Tuesday, March 2, 1982
Daily Nebraskan
Pago 5
Sports
Huskers look for comeback in first-round action
By Ward W. Triplctt III
Nebraska and Oklahoma will try to re
bound from disappointing setbacks when
they meet in a first-round post-season Big
Eight tournament game at 7:35 tonight in
the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Cowboys have lost two straight,
including a double overtime loss in Still
water to Oklahoma, 79-74. The Huskers
were defeated by Kansas State 67-50 in
their Saturday afternoon game in Manhattan.
"It's sometimes tough to come back
after losses like that," Nebraska Coach
Moe Iba said at a Monday press luncheon,
"but we've been doing that all year. Hope
fully, we can do it tomorrow night."
Nebraska and OSU finished the season
at 7-7 in the conference and 15-11 over
all, but Nebraska won the home court
advantage in the tournament because of
its defeat of Missouri.
The Cowboys are led by 6-8 center
Leroy Combs, a senior averaging 12.1
Regular season B-ball dims
excitement of Big Eight play
It seems kind of funny that the only re
ward Missouri gets for going through the
Big Eight basketball season 12-2 is that it
gets to play a first-round post-season tour
nament game at home tonight.
This year, as every year, you hear seven
conference coaches telling how the post
season tournament gives their teams a
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chance to redeem themselves, and they're
right. But what's the point of playing 14
regular season games?
Having a post-season tournament to de
cide the NCAA representative is the big
thing these days among most of the major
college conferences. There seems to be a
general agreement that this playoff adds
excitement to the season.
That is true in one sense, I suppose, but
it also cuts down on the importance of
winning a conference championship. It
seems like the teams don't go out to win
the title anymore. The goal is just to finish
in the top four.
Besides, anyone who thinks conference
basketball wasn't exciting in the past
doesn't remember a thing about the Big
Eight Christmas tournament. Not only was
it exciting, it gave fans a preview of the sea
son to come but it didn't place undue em
phasis on a tournament championship. The
winner got a trophy and nothing else.
It just doesn't seem fair to have a team
go through the conference season with a
good record, then have an off night and be
forced to sit back and watch someone else
represent the conference in the NCAA
tournament.
Of course, Missouri is almost assured of
an NCAA bid this year even if it doesn't
win the tournament, but there have been
years when the conference champion was
n't such a recognized national power.
Even worse than the conference champ
ion getting beat out of the playoff is the
possibility that it will be represented by a
below-par team that could bring embarras
sment to the league.
The bottom line is that the league de
serves to be represented by a sound, con
sistent team, not one that happens to have
a three-game hot streak.
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points and 7.2 rebounds per game, and
guard Matt Clark, a 6-3 junior averaging
12.2 points per game.
"Oklahoma State is very much like us,"
Iba said. "They 11 play one super game and
then don't show anything in the next. You
never really know exactly how they'll
come out."
If they play up to their ability, it is
going to be a difficult game for us,"
he said .
Iba said he expects both teams to
bounce back from their recent losses in
time for tonight's game.
"Since it is the last game of the season
for the losing team, you have to expect
both teams to be ready for it and give it
their best effort," Iba said.
"Oklahoma State is a very explosive
team and we've got to make sure we keep
them from getting going on us," he said.
The winner of tonight's game will ad
vance to Friday's semifinals at Kemper
Arena in Kansas City.
UNL nets win over KSC
UNL's men's tennis team defeated
Kearney State College 9-0 last week in
their first dual meet of the season.
Results from the singles matches:
Ridge Smidt (UNL) defeated Jeff
Fredricks (KSC) 6-3, 6-1; Craig John
son (UNL) defeated Bryon Swanson
(KSC) 6-1, 6-1; Jim Carson (UNL)
defeated Dave Schulte (KSC) 6-1,
6-0; Dave Schulze (UNL) defeated
Jeff Luke (KSC) 6-3, 7-5; Scott Baker
(UNL) defeated Clark Pannier (KSC)
6-2, 6-1 ; Brian Edwards (UNL) defeated
Mike Scheidegger (KSC) 6-1 , 4-6,6-1 .
Results from the doubles matches:
Smidt-Baker (UNL) defeated Fredricks
Pannier (KSC) 6-2, 6-1 ; Carson-Johnson
(UNL) defeated Luke-Schcidegger 6-2,
6-1; Elsass-White (UNL) defeated
Swanson-Schulte (KSC) 6-3,6-3.
Intramurals
John Erickson, Chi Phi; Nick Heng,
Sigma Phi Epsilon; Tom Pallas, indepen
dent; and Boyd Stuhr, Beta Sigma Psi,
tied for first place in the men's intramural
free-throw shooting contest by making 48
of 50 attempts. Sigma Phi Epsilon won the
men's team title with a 182 total.
Susan Penner, Sandoz 9, made 48 or 50
attempts to win the women's champion
ship and Nancy Gogan, Pound 9, was se
cond with 45. Sandoz 5 won the women's
team title. Penner and Mike Meier of Abel
11 combined to win the co-recreational
title by making 93 of 100 attempts.
Entires for men's, women's and co
recreational threeon-three intramural bas
ketball tournament are due at 5 p.m. today
in the Recreation Office.
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Lower Level
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