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Students hein g punished
most by stripping colleges

By Chris Campbell

.‘lssistant Editorial Editor

Rejecting claims that this debate is becomin i sim-
ply personal and territorial, UK President (: arles
\Vethington yesterday took to supporting UK’s cur-
rent governance of the community college system.

Instead, he began his attack on the way Gov. Paul
Patton went on Kentucky Iiducational Television
yesterday and proposed his methods for revamping
the higher education system in Kentucky.

()ne of the key parts the state‘s higher education
reform system is to strip UK of its community col—
leges and technical schools.

“The governor has indicated that he understands
that this is an issue that will renerate serious dis-
agreement on both sides," \N'et ington said. “It does
in fact have a serious impact on these community
colleges and these community college communities
and these community college students, and it cer-
tainly would be unrealistic for us to expect that their
opinions will not get expressed.”

The opinions of people outside the UK adminis—
tration are key to getting the voice out to legislators.
\Vethington was up front in saying that he would
make sure Patton and his constituents would hear
from others.

“\Ve believe that it is the responsibility of the
University of Kentucky and the community colleges
to take our case to the people of Kentucky,”
\Vethington said in a news conference.

“So we will work with our community college
leaders. He will work with the media throughout
the state. we will ret out information from the Uni—
versity of Kentuc y, from our Alumni Association,
from others all designed to inform the people of
Kentucky about this issue, the seriousness of it, and
the extent to which we believe that we have a case to
be made for the community college system remain-
ing a part of the University of Kentucky."

\Vethington said taking the community colleges
away from UK is not a requirement for achieving the
final goal —- pushing UK into the top 20 of research
universities in the nation.

He has supporters in local legislators.

“The integration and cooperation between the
systems can be accomplished without UK being
stripped of the community colleges," said I‘irnesto
Scorsone (I)—Lex.), chair of the postsecondary edu—
cation subcommittee.

Kathy Stein (I)-I.ex.) also noted that she was
pleased with the way the UK President has gone
about with working alongside Patton in trying to

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Ellllcntllln Pollllcs President Charles Wethington (above) and Gov. Patton (below) are key to deride rollege‘sfate

improve higher education as a whole.

The community college system currently enrolls
over 43,000 students, and to Wethington, those
voices should take weight.

“In our polling ofour students, students tell us
that the University of Kentucky on that transcript, on
that diploma does make a difference to employers
when they start looking and applying for jobs,” he said.

Funding was among the biggest topics discussed
for making UK a top 20 research university.
\Vethington's research showed that the amount
needed, while not exact, was near $795 million. This
was vastly different from Patton‘s research, which

said that the total amount needed was approximately

$5 million-$8 million.

“The exact amount it would take to move us to
top 20 status may be subject to debate, but clearly,
the exact amount is not 4 (million) or 5 million dol-

lars," \Vethington said.

“At the same time (Patton is) proposing to
increase our budget by some 5 (million) or 6 million
dollars, he‘s proposing to take away 82.5 million dol-
lars. That's not the way to build a great university,

ladies and gentlemen."

12 students see Dean,
not Final Four in Indy

By Brian Dunn
StajflVriter

ticket violations from the students’ past.
“We will certainly tie the penalty to the

misbehavior,” Karnes said.

Twelve UK students may soon learn
crime doesn’t pay — or at least, it doesn’t
get you to Indy.

The twelve students allegedly cheated
at Monday's student ticket lottery for the
Final Four by changing the numbers on
their control cards. Lower numbers
ensured better seats, so the students erased

Karnes also said several other people
using someone else’s ID — both part-time
students and non—students ~— tried to
sneak throu h the lottery. Those people
also were pu led from the lottery, but they
will not face punishment.

“Something this big and this important
sometimes brings out the worst in people,"

and scratched off V
high numbers and
replaced them with
lower numbers.
“(The cards)
looked professionally
done, some of them,”
said Jake Karnes,
assistant dean of stu‘
dents and liaison
between Student
Affairs and the UK
Athletic Association.
As the students

\ Karnes said.
Stockham said,
“When we’re

dealin with a sys-
tem w ere people
cheat, we mini-
mize a way for
people to have an
unfair advantage.
We made every

effort to avoid
people getting
tickets that

shouldn‘t have.”
UK will use a

walked through the c
. . " numbered vouch-
line, however, Uni— ' ‘ .

, . “e“ er system to dis-
versity officrals \\‘ tribute tickets in
caught the defaced JANE‘ CRISP m” a.” Indlanapohs to the

cards and pulled the 80”“ These control cards were altered
students from the at the ticket lottery Monday in an attempt to in the
line. lower the number for a better chance at tickets.

Now these 12 stu—
dents are scheduled
to meet with Dean of Students David
Stockham to be disciplined. to

In past years the University punished
students by taking away their ticket privi—
Ieges for a certain number of games,
Karnes said.

Stockham would not say how the stu-
dents would be punished this time, but he
said each student's situation would he
studied with some scrutiny.

Some students, he said, complained
they bought their cards from other stu-
dents and didn’t know the cards were
defaced.

Stockham said he would take that into
account as well as other university and

students who won
lottery,
Karnes said. To get
their tickets, stu-

dents will have to show their student IDs
and the ticket vouchers they got at the lot-

The person distributin the tickets will
check the II) and the stu ent's voucher to
the University‘s voucher to ensure the stu—
dent has not cheated, Karnes said.

Karnes estimated about 2,050 students
attended the lottery Monday, but some of
those came to get more numbers, and
more chances, for their friends.

A thousand students walked away with
vouchers for tickets to the Final Four. UK
ofﬁcials will continue to improve the lot-
tery system to make it more efﬁcient and
will also try to make it harder to cheat,
Karnes said.

File photo

‘DIIIBI‘BIII' Haskins has
Minnesota in Final Four

By Rob Herhst
W eeleend Sports Editor

Growing up in Campliellsville,
Clem Haskins was different from
most children.

While most Kentucky kids
dream of donning the blue and
white of UK, that idea never
crossed I'Iaskins’ mind.

“Growing up as a youngster in
Kentucky, I was a farm kid that
didn‘t have TV, didn‘t have a
radio and all those things," llask-
ins said.

“Going to college was an
afterthought and I never listened
to Kentucky games a
kid, so I had no inter-
est in going to the
University of Ken-
tuc ”

Instead, Haskins
played basketball at
Western Kentucky

University, and that
led him to a 10-year
stint in the NBA with
three different squads.

Now Haskins, S3, is the head
coach at Minnesota, and he has
plenty ofinterest in UK.

I'Iis Golden Gophers will take
on the Wildcats in the NCAA
Final Four Saturday. Despite
llaskins’ ties to the Common—
wealth, playing against the Wild-
cats is nothing special for him.

“Ifyou asked me 25 or 30 years
ago, yes, it would have made a lot
of difference,” Haskins said. “But
over the years, I’ve matured
enough to where it’s just Ken—
tucky.”
After six successful seasons as
head coach at Western Kentucky,
IIaskins took over a weak Gopher
program in I986. It took him only
three seasons to take Minnmta to
the Sweet Sixteen in the NCAA
Tournament. The next season
Minnesota advanced to the Elite

Eight.

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In his rebuilding process at
Minnesota, llaskins admitted he
had one disadvantage in recruit—
in ’: It was difﬁcult for him to lure
Al —Americans.

“I don’t believe in earrings and
I don't believe in long, baggy
pants," llaskins said. “Yes, I have
some guys with tattoos, and even
some guys war earrings behind my
back. I just don‘t believe in that.

“I think coaches give into (ath—
letes' attire) but I can’t give into
that. To get the blue-chip players
you probably have to get into that
and that’s probably why I don’t
get (blue-chip players)"

llaskins 'ves cred—
it to his fat er for his
morals.

“My father was the
inspiration of my life
ant he taught my the
values of hard work,
honesty and God,”
llaskins said. “lie
(raised) ll children
with a third-grade
education and on $3,500 a year, so
you gotta be pretty damn smart to
do that.”

Saturday will mark IIaskins'
first—ever appearance in the Final
Four. It was a goal for llaskins to
make the Final Four, but there
was a time when he thought he
would not achieve it.

In 1995 llaskins suffered a
near~fatal heart attack. He sur-
vived the incident and it changed
his outlook on life.

“You put things in perspective
when you’re strapped to that bed
and ou think you may take your
last hreath," llaskins said. “You
put thin s in perspective and
that’s G first, family second and
job third.”

With a new lease on life, Hask-.
ins has thrived this season. Virtu-
ally no onc at the outset of the
year thought Minnesota would be
in the Final Four.

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Patton on tlines changes
By Kathy Hedina k

News Editor

Gov. Paul Patton is asking for more than iust leg-
islative votes in favor of his proposals to revamp Ken—
tucky higher education.

lie is seeking su iport of the universities and com«
munity colleges am from Kentuckians for education.

Patton outlined his legislative package postsec-
ondary education yesterday in a Kentucky l‘iducation—
al Television broadcast and press conference.

Key in his proposal is establishment of a Council
on Postsecondary Education by Itin I. The council
would consist of l2 members and a chair, all appoint—
ed by the governor and confirmed by the legislature.

A paid council president will advise state govern-
ment on postsecondary education matters.

The new council will have the power to dictate
program structures and stop “infightin r" between the
universities’ interests, the governor said.

“I“.ach institution must remain as independent as
possible, but it must be assigned a specific role and be
given speciﬁc incentives to achieve its mission," Pat—
ton said.

In connection with the new council, which will
replace the current Council on Iligher Education,
Patton's plan calls for a Strategic Committee on Post-
secondary Education, made up of himself, legislators
and council members, to develop a strategic agenda
for higher education and examine funding.

Patton's second recommendation would remove
the I} community colle res froru UK and place them
under a governing boartIthat would also preside over
Kentucky Tech schools, a move he said is “fundamen-
ml” to the overall plan.

“I realize what a profound change I am proposing,"
Patton said, “but I have concluded that it is absolutely
necessary."

He said community colleges were established to
boost students into four-year schools but now have
moved into technical training and providing associate
degrees, duplicating the role of Kentucky Tech. Pat—
ton said the new system would bring flexibility and
responsiveness for community college students with
the UK bureaucracy removed.

“The child has grown u ). The child is 2:? years
old," Patton said. “It's time fiir the University of Ken»
tucky to move on.

I certainly did not invite a political fight. (UK con-
trol ofcominunity colleges) doesn’t work well togethA
er, and that is a fact."

When UK “moves on," Patton said the state's land
grant institution will become one of the top 20 public
research institutions in the nation within 20 years,
equivalent to universities such as North (Iarolina at

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[Emmi Student quit
WOI'II, class before death

The Lexington-Fayette County coroner’s office
yesterday identified Congmei Sun as the woman
found dead in Shawneetown Apartments Tuesday
afternoon. The cause and manner of death were
pending final autopsy and toxicology results.
Detectivejames Cur ess of the Lexington—Fayette
County Police said he is not investigating the
death as a homicide.

Public Affairs Director Ralph Derickson said
Sun had worked as a principal lab technician in the
division of infectious diseases in the UK Depart—
ment ofMedicine sinceJune 1995.

She was hired full-time in ()ctober. On March
21, Sun resigned her position. Sun was also
enrolled as a pharmacy graduate student, until last
month when she dropped her classes, Derickson
said.

Police notiﬁed Sun's parents, who live in (Ihina,
yesterday afternoon.

UK Police discovered Sun's body after two
acquaintances, concerned about her whereabouts,
notiﬁed authorities.

Police discovered her body in her apartment at
F209 Shawneetown Apartments at 3:09 p.m. Tues—
day. Funeral arrangements were not available.

Balm cancels Int concert

Student Activities Board has announced the
cancellation of the Cake concert scheduled for
tonight. The concert is canceled due to the illness
of Cakc’s lead sin er, john McRea. The concert
will not be rescheduled. Tickets purchased at the
UK Student Center ticket office will be refunded
today through April 4 from 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon-
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Cats set to start spring workouts;

By Chris Easterllno
Spam Editor

Hal Mumme begins his ﬁrst
5 ring ractice as head coach of
tfie Wi dcats Monday, and judg-
ing by his enthusiasm yesterday in
his pro-spring practice news con—
ference, things just might be look—
ing up.

“We had a good offseason,
we‘re still unbeaten and we have a
good shot at winning the spring
game,” he joked.

Once he actually got serious,
Mumme set down some ideas as to
what he wanted to get accom-
plished over the 15 practices that
are allowed by the NCAA during
the spring.

“Offensively, we’d like to get
1 l or 15 players on the same
page,” he said. “Get to where we
can no—huddle offense out on the
ﬁeld and everybody know what to
do. It may not be as proﬁcient as
we want to be, but we can make
that up in August.

“Dcfensivcly, it is probably try-
ing to ﬁnd the best 18 to 25 play-
ers and getting them lined up in
the correct positions.”

Mumme plans to install the
entire package — both offensively
and defensively —— during the
spring, which culminates with the
Spring game on April 26 at Com—
monwealth Stadium.

“We’ll certainly concentrate
more on the fundamentals and the
basic parts of it than the wrinkles,”
he said. “I like sprin because it is
a time to work wit players and
you kind of got a relaxed atmo-
sphere. The players hate it.
They’re out there practicing while
somebody’s trying to steal their
girlfriend.”

Among the biggest change on
the offensive side of the football
will be a more wide-open passing
style, which Mumme compared to
the one Steve Spurrier used to win
the national championship at
Florida.

While Mumme doesn’t have an
experienced senior quarterback
like Danny Wuerffel to guide the
offense, he does can look to a
stron -armed sophomore in Tim
Coucﬁ.

Mercer mum
to Wooden team

LOS ANGELES —- UK
sophomore Ron Mercer and
seniors Jacque Vau hn of Kansas
and Tim Duncan 0 Wake Forest
lead the John Wooden All-Ameri-
can basketball ..

team announced
yesterday.
Joining them

on the 10-player
squad are senior
Keith Van Horn
of Utah, junior
Danny Fortson of
Cincinnati, senior Mercer
Bobby Jackson of

Minnesota, sophomore Antawn

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“I’m not sure he can run the
wishbone for us," Mumme
quipped. “I think he’s going to be
great."

Mumme said that the receivers
may have the toughest time learn-
ing his system, since most have to
learn two different positions.

“They’ve got a lot of little
nuances to get down," he said.
“We’ll get it down. VVe’ll have
ﬁve of them at any one time,
including backs.”

Mumme’s primary concerns
are on the defense, where only
four starters return from last

year’s 4-7 team.

“We’re very thin,” Mumme
said. “There’s not a lot of depth.
We’re hoping to ﬁnd 22 players to
hold up. They‘re going to have to
be iron men.”

The Cats seem to be looking
forward to a new beginning this
spring.

“I’m anxious to get out on the
ﬁeld and learn the offense,” wide
receiver Craig Yeast said. “I think
it’s going to be a lot of fun and it’s
going to be different. It’s going to

e something everybody on the
offense will enjoy.”

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Jamison of North Carolina, senior
Brevin Knight of Stanford, junior
Raef LaFrentz of Kansas and
senior Charles O’Bannon of
UCLA.

Jamison, Jackson and Mercer
are playing in the Final Four this
wee end in Indianapolis.

The Wooden All-American
Team was selected from ballots
received by 978 sportswriters and
broadcasters nationwide in voting
conducted by the Los Angeles
Athletic Club.

Duncan, LaFrentz, Mercer,
Vaughn and Van Horn had the
most total points. They and their
coaches will be flown to Los
Angeles for the April 4 announce-
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player of the year.

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PBIIMI'S says III to BIIIIGI'I

AUSTIN, Texas —— Rutgers
offered big bucks * ,.
and a long-term .
contract, but Tom ’
Penders said yes-
terday that he will
remain the head
basketball coach at
Texas.

Penders toured
the Rutgers cams
pus Tuesday with school President
Francis Lawrence and athletic

Fenders

Mumme to open

practices to public
In con: Easterllng
Sports Editor

In one the most dramatic
changes from the previous regime,
ﬁrst-year football coach Hal
Mumme has decided to open up
UK’s sprin practices not only to
the media, gut to the general pub-
lic.

The team begins workouts next
Monday and will continue until
the spring game on April 26 at
Commonwealth Stadium. The
Cats will practice on Mondays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at the
Nutter Training Center, located
next to the baseball stadium.

The practices are slated to go
from 3:15 p.m. to 5:15 p.m. on
these days. The spring game is
tentatively set to start at 7 p.m.

On Saturdays the team will
hold scrimmages at Common-
wealth Stadium beginning at ll
a.m. One side of the stadium will
be opened up for fans.

“I think the guys like the
crowds,” Mumme said yesterday
in his pre-spring practice news
conference.

“I know when I was playing I
liked to perform in front of
crowds. It makes them practice
better.”

In Bill Curry’s ﬁnal season at
UK, practices were closed to the
media from the beginnin of
spring practice until the Wilfcats'
opener against Louisville. .

Curry cited security as the main
reason behind closing the prac-
tices —— with U of L located so
close, he didn’t want the Cards to
ﬁnd out what UK had planned.

Prior to last spring, Curry had
allowed the media to attend most

ractices.

“I think the (other coaches) get
the idea that we’re running
(Brigham Young)’s offense,”
Mumme said. “Anybody that can’t
ﬁnd Valdosta State or Iowa Wes-
leyan tapes probably can’t ﬁnd
BYU tapes. That won’t be the rea—

son why we lose.”

director Fred Gruninger, a close
personal friend of the coach for
more than 20 years.

The ﬁnancial package present-
ed by Rutgers would have paid
Ponders $700,000 annually over at
least seven years. But Pendcrs said
his decision didn’t boil down to
money.

“I was offered the Rutgers job,”
Fenders said. “It was an offer that
I wouldn’t have had to work
another day in my life if I had
taken it. But I love the University
ofTexas and I’m stayin .”

Rut ers coach Bob enzel was
ﬁred a most three weeks a 0 after
then Scarlet Knights ﬁnished a
ﬁfth straight losing season.

Renders was offered the job
after Eddie F0 ler rejected an
offer from the ew Jersey school
and decided to stay at South Car—
olina after getting a raise.

Penders, who currently makes
just over $400,000 a year, is
expected to get a raise that woul
pay him roughly $550,000 per

car, according to Texas Athletic
Director DeLoss Dodds.

The raise would make Fenders
one of the top paid coaches in the
Big 12 Conference.

“DeLoss has said he wants to
get me on the same level with the
other Big 12 coaches,” Penders
said. “No new contract has been
written, but DeLoss has always
been fair and his word is golden
with me.” .

Penders said he didn’t use the
Rutgers job as leverage for a pay
raise.

“My agent asked me if I wanted
him to go to DeLoss and talk

money, and I said no," Penders .
said, adding that Dodds had vol- j
untarily promised him a raise well 3

before the Rutgers interview.

Penders has ﬁve years remain- j

in on his current seven-year deal
at cxas.

Dodds said he was relieved by ?

Penders' decisiorp‘. h

“I'm ha p t at e’s sta 'ng,”
Dodds said?“I’ felt from the gin-
ning that he would stay, but you’re
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Camunas getting away

Wildcats stumble
in loss to Eastern

By chm Easterllng
Spam Him

UK came into esterday‘s game
against Eastern entucky with an
opportuniz to win consecutive
games for e ﬁrst time all season.

Easier said than done.

Instead, the Cats a peared to
play half-heartedly, falIin 6-1 to
the visitin Colonels. Tie loss
dropped U to 6-17-I on the sea-
son, with Aubum coming to town
this weekend for a threeogame
series.

“I’m disappointed in the lack of
intensity today,” UK coach Keith
Madison said. “We won (Tues~
day) and we're trying to get a win-

nin streak going.

‘RVe have a youn team and
we're tying to teach em how to
win an they just came out today

and la ed ve assivel . They
didnff blay wrtythp any fype of
aggression. During the game,
when they came up against any
adversity, they didn’t fight
through it; they just kind of gave
int01t.”

Eastern (8-13) jumped on
Wildcat starter Greg Reid early,
scoring two runs in the ﬁrst inning
after left fielderJason Estep doti-
bled.

Reid got into more trouble in
the third after he allowed three
more runs to cross the plate.

He then gave way to Tim Row-

land, who itched effectively in
allowing on y ﬁve hits and one run
while strikin out six.

Part of K’s problem yester-
day was the inability of the first
four hitters in the lineup to come
up with any clutch hits.

The top four hitters ended up
2-for-1}, a ainst the Eastern
pitchers. T e lone bright spot
among the four was a home run
off the bat of David Cheatle —
who is recovering from a stress
fracture in his back — in the
fourth inning that broke up Keith
Jones’ no-hit bid.

Meanwhile, Eastern Ken-
tucky’s top four went 6-for-15
with five runs and three runs bat-
ted in. Leadoff man Ryan Saylor
led the way with a 2-for-3 day.

“I’ve said this many times
before, that itching is 80 or 90
percent of the game," Madison
said. “I don’t want to take any-
thing away from Jones, but we
basically didn’t compete.”

The inning that best summed
up the afternoon for the Wildcats
was the fifth. With EKU leadin
5-], Jones loaded the bases wit
only one out after a single, a hit
batsman and another single.

Andy Green —— who went 3-
for-4 on Tuesday — came to the
plate with an opportunity to make
a dent in the Eastern lead.

But he took strike three and
headed for the bench.

I "TILE BELIEF Tim Rim-land allotted only one run and ﬁve hits in ﬁve
innings of "work out oft/1e bullpen yerterddy. UK lost the game 6-1.

So it was up to Cheatle to
breathe some life into the ﬂoun-
dering Wildcats. But he popped

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up to second base to end the

inning — and effectively end any

hope for a \Vildcat victory.

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By 0. Jason Staploton

Asa-mm: Spam Editor

Sometimes you just have to get
away frotn home.

That was the case for Keary
Camunas, the best all~around
pitcher on UK‘s softball team.

Camunas is originally fltrtll
Lake Forest, Calif, which is in

()range (Iounty, between l,os
Angeles and San Diego.

“I have a lot offaniily (in Keir

tucky), and mostly my mom really
wanted me to come here a lot,"
she said.

There was also the fact that
UK was building a softball team,

which helped lure (Tammi is to the

Bluegrass.

But she adruits that the family
ties were the biggest prrt of the
equation.

Of coarse, being th it far away
from home isn’t without its disad-
vantages.

Camunas said that of course
she misses her immediate family,
which still resides in Southern
California.

It was also quite a bit of a
change frorn Orange County.

“'I‘here's trees here and there’s
no trees at home,“ (Tammi is said.
“I like it though. It's just different
from home.”

Camunas also obseri ed that “it
rains a lot more here."

Coach Beth Kirchner is glad
that she was able to lure the super--
freshman to UK.

“\Ve received a call from East—
ern Kentucky's coach, who has
some California ties," Kirchner

llaullmann, Sundin lead tennis team

Dynamic duo guide
squad to No. 3 rank

By Dave Gonnan
Staff Writer

Like two bats out of hell, UK’s
Cedric Kauffrnann and Ludde
Sundin have been ferociously
killing off their opponents in the
spring season for the men’s tennis
team.

Kauffmann, a junior and the
No. 6 player in the nation, and

senior Sundin, No. 13 in the
nation, seem to have what it takes
to help the Cats win a Southeast-
ern Conference
championshi ,
and possibly a
national champi-
onship.

The one-two
knockout punch
for UK has helped
up the team’s
rankings from No.
7 in the nation to
the No. 3 spot, taking over match-
es similar to the way Ron Mercer

Embry

and Derek Anderson dominated
other players on the basketball
court earlier this season.

UK men’s ten-
nis coach Dennis
Emery thinks he
knows the secret
to the team’s suc-
cess.

“\Ve’re just
better at the top
two spots," Emery

said after UK’s Kauﬂmann
team victory over
Indiana earlier this month.

“Kauffmann and Sundin won

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