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UCF women’s basketball held a strong first half in its last home game, but was ultimately bested by No. 17 West Virginia University in a 74-62 loss Wednesday night.Fifth-year guard Kristol Ayson kicked off Senior Knight with the Knights' first two points, sparking a 6-0 run in the first three minutes. UCF built its largest lead of the game at 8-2.
The Knights closed the period with a 16-14 advantage over West Virginia (23-6, 13-4 Big 12). The student section showed out for the final wome...

Kansas State University clawed a 93-67 victory from UCF women's basketball Wednesday, tacking an eighth defeat onto the Knights' losing streak.The defeat at Addition Financial Arena marked the Knights' 13th loss against a conference opponent, compared to just two conference wins. 
Sophomore guard Kayanna Cox made her first-ever start and kicked off the game with the Knights' first two points. Cox went on to record a career-high 22 points in 36 minutes of play.The first quarter began with...

Fans lined up excitedly outside The Good Pour in College Park to meet WWE wrestler Randy Orton last Friday afternoon. 
The Good Pour, a wine and spirits store, hosted an exclusive meetup with Orton where fans got the chance to purchase a signed bottle of Fireball’s new Blazin’ Apple Whiskey and take a picture with him. This event marks the first time The Good Pour in College Park had a celebrity bottle-signing experience.
“It makes it more intimate, more special,” WWE fan Katie Cox, 44, said. “I...

Buckets were overflowing Saturday morning, Sept. 20, as volunteers walked around Loch Haven to pick up trash for the 40th International Coastal Cleanup Day with Keep Orlando Beautiful.
For 28 years, Keep Orlando Beautiful has hosted several local cleanups weekly around the Orlando area to keep the city beautiful. They contributed to International Coastal Cleanup Day, a day dedicated for people all around the world to pick up litter, by cleaning up the chain of lakes around Loch Haven Park. 
“The...

All students rose to their feet as the Sixth District Court of Appeals judges stepped into the room at the annual Legal Studies Law Day held in the Dr. Phillips Academic Commons on Tuesday morning.The UCF Department of Legal Studies sponsors this event every year, and this year, about 90 people attended Law Day. Lisa Nored, professor and chair of the Legal Studies Department encouraged connections between everyone in the academic and professional world.
“The core requirements in our miss...

Educators and entrepreneurs got vulnerable Monday afternoon while sharing their failure stories with UCF doctoral students during the first ever "Failure Day."Staci Zavattaro, professor in the School of Public Administration, and Michele Gill, professor of educational psychology, hosted Failure Day to normalize the obstacles and intrinsic parts of the doctoral student experience.Gill and Zavattaro had two expectations for the students at the event: to write three personal goals for the day and t...

The UCF women's basketball team fought hard Saturday afternoon but suffered another conference loss of 67-50 against the No. 9-ranked TCU at the Addition Financial Arena.The Knights (10-10, 2-7 Big 12) took the lead of 9-5 in the first quarter when sophomore forward Mahogany Chandler-Roberts scored four points with 4:50 left in the quarter.
The Horned Frogs (19-2, 7-1 Big 12) dominated the court after the Knights' initial lead with a 22-point run, with a new score of 9-27 in the second q...