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daily nebraskan
tuesday, January 29, 1980
Women's basketball team
inust-win game9 -Gallagher
By Pat Beecham
UNL's women's basketball team
resumes its intrastate rivalry with UNO
Wednesday night at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center, and it is a "must-win game'
according to Head Coach Lorrie Gallagher.
After a poor showing in the Big Eight
tournament Gallagher said she and the
Huskers feel that they have something to
prove.
'This is ah important game for us,"
Gallagher said. "We are a better team than
we showed at the Big Eight tourney."
Since the tournament, the Huskers have
defeated Northwest Missouri State and
Iowa State to improve their record to
16-11 and would like to continue their
winning ways against UNO, Gallagher said .
To do so they will have to overcome a
UNO's height advantage, she said.
Problems with center
UNO's 6-5 center is averaging 13 points'
and nine rebounds a game and will present
the Huskers with some problems and
UNO's Barb Hart, who didn't play in
UNO's 77-59 loss to the Huskers earlier,
will play this week;
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If the Huskers stick to what they have
been doing in practice however, they
should come away with a victory,
Gallagher said.
"We've been working real hard on our
defense in practice," said first year
assistant Coach Paulette Gerbert,"it hasn't
been as good as we would like it to be,"
Gallagher also feels that defense is going
to be the key in the game, she said,
-"We are going to have to play solid
defense to. win the game," Gallagher said.
"We will have to block out to keep them
off the boards because of their height," she
added.
Gallagher pleased
Gallagher is pleased with the Huskers'
offensive improvement. UNLhad four girls
in double figures the last game and finally
has a balanced scoring attack, Gallagher
said. She also expressed pleasure with the
improvement of the guards Donna Unwin
and Ami Beiriger.
With Oklahoma State, a team the
Huskers lost to in the Big Eight tourney
scheduled for Saturday, the possibility of
looking past UNO could present a problem,
but Gallagher said this won't happen.
"We learned from the Big Eight tourney
to take one game at a time," Gallagher
said. "We were looking past Colorado in
the opening round to Kansas and got beat.
With this being an intrastate game and all,
we should have no problems with looking
ahead." .
Gerbert doesn't think that the Huskers
will be looking ahead either, she said. She
feels that with enough girls from Nebraska
on the team, the girls know the importance
of the game and will be ready to play. She
also thinks the Huskers have improved
since the Big Eight tourney.
"The Big Eight tournament was really a
disappointment," Gerbert said. "The girls
have been playing a lot better since then,"
she added.
When the time does come to play OSU
though, Gerbert says the Huskers will be
ready. '
"We play OSU Saturday, and we are.
going to beat them," she said.
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Coach Iba p
raises cagers
despite loss to Wildcats
By Shelley Smith
Sports Editor
, UNL Acting Head Coach Moe Iba said
he was pleased with everything about the
Huskers' basketball game with Kansas
State Saturday -everything, that is, except
for he loss.
"They (UNL) played awfully, well,"
he said at Monday's basketball press
luncheon.
"But it turned into kind of a checkers
match. I felt we were, fortunate to get
into overtime, and I felt we had a chance
to win it. Then in the second overtime we
missed some free throws which really hurt
us in the ball game," he said. . .
He said his main concern now is to
get the same kind of play from the Huskers
when they meet Oklahoma Wednesday
night.
The Huskers, led , by league leading
scorer Andre Smith, will have a tough time
matching up in height with the towering
Sooners, Iba said.
Last year, Oklahoma won the Big Eight
championship with the aid of Cary Carra
bine and John McCullough-both of
whom have since graduated.
However, Iba said, their- graduation
didn't mean much.
"They have a lot of players back this
year, and they know how to win. This is
going to be as big a ball game for them as
much as it is for us," he said.
Iba said the Huskers may have a
problem because they are playing at home.
"We've played better on the road then
we have at home. But we need to play a
real good ball game at home," he said.
"Against Kansas (at home) we played
a good ball game, but last week against
OSU we played a little flat," he said.
'Iba said he's not really worried about
the poor crowd showing at the Huskers'
home games, because there is nothing he
can do about it.
"Even if there's only five people in
there Wednesday night, I'm not going to
use this as an excuse to get beat," he said.
The Huskers have surprised a lot of
skeptical fans, Iba said.
NCAA may change realm of women's athletics
By Kim Hachiya
Actions taken at the NCAA convention in New Orleans
in early January have raised more than a slight cloud of
dust in the realm of women's athletics.
The NCAA, traditionally an organization devoted
solely to male athletics, voted to begin sponsoring nation
al championship tournaments in five women's sports for
the smaller Division II and HI schools.
, Beginning in 1981, the 282 Division II and 180 Divi
sion III NCAA members will offer champsionships in wo
men's basketball, field hockey, swimming, tennis and
volleyball.
Because UNL is a Division I school, it will not be
affected by the current decision. But according to
women's Athletic Director June Davis, the move into Divi
sion I could be coming soon.
"Obviously if the NCAA is offering Division II and III
championships, the next step in the total move would be
to hold them in Division I," Davis said. "I think the
NCAA will see what happens in the smaller divisions and
once they have established that, they will begin to move
in that Division I's direction."
Loss of control
Davis fears the NCAA's move into women's athletics
could result in women losing control over decisions affect
ing them in athletics. .
"I don't want to see women's programs taken over by
the NCAA without input by women,' she said. "If 'it s
changed, we need to keep women in decision-making
positions. Women worked and fought hard to establish .
good women's programs. A takeover could mean there is
no longer a place for the women who helped develop the
programs."
Davis said she also questions the NCAA's motives.
"It seems incongruous," she said. 'The NCAA wants to
offer women's, championships but the NCAA is fighting
Title IX (federal sex discrimination in education and
athletics regulations).
"It's strange because five years ago, the NCAA did not
want to bother with women. Now they have this suit and
they want to enter the field. I'm puzzled by their
attitude."
UNO affected
Connie Claussen, coordinator for Women's Athletics at
UNO, is even more concerned than Davis. UNO is a
Division II school and thus will be immediately affected
by the decision to sponsor the women's tournaments.
Claussen said most of the affected schools will be
forced to chose between NCAA memberships or member
ship in the AIAW, the women's organization comparable
to the NCAA.
Because the NCAA championships will not be offered
in all women's sports fielded at UNL, Claussen wonders
what will happen to the excluded sports.
"UNO has programs in cross country, track and field
and Softball. The NCAA does not," she said. "I feel we
will have to choose one or the other (either the NCAA or
the AIAW) because the recruiting rules differ and this may
make some or all of your team members ineligible in
either organization."
: Failing financially
Claussen also mentioned a fear expressed by the AIAW
at the NCAA convention-the death of the AIAW because
of the lost financial base.
The NCAA, because of huge profits realized from its
national men's basketball tourney and from televised foot
ball, is going to pay all tournament and travel expenses for
competing teams. ,
"This could be a substantial savings to tie schools,"
Claussen said. "With money the way it is now, it may
sway the decision of the various institution presidents as
to which tourney to attend. In four or five years the
AIAW may be to that point (paying expenses) but they
certainly aren't there yet.
Although neither Claussen or Davis could say why the
NCAA acted, Claussen said she thought perhaps the
developing audience, especially television audiences, for
women's athletics may have been a factor in why the
NCAA has moved in.
"The AIAW has just negotiated a television package.
But the NCAA could give us more publicity and bargain
ing power for television," Claussen said.
Although UNL is Division I and did not vote on the
issue, Keith Broman, UNL's Big Eight faculty repre
sentative and NCAA delegate sat in on the debate.
"The most persuasive thing I saw," he said, "was that
many Division II and III schools were not being repre
sented by the AIAW. This is the first chance for those
athletes to vie for national championships."
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place until 1 98 1 , things such as differing rules and re
cruiting standards can be worked out.
He also felt women will be able to remain in control of
their sports through NCAA legislation and the fact that
more women are involved in the NCAA
