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Hmskers hawk 73-71 win from iowa
Nebraska hits 66
but Cip not happy
Nebraska basketball coach Joe Cipriano has a complaint.
It conserns the Cornhuskers' field goal shooting.
And it takes a lot of nerve for a coach to complain
when his teams hits 66 per cent of its shots. That's what
the Huskers did Saturday night in nipping Iowa 73-71 at
the Coliseum, but Cipriano wasn't satisfied.
"Sure we hit most of our shots," admitted Cipriano,
"but we simply didn't take enough shots. We took only
44 and probably missed 20 more attempts by making
mistakes."
Nebraska had 64 attempts against Wyoming last week
and Cipriano feels a team should have approximately 70
shots per game.
"It naturally depends upon what type of game you're
playing," offered Cip, "but against Iowa we could have
had close to 70 shots if we hadn't made so many mistakes
on offense."
It was the second outing of the season for the Huskers.
And Cipriano feels that the Iowa game was not the better
" of the two.
"At Wyoming we played like we wanted to win," said
Cipriano, "but against Iowa we acted like we just had
to show up. If we keep playing like this we'll just be
another .500 ball club."
Nebraska, which hosts Northern Iowa at the Coliseum
tonight, needed a pair of free tosses by guard Marvin
Stewart to escape with the two-point win over Iowa.
The Huskers established a 33-31 halftime lead, but fell
behind 38-35 with 17:45 remaining in the game. The
Hawkeyes, known for their full-court press and half-court
trap, applied the pressure to open the second half and
found Nebraska flat-footed.
"We had trouble adjusting to their defense in the second
half," quipped Cipriano. "Some things they did were a
little unusual and we just didn't pick them up quick
enough."
The Huskers failed to catch Iowa until Marv Stewart
connected on a 20-footer from the left corner with 12:51
- remaining to knot the score 52-52. Three minutes later,
with Iowa leading 55-53, Stewart combined with Tom Gregory
and Tony Riehl to give the Huskers some positive momen
tum. Gregory stole the ball, fired to Stewart on a fast-break
and Stewart flipped a behind-the-back pass to Riehl who
pumped it in with 9:14 left. Riehl followed with an 18-footer
22 seconds later and Nebraska had a 57-55 lead.
The Huskers didn't trail from that point, although the
score was tied on three different occasions. Nebraska built
up to a 67-59 lead with 5:39 remaining, but Iowa came
right back to knot the score 71-71 with only 35 seconds
left.
But Stewart's two free tosses with five seconds remaining
was all Nebraska needed to claim its second win In as
many games. Stewart, who pumped in 22 points against
Wyoming, had a 23-point effort against Iowa.
Chuck Jura, who is displaying a more aggressive brand
of basketball this season, also chipped in with 23 tallies
hitting on nine of nine attempts from the field.
Northern Iowa, tonight's foe at 7:35 p.m., is a big,
strong squad that averages 6-8 in its front line and likes
to run.
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Iowa's elusive Fred Brown(32.) Brown netted 28 points against the Corn
huskers to lead all scorers.
Frosli make home debut
tonight against Western
PAGE 10
Nebraska's freshman
basketbaH team, losing Its first
outing of the season, will try to
avoid two of a kind against the
same team at the Coliseum to
night. Nebraska Western Junior
College, who defeated the NU
frosh W-88 WednwMlay night,
invade the Coliseum for a 5:13
p.m. rematch with the young
Huskers.
"If we don't play any better
this time than we did last we'll
probably lose again said
freshman coach Moe Iba. "It's
natural for a young team just
starting to play together to
make mistakes, but we have to
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cut down on our errors if we
expect to win many
games."
Iba will go with the same
starting lineup headed by
former Lincoln Northeast ace
Tom Novak at guard. Novak,
who was named to the
Nebraska Class A all-state
team last season, netted 25
points against Nebraska
Western to lead all Husker
scorers.
Novak will be Joined at his
guard spot by 5-10 Rick Brown
from Scottsbluff.
The foward positions will be
held by C-7 Bob Allen and t-3
Dave Reiac. Bready Lee, a
product of Brush, Colo., plays
the post position for the young
Huskers.
Lee, the tallest member of
the squad at 64, was an all
state performer for three years
in Colorado. He's big and rough
under the boards with some
good inside moves.
Moe Iba, in his first year of
coaching at Nebraska, says
Nebraska Western and his
freshman match up "about the
same in size, but Western is a
little quicker and naturally is
more experienced."
Game time at the Coliseum is
5:15 p.m.
MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1970