tuesday, march 3, 1981
daily nebraskan
page 5
Buskers host Colorado in first round of tourney
By Bill Dunbar
The Nebraska Cornhuskers host the Colorado Buffa
loes in a first round playoff game in the fifth annual
Big Eight Basketball Tournament tonight at 8:10.
Nebraska drew the Buffaloes in a coin flip with
Kansas after the two teams and Kansas State tied for
second in the Big Eight with 9-5 records. Kansas State
drew Oklahoma because of a regular season sweep of
Colorado. Kansas and Nebraska split with the Buffaloes.
"I was hoping that we would draw Nebraska in the
first round," Colorado Coach Bill Blair said. "There's
something about playing Nebraska in Lincoln that we
enjoy."
Colorado has beaten Nebraska the last two times
in Lincoln and Nebraska Coach Moe Iba hopes the third
time will be the charm.
"We had a real good effort against Oklahoma," Iba
said. "The players showed a lot of intensity in consid
ering they had no chance to win the conference. We've
had good practices and I think we'll play well against
tnem trus time.
Wrestler takes first in Oklahoma
Nebraska's Johnnie Selmon became the first UNL
wrestler in 19 years to clinch an individual first place
medal in the Big Eight wrestling tournament at Stillwater,
Okla. Sunday.
Selmon was voted the tournament's outstanding
wrestler, winning a 214 superior decision from Iowa
State's Joe Gibbons in the semi-finals and pinning Mis
souri's Kris Whelan in 3:08 in the finals.
Selmon, who wrestles at 134 pounds, advances to the
NCAA championships March 11 through 13 at Princeton,
N.J., with a 27-3-1 record. Nebraska has had only one
NCAA champion, Mike Nissen, who won the 123-pound
championship in 1963.
The Cornhuskers finished fourth in the five-team
tournament with 37 points. The Huskers have steadily
improved in tournament play, after scoring no points for
a dead -last finish in 1977.
Okalhoma won the team championship, edging the
Iowa State Cyclones, 80-77.5. Third place went to Okla
homa State with 56.75 and Missouri finished last with
30.25.
Two other Huskers, heavyweight Daryl Meyer and 188-
pound Scott Morgan also advanced to the NCAA champ
ionships. A wrestler had to finish in the top three in his weight
category to advance automatically to nationals,
but 10 wild-card entries, chosen by conference coaches,
also will go to the nationals.
Four Huskers have a chance at wild-card berths: 142
pound Al Freeman, 150-pound Ray Oliver, 158-pound
Jim Scherr and 167-pound Jeff Dillman. They finished
in fourth place after Sunday's consolation matches.
Iba said the game against Colorado probably will be
the best game of the four because it will be televised
by KBMA (Cable Channel 2) out of Kansas City.
Colorado comes to Lincoln after a 67-56 loss to Iowa
State in Ames Saturday night, but Blair said he doesn't
think that game will have much bearing on the Tuesday
night game.
Nebraska must stop Jo Jo Hunter, something it hasn't
been able to do since Hunter transferred to Colorado from
Maryland.
"Jo Jo loves to play against Nebraska's man-to-man
defense," Blair said. "He has a pro-type game and shoots
better with a man in his face. He seems to have trouble
against zone defenses and I've never known Moe Iba to
use much zone defense."
Iba said the game is important because the only way
Nebraska can be assured of going to the NCAA tourna
ment is to win the Big Eight post-season tournament.
"The NCAA will probably give two berths to the
Big Eight," Iba said. "We'll probably have to win in
Kansas City to receive an invitation."
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