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daily nebraskan
friday, deccmber 4, 1981
Iba says a stronger defense
is needed to beat Creighton
By Jodie Fields
Nebraska will need better defense and
more consistent shooting than it has had in
its first two basketball games in order to
win Saturday when it hosts Creighton,
Coach Moc Iba said.
"It's a big ball game for both teams. It's
an emotional matchup," he said.
Iba said that in the past the team that
has wanted to win the most has won.
"We haven't won one in Omaha and
they haven't won one in Lincoln," he said.
Iba said he hoped senior guard Jack
Moore would be able to play, lie missed
practice Tuesday because of back spasms.
Athletic trainer George Sullivan said
Moore's injury is not long term.
"He's sore enough but he'll be close to
90 percent by Saturday," he said.
Creighton has a height advantage over
Nebraska and Iba said that will hurt the
Huskcrs on rebounding.
Iba said the intrastate rivalry between
the two schools is good for basketball in
the state.
"This scries is really good because it gets
people thinking about basketball early in
the season," he said.
Iba said Tony Print t, Alex Stivrins and
Daryl Stoval arc all Creighton athletes Ne
braska will have to stop.
Iba got a preview of the Bluejays when
he scouted the Creighton-UNO game in
Omaha Wednesday night.
"They (Creighton) did a nice job and
arc much bigger than us. It's going to be a
difficult game," he added.
Creighton, now 1-1, was led by junior
Mark Jones who scored 15 points in its
68-57 victory against UNO.
Huskers to play without Gill
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Turner Gill will apparently have to wait
another year to try to play in the Orange
Bowl, according to Jerry Weber, Nebraska's
assistant athletic trainer.
"We think the odds are overwhelmingly
against him playing in the Orange Bowl,"
Weber said.
Weber said the nerve in (Jill's foot is still
damaged.
"Anytime a nerve is damaged like that,
it degenerates," he said. "That nerve has to
grow back and that takes time."
Weber said Gill is expected to recover
completely from the injury, but he
declined to speculate on when the recovery
might be complete.
"There's just no way to tell with an
injury like this," Weber said. "He should be
recovered by the time spring practice
starts, but it all depends on when the nerve
starts coming back."
Weber said the Huskers were in good
shape with the exception of Gill's injury.
He said defensive end Tony Fclici, who
slipped in a shower and punctured his left
biccp, was expected to be well enough to
resume practice with the rest of the team
when preparations for the Orange Bow!
start Dec. 14.
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Photo by Dave Bentz
Nebraska's Jack Moore tries to keep the ball from going out of bounds in Monday's
win against Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The Huskers will host Creighton Saturday at
7:35 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Gymnasts express disappointment with meet scoring
By Patty Pryor
Political persuasion and national biases perhaps afflict
no sport more than gymnastics. This is probably because
gymnastics involves such subjective judgments, Nebraska
Coach Francis Allen said.
UNL gymnasts Jim Hartung and Phil Cahoy, both U.S.
team members along with Scott Johnson, returned from
the World Games in Moscow last weekend with a keen
sense of how political antagonism between Communist
and free world countries carries over into judgments of
their performances.
The USSR took first in the games, Japan was second,
China was third, East Germany was fourth and the United
States was fifth.
Even though they were fairly pleased with the U.S.
showing, both Hartung and Cahoy expressed disappoint
ment at the favoritism reflected in grossly inaccurate judg
ing during the games.
"It's just out and out cheating, and that's all there is to
it," said Hartung, who placed 1st in all-around standings.
For example, he said, one Hungarian gymnast, after
commiting four complete form breaks in his pommel
horse routine, scored a 10 in the event.
The head judge, one of the best in the world according
to Allen, was Hungarian.
Biased scoring
"It's hard for me to believe," Hartung said, "when it's
so obvious, and it doesn't even phase them (the judges)."
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The method by which judges are chosen also helps pro
mote favoritism. Hartung said.
Two judges
The top six teams, two of which are from free world
countries and four of which are Communist countries,
each get two judges, he explained.
"It won't get better until the number of free world
judges equals the number of Communist judges," he said.
The judges at the World Games, four per event, were
chosen by the Federation of International Gymnastics,
Allen said. The federation also designates the site of the
games after bids are submitted by various countries.
The president of the federation and a number of the
higher officials are from Moscow, Allen said.
The fairness of representation within the federation
varies from year to year, he said, because a member
unable to attend a meeting must relinquish one of his
country's votes. However, membership is generally not as
representative as on the Olympic Committee, he said.
"We should just say to hell with the federation and set
it up where each country always has two votes," Allen
said.
Other than creating more equal representation in judg
ing, Hartung said the only way the situation will be
remedied is by developing such an outstanding team that
there would be no doubt as to its dominance.
Questions remain
"We would have to be so much better that there would
be no question about the scoring," he said.
But as long as those questions remain and the favorit
ism continues, Cahoy said it will be difficult to anticipate
what can happen in such competition.
"It makes you nervous," he said, "because you really
don't know what to expect."
Cahoy said he had encountered the same biased judging
during meets in Romania last summer.
"You've just got to put it out of your mind," he said.
"It's not going to change anything to get mad about it,
and you'll probably just do worse."
Hartung agreed that the score itself becomes less
important under such conditions.
"In the end, I guess I was pretty disappointed," he
said. "But if you know in your heart that you gave a good
set, then that's what matters.
"That's what most people do sports for, anyway," he
added, "for the personal satisfaction."
Allen was more emphatic.
"If I were them, I'd never want to go back," he said.
"I'd never want to be in another meet with Moscow again
anywhere."
Women cagers shoot for best season
By Ward W. Triplett III
After a 10-day layoff, the Nebraska women's basket
ball team tonight meets Wayland Baptist.
The game is half of the opening round of the Husker
Invitational Tournament. South Dakota and Kansas
State will play at 6 pjn., and the Nebraska-Wayland
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of the women's program. Wayland Baptist should prove
to be a good test for the UNL team, Matsuhara said.
"They are a very disciplined team, with a strong inside
game and excellent shooters," she said.
The Flying Queens, so dubbed because of the private
plane the small Texas school purchased for the team, has
w,-i.,a,'iu a 4-2 record by 5-1 1 freshman Gay Hemphill
(17.3 points per game) and 5-6 junior Chris Kennedy
(6.2).
"We may start a little taller line-up than they do,
but the talent they have on their frontline will make up
for it," she said.
Among the Wayland Baptist victories this year was a
70-56 victory against Big Eight contender Colorado.
Another of the Big Eight's preseason favorites, Kansas
State, will meet Nebraska in the finals, if both teams
win Friday.
Kansas State, who is the tournament favorite, is off
to a 2-1 start this year, losing to fourth -ranked South
Carolina 81-65 in its last game.
"I'm interested in seeing how we rebound from that
loss." Wildcat Coach Lynn Hickey said.
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