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Thousands still locked out of U-Connect

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UK’s computer experts are not
sure what's wrong with the U-Con-
nect system. but they are working
on it. And for the thousands locked
out of their e-mail inbox, a solution
cannot come soon enough.

For the last two days. UK's U-
Connect system — the school’s on-
line system for e-mail, downloading
and Internet hosting —has been ex-
periencing problems. leaving many
of its 50.000 account holders search-
ing for an answer.

“We’re close to solving it, but
we’re going to keep working on it

tonight,” Doyle Friskney, UK’s chief
technology officer, said yesterday

The problem began sometime
Monday afternoon and continued
throughout yesterday.

“We really don’t know how
many accounts are working or are
not," he said.

Friskney said the problem lies
in the authentication process —— the
steps by which the system identifies
a user‘s ID and password,

“We’ve got some corruption,”
Friskney said. “There is something
inside the directory that is not cor-
rect. We just have to identify it and
correct it.”

He said each user‘s mail would

be unaffected — it will be there and
waiting for them when they can log
in again.

Until then, many are left with a
major inconvenience.

“When it‘s down, I’m shut away
from the world,” said Travis White,
a marketing freshman, who uses U-
Connect as his main e-mail ac-
count.

Kaitlin Koehler, an accounting
freshman, said she depends on her
e-mail account to stay in touch with
family and friends in Columbus,
Ohio.

“I couldn’t log on yesterday or
this morning," she said. “It’s hard;
it’s very hard.”

Since Monday. confused stu-
dents and staff have been calling
UK’s Customer Service hotline,
said Darrell Doty. an analyst there.

“We’ve been getting a lot of
calls," Doty said. “I would say eight
in 10 calls are about U-Connect.

“A lot of people are very depen-
dent (on e-mail), so it’s a very diffi-
cult time."

For many students, the U-Con-
nect system is the primary way of
communicating with teachers and
within campus clubs and organiza-
tions.

“1 don’t know if I am supposed
to be notified of anything," said
Rachel Winkler. an interior design

freshman. “I have one class where
the teacher specifically sends us in-
formation or sends us directions for
class. so i won’t know about that.”

As students and staff cope with
life without e-mails, crews have
been working around the clock,
slowly combing over every aspect of
the system.

“We feel terrible about this.”
Friskney said. “We will find the
problem and when we do we'll say,
‘why didn’t we look here sooner?’

“We'll find it; we always find it.”

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Moving out, moving on

After 13 years, local business faces goodbye

By Julie Fitzpatrick
THE KENTUCKY KERNEL

During football season. PJ McDon-
aid and her sister Georgia Rogers
stand on the corner of Transcript Av-
enue and South Limestone Street
wearing blue and white holding “Honk
if you love UK” signs

But now McDonald has a sign that
reads. “It’s not all about UK."

As of Friday afternoon. PJ‘s Bar-
ber Shop is no more.

After 13 years as a barbershop. the
building has been bought by the uni-
versity. and will be replaced with a
parking structure designed to facili-
tate patient parking for UK Health-
care. The garage will replace the park-
ing lost due to expansion of Medical
Center. The demolition process has
been going on for almost a year. affect-
ing various properties in the vicinity
of Conn Terrace. Transcript Avenue
and Limestone and Elizabeth streets.

“Everything in here was always
UK.“ Rogers said. “We had everything
decorated for years.

“I guess we all just never thought
that it would come down to this.”

The loss of her shop has left Mc-
Donald with mixed emotions.

“It makes you feel like you are un-
appreciated. Some days you’re mad.
but most days you just try to stay up-
beat.” she said.

Since the shop was two years into
their five-year lease. the employees
would like to be compensated for the
rest of it. They have had an ongoing
court case with the university and
their landlord for almost six months.

“They (UK) have robbed both her
(the landlord) and us," Rogers said.
“Basically. they‘ve forced her to force
us out. To me, it’s their responsibility
to see out our lease."

In response. UK officials said their
hands are tied.

“The university has no contract
with those who are in their lease,”
said Ken Clevidence. UK director of
public safety. “The problems that arise
are between the owner and the lessee."

UK bought the building from its
former owner. Francis Fresh.

“The barber shop and liquor store
sold for $650000.“ Clevidence said.
“The university bought the building
for this price from Francis Fresh. and
she in turn would compensate her em-
ployees."

The sisters were offered $18,000 for
the business. but they have not re-
ceived anything yet. Fresh said only
the building is currently owned by UK.
and that she just wanted to try and get
on with the rest of her life.

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as part of the owner's protest of the new UK Medical Center parking
structure. For 13 years, PJ McDonald owned and operated the shop at the corner of Limestone Street and Transcript
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SG considers campaign changes

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The Student Government Senate will be-
gin making election preparations tonight by
first deciding whether to allow a $200 raise in
campaign spending limits.

The amendment to the SG constitution
was approved at the last meeting in Novem-
ber after being suggested by the constitution-
al revisions committee.

Constitutional revisions committee chair-
man Will Nash said the raise in the limit was
needed due to the length of time that has

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passed since the limit was set.

“It hadn't been updated since the early
19803.” Nash said. “It’s really hard to reach
25,000 students on such a small budget.”

The amendment states that maximum ex.
penditures for presidential candidates will be
raised from $600 to $800 per candidate. Sena-
torial candidates maximum expenditures
were recommended to rise from $150 to $200
and senatorial funds when running with a
partner were recommended to rise from $200
to $250.

Each limit will also grow according to the
rate of inflation each year. It also states that

the Senate has authority over what the maxi-
mum limit should be.

Nash said he recommended that the Sen-
ate look into the possibility of public grants
or public finances from SC to fund candi-
dates that showed financial need.

The board of election supervisions will
also be up for approval tonight. The five
member committee is in charge of running
the elections, which will be in late March.

SG President Becky Ellingsworth said she
selected qualified members to run a fair elec-

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UK communications professor Rick
Roth died earlier this week. but some
don't want to see his passion and dedica-
tion to his work end there.

Roth died Monday night. ending his
15 years at UK as a professor in the Col-
lege of Communication and Information
Studies. He was 59. He leaves behind a
wife. Jane. and two daughters. Jessica
and Jennifer. He also leaves behind many
students. and three of them have already
banded together to ensure that while
Roth may be gone. something of him will
live on.

“He meant so much to us and I don‘t
like to use the word teacher or professor
because he was so much more than
that." said Catherine Hayden. a 1995 ad-
vertising graduate working with former
classmates Bill and Jackie Powell ~ who
were also students of Roth ~ to put to-
gether the Rick Roth Memorial Scholar-
ship. “He was a wonderful man. He gave
you his time; he gave you his attention.
He made you feel like you were his only
student."

Roth survived a major heart attack in
2002. which kept him out of the class-
room for a year. About the same time. he
suffered multiple strokes. giving him dif-
ficulty speaking for about five months.
None of these was able to stop him.

"One of the most important things he
taught me was to never give up,” Jessica
said. “His recovery after his heart attack
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‘ Activist leader
Coretta King
dies at 78

By‘filaine Woo
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Coretta Scott King. the dignified and
determined widow of the Rev. Martin
Luther King. Jr. who assumed her mur-
dered husband's burden as chief symbol
of the civil rights movement and fiercely
guarded his legacy often in ways that
drew pointed criticism has died. She
was 78.

King. who had heart problems and
had suffered a major stroke last August.
died during the night at Santa Monica
Health institute. a holistic health center
in Rosarito Beach. Mexico. according to a
spokesperson for the US. consulate in Ti-
juana.

Former Atlanta Mayor and UN. Am-
bassador Andrew Young. who broke the
news in a call to NBC's “Today" show
Tuesday morning. said King's daughter.
Bernice. had tried to wake her mother
last night but found she had “quietly
slipped away. ”

He hailed King's strength and said it
rivaled her husband‘s. “She was strong. if
not stronger. than he was." Young. who
worked alongside her husband in the civ-
il rights campaigns of the 1960s. said in a

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WASHINGTON — Presi-
dent Bush Tuesday night de
fended his vision for a robust
US. role in world affairs and
outlined a litany of domestic
initiatives to make the Unit-
ed States more competitive
abroad in a State of the
Union address designed to re
juvenate his troubled presi-
dency heading into a
midterm election year.

Bush, a onetime Texas oil
industry executive, declared
that “America is addicted to
oil” and vowed to push for al-
ternative energy sources al-
lowing the United States to
replace threequarters of the
petroleum now imported
from the Middle East by 2025.
Presenting his agenda for his

sixth year in office, he also
vowed to steer more money
to scientific research and ed-
ucation while working to re-
duce health costs.

But after a year of set-
backs at home and abroad
that have dragged his ap-
proval ratings to historic
lows, Bush offered no far-
reaching proposals to match
the scale of the Social Securi-
ty revision plan that proved
so unpopular on Capitol Hill
last year that it died without
even being introduced. Many

of the ideas sprinkled Jan. 25: Marijuana usage reported at Greg Page
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news conference Tuesday.
“She lived a graceful and
beautiful life and, in spite of
all of the difficulties, she
managed a graceful and beau-
tiful passing.”

Sen. Edward M. Kennedy,
D-Ma., called her “a powerful
and charismatic figure and
leader for our time” who with
her husband “awakened the
conscience of a nation that
began the journey toward
equality”

King was thrown into a
life of struggle soon afier she
married the charismatic min—
ister, who racial equality on
the nation‘s agenda. Although
the responsibilities of moth-

she shared his deep commit-
ment to social justice and was
a critical influence at key mo
ments in his career.

After her husband‘s mur-
der in 1968, she fought for
more than a decade to estab-
lish a federal holiday on his
birthday. The goal was finally
accomplished in 1983 when
President Reagan, yielding to
popular pressure, signed the
law making Martin Luther
King Jr. the only American
besides George Washington to
be so honored.

“I am often identified as
the widow of Martin Luther

King Jr,” she said some years 1302 p.m.
ago. “Sometimes, I am also Jan. 28: Marijuana smell reported at 1300 Sports
identified as 3 “VII rights Center Drive at 9:10 p.m.

leader or a human rights ac-
tivist. While these designa-
tions are factually correct, I
would also like to be thought
of as a complex, threedimen-
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Jan. 24: Suspicious circumstances reported at

Kentucky Clinic and special operations unit asked to
stand by for a dispute between a foster family and bio-
logical parents at 1:36 p.m.

Jan. 24: Two suspicious vehicles with windows broken
out of them were reported on the corner of Scott
Street and Broadway.

Jan. 25: Ford mustang reported running unoccupied
for more than two hours on Rose Lane near the
Newman Center at 3:46 p.m.

Jan. 26: Vandalism reported to the front door of
Kirwan Tower at 3:55 am.

Jan. 26: Stolen car reported at the UK Chandler
Medical Center at 11:46 am

Jan. 26: Two subjects reported passed out on the
ground in front of Singletary Center at 10:13 p.m.

Jan. 27: Theft from automobile reported in the Oswald
Building parking lot at 10:07 am.

Jan. 27: Criminal mischief reported at Greg Page at
10:30 am.

Jan. 27: Theft of a laptop reported at the ASTeCC
Building at 12:24 p.m.

Jan. 28: Subject reportedly refused to leave after
being disorderly at Subway on South Limestone Street
at 1:05 am.

Jan. 28: Two inebriated subjects reported trying to
sneak into Kirwan Tower through the emergency
entrance at 4:49 p.m.

Jan. 28: Marijuana smell reported at Blanding Tower at

Jan. 28: Theft from automobile reported in the pay lot
at William T. Young Library at 11:38 p.m.

Jan. 29: Domestic violence reported at University
Court Apartments at 2:14 p.m.

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Lance Broeking, UK administrator
of Campus Services, said he under-
stands their frustration.

“One of the biggest problems we
faced was the lease agreement broken
between the tenants and property own-
ers," he said. “We understand the diffi-
culty of finding similar property and
good location, but we felt that we gave
adequate time for them to make other

Still, McDonald said she feels many
in the area support her.

“Everybody seems to be on our
side, as far as it goes,” she said.

That is definitely true for many
students who lived nearby.

“The only thing had about it is that
PJ got kicked out," said Zach Hatfield,
a mechanical engineering junior. “I
know that she put up a fight to stay
there. Overall, I’d say that it is in the
university’s best interest that they
build a parking garage over there. I’d
rather see it go to student parking
than hospital, but if it brings in more
people. it will be better for the commu-

Other residents of the neighbor-
hood share the same view.

“It sucks because I get my hair cut
at the barber shop close by,” said
Jonathan Dale, a mechanical engineer-
ing sophomore who lives on Conn Ter-
race. “I've been getting my hair cut
there since I came to UK, for almost a
year and a half."

Now, McDonald and Rogers are
strangers to a building that has been
home for 13 years.

“All I can do is look in the window.”
McDonald said.

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His wife remembers the attitude he
maintained during that time.

“Don‘t give up the ship." she said.
“Nothing is final unless you decide it's
final."

Before he came to UK. Roth worked
in the advertising field for more than
20 years, co-founding a retail agency
and eventually ending his professional
career in the advertising world as a se
nior vice president of marking ser-
vices for a Dayton, Ohio advertising
agency.

“He spent all his life as an advertis-
ing executive and almost on a whim
made the switch to academia,“ Jen-
nifer said. “He was fantastic at it. He
jumped in and tackled it like every-
thing else he ever did."

Some look back at his other quali-
ties with equal fondness.

“(I remember most) his dedication
to his students and his dedication to
his family." said Roth’s daughter Jessi-
ca, who was also one of his students. “I
think dedication is the first thing that
stands out. He was very passionate

about what he did."

Hayden said she remembers how
much his influence affected her and
fellow students’ careers.

“There’s a lot of us who wouldn‘t
be where we are today without his in-
spiration,“ she said. remembering how
Roth wrote a recommendation for her
to get into graduate school. He also
asked her to write a recommendation
letter for him when he applied for
tenure.

“I felt like I'd been invited to speak
at the White House," she said. “It was
quite an honor."

His colleagues remembered him in
much the same way.

“The thing about Rick was every-
thing he did, he did well and with a
smile," said Roy Moore, professor in
the journalism school and director of
the First Amendment Center.

He also left people with a desire to
be like him.

‘(I remember) the incredible pride
I had that this man was my dad,“ said
his other daughter, Jennifer. “I can‘t
imagine anybody in the world I could
do better to emulate."

Jane, who was married to Roth for
39 years. pointed out the impact her
husband has bad.

“If you consider that three of his
students that graduated over 10 years

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please make checks payable to the University of
Kentucky and put "Rick Roth Memorial Scholar-
ship" on the memo line. Send envelopes to:

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c/o UK College of Information Studies
129 Grehan Journalism Building
Lexington, Ky 40506-0042

ago got together today to institute the

Rick Roth Memorial Scholarship, that .

shows that he was important to them."

They say it’s the least they can do.

“If he could touch one more life.
even after death, it would be worth it."
Hayden said.

A memorial service for Rick Roth
will be held in the Phoenix Room of
the Park Plaza Apartments Downtown
on Saturday, Feb. 4 at 2 p.m. All stu-
dents, faculty and staff are invited to
attend. In lieu of flowers, please make
donations to the Rick Roth Scholar-
ship Fund. For more information,
please contact Janice Birdwhistell at
257-4241.

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tion.

“I tried to make sure the people I
picked weren’t in any (upcoming) cam-
paigns so that they could do their jobs
in an unbiased manner," Ellingsworth
said.

After the election supervisions
board is selected, students can begin
filing applications to run for 80 offices
including president and vice president.
Filing begins 15 working days before
spring break and ends eight working
days before.

Non-SG members can also run for
the highest offices thanks to a regula-
tion change last year.

Another amendment could be ap-
proved that would mandate that online
voting would be used for the first time
in the freshman election in the fall.
The amendment would remove rules
that prohibited campaigning near
polls. This is because each computer
could prospectively be a polling place,
Ellingsworth said.

Ellingsworth, who is co—sponsoring
the amendment, said the removal of
the rule would be adapted to the new
method in the future.

“We'll have to work on making re-
strictions.” Ellingsworth said. “We’ll
have to look into it more in the spring
and get that taken care of."

The possibility of online voting for
this spring was heavily discussed last
semester. Ellingsworth said she wasn't
comfortable with online voting in the
spring and wouldn‘t pursue it unless
the Senate mandated it.

“We've only looked at two options
for online voting and the entire senate
hasn‘t even looked at it,” Ellingsworth
said. “This needs to be something re-
searched more before we jump into
any one company to provide online
voting."

The Senate could also approve a
referendum tonight that would poll
students' opinions on the meal plan on
the spring ballot. A resolution that
would encourage dead week to be clear
of all class assignments will also be
viewed tonight.

The senate will also review two ap-
pointees for Ellingsworth's executive
staff, finalize poll locations and times
for the election and decide whether or
not to give $2,500 to the UK Women's
Place.

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Sports

Fros paces Cats

Coach calls Agostinelli “special"

By Chris Miles
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Going into any job
interview, Bruno
Agostinelli’s resume
would include a list of
achievements almost
as long as his last
name.

A true freshman,
Agostinelli is currently
ranked 48th in the na—
tion in collegiate ten-
nis —— the highest rank.
ing of any player on
the UK tennis team.
But more interesting
on his list‘ of achieve-
ments are two notches
that include both a No.
1 world tennis ranking
and a top 50—world
ranking in firearms ac-
curacy.

That means he’s a
good shot when it
comes to pulling the
trigger. Just not in real
life.

He held the title as
the top player in the
world in the tennis
video game “Top Spin"
and a world top-50 posi-
tion in the shoot-em-up
action game “Halo."

“But not anymore,"
Agostinelli said of his
former titles. because
these days he isn’t as
concerned about
killing aliens as he is
focused on his perfor-
mance with the Cats.

When Agostinelli
comes on to the court,
his performance is
something head coach
Dennis Emery has de-
scribed as “special.”

“Bruno is a great
player for us." Emery
said of his freshman
star from Niagara.
Canada. “We are fortu-
nate. He is very ma-
ture. He has the poten-
tial to develop into one
of the best players
we‘ve had.”

When Emery first
saw Agostinelli in ac-
tion, he knew the phe-
nom had great talent
and potential.

“Bruno first e-
mailed us,” Emery
said. “So I made a
home visit and. watch-
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UK Tennis player Bruno Agostinelli returns a serve at the Hilary
Boone Tennis Center yesterday. While just a freshman,
Agostinelli has emerged as the top player for the nationally-

ranked Cats.

minutes. I had a good
feeling. This was a guy
we could build a solid
future around.”

Agostinelli has been
playing tennis since he
could walk.

“I've played since I
was 4," he said. ex-
plaining that his father
put him in the game at
that age and has been
his coach ever since.

“I traveled with the
Canadian Federation
and we played all
around the world.“ he
said. “But when you're
a kid you don’t know
what you‘re doing. you
just play. I didn‘t really
start getting into it un~
til I was 16."

After joining the
team this year he did
nothing but impress a,
a budding star rising
through the ranks.

“He is a real solid
player: he has a real
solid game." said se-
nior Alex Hume. who is
ranked No. 61 in the
country. “He‘s the
strongest guy on the
team and he has a lot of

room to develop."

One of Agostinelli's
favorite professional
tennis players is the
Swiss superstar Roger
Federer, who recently
won the Australian
Open and who is
ranked No. 1 in the
world.

On his list of life
achievements. Bruno
hopes to ascend to that
same No. 1 spot.

This time. though.
it wouldn‘t be in a
video game. but the
real thing.

Emery has every in-
tention that the next
No. 1 spot Bruno sees
in tennis will be on the
collegiate. national or
even global rankings.

“He can be great."
Emery said.

Agostinelli and his
teammates will be in
action this afternoon
against Austin Peay at
12 and Butler at 4 at
the Hilary Boone Ten-
nis Center.

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Tennis
prepares
for opener

By Matt McGuire
THE KENTUCKY mm

After the graduation of five-time
All-American Jesse Witten, UK ten-
nis coach Dennis Emery knows his
team will sink or swim on the play
and leadership abilities of seniors
Alex Hume and Nate Emge.

“I think they’ll do it, or we’ll
flounder," Emery said.

So far, Emery has been pleased
with the job his seniors have done.

“They have done an excellent
job this fall bringing some of our
younger guys around," he said.
”We’ve got what we feel like is some
good. young talent to be brought
along."

Emge and Hume are Kentucky‘s
top-ranked doubles tandem, and
know a major part of their role is to
set a good model for the freshmen.

“We just have a great friendship
on and off the court. and that's
what I think makes us such great
partners on the court,“ Emge said.
“We can talk with each other. We
get along so well on the court and
can just have fun out there.”

That closeness will come in
handy today. as the team plays its
regular season opener in a double-
header against Austin Peay and
Butler. UK. ranked No. 19 in the
country. will face Austin Peay at 12
and Butler at 4 this afternoon at the
Hilary Boone Tennis Center.

Emery noted that. although UK
has beaten Butler in the first round
of the NCAA Tournament in both
of the past two years, the Bulldogs
are a much improved team this
year.

“They have a lot of seniors and
this is kind of their last time
around," he said.

Emery said that Butler almost
knocked off No. 61 Indiana and pos-
es a major threat to the Cats.

Emge. who is ranked No. 83 na-
tionally. knows tomorrow's double-
header presents a golden opportuni-
ty for the team’s inexperienced
freshmen.

“We just need to get some of
these matches under our belt and
get some of the young guys some
confidence." he said.

Emery is interested to see how
his players will respond in the dou-
bio-header.

“It gives us a chance to see all of
our players in action," he said.
”Early in the year we feel like it is
important for us to see the players
battling for spots on the team."

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DeMoss njps overconfidence

By Chris DeLotell
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In practice yesterday. UK women’s
basketball coach Mickie DeMoss
sensed a slight lack of concentration
from her team. She felt the need to
bring her team down from the emo-
tional high of last Thursday’s win over
then-No. 1 Tennessee.

“We had a talk about it." she said.
“I asked the players ‘Was that our goal
at the beginning of the year? To beat
Tennessee?’ It wasn’t. It‘s just a piece
of the puzzle to our goal of going to the
tournament."

DeMoss said she has been walking
a delicate line between allowing the
players to celebrate the victory while
also preparing them for tomorrow's
game at No. 14 Georgia.

“You don‘t want them to just forget
it and act like it didn’t happen." she
said, “but you can't get so focused on it
that you don’t take care of business
this week.”

Tlraeoff

Following last Thursday's win over
UT, DeMoss gave her players days off
on Friday and Monday. She said she
wanted to give them an opportunity to
come down from the excitement of
beating the Vols and refocus their
sights on the rest of the season.

“Hopefully it gave them some .time
to absorb everything,” DeMoss said.

The team went through regular
practices on Saturday and Sunday.

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The latest version of ESPN.com’s
NCAA Tournament projection, which
was published prior to UK’s upset of
UT, listed the Cats as a No. 7 seed in
the Albuquerque Regional. ESPN's
Charlie Creme. who authors the rank-
ings. wrote on the site that “history
says a winning SEC record will be
enough to get the Wildcats in (the

NCAA Tournament)" At 4-2 in confer-
f

ence play. UK would need to win four 0
its last eight games to secure a win-
ning conference record. DeMoss said
she has no interest in tracking the pre-
dictions.

“We just know our goal is to get to
the tournament and we’re going to
take it one game at a time. We‘re wor-
ried about stopping Georgia.“

UK freshman point
guard Carly
Ormerod looks to
drive the lane in
last Thursday's 66-
63 upset of then-
No. 1 Tennessee.
The victory was UK
coach Mickie
DeMoss’ first over
her friend and
mentor Pat Sum-
mitt. and propelled
UK into the nation-
al rankings for the
first time since
1993. The Cats are
ranked No. 21 in
the Associated
Press poll and No.
23 in the
ESPN/USA Today
Coaches Poll.

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for Sunday's game against Florida.

Tickets can be purchased by call-
ing 257-1818 or visiting the Memorial
Coliseum ticket office. Tickets are free
for students with a valid UK ID.

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