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No ratings for Big 8, but Oil,
by George Kaufman
Sports Editor
Oklahoma State Is without a doubt the best seventh
place basketball team the Big Eight has ever seen.
The hapless Cowboys dropped another one-pointer
Monday night, 49-48, as Iowa State's Jim Abrahamson
shot in a long jumper with 26 seconds left at Stillwater.
That setback put OSU at 2-8 in the conference.
They own a 7-3 mark outside the league and have
eight of their 11 games by a total of 13 points.
That's an average of 1.62 points, fans, which is known
in the business as a "squeaker".
Big Eight Slighted
Therefore national sportswriters and raters tend to un
derestimate Big Eight basketball, especially this year, be
cause it may look as if all the teams are weak, rather
than strong, because of the close conference race. (
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The fact that no team is running away with the crown
leaves the conference in a bad light from the outside, but
It's the best thing that could happen when you're on the
Inside.
Almost any team in the conference, with the notable
exceDtion of Colorado, could have won the Big tagnt
chamoionshiD this vear. As
the eight have an even shot at walking off with the NCAA
tourney berth. - . ,
Cowboys Show Why
Oklahoma State provides an excellent example of this.
Henry Iba's team is the kind of slow-it-down team which
never lets an opponent open up a wide enough lead to re
lax; they keep the game on such a low-scoring scale that
the foe must play Iba's game, not its own.
The Huskers don't have to be told about that: they
edged OSU by two, 48-46, in the pre-season tourney, then
clipped them by one, 63-62, at Stillwater.
Anytime a team with a 1-5 conference mark (which
O-State owned when NU hit Stillwater) can play the 5-2
and leading club (with championship aspirations) that
closely, then you know you have a very exciting, extreme
ly close basketball competition which can look much easier
from outside when you're just looking at the records.
I don't think anyone can charge Nebraska with being
.a pushover team, either. They had an easy time with
Wyoming, a team the pollsters have since taken to their
hearts and placed in the top twenty. And with athletes like
Stu Lantz and Tom Baack leading the team, they are one
of the best shooting clubs around today.
Cause For Pride y
I think Big Eight fans can pride themselves that they
have front row seats on some of the finest basketball ac
tion in the nation, and easily the most thrilling, wide open
title race in the country.
' No Envy
I don't envy tCLA or Houston fans one bit. I can't
imagine a more sterile existence, for a real sports fan
than going every Saturday night to watch another 123-60
rout. Ho-hum.
It Is also, very hard to envy Houston in another vein.
Being an independent saddles a team with a distinct sched
uling disadvantage. If you would take a look at Houston's
schedule, you would see that UCLA was (he only real op
ponent on the list.
The rest are small Texas schools (Yes, Virginia,
some things in Texas are small) which you have never
heard of, and never will. And consequently the Cougars
also have racked up a list of 50-point runaways.
N
U grass greener, but cyclones
By Harry Argue
Sports Columnist
Husker football fans still
clutching the crying towel
from last season's 6-4 mark
can take heart in the fact
that the grass is still plenty
green here on the west side
of the Mighty Mo.
I'm referring to our Big
Eight neighbors across the
river, the Iowa State Cyclones.
Football fortunes, both on the
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have been on the skids in
Ames for several years. I
think their hapless plight
was best pointed out by the
recent effort to move the 1968
Husker-Cyclone clash from
Ames to Lincoln.
Memorial Stadium is more
than twice the size of Iowa
State's home ground and a
virtually certain crowd of 60,
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High-Flying Huskers . . . although Nebraska sometimes lists no starter at over 6-4, defenders are
more often looking up at them than not. Here NU's identified flying object Stu Lantz and soph Sharp
shooter Tom Scantlebury leave their earth-bound foes flat-footed and helpless. Though the Huskers
haven't gotten as high in the national ratings as they have in the air, its probably a good thing for
So while I might have to admit that either of those
two teams could probably beat any Big Eight team in a
series, I also am very glad I don't have to be a fan of either
team.
They Can Have 'em
They may have the ratings, and the attention of the
national press, but they don't have the excitment of Big
Eight basketball.
And it wouldn't be all that hard to find an All-Ameri-can
basketball team right here in the conference, as-
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cial to both schools than if the
game were played at tiny
Clyde Williams Field in
Ames. A capacity crowd
would even be doubtful. While
Coach Bob Devaney and ISU
Athletic Director Clay Staple-
ton discussed the possibility
of a switch, the final say was
up to the athletic board at
Iowa State and they decided
the. game would stay a
Ames. ,
That now leaves us with
five home and five road
games for 1968. Looking
ahead, it's an interesting
schedule in that four of t h e
first five contests are at
home. I might add that the
ticket office reported last
week that it has stopped tak
ing 1968 season ticket orders
from the general public. They
say they have more orders
than they: can fill. Single
game tickets will be available
later. ;
Bad stretch run j
' Then 'four 'of the last five
skirmishes are on enemy soil,
Including the final two games
on successive weekends at
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their fans. Why?
Colorado and Oklahoma
Fun!
The season will open here
against Wyoming, the only
undefeated and untied major
college team last year. While
the Cowboys barely dropped
the Sugar Bowl to Louisiana
State. I'm sure they will be in
vading from the West like
gangbusters
This will be their chance to
try to prove what they've
been saying for years t h a t
Wyoming, and not Nebraska,
is the top football state in the
Midlands. The Cowboys will
also be playing against their
former head coach, Bob De
vaney. Gophers again
After dueling Utah here a
week later, the Huskers will
head for the Northland to play
the Big Ten Co-Champ, Min
nesota. We also play at Min
neapolis in 1969 and 1970 and
have a contest scheduled with
the Gophers every year
through 1974. It looks like
the next few years will estab
lish another fierce Nebraska
Minnesota rivalry.
Nebraskan
at all
that title race
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See story at left.
suming you aren't one of the fools that thinks he can pick
just five men worthy of the honor.
Try this line-up: Stuart Lantz, Tom Baack, Don Sidle,
Jo Jo White and Steve Honeycutt. Throw in Bill Cain and
Don Smith and Roger Bohnenstiehl as reserves and I don't
know about you, but I would take that team against any
in the country, Yes, even one boasting the Big Two.
At any rate, sports people, I will merely add: Always
Be Prepared To Go To The RaiL
prefer own field
If you think the o p e n 1 n g
games of 1968 look difficult,
wait until 1969. Opening day
entertainment will be pro
vided by this year's Rose
Bowl and National Champion
University of Southern Cali
fornia Trojans. Nebraska then
opens against the Trojans af
Los Angeles in 1970.
Remember the Alamo
In 1966 and 1967, Southern
Cal opened against Texas
with both teams highly touted
for national honors. USC won
both years by small margins
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and went on to greater heights
while Texas was never able
to regain its bearings and
stumbled through the rest of
its schedule both years.
I wouldn't get too worried
about the upcoming schedules
though. Rest assured the slate
also includes Iowa State on a
home-and-home basis every
year through at least 1976.
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Wrestler
at being OU ma tman
Norman. Okla. Mike
Orant's bieeest surprise in
wrestling was making the Ok
lahoma team.
"Prep wrestling is bigger
back in Oregon." says Okla
homa's sophomore 145-pound-er.
"More boys get to wrestle
in Oregon. We had 100 report
for wrestling at my h i g n
school at Grants Pass. Every
dual meet is a double affair
matching not only the rival
varsities (first teams) but
also the junior varsities (sec
ond teams), often on adjoin
ing mats."
OU for Grant
But college wrestling is an
other story and when Grant
got his scholars hip offer from
Oklahoma, he quickly forgot
those he'd received from
three West Coast universities.
"I'd heard all about the
Sooners, how their teams
were tough, aggressive, went
for falls and were the best
conditioned in the country. I
jumped at the chance."
The chance came in a tele
phone call to Tommy Evans,
Oklahoma coach, from Bill
Ryder, Grant's coach, who
formerly tutored at Capitol
Hill.
"We've had such good luck
with Oklahoma boys that I
usually don't take an out-of-stater,"
confesses Evans,
"but I'm glad I listened to
Ryder and took Grant.
Fierce competitor
"He's tough, a fierce com
petitor. You don't find many
of those around, mere s a lot
of difference between a com
petitor and a fierce competi
tor. If Mike was a pinner,
he'd have everything I like in
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Happenings
Friday
Kwltnmtof at Kansat State.
WmtUng 6tat hlh school tourney.
Saturday
Baikelball at Kansai (frosh basket
ball at Kansas).
Swimming at Kansas.
Grmiiistlct Colorado, Hen's P.E.,
t p.m.
Indoor track at Colorado.
Wrestling N. W. Missouri Stale, Coli
seum 7:. 10 p.m.
Wratllnf State high school tourney.
Monday
Basketball Oklahoma State, Coliseum
7:30 p.m. tfrosh prelim. 5:15.
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surprised
but he's happy
a wrestlef: He needs to learn
pinning techniques."
Grant agrees. He pinned
most of his opponents on his
way to an Oregon prep cham
pionship at 141. "Seems like
I can't get a hold tight enough
here," he says. "I get a few.
guys on their backs but I
can't pin them. It's lots tough
er to pin in college."
But is record going i n.t o
the Northwestern dual here
Friday is 12-1. And he has .
beaten some good boys. : : j'
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Just pushes vj .
, . "
' "I'm not good at take-':
downs, escapes, riding, anyv,
thing," he analyzes his own 5,
style. "I just keep pushing thit;
guy. I usually tire them out2
When I start wearing the nt?.
down, my holds work better.!"
The size and frenzy of Ok
lahoma wrestling crowds
amaze Grant. "The fans, here
know lots more about Wres
tling and become much more
involved in eacn Dout. ;
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