Wednesday, dscember 15, 1976
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Husfcers' Yoad show' bock in town;
ipriano pleassd with winning effort
By Jim Kay :
After the UNL basketball team played five of its first
seven games away from home, coach Joe Cipriano brought
his road show back to Lincoln Monday night with an
88-53 victory over Northwest Missouri State University
(Nwmsu). ' " : -v'
' Gpriano's show at the UNL Sports Complex featured
the Carl McRpe act. The sophomore center from Ham
mond, hid., hit a career high 25 points and grabbed ten
rebounds. It !aras the best single-game" scoring per
fomance by a Husker this season.
The Huskers, led by guard Brian Danks in the early
going, jumped to a 6-0 lead and stretched it to 264 before
allowing the NAIA school its first field goal with 10
minutes gone in the first half. '
Gpriano said games that feature a wide point spread
give ' the 'coaches a chance to play , several team mem
bers. . '" ' " "'-. "
We had an opportunity to play a lot of kids we were
sorry .rre coding play earlier," Gpriano eaid. "Like
Skeeter Jackson, who is coming on. lie played well at
Washington, too.
The Huikers committed 23 fouls during the game,
most of which were reachisg-in fouls, Cipriano said.
Gpriano added that he was pleased with the play of
guards Terry Novak and Allen Holder and the Huskers'
ability to get second and third shots while outrebounding
NWMSU 54-37.
The Huskers hit 39 of 80 field goal attempts and 10
of 14 free throws. ' . :
Nebraska, now 4-4 on the year, plays two more non
conference games before the Big 8 Conference Holiday
Tournament in Kansas Gty. The Huskers play at North
western University Friday and return home for a game
with Mankato State University next Wednesday.
The Nebraska women's basketball team also scored a
home victory Monday night with a 64-61 win over the
NWMSU Dearkittens. The win moved the Lady Huskers
record to 10-5 on the season. ..
Nebraska was led by sophomore Jan Crouch, who hit
10 of 13 field goal attempts, and wound up with 22
points. Marta frfchard, coming off the bench, scored 12
points, inckiding two clutch baskets late in the contest.
Kathy Hawkins also was in double figures for Nebraska
with 14 points.
The Huskers hit only 29 per cent of their shots from
the. field but won the game at the free throw line by
hitting 16 of 21 tries. NWMSU made 13 of 21 free throw
attempts...'',:'''-.
M
U csrriss on Isist ysr s sugggss
by gaining early season 5-1 record
Photo by Kevin HsgSty
Ihssker forward Stanley "Skeeter" Jackson in action
aplsst Northwest Missouri State , University
' (NWMSU) Monday. Jackson t;I!kd 14 points agslast - -
the Bearcats and recorded the lluskers' first
dank of fee year in the Sports Complex.
Editor's ncie-Tfcis is the fifth in a series examining
Big 8 Ceaferessce basketball teams. - -
By Mike McCarthy . -
Coach Norm Stewart's University of Missouri (MU)
Tigers have picked up where they left off last year by
mounting an early season 5-1 record. Last year, the Tigers
won the Big 8 Championship with a 12-2 record and fin
ished 26-5 overall. . . , ,,
MU returns four starters and is predicted to repeat as
Big 8 champion despite losing the conference's Flayer
UNL student gamblers run gamut
from winners to perpetual losers
Editor's oote-Tfais is the fourth in a series examining
gmt!lr3 in r&braa, md especLHy at UNL. '. ,
By Pete Wcgirisa
Orville, Lefty and Jeff (not their real names) are UNL
students who gamble. Lefty has been a winner this season,
Orville has about broken even and Jeff is what bookies
call a "degenerate," a perpetual loser.
In the last 15 football weekends, Orville said, he has
bet about $8,000 and has profited under $100. That's a
return of 1.25 per cent on his "investments. Why not
put such money in a savings account with less risk and
earn 5 to 6 per cent? '
l enjoy it (gambling), Orvw iaid. I find it a lot
more interesting to watch a TV. football game if 1 have
money on it- I don't have money on it, I probably
wont watch it."
Although Orville is ahead for the season, not all his
weekends have been profitable. Three weeks ago he had to
go home to get money to pay his bookie. He owed
$1,222.
Lefty, who started gambling in grade school on horse
races, said he has bet about $5JD00 this semester and
made about $750.
"I bet to make money," he said. "If I wasn't winning,
Orville said he doesnt want to see legalized gambling
in Nebraska. "It (gambling) wouldn't be any fun if it was
legalized," he said. -
Lefty ssid legalized gambling has its pros and cons.
"The way it's handled now, it (legalized gambling) would
never work, he said" it cant compete with the
bookies." ' t -V
Orville estimated that about 19,000 UNL students
gamble regularly and an additional several thousand
gamble sporadically. . . . , ,
Most, according to Lefty and Orville, are losers like
Jeff. - . . . . . " -;
Jeff said he bet on 13 Monday night football games
this .season szi lost v3y one. Ik added that he has
yet to collect from his bookie this semester.
Thursday-la the Cad z&dz m the gasilisg ssrks,
Fourth ail Twenty ilsvzzzn lefflized psitliuj ' oa
cc"siste sports.
of the Year, Willie Smith. Smith averaged more than 25
points a game last year, but senior Kim Anderson and
junior Jim Kennedy picked up the slack this season.
"The difference between our ball club this year and the
one we had last year is that this year we will have a good
club; last year we had a good club and a dominant player
.(Smith) " Stewart said.
Anderson and Kennedy, both forwards,- hit 13 points
each in Missouri's 65,-63 victory over Florida State Uni
versity. Sophomore center Stan Ray and. senior guard
Scott Sims also have provided some scoring. Both players
are averaging more than 13. points a game this season.
Ray won the Big 8 Newcomerof-the-Year award last
- year and Stewart said he hopes Ray proves himself to be
just that
"We feel that Stan Ray had an outstanding year as a
freshman last year and hopefully he will improve and
come back and really give us some inside strength," Ste
wart said. . .
Freshman guard Larry Drew has started the last couple
of games for MU. its bzi an average of nine points per
game. - ' ,
"Everyone, expected us to be strong this year," Ste
wart said, "but the play of Scott Sims and Larry Drew
has been something of a pkasnt bonus for us. We always
knew they were capable of doing the job, but it's a matter
of getting the confidence in your ability to do it.
"Their performance has helped diversify our club
and keeps opposing defenses from being able to gang up
to stop one or two individuals," Stewart said.
The reason for Drew's aUmdant playing time is senior
guard Jeff Currie. Curns was released last week from !!Us
Medical Center after undergoing treatment for a kidney
ailment. lis stUl is receiving medication, although his
condition has stabilized. It is not known when Curris will
return.
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