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Elon flies into CAA Touriamei
Phoenix riding high on three-game
winning streak entering postseason
INSIDE:
Former Israeli
soldiers come to
Elon
Two veterans share their
experiences on the bat
tlefield pg. 2
Elon Aviation
New Startup looks to the
air for customers pg. 5
Wicked Mojo
Bar and Grill
and Mel’s Good
Times Cafe
New Orleans style
restaurants prowde
dining and jobs for Elon
students pg. 11
Junior Tanner
Samson broke
Elon basketball
record
The record was snatched
from Jack Isenbarger
after only a year pg. 13
ASHLEY KING 1 Staff Riotographer
In a dominant performance, Elon dispatched UNCW with ease at home Feb. 28.
Tommy Hamzik
Managing Editor
The thought elicited some
wide-eyed facial expressions, a
chuckle or two and most certainly
some brainstorming to see if it was
really true.
Alas, it was. After nearly an en
tire season of serving as the door
mat in the cellar of the Colonial
Athletic Association, the Elon
University mens basketball team
had something to pride itself on.
So coach Matt Matheny threw
the almost-jarring proposal onto
the table.
“You can write that were the
hottest team,” Matheny said.
“Does anyone else have a three-
game win streak?”
No, no one else does. It’s just
Elon, riding a three-game winning
streak into this week’s CAA Tour
nament in Baltimore.
Elon will be the No. 8 seed in
the CAA Tournament, and will
take on No. 9 Towson University
on Friday, March 6 in the tourna
ment’s opening game. Should the
Phoenix win that game, it’ll face
top seed College of William 6c
Mary the next day.
“We can build off this,” se
nior guard Austin Hamilton said,
“and learn from the mistakes we’re
making. Hopefully, we’ll make a
run in this tournament.
Elon ended its season on Sat
urday, Feb. 28 with a dominant
74-55 victory against the Univer
sity of North Carolina
at Wilmington in what
was perhaps the best per
formance the Phoenix has
turned in all season. Should
UNCW have won, the Se-
ahawks would have clinched
the CAA regular season ti
tle and the No. 1 seed in the
league tournament.
Two days prior, Elon beat
another league contender in
Northeastern University, at
tacking early and holding on
for a 72-65 triumph.
Group those two with an
85-79 victory over William 8c
Mary on Jan. 8 and Elon has
wins against the CAA’s top three
teams in its arsenal. The Phoenix
is the lowest seeded team to hold
that accomplishment.
Elon, despite a season-end
ing ACL injury to soph
omore guard Luke Eddy,
had momentum entering
CAA play, and added to
that with a 77-67 trounc
ing of Drexel University
in its league opener and
the victory over William
6c Mary less than a week
later.
But that disappeared
See CAA TOURNAMENT
page 13
Is NC ready for Hillary?
Latest Elon University Poll finds low
approval of congress, stillness on social
issues and little confidence in direction
Only 13 percent of
registered voters
approve of the job
Congress b donr^
41 percent of
rej^stered voters
approve of the Job
Gov. Pat McCiory is
doing
About 37 percent of
registered voters
approved of the job
Senator Fbchard
Burr is doing
GRAPHIC BY TORI LABENBURGI DESIGN EDITOR
Michael Bodley
Editor-in-Chief
Looking ahead to 2016,
and despite Republican strides
made in the midterm elections,
more North Carolina voters
would like to see Hilary Clin
ton in the White House instead
of Jeb Bush. Though they’ve re
mained mostly consistent on so
cial issues and congressional ap
proval ratings, the shift represents
a desire across both sides of the *
aisle for real change in the feder
al government, according to Elon
University Poll officials.
Though the presidential elec
tion is still a few years away,
more voters are keying in on
what potential candidates are
peddling and are already for
mulating opinions, according
See ELON POLL
pages
ASHLEY KING | STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER