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OKLAHOMA CITY — Just like that, the Longhorns’ time in the NCAA tourna-ment was over.

Junior guard Isaiah Tay-lor tied the game at 72 with 2.7 seconds left to play, and with Northern Iowa declin-ing to call its final timeout, all 15,279 fans in Chesapeake En-ergy Arena believed overtime would be needed to decided the first round contest.

With a second left, Panthers senior guard Paul Jesperson heaved up a prayer — and it was answered.

The Longhorns shuffled out of the arena, victims of a mira-cle shot in the tournament and losers in the first round for the second-straight year.

“It’s March Madness,” Tay-lor said. “If it’s going to happen, it’s going to happen during this

time of year. They made one more shot than us.”

The miracle buzzer shot up-ended a valiant comeback by the Longhorns.

Despite all the talk of a dif-ferent team, the first twenty minutes of the game played out as a similar script to Texas’ loss to Baylor in the Big 12 Tournament. The Longhorns opened with a 9-2 lead, but then slipped back into their struggling, sluggish selves — and Northern Iowa was happy to take advantage of it.

The Panthers rattled off ten straight buckets interspersed with nine free throws. Guards Wes Washpun and Jeremy Morgan cut to the lane with ease, combining for 20 first half points.

The Longhorns, meanwhile, couldn’t muster a response. Only Taylor’s 16 points kept Northern Iowa’s lead from growing larger than 16 in the

first half.But then, for once,

Texas responded.It started with an inauspi-

cious last-second three-point-er by senior guard Javan Felix to end the half and cut the deficit to eight. Then after the break, the deficit shrunk. Shots began to fall for the Long-horns, who made four of their first five shots out of the break. Meanwhile, the Panthers went ice cold, making just one shot in the first 7:55 of the second half.

The resulted turned out to be a 22-3 run and a five-point lead with less than 12 minutes to play.

“I thought this was about as well as we’ve responded to get-ting down all year,” head coach Shaka Smart said. “Our guys, the things they were saying in the timeouts and the look on

South By Southwest draws a huge influx of peo-ple to Austin each year, but the Austin Police Depart-ment also sees an increase in crime during this week of interactive, film and music events.

According to APD re-ports, crime in downtown Austin increased nearly 50 percent during March 2015 compared to the monthly average. Misdemeanors and felonies related to alcohol and violence specifically increased during the week of the festival last year. Tim Pruett, commander of spe-cial events for APD, said crime rates for this year’s festival seemed to be simi-lar to the 2015 record.

In 2015, a total of 146 ar-rests took place downtown

during the festival between 9 p.m. and 3 a.m. each night, according to police reports. Pruett said theft, public intoxication and as-sault are the most frequent-ly occurring crimes during the festival.

“We have some DWIs,

but the majority of [the ar-rests] are people getting intoxicated and causing dis-turbances or fights,” Pruett said. “This is normal for a weekend downtown, but it’s more prevalent during the

Heavy rains before spring break filled up the four cisterns behind the Belo Center of New Me-dia, which were nearly empty two weeks ago. Now, the four tanks that hold 7,000 gallons each are full and ready to be used for irrigation.

The University col-lects 460,000 gallons of rainwater a year to re-use for irrigation pur-poses as part of its water conservation efforts.

“All this rainfall is great,” Markus Hogue, program coordinator for irrigation and water conservation, said. “The irrigation [sys-tem] stays off. The tanks get full and when we ac-tually need the water, the system will divvy it up.”

Before 2011, it took two days for a facilities team to turn on or off each of the 109 irrigation units at the University, and it took 175 million gallons to ir-rigate campus each year. In the last five years, the University has reduced water usage on irrigation by 60 percent to about 60 million gallons a year be-cause of its new irrigation technology system.

From a flat screen com-puter in his office, Hogue monitors and generates reports from the data the controllers gather from irrigation zones. The proprietary software uses algorithms to look at the amount of rainfall and the evapotranspira-tion rate of water in the

Students will vote in a new election for the Stu-dent Government execu-tive alliance after the Elec-tion Supervisory Board and Dean of Student’s office did not certify the results of the original election.

Zachary Long, ESB vice chair and human relations sophomore, said the viola-tion stems from the presence of UT Supreme Court jus-tices at each of the ESB hear-ings. UT law professor Jeana

Lungwitz was appointed as appellate hearings officer to make decisions on the origi-nal complaint appeals.

“Our decisions were up-held by the hearings officer in the new appellate process,” Long said. “Because we can-not go back in time and apply the rulings to the old elec-tion, the only way to ensure there is a fair election is to hold a brand new one.”

Campaigning will begin Monday, March 21; voting at utexasvote.org will begin Wednesday, March 23 at 8 a.m. and end on Thursday,

March 24 at 5 p.m. with re-sults being announced at 6:30 p.m., Long said.

Long said there will be a spending limit of $150 for this week of campaigning for each campaign team.

“It’s a new spending limit just for this campaign pe-riod,” Long said. “Campaigns can use everything they pur-chased and used in the origi-nal campaign period, as long as it was disclosed on one of the three disclosures.”

Long said the upheld

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Mike McGraw | Daily Texan file photoStudents await the results of Student Government elections March 3. Results for executive alliance were not announced, and students will vote to decide a new president and vice president this week.

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Paying off student loans isn’t easy and can take years, but the Department of Edu-cation is trying to make it easier through streamlined repayment options.

In a conference call Friday with U.S. student reporters, Education Secretary John King Jr. spoke about two ways the department is attempting to streamline the student loan repayment process: income-driven repayment plans and the public service loan forgiveness program.

Under the new payment options, which were imple-mented last fall, King said most borrowers are eligible to cap their student loan repayments at ten percent of their monthly income, and qualifying students

working full-time in public service can see their loans forgiven after making 120 qualifying payments.

“I know the spectre of pay-ing off your college loans can be daunting,” King said. “Even though I was confirmed Sec-retary of Education this week, I’m still paying off loans for the graduate loans that helped me get here.”

Student Government Vice President Rohit Mandalapu said reducing the amount borrowers ultimately owe is a more viable solution than changing the way col-lege graduates pay back their loans.

“These measures are help-ful as they provide students alternative ways to pay off their loans without being bogged down by the debt of having to pay a huge amount every month,” Mandalapu

said. “Still, it would be nice to see even more mea-sures in place like lower set interest rates.”

King also addressed state investment in public higher education, which, for UT-Austin, has decreased from 47 percent of the Univer-sity’s budget in 1984 to 13 percent in 2013. In response to a question about middle-income families who do not qualify for financial aid to af-ford college, King said state support for public higher ed-ucation institutions has de-creased, and his department has urged states to make sure to invest more in education.

“We’ve been urging states to pay careful attention to their level of investment in higher education,” King said. “One of the things that has driven higher costs for students and families has

been disinvestment by states for the last decade in public higher education.”

In response to the same question, Christine Gauger, assistant director for federal and state programs at UT’s financial aid office, said other factors such as family size and number of children in college affect student aid eli-gibility calculations, not just income levels.

“We recommend that no matter what [students’] in-come level is, they go and fill out the FAFSA,” she said. “We try to get out as much money we can to the students who are eligible to receive it.”

King also spoke out against “debt relief scams” which charge students for services such as lowering their monthly payments or consolidating their federal

loans. His office, he said, has sent cease-and-desist letters to scammers who falsely use the Department of Educa-tion’s logo in communica-tions with students.

“Some of these companies misrepresent themselves by using our logo, or they vio-late your privacy by inap-propriately using your FSA ID,” King said. “If someone tries to charge you for these services, think twice.”

Gauger said the UT fi-nancial aid office warns students about fraud via social media, but hasn’t re-ceived any complaints from students about financial aid scams.

“You should never have to pay to get help with your loans,” Gauger said. “We always tell students to go directly to their direct-loan servicer.”

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rulings will apply to the Helgren-Kim campaign, which will have an 18-hour campaigning moratorium starting Monday at 8 a.m. and a 20 percent spend-ing reduction in the new spending limit.

Delisa Shannon, stu-dent body vice presidential candidate and journal-ism junior, said she thinks the new election cycle will be stressful.

“The whole process has been a challenge for every-one,” Shannon said. “While it is easy to be frustrated with the process, it is im-portant to remember that this is the first time that ev-ery party involved has had to deal with this. The DoS and ESB have both done a great job, and have made a decision that they believe is fair to everyone — we agree that it is the best solution in making sure everyone has a fair shot at the election.”

Kevin Helgren, student body presidential candi-date and neuroscience and psychology senior, said he thinks it is dishearten-ing the initial results are being disregarded.

“Voter turnout in cam-pus-wide elections is some-thing that we’ve struggled with for years, and turnout in this year’s initial elec-tion was record-breaking,” Helgren said. “The decrease in voter turnout that will likely characterize the new election may very well out-weigh the repercussions of the alleged violation of due process.”

Daniel James Chapman, student body presidential candidate and economics and mathematics senior, said he is frustrated with the election process and Student Government.

“This is the second time this decade that an election has been postponed due to a legal scandal, and I feel like Student Government is fundamentally broken if this is a recurring issue,” Chapman said. “No one is going to care about these new elections. I feel like candidates should focus their energy on running positive campaigns instead of trying to disqualify or hurt other teams for very petty reasons. It’s time for us to question if Student Government is really worth the resources that UT puts into it.”

Kallen Dimitroff, stu-dent body presidential candidate and history and government senior, said she thinks due process was necessary and not given the first time.

“The hearing officer up-held all of the ESB’s deci-sions that the [Supreme Court] overturned … the ESB’s rulings and subse-quent punishments or ac-quittals were found to be correct and fair,” Dimitroff said. “However, the way in which the ESB decided to implement those rulings in the new race won’t signifi-cantly alter the outcome of this election as opposed to the last. For that reason, we feel like delaying the elec-tion wasn’t really of benefit to anyone — especially not the student body.”

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President Barack Obama touched ground in Cuba on Sunday, marking the first time a sitting president has visited Cuba since 1928.

But countless scholars, stu-dents, journalists and other people traveling with visas from the U.S. have visited Cuba before the president’s historic visit — and through Obama’s executive actions, the catego-ries of people able to visit the island will increase, widening opportunities for U.S. citizens to visit Cuba.

Since 2014, UT students have been able to travel to Cuba through a study abroad program organized by the In-ternational Office that runs during the Maymester from May to June. Students and fac-ulty involved in the program said studying abroad in Cuba with an academic program provides a deeper under-standing of the island nation, nicknamed “the Pearl of the Antilles,” than merely going as a tourist.

“One of the things we want students to do is not to live in a cocoon or a bubble, which can happen when you are a foreign-er in Cuba, and the way to do that is to use the services that people in Cuba use,” said César Salgado, associate Spanish and Portuguese professor and the

first faculty leader of the study abroad program.

While based primarily in the city of Havana, the program takes students on excursions to cultural sites such as museums and historical landmarks ac-companied by local scholars. Salgado said the Cuban schol-ars’ knowledge adds context to visiting museums and land-marks of Cuba that ordinary tourists wouldn’t have access to. Admission to the program is also competitive; program coordinator Dan Siefken said

18 to 20 students are accepted from a applicant pool of 30 or more students.

“[The interview process] requires students to have a bit more understanding of the cul-ture and the coursework prior to even being accepted into the program,” Siefken said.

Before traveling to Cuba, students accepted into the program must take a course focusing on the country’s cul-tural and political history that extends beyond America’s lim-ited interactions with Cuba.

“We’re not fixated on Castro,” Salgado said. “The program wants to look at the complexity of Cuban culture and history. Certainly, the revolution is very important to it, but we look be-yond it, and there are people in Cuba who support that.

Salgado said Cuba has a rich museum culture that sheds light on the full spec-trum of Cuban history, includ-ing the colonial period before the revolution.

“We are basically still a time travel machine. We move

across different periods in Cuba and Cuban arts by focus-ing on different monuments and different museums and different spaces,” Salgado said. “We want to give a sense of the overall arc of Cuban history by making sure that each of these periods are well-represented.”

Omar Gamboa, a UT gradu-ate who participated in the 2014 Cuba Maymester, said the program showed him an intellectual side to Cuba that isn’t present in American ste-reotypical representations of

the island. “Before I had ever studied

Cuba, my perception of the country was unfortunately influenced by the mainstream — the Elián Gonzalez contro-versy, Scarface, and textbooks’ recounting of the missile cri-sis,” Gamboa said via email. “Once I left Cuba, I realized it is a struggling country with an intelligent citizenry, one that continues to make advances and looks forward to warming relations with U.S. neighbors.”

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ground. Hogue said irriga-tion systems will automati-cally switch on and off for a certain amount of time, using water that’s also been recycled from rainfall.

Luis Garza, landscape ser-vices assistant manager of irrigation and installation who has worked with facili-ties for 31 years, said the old irrigation system meant be-ing on call in case of leaks. Now, the department re-ceives alerts when there’s an apparent leak at a site.

“Sometimes we’d get a call in the middle of the night about an irrigation leak and had to go out to the site,” Garza said. “The old system wasn’t efficient. We’d spent

days looking for breaks. It was checks every day, but now we are in more control of the work we do and [are] able to be efficient.”

According to irrigation data, during last year’s un-commonly wet month of May, 446,055 gallons of water were used on irriga-tion. However, in May 2014, a drier month, the system used 4.1 million gallons of water. With the old sys-tem, Hogue said the facili-ties team couldn’t efficiently make changes in real-time.

“They didn’t have time to come back to adjust for sharp temperature changes or unexpected rain. This [technology] does it ev-ery single time it runs,” Hogue said.

Jim Walker, director of the

UT Office of Sustainability, said water management be-came a concern years ago in regards to recycled water for drinking uses and irrigation purposes. Now, the Univer-sity has a water recovery sys-tem that collects condensate from buildings and pipes it back to the utility.

“We live in a part of the world where water is not abundant, so we have a re-sponsibility to practice good stewardship of the water we use, meaning being as effi-cient as possible to achieve effective outcomes,” Walker said. “This ethic is visible in the utility operation and in our irrigation management, and we’re spreading it into the buildings and labs. This saves the University money and saves the region’s water.”

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South By event.”Pruett said the above-

average number of people downtown, excessive alco-hol consumption and the increased opportunity for crime are all contributing factors to the rise in crime during SXSW. Pruett rec-ommended festival goers be aware of their surround-ings and limit their alcohol intake to avoid a possible theft or offense.

UT Police Department Officer William Pieper said another concern for students during SXSW is residence burglary. While he said the incidents are not always directly related to the event, the high rate of people leaving for the week because of spring break increases the chances that someone will commit a property crime.

“Anytime you have a des-ignated period when you

know students won’t be there, it makes it a prime opportunity to commit burglaries and thefts,” Pieper said. “Several dif-ferent years in the past, there have been reports of somebody entering apart-ments or houses illegally and residing there during the week.”

Pruett said the depart-ment tries to combat the rise in crime with an ap-proximated ten percent increase in officers down-town during SXSW week.

“When we have extra officers downtown and in and around the festival, then the greatest deterrent against crime is an offi-cer’s presence,” Pruett said. “We’re hoping that adding extra officers downtown and being visible in and around the event will re-duce crime in the area.”

Pruett said a team of officers patrols the area from Sixth Street to Lamar Boulevard, which usually

attracts large crowds dur-ing the festival. He said co-ordination with other de-partments such as the fire and transportation depart-ments also helps facilitate the large number of people throughout the week.

Biochemistry junior Sailee Yadav said she pre-pared for SXSW this year by packing lightly, bring-ing a cross-body purse that she could easily keep track of and having pepper spray with her as a potential de-fensive tool.

“I think you inherently get more cautious during festival periods like South By Southwest because you know there is an influx of people from all over the world coming to this cen-tral location,” Yadav said. “I think the best thing we can do is to be aware of our surroundings and not venture into unnecessary hazards, even if that means slightly altering our rou-tines for this one week.”

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Every year an approximated 65,000 undoc-umented students graduate high school but, due to the lack of their legal status, not all of them move on to attending college. In 2012, the Obama administration introduced DACA — Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — which helped students overcome the hurdles their legal status presented. They were able to obtain in-state tuition, work legally for higher wages and find jobs after graduation.

However, DACA-mented immigrants are in a state of panic after federal judge Andrew Hanen used a preliminary injunction to block the expansion of Obama’s DACA program. The expansion would allow millions of undocu-mented immigrants to obtain a valid driver’s license and a work permit. But since the pro-gram was brought to a halt, none of the eligible applicants have been able to obtain either. The expansion should be granted in order for im-migrants to obtain insurance and a driver’s li-cense, to be hired legally and above all to pursue higher education.

When DACA was first introduced, it only let immigrants under the age of 31 apply. Roughly 4.1 million immigrants were left out, including undocumented parents of American citizens, and they advocated for their right to apply for

the program. On Nov. 20, 2014, Obama an-nounced that the age requirement would be removed and undocumented parents would be given access to DACA applications. Texas, along with 25 other states, rushed to block this motion and in Feb. 2015 a federal district court approved the motion.

Since then, lower courts have put Obama’s new policy on hold. In January, the U.S. Su-preme Court said it would grant a review of Texas’ challenge on Obama’s “deferred ac-tion” program. A decision will be made in June but, even if the preliminary injunction by Hanen is removed, DACA is still left to face the wrath of the current Republican presidential candidates.

Two of the three remaining Republican can-didates running for presidency — Ted Cruz and Donald Trump — have spoken out against DACA and said they would remove the pro-gram if they took office. This would not only strip away people’s ability to work legally in the U.S. but also put students under DACA in a precarious situation.

If Obama’s deferred action were to be re-moved, then this would hurt not only Texas’ economy, but also the national economy. Non-citizen students paid $51.6 million in tuition and fees in the year of 2013, a number that has since grown. Students under DACA receive in-state tuition in Texas and many have said that if DACA were to disappear, so would their

ability to stay enrolled in college. “I know that if I didn’t have in-state tuition,

there’s no way that I would have been able to pay,” said Katia Carmona, a psychology major from the University of Houston. “The reason I’m graduating is that I had in-state tuition.”

Politicians, lawmakers and our very own presidential candidates are still failing to see the

benefits of welcoming immigrants. They also disregard how getting rid of DACA and other programs will burden our struggling economy even further. However, they still have a chance to put our nation of immigrants first by sup-porting DACA and programs similar to it.

Suazo is an international relations and global studies junior from Honduras.

To be frank, this year’s executive alliance election has been embarrassing. The aver-age student has been forced to sit idly by as they witness impeachment legislation, Su-preme Court resignations and a takeover of the elections by the Dean of Students. One can’t help but wonder what happened to cause this implosion. Harsh rulings by the Election Supervisory Board, a flawed elec-tion code and mishandling by the Dean of Students are the main factors that have led to this unfortunate situation.

Organizing and conducting elections is not a simple task. The multitude of competing moti-vations coupled with the high stakes means that campaign infractions happen every year, and this cycle was no exception. However, unneces-sarily harsh punishments handed down by the ESB created a toxic campaign environment. In an attempt to perhaps send a message of caution to the campaigns, it inadvertently turned them-selves into a weapon. It seems that some of the campaigns attempted to use the ESB not as an arbiter of fairness, but as a means to impede or even disqualify their competitors. According to Chief Justice Emeritus Zachary Stone’s resigna-tion letter, “the ESB backed itself into a corner where excessive harshness was the only consis-tent, face-saving answer.”

The campaigns’ only recourse was to ap-peal to the SG Supreme Court, whose de-cisions were to be final. However, Stone

determined the election code to be “an abso-lute nightmare.” The rulings in question were unanimous among the justices, highlighting the fact that the ambiguous code could have multiple valid interpretations. However, the consistency of the rulings in favor of one campaign team raised suspicion that the court had ulterior motives.

Stone attributed these ruling to “good faith disagreements,” according to David Engleman, Plan II and English senior and ESB chair. How-ever some in the Assembly interpreted these as evidence of bias. Tanner Long, speaker of the assembly, filed to impeach Stone despite having only circumstantial evidence against him. He also filed an injunction on the election results pending the impeachment.

Not only was this impeachment irrespon-sible in its nature, the timing of it severely disrupted normal electoral proceedings. In addition, the speaker of the assembly does not possess the authority to delay election re-sults or remove a justice from his or her seat. His attempt to do so could have constituted an abuse of power. All of this kerfuffle left the Dean of Students no option but to intervene.

The Dean of Students kept silent during all of this, and then attempted to place blame on the court, citing “procedural irregularity” in regard to court members attending ESB hear-ings. There is no written rule preventing the court from attending ESB hearings. Trying to remedy the situation, the DoS hired an inde-pendent party, UT law professor Jeana Lung-witz, to review some of the cases that were overturned by the court.

The outcome is an upcoming special elec-tion, and potentially a lawsuit against the Dean of Students from whichever campaign ends up losing because of the unprecedented seizure of control of the election process. The Dean of Students’ failure to adequately ad-dress the quickly escalating situation follow-ing Long’s legislation has only added to the problem that now has no good solution.

No one person or body should be held com-pletely responsible or blameless in this situa-tion. The candidates, the ESB, Tanner Long

and the Dean of Students all made mistakes while operating under a mangled campaign election code. Should we hope for better? Yes. Should we expect it? Under the current cir-cumstances, no. If anything, this cycle has evi-denced the need for an overhaul of the election code, and perhaps structural change beyond that. Student Government should be a model for democracy. Instead, it has been a farce, dis-appointing the students it is supposed to help.

Stuart is a Plan II and business honors sophomore from Lubbock.

Election season is in full force. Every cable news desk, radio podcast and conversation with your grandparents seems to focus on politics. Even here at school, recent student elections have captured campus conversation. With so many campaigns and opinions to keep track of, being an informed participant of the democratic process can be difficult. Political satire offers a compelling place to start.

Ideally, we would all be well-read on politi-cal issues and ready to shoot out poll statistics at the slightest provocation, but that just isn’t realistic. Time is a college student’s scarcest re-source, and spare moments are more likely to be taken up by the pursuit of food and friends than Politico and Pew.

This is where political satire comes in.“We feel that we have so much going on in

our lives that we don’t have time to fully pro-cess a topic that is so complicated as politics as well as balance everything else we are learning in school,” said Madeline Dimayuga, executive producer of Longhorn LateNight and radio-television-film junior. “But when you spin it and make that information entertaining, we retain it a lot better.”

The educational community has long

known about the benefits of using humor while teaching. Learning comes from the con-text and delivery of information, not just the facts and statistics themselves.

“Humor is a kind of communication, and communication is very important in politics. Humor is one way of communicating effective-ly,” government professor David Prindle said. “It’s extremely hard to learn when you’re bored.”

These same concepts translate into poli-tics. A Pew research poll discovered that, with 54 percent in the “high knowledge group,” audiences of comedy news shows were just as well-informed as those of major newspaper websites.

Educational principles lend themselves to comedy quite naturally. Political comedy requires an intimate knowledge with the ac-tual, real-life facts — so as to better satirize their subject. In between comedians pack-ing their punches, the audience gets compact doses of very real information. In setting up their jokes, most satirists utilize actual video clips of their subjects, or at least cite verifiable news events. Even the punches themselves have value. A comedian adds counter argu-ments and points out flaws in his or her cho-sen victim’s views.

John Oliver’s viral “Donald Drumpf” seg-ment of “Last Week Tonight” used com-edy to force a closer look at the Republican

presidential frontrunner. Oliver relentlessly and hilariously examined the track record of the “li-tigious serial liar with a string of broken busi-ness ventures and the support of a former Klan leader.” Oliver’s critique, while entertaining, offered snippets of very real information that could inform and influence a voter.

While you probably shouldn’t cite John Oli-ver on your next political science paper, these comedic forays offer the kind of basic informa-tion necessary to be an informed voter. Laugh-ing at your news is a serious way to stay in-formed and not sleep through the polls.

Hallas is a Plan II freshman from Allen.

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Accusations against SG Supreme Court erode trust

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their faces was one of resolve.”Even as Northern Iowa

fought back to retake the lead, Texas took each blow and responded. After Wash-pun missed a free throw that would have given the Panthers a three-point lead, Taylor took the ensuing rebound coast-to-coast, laying up the tying shot with 2.7 seconds left — 2.7 seconds that would end Texas’ season.

Celebration turned to scramble defense. Senior for-ward Connor Lammert said they knew they didn’t want to foul Jesperson to send him to the free-throw line. But what space they gave him proved costly in the end.

Jesperson got off a clean shot. The ball banked off the glass and into the net. North-ern Iowa players swarmed him and celebrated with the trav-eling fans. Texas just walked off the court, hands on heads, unsure of what had just trans-pired and with the scoreboard reading 75-72 in favor of Northern Iowa.

“If you could have that play back, you try to make it tougher on him,” Smart said. “But the kid made a shot from half court, so you’ve got to give

him credit.”For the seniors, who have

been through a tumultuous four years of Texas basketball, the shot gave one final cruel punch in their last game in a Longhorn uniform. Felix and Lammert each fought to hold back tears during the postgame interviews, and the muted locker room seemed a distant cry from the boisterous team practices.

“It just hurts,” Felix said. “You immediately start think-ing about all of the work you’ve

put in. The countless hours. You just think about it ending like that and it’s hard. For it to end on a half-court shot, it just sucks.”

Texas had successes this season, but the season will likely be remembered for how it ended. The Longhorns end their season in the same round as last year, and they haven’t advanced past the first weekend of the tourna-ment since 2008. And now, they’ll have to replace five scholarship seniors — and

potentially Taylor.Smart, however, said he

isn’t worried about replacing those players and maybe start-ing from the ground up again. Instead, he’s looking to what he has for next year.

“There’s no question the makeup of our team will be significantly different next year,” Smart said. “But that would have been the case if we would have rattled off six-straight wins.

“We just have to turn the page.”

The immediate future for Aston’s squad comes Monday at 8 p.m. back at the Erwin Center when the Longhorns take on No. 10 Missouri.

The Tigers took care of No. 7 BYU 78-69 Saturday evening at the Erwin Center as Aston looked on, scout-ing the potential second round opponents. She said Missouri’s toughness caught her eye.

“They have played in the rigors of the SEC, so noth-ing is going to surprise them or intimidate them,”

Aston said. Texas took on three SEC

opponents this season and beat them all, collecting wins against No. 4 Tennes-see, No. 9 Mississippi State and Arkansas.

Missouri head coach Robin Pingeton said that the physical nature of the Long-horns reminds her of fellow SEC foes.

“I think Texas is one of those teams that’s used to playing very physical, as well,” Pingeton said. “So I really do, I think it’s going to be a good matchup.”

The Tigers boast a starting lineup that does not feature a player shorter than six-feet tall. Four of the five starters

for Texas are under the six-foot mark.

“I think they are a big team and I think they play good defense,” senior guard Empress Davenport said. “They shoot a lot of threes. So us guarding the transi-tion threes will be a huge focus for us.”

Davenport helped the Longhorns get off to a quick start against Alabama State in round one. She hit four of her first five shots, two of which were three-pointers.

Open looks will not come as easily against the length of the Missouri defense. But Aston said that Mis-souri presents the biggest challenge when Texas is

on defense.“I was very impressed

with their overall physical-ity and the way they move the ball offensively,” Aston said. “They will be a difficult guard for us.”

Getting past Missouri and reaching the Sweet 16 for the second straight season will be a tall task for the Longhorns, but it isn’t the overall goal. Aston said her players have higher aspirations.

“If we were to fall short somewhere along the way before the Final Four, this particular team would be disappointed,” Aston said. “That’s what their goal and what their expectation was.”

team placed seventh in the consolation final.

Texas went into the fourth and final day in 16th place with 53 points. Solid indi-vidual finishes by Karosas in the 200-yard backstroke and Millard in the 100-yard freestyle added needed points to catapult the Long-horns to finish in 15th.

Karosas won the 200-yard backstroke consolation final with a time of 1:50.89

seconds, the second fastest time in school history and Millard won the 100-yard freestyle consolation final with a time of 48.03.

The 400-yard freestyle relay team of Millard, Hansen, Schneider and Karosas finished the meet for the Longhorns with a fifth place finish in the consolation final.

The men’s swimming and diving team will compete in the NCAA Champion-ship beginning March 23 in Atlanta.

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Gabriel Lopez | Daily Texan StaffNorthern Iowa senior Paul Jesperson (4) shoots the half court shot that sent the Longhorns home in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.

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Chase Shugart didn’t al-low a ball out of the infield in the eighth inning of Sun-day’s contest with Tulane. But the freshman pitcher still al-lowed Tulane to plate two runs with the game tied, and Tulane took a 4-2 lead it would never relinquish.

A pair of bunt singles — one of which Shugart could have let trickle foul — allowed Tu-lane to take the lead. A shaken Shugart then walked two con-secutive batters, extending the Longhorns’ deficit.

Texas threatened in the ninth but to no avail. A sacrifice fly by junior outfielder Zane Gurwitz proved inconsequential to the final result, as the Longhorns fell 5-3 in the series finale. The loss marked the Longhorns’ fifth defeat in six games.

“We have provided the oppo-nent with more opportunities than any team can withstand,” head coach Augie Garrido said. “We’re not playing our game, we’re not doing what we’re capable of doing. We need to start over.”

Sophomore pitcher Kyle Johnston was solid in five in-nings of work, but did not escape unscathed. Texas was porous up the middle and surrendered two errors in the third, which led to a pair of Tulane runs. The Longhorns found themselves in a 2-0 hole.

“We need to play defense at

a high level, and we have not done that,” Garrido said. “We have taken the routine, and created opportunities for the opposing team.”

As Johnston rolled, so did Tulane starter Emerson Gibbs. Gibbs carved up the Longhorns through the first five frames, ul-timately fanning seven batters. On a lazy Sunday at the Disch, the Longhorns’ bats failed to

produce. Texas couldn’t bring a runner to scoring position in the opening five innings, unable to attack Gibbs with any efficiency.

“[Gibbs] had very good con-trol of his curveball, throwing a lot of strikes on the outside,” Gurwitz said. “He came out and attacked us.”

The Green Wave’s defensive issues cost them just as it did

Texas. Miscalculations in the outfield accounted for both of the Longhorns’ runs, allowing Texas to tie the game at 2-2 in the seventh.

But the stalemate didn’t last as Shugart struggled. He gave up three earned runs in the final two innings, granting Tu-lane a 5-3 victory.

A lack of defensive execu-tion and a punchless lineup

hurt the Longhorns again in their third consecutive series loss. Conference play starts on Thursday and the season is far from over, but Garrido said the team needs to fix its bad habits quickly.

“The bad news is, we’ve lost twelve games,” Garrido said. “But the good news is, we’re re-sponsible for the losing. It’s now in our hands to change it.”

Nine Longhorns were named All-Americans at the NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships, where the women’s team finished in 15th place after four days of competition.

The meet began Wednes-day with a tenth place finish for the 800-yard freestyle relay team of juniors Madi-syn Cox and Tasija Karosas and freshmen Quinn Car-rozza and Nora McCul-lagh. The freestyle relay was the sole event of the first evening — very different from the former format in which the race took place at the end of a long day of competition.

“Usually it’s a slugfest, but now everybody gets to swim it fresh,” Texas head coach Carol Capitani said. “We were six seconds faster tonight than at this meet last year.”

Night two was highlight-ed by Cox’s second straight top-four national finish in the 200 individual med-ley, with a time of 1:54.80 seconds — enough for the eighth-fastest swim in school history.

The second night also held the 200-yard freestyle relay and the 400-yard medley relay. The 200-yard freestyle relay team of soph-omores Mimi Schneider and Rebecca Millard and freshmen Brooke Hansen and Remedy Rule took sixth place in the event’s conso-lation final. The 400-yard

medley team of Karosas, Cox, Schneider and Millard took seventh in their event’s consolation final.

“This wasn’t our best day but we have a lot of fight left,” Capitani said at the end of the second day. “At NCAAs against the best swimmers in the country, we know there is no room for error.”

On the third day, Texas earned honorable mention All-America awards from juniors Jordan Surhoff and Cox as well as the 200-yard medley team of Karo-sas, Surhoff, Schneider and Millard.

Cox finished first in the consolation final of the 400-yard individual med-ley, with a time fast enough for the eighth-fastest swim in school history. She now holds seven of the ten fast-est swims in the event at Texas.

Surhoff earned her first individual honorable men-tion All-American award with an eighth place finish in the consolation final of the 100-yard breaststroke while the 200-yard medley

Alabama State head coach Freda Freeman-Jackson said if Texas plays the way it did against her team Saturday night in future tournament games, it will end up in the National Championship conversation.

F r e e m a n - J a c k s o n’s words came after Texas dismantled her 15th seed-ed Hornets 86-42 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament in Austin Saturday night.

According to Texas head coach Karen Aston, her team might not be ready to take the title yet — but it’s getting close.

“We do have just this one little step of mentality and a way of playing that we have to take,” Aston said. “But I’m excited about this team. I don’t think we’re through, and I’m really excited about the future.”

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While students were on spring break, the Long-horns had a successful week of action. Texas went 2–1, beating both Princeton and Kansas State but falling to Kansas.

The win against Princ-eton kept Texas undefeated at home, and it tacked on its first victory in enemy terri-tory in Manhattan, Kansas on Sunday afternoon.

The Longhorns’ No. 13 doubles tandem of se-nior Breaunna Addison and sophomore Dani Wa-gland beat K-State fresh-men Ana Garcia Navas and Millie Stretton 6-4. The other Longhorn duo of senior Lana Groen-vynck and freshman Katie Poluta pulled out a win over juniors Maria Panaite and Palma Juhasz 6-1 to sweep the doubles point for Texas.

“Bree, Neda [Koprcina] and Dani were character-istically ferocious in clos-ing out our first Big 12 win,” head coach Howard Joffe said.

Wagland gained the Longhorns’ second point at third singles over Stret-ton with No. 8 Addison and junior Koprcina following suit to carry Texas to the 4-0 sweep.

The remaining courts were suspended due to rain.

Texas returns home to face No. 36 North-western on March 28 at Whitaker Courts.

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