second and third place winners will receive Nexus 7 Android tablets. Each group will also receive small plastic models of McMicken Hall created by a 3D printer.

“It’s a lot of work that these guys are doing,” said Ken Addison, a third-year political science student. “But they all have a lot of fun doing it.”

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A group of students busy themselves working on projects during the hackathon. Event participants ranged from high school students to college graduates.

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Survivors and supporters take over McMicken Commons Friday night and Saturday morning for UC’s Relay for Life fundraising event, which benefi ts the American Cancer Society.

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Sold out Fifth Third Arena hosts immensely popular artistsKATIE NEWMAN CONTRIBUTOR

A warm Saturday night at the University of Cincinnati was just what students needed to give them the extra boost to make it through the upcoming final two weeks of spring semester.

The Programs and Activities Council responded to that need by presenting the first-ever One Night Only Festival, cleverly nicknamed ONO Fest.

Walking onto campus Saturday seemed normal, but something was buzzing in the distance.

Approaching Fifth Third Arena one could hear the growing roar of ONO Fest coming from inside.

Tickets for the night were sold out and the arena was filled. Concertgoers were ready for a night of fun and entertainment.

A sea of colored glow sticks floated in the dark, swaying to the music as students danced.

ONO Fest spotlighted four talented and diverse artists, Hunter Hunted, NoNoNo, Juicy J and Twenty One Pilots.

Hunter Hunted, an indie-pop group from Los Angeles, kicked of the night with a fairly calm set.

Students continued to funnel into the arena filling up the floor and bleachers to their smooth sound.

NoNoNo was second to the stage. This Swedish trio has a funky sound oriented around a heavy bass beat.

They increased the energy level, as more students continued to arrive.

NoNoNo and Hunter Hunted were diverse opening acts, introducing larger artists that headlined ONO Fest, Juicy J and Twenty One Pilots.

After a short intermission the stage was reset.

Juicy J entered and put on an amazing show.

The arena filled completely and everyone’s hands were in the air jumping to the beat.

After Juicy J completed his set, several students left the floor; at the same time a new group of students were arriving to see Twenty One Pilots.

Twenty One Pilots put on a show that was incomparable to anything UC has seen before.

The group is a two-man band from Columbus, Ohio.

They are known for their lively performances, and they did not disappoint.

The tech crew was also to thank for the amazing show, as the lights and sound were perfectly in sync.

Twenty One Pilots came on stage

wearing skeleton suits and played their first song. They continued to change outfits throughout the show.

The lead singer, Tyler Joseph, even came out in his mother’s dress and performed a song.

Their music is an interesting mix of vocals, piano, drums and the occasional banjo.

PAC coordinated with the group beforehand to build them a stage that would allow the drummer and singer to crowd surf while still performing.

The most amazing point of their performance was watching the drummer play on a platform being held up by students.

This festival was truly a one night only experience.

‘Every Piece is a New Problem’ unnervingly portrays neutered nature ZACK HATFIELD STAFF REPORTER

Michael Sailstorfer is probably a name you don’t recognize. That’s because the German artist’s first major solo exhibit in the United States opened March 29 at Cincinnati’s Contemporary Arts Center. Curated by Steven Martijcio and titled “Every Piece is a New Problem,” the exhibit is quiet but impactful; bringing ideas to your mind through a variety of mediums that might otherwise never have been rendered. Immediately upon entering the exhibit, the smell of dying foliage greets you. Three withering trees hang upside down from a centrifuge on the ceiling, rotating on its axis as a halo of leaves and bark slowly accumulates around each tree. This piece, titled “Forst (Forest),” is definitely the most present in the room. The weight from the trees emits a tense yet soothing sound that haunts spectators as they move from piece to piece.

Sailstorfer confronts us with idea of the unnatural versus the natural; the trees act both as specimens of a dying thing and also as remnants of a world that seems forgotten in the white-floored, concrete-columned building of the modern museum. The piece presents us with the magnitude of life’s rhythm and sacrifice: As the trees die before us, the circles around them grow. It’s as if Sailstorfer cut down the trees of subconscious forestry and hung them up to perish for the world to see.

Another piece is deceivingly simple: a drum kit made out of a police car. Sailstorfer seems to have taken something he dislikes, or that made him uncomfortable, and turned it into music, music we can only imagine. Although this piece stands out a bit among the others, it provides a playful aspect and reminds us of the tempo of everyday life.

If that piece represented the artist’s loudness, “Versuchstreaktor” expresses his silence and sensitivity. The sculpture’s title translates to “Test Reactor” and is also modest in presentation. A microphone

is buried into a smooth cube of concrete and hooked up to an amplifier, acting as a pickup for the subtle noises of the building. In this way the piece functions as a stethoscope with which to listen to the low-frequency vibrations and reverberations of the museum and nearby footsteps that are occasionally captured.

One untitled sculpture confined to a small glass box is perhaps the least complex, but by no means the easiest to understand: a single light bulb cast in black plastic polyurethane. Although this may seem like nothing, it elicits a strange response and allows us to consider the borders of light and darkness. The only word appropriate might be ambivalence, but it’s the good kind of ambivalence.

Sailstorfer seems invested in exploring the senses, whether enhancing them or confiscating them completely. His art is not easily defined. A recurring theme is the re-contextualization of the ordinary into the extreme.

Sailstorfer’s non-sculpture pieces are visually arresting. The only video

installation, “Anti-Herbst (Anti-Fall),” ambitiously captures footage of a tree near the Rhine River for six weeks as summer turns to fall. Every leaf that falls off of the tree is then painted green by a crew and reattached to the tree with wire. As the tree changes its color from green to yellow, the reattached leaves remain artifacts of the prior season. The video is Sailstorfer refusing to let nature happen, and the artificial tree ends up being a product of dysfunctional alchemy, something a majority of the artwork in the exhibit embodies.

The art in Sailstorfer’s exhibit, which is open through September 14, is often difficult to translate, probably because it exists as its own type of language altogether, hewn from the ordinary and paired with the fantastical. The meaning of his sculptures rests in their ability to unnerve you, their threatening presence amid peaceful surroundings.

As the title suggests, every piece is a problem, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that there are any concrete solutions.

The Kongos revive true musicianship while honoring ancestral influences JEREMY SIMMONS CONTRIBUTOR

Were the Kongos trying to tell listeners something when they chose “I’m Only Joking” as the opening track of their latest album “Lunatic?” Maybe, but it’s the kind of joke that reveals a deeper truth.

From the opening clamor of track one there is an immediate rush of gritty, old-radio speaker-anger in the South African band’s sound that calls to mind the best of the Butthole Surfers.

Johnny, Jesse, Dylan and Daniel Kongos have lived all over the world and their odd collection of instruments augment the fuzz-box guitars and heavy-handed drums that tell their story.

The presence of an accordion in their music speaks loudly of a desire to take an existing

sound somewhere else. After two tracks that grind and crash into

each other in a delicious staccato frenzy, the album calms down a little with the reggae shuffle of “I Want to Know,” but the song is not imitating anything, it’s just borrowing. The reggae beat is offset by deep echoes on the harmonizing vocals, peppered in between by a curious slide-guitar solo thick with distortion.

“Escape” follows in an even mellower groove, hovering gracefully over synthesizer pads until industrial drums clatter into underscore vocals desperate with longing.

“Kids These Days” is as mocking as its title suggests and injects a strange 4/4 time signature into the middle of the album, where “As We Are” literally takes your breath away. The lead vocal is a showstopper and a straight-up clinic on how to sing — really sing – in a rock song. In an era when so many bands act as if actual skill with one’s

instrument (and the voice is an instrument) is a distant second to ironic lyrics and hip beats, here’s a stinging reminder of how good music can be when musicians can actually write good songs and play their instruments with top-level skill.

“Sex on the Radio” sounds like an echoing ’80s pop classic, reminiscent of The Fixx’s “Stand or Fall.” The twelfth and final track (yes, 12 songs) is “This Time I Won’t Forget” and shows that the brothers, as young as they are, know damn well that life is full of grandiose proclamations and though we may mean them, we still forget. The slide guitar returns in a heartbreaking wide-open space that matches the hypnotic drone framing all five minutes and 46 seconds of the track.

Kongos’ “Lunatic” is something rare and precious: music that’s unquestionably of its time, but is in no way derivative.

Whatever it borrows, it pays back tenfold.

Their music is true, and whether you notice that or not, you’ll still enjoy it. After all, the chaos of today’s music offerings needs more bands like Kongos.

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German artist’s debut exhibit challenges organic life

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MARCI RHODES Ohio native Twenty One Pilots is blowing up in the music scene right now. They have the special ability to put on life changing shows. They give audiences a unique experience each time they’re on stage.

MARCI RHODESFifth Third Arena sold out Saturday night for ONO Fest. The concert hosted a diverse bill of artists that appealed to a wide array of different music tastes in UC’s student body.

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Working from a script that was written by Andrew Dodge was and blacklisted in 2011, Jason Bateman of “Arrested Development” fame makes his directorial debut with a humorous, shock-filled film.

Infiltrating what is considered to be one of the most innocent, respected and distinguished institutional competitions, Bateman stars in “Bad Words” as Guy Trilby, a 40 year old who finds a loophole into the National Quill Spelling Bee. While not really a loophole and more a pre-condition for qualifying, Trilby does the unthinkable and enters the competition. Since he never graduated from eighth grade, he is legally allowed to participate.

Bateman starts the film with a narrative voice-over as Trilby explains to the viewer why he did what he did, and how he feels about it now that it’s over.

Calling his plan “shitty,” Trilby says, “It’s pretty ironic that what I did was exactly what a child would do. I threw a tantrum just to get attention.”

While standing in the gymnasium before a regional contest, a parent asks Trilby, “Which kid is yours?” to which he responds, “I’m the winner.”

Trilby goes on to compete in the national competition, infuriating almost every single administrator, parent and official of the spelling bee. They continually throw hurdles into Trilby’s path only to see him outmaneuver and outperform each and every obstacle. Trilby is callous through and through, pitiless and yet hilarious as a full-grown, foul-mouthed contestant.

Nobody has any idea as to why a 40-year-old man would do such a thing and “Bad Words” is indeed entertaining and highly comical, with Trilby viewed as the devil incarnate.

Clearly motivated by revenge and payback in some way, Trilby purposefully ostracizes himself from everyone around him except for a 10-year-old named Chaitanya (Rohan Chand), who isn’t perturbed by Trilby’s intensity and coldness.

Time and time again, Trilby rejects Chaitanya’s friendliness, only to succumb to Chaitanya’s cheerful and constant optimism. They form an unlikely but true friendship, which interrupts Trilby’s scheme by the end of the movie.

“Bad Words” is at its best when Trilby and Chaitanya are wreaking havoc around a peaceful, slumbering town full of parents and spelling-bee hopefuls, as they are complete opposites in nature yet they’ve both been outcasts for most of their lives.

But when the storyline shifts back to Trilby’s past and his unresolved issues, the film stumbles, and Trilby’s insults don’t pack the humorous and cheeky punch that they did when directed toward Chaitanya.

The film is also clever when it satirizes how domineering and controlling parents are of their kids, as their prodigies compete for one of the highest, pre-pubescent honors achievable.

But there is too much focus on the shock value of Trilby’s insults and swearing. The film slowly starts to slip as the emphasis shifts from friendship to Trilby’s ability to make a parent squirm with fury and rage at his slurs and slights.

When the time does come for Trilby to reveal why he’s doing all that he’s doing, it feels off-balance.

Bateman makes a fine directorial debut with “Bad Words,” but the plot seems unsure of where and what note to end on.

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After tumultuous spring, sophomore quarterback sends Bearcat offense into summer in styleJOSHUA MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Gunner Kiel finally lived up to his former billing as the best prep quarterback in America during the University of Cincinnati’s annual spring game Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium.

After redshirting his freshman year at Notre Dame, sitting out on UC’s bench last season and struggling through much of spring ball, Kiel was nearly perfect Saturday. With the exception of one interception, he completed 17-of-22 pass attempts for 300 yards.

“I want to play perfect every game,” Kiel said. “So I know I didn’t play well last semester. I came out here with a chip on my shoulder to get better and compete, have fun and play fast because that’s what we are good at.”

Kiel’s performance left Tuberville far more at ease with his offense heading into the summer.

“I can sleep a little better now because last week we were just awful on offense,” Tuberville said. “We threw the ball well, protected and we had a couple of offensive lineman out last week that really made a difference this week.”

Tuberville wasted no time letting Kiel take control, as UC’s offense went deep early and often on the game’s first drive. Kiel completed his first five passes of the game, highlighted by a 47-yard connection with Chris Moore, which set up Hosey Williams for a touchdown dive from the 1-yard line. The white team (first-team offense/second-team defense) led 7-0 with nine minutes and 55 seconds remaining in the first quarter.

Moore would make only one more catch, but finished the game with 65 yards, as just one of several first-team receivers that had productive outings.

“As a receiving core, all together we feel that when

the ball is in the air it’s our time to go and get it and make a play,” Moore said.

In addition to Moore, Max Morrison pulled down six receptions for 41 yards, while Mekale McKay (103 yards) and Shaq Washington (61 yards) both grabbed six of their own.

With five seasoned receivers returning next season, the addition of junior college transfers Casey Gladney and Johnny Holton, and Ralph David Abernathy — who grabbed eight receptions for 66 yards and a touchdown for UC’s second-team offense — transitioning into more of a receiver roll, Tuberville plans for the deep ball to be a staple in the Bearcats’ offense next season.

“We want to get the ball down the field,” he said. “We have enough speed now and enough receivers that we can stretch the field.”

On the white team’s (second-team offense/first-team defense) ensuing drive, junior quarterback Jared Evans, a transfer from Santa Barbara Community College, fumbled a botched snap and handed possession back to Kiel and the red team.

They advanced as far as the 3-yard line, but were turned back by the first-team defense and settled for a 20-yard field goal from freshman kicker Andrew Gantz, who appears to be UC’s first-team choice at place kicker ahead of two-year starter Tony Miliano. Gantz missed a 39-yard attempt later in the game.

Miliano put the red team, which had advanced all the way to the 1-yard line, on the board for the first time on the following possession with an 18-yard chip shot that left the score at 10-3 with one minute remaining in the quarter.

Another deep pass from Kiel, this time a 46-yard strike to McKay, kicked off the first drive of the second quarter for the red team. And after a completion to Morrison, Kiel strolled in from three yards out to give the red team a 17-3 lead.

Evans responded though, leading the red team on an efficient drive, which culminated in a 13-yard

touchdown connection to Abernathy IV. But it would be Kiel and the red team that finished the half with momentum.

Tion Green, who finished the game with 30 yards rushing, crashed into the end zone from two yards out to give the red team a 24-10 halftime lead, which could’ve been bigger had Gantz not missed his 39-yard field goal attempt in the closing second of the half.

Kiel’s day was over at halftime, at which point Evans switched teams and took control of the first-team offense for the remainder of the game. Evans was sacked three times in the second half, as the first-team defense of the red team completely took over the game.

“We started off slow and that’s been our biggest problem, but we usually finish well,” said senior linebacker Jeff Luc, who led the red team with 11 tackles. “We started mixing things up and getting into rotation with the defensive line, and we started to feel good and feel comfortable.”

Without Kiel, the red team failed to score in the second half, as the white team rattled off 16 straight points to seal a 26-24 victory.

After a three-yard scoring strike from third-string quarterback Hayden Moore to Shai Alonzo and a 22-yard touchdown run by Chad Banschbach, it was ironically a 49-yard Miliano field goal that sealed the victory for the white team.

Regardless of the second half, Saturday was the most productive outing of spring ball for UC’s offense. Although he said that Evans and Munchie Legaux will be in a three-way battle with Kiel for the starting quarterback position in the summer, Tuberville saw what he’d hoped to see Saturday.

“Well, there were a lot of question marks at quarterback [heading into Saturday],” Tuberville said. “The defense won most of the time in the spring, but today the defense didn’t win. The offense came out with a different frame of mind today. I think we gave our fans something to look forward to next fall, and hopefully we can get started where we left off.”

Bearcats’ offensive woes exposed in fourth-straight lossELLEN HADLEY CONTRIBUTOR

The University of Cincinnati women’s lacrosse team faced No. 18 University of Louisville Sunday in what turned out be the Bearcats’ second-worst and fourth-straight loss of the season.

Louisville dominated UC in every statistical category, winning 23-2. Louisville entered the contest on a three-game winning streak after noteworthy victories over Vanderbilt and No.14 Georgetown.

The Bearcats have lost all six times they’ve played Louisville, including last season’s 18-10 loss when then-freshman goalkeeper Meg Gulmi made a career-high 16 saves.

Junior midfielder Ashley Helmrath scored the Bearcats’ last goal of the game in the 26th minute of the first half. The Bearcats did not have a shot on goal in the second half.

Louisville totaled 44 shots on goal in the match up, holding UC to only six.

“It felt good [after scoring the second goal] but it wasn’t enough,” Helmrath said. “It wasn’t enough at all and we needed to continue that and no one built off of that. So we just need to continue with what we do and not just settle for those two goals and think that that’s enough.”

Oliver said Helmrath’s inconsistency has hampered the Bearcats lately.

“The frustrations of the game are getting to [Helmrath] a little bit and we just need her to be more consistent and she’s not being that for us right now,” said UC head coach Gina Oliver.

Louisville led UC 14-2 going into the half before scoring nine more goals in the next 30 minutes.

“[We felt] down, but good,” Helmrath said. “We knew it was 14-2 at that point and we

didn’t want to give up the fight. There was no reason to give up the fight. We had nothing to lose at that point.”

Oliver noticed that her athletes were not confident or prepared to play Louisville.

“We were scared even before the game even started. Throughout the game we were scared,” Oliver said. “We’re just not there yet. We’re not at a level where we’re ready to compete.”

Oliver said that she has only three or four athletes that are willing and ready to compete in every game.

Usually a strong offensive contributor, Courtney Curtis struggled to convert against a strong Louisville defense.

“Courtney was a little thrown off by them faceguarding her so she didn’t get the opportunities that she wanted but she always works hard,” Oliver said. “This situation she wasn’t prepared for.”

Curtis accounted for the first goal for the Bearcats 10 minutes into the game, but was silenced for the remainder.

“We figured out that I was being faceguarded and we came up with a play that would incorporate that but it seemed like every time we got the ball we turned it over,” Curtis said. “It was just frustrating and we just couldn’t get the ball. The attack was just not on our game today.”

Oliver now faces the challenge of finding a way to keep her players motivated and driven to play and win.

“We’ve got to go in and find a way to get these kids to compete,” Oliver said. “We went into this Louisville game more focused on ourselves and that didn’t really help too much so we’re going to try to go in focusing on competing and getting some game planning and scouting down for Villanova.”

The Bearcats (6-6) head to Philadelphia to play Villanova (6-5) Friday at 4 p.m. before playing at Temple (4-7) 12 p.m. Sunday.

Gunner Kiel makes statement in UC spring gamePHIL DIDION PHOTO EDITOR

University of Cincinnati running back Tion Green flips the ball over his shoulder after scoring on a 2-yard touchdown run in the second quarter of UC’s Spring game Saturday at Paul Brown Stadium.

UC lacrosse dominated 23-2 by high-flying Cardinals

RYAN HOFFMAN NEWS EDITOR

By most accounts, this season has been one of University of Kentucky basketball coach John Calipari’s most impressive. Leading a group of 18- and 19-year-olds that will leave for the NBA once the season ends all the way to the NCAA Championship is probably the greatest achievement in his career.

Commentators noted the change in his demeanor now that he can “just coach” and not worry about constantly playing therapist and motivator for a team with one senior.

Unfortunately for Calipari and the throngs of belligerent Wildcat fans, the magical story will end Monday when they face the University of Connecticut, a team that has experienced its own brand of March magic.

While Kentucky has demonstrated an unwillingness to lose in the tournament, UConn will be too much. This UConn team just has it.

You could argue UConn has the edge because they just handled the No. 1 Florida University Gators — who held off an almost-miracle comeback by Kentucky in the South East Conference championship game — but it’s irrelevant. Everything before this game is irrelevant.

Both of these teams are different than those that lost in their conference tournaments. They’re different from the teams that won their first-round games and second-round games and third-round games.

What it all adds up to is the greatest game of the tournament. The biggest question is how many overtime periods there will be.

And while Kentucky fans will assuredly riot in the streets after the loss, they should find solace in having the privilege to watch some of the best basketball played.

JOSHUA MILLER SPORTS EDITOR

Monday night, the most over-hyped and over-analyzed team in the history of college basketball will live up to the hype and defy the latter.

Monday night John Calipari will complete the greatest coaching job of his career — one of the greatest of all time — and etches his name among the best ever.

Monday night, the University of Kentucky basketball team — once written off as a band of selfish, un-rectifiable, NBA-bound freshmen — will defeat the University of Connecticut to win the unlikeliest of NCAA Tournaments. Its borderline safe to assume

Aaron Harrison will knock down a game-winning 3-pointer with a hand in his face in the final seconds of the game, just as he did in UK’s Final Four comeback against Wisconsin and against Michigan in the Elite Eight.

The same team that opened the year ranked No. 1 in the nation found itself having lost three of four games, including losses to lowly South Carolina and Alabama squads March 8. They were written off.

“They’ll make the tournament and lose in the first round,” we all said. We were wrong.

Since March 14, UK has lived up to its billing, with the only setback coming in a one-point loss, 61-60, to No. 1 Florida in the Southeastern Conference Championship game.

They’ve played together, fearless and ferocious. Beating three members of last year’s Final Four — Wichita State, Louisville and Michigan — and staving off Wisconsin, UK has reached the National Championship via what might be the toughest four-game gamete in tournament history.

Monday night, they will finish the season where they began it: No. 1.