Wednesday, March 3, 1982
page 10
Daily Nebraskan
Huskers defeat Cowboys; advance to semi-finals
By Cindy Gardner and Larry Sparks
Nebraska advanced to the semi-finals
of the Big Eight basketball tournament
with a 6049 win against Oklahoma State
Tuesday night in the Bob Devancy Sports
Center.
"It was a good win for us," Nebraska
Coach Moe lba said. "We played with en
thusiasm. That's the only way we can
play."
The Huskers opened up a 6-2 lead early
in the first half. Oklahoma State answered
by moving ahead 17-12 with 12:31 left in
the half.
The score was tied four times in the
last nine minutes of the half before Okla
homa State took a 26-24 halftimc advan
tage. "We didn't play very well in the first
half. We did better in practice than we did
in the first half defensively," lba said.
Jack Moore opened second half scoring
before the Cowboys went up by four,
34-30 with 15:55 remaining.
The Huskers fought back and moved
ahead, 38-36 with a Ray Collins jumper at
the 12:13 mark. Collins led the Huskers
with 1 7.
Nebraska opened up a 4840 lead on a
Moore to Terry Smith alley-oop with 6:50
remaining. Oklahoma State could only
come within six points in the final seven
minutes.
"We just played hard. That was the dif
ference in the ball game," lba said.
Collins was joined in double figures by
Lenard Johnson with 10. Claude Renfro
scored nine and Moore ended his home car
eer with eight points, including a 44 per
formance from the free throw line.
"Everybody played well," lba said.
"Lenard really played a good ball game,
defensively and offensively."
The Huskers will meet Missouri at 7:10
p.m. Friday at Kemper Arena in Kansas
City. The Tigers advanced to the semi
finals by beating Colorado 72-60.
"I'm sure that they (Missouri) have re
spect for us," lba said. "We're going to
have to play an awfully smart game against
them."
Tickets for the semi-final and champion
ship game will be on sale today only at the
Nebraska Athletic Ticket Office, South
Stadium 1 17, from 9 ajn. to 4 p.m.
The Huskers advance to 16-11 with the
win. In the other semi-final game Friday,
Oklahoma will meet Kansas State.
Illinois game to close season
for women's basketball team
By Ward W. Triplett II
When the final buzzer sounds tonight at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center, it will be
the end of roller coaster season for the Ne
braska women's basketball team. The 13
17 Huskers play host to a 21-7 Illinois
squad at 7:30 p.m.
"Illinois has already beaten Long Beach
this year," Coach Colleen Matsuhara said.
The 49ers defeated the Huskers 110-71 in
Long Beach.
"They are a very tough, experienced
ball team. They were the runner-up in the
Big 10 tournament, so we know we're go
ing to have our hands full," Matsuhara said.
The Huskers are coming off a 1-2 road
swing, which saw them defeat 16-6 Notre
Dame 94-84 in double overtime, then lose
to Northwestern, 89-64, and DePaul 84-64.
"Notre Dame was a very good game for
us," Matsuhara said. "They came in with
the second-best defensive average in the na
tion, and the 94 points we scored I believe
was the best against them all year," she
said.
DePaul led the Huskers by only four at
halftime, but made 22 of 32 free throws
compared with the Huskers eight of 15 to
help pull away in the second half.
Tonight's game also will be the final
game for 6-2 Janet Smith, the tallest Ne
braska player and four-year letterwinner
who will leave with the all-time rebounding
record. Smith has 1 ,268 rebounds.
"In a way it's sad, but in another way
I'm glad about it," said Smith, who was
named to the regional all-academic team.
Smith said that the 1981-82 team,
though not as successful as her three pre
vious teams, is a closer team, and the quali
ty of its players has changed.
"When 1 first came here, playing basket
ball was just like a job," Smith said. "Now
it's a lot more fun. Now it's a joy to go and
play everyday."
Smith is averaging 8.5 points and 9.3
rebounds per game this season, and shares
the single-game scoring record of 34 points
with Debra Powell. She also has six other
single-game records, including most re
bounds in a game, 25.
"I've accomplished everything in basket
ball that I wanted," Smith said. "One of
my goals coming here was to improve every
season, and I think I've done that. I've
grown as a person and a player here, and I
think it's all been worth it. It's been very
satisfying."
Smith is considering an offer to play
basketball in Italy, so Illinois may not be
the last game she plays.
"I played on a Christian basketball team
that toured Europe this summer, and ano
ther girl and I were asked if we would con
sider playing professionally over there,"
she said.
"It would be a good opportunity for me
to go. It would be nice just to forget school
and go out and have a good time," she said.
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Photo by Dave Bentz
Husker Jack Moore puts up a shot at the end for the first half. Moore was 44 in free
throws in Tuesday night's Big Eight playoff game.
Sports Shorts
Nebraska guard Jack Moore was named
to the all-Big Eight basketball team Mon
day by United Press International.
Joining Moore on the all-conference
team were Ricky Frazier and Jon Sunvold
of Missouri, Chuck Barnett of Oklahoma
and David Magley of Kansas.
Moore was named to the Associated
Press team earlier in the season.
ball Writers Association.
Joining Sampson on the team were
James Worthy and Sam Perkins of North
Carolina, Terry Cummings of DePaul, Kev
in Magee of California-Irvine, Dale Ellis of
Tennessee, Ricky Pierce of Rice, Eric
Floyd of Georgetown, Paul Pressey of Tul
sa and Bill Garnett of Wyoming.
Ralph Sampson of Virginia was the only
player named a second time in two years to
the all-American basketball team announc
ed Tuesday by the United States Basket-
Radio station KRNU has announced it
will have live coverage of several home
Husker baseball games this season. The first
will be a March 25 double-header against
North Dakota State.
Broadcaster enjoys job that started as gimmick
By Scott Ahlstrand
A gimmick tried by an Omaha television station gave
Ann Schatz the chance to be the city's only female sports
caster. "I was hired because I was a woman and it would be a
nice gimmick to have me read sports for the station,"
Schatz, a 2-year veteran at KMTV, said Tuesday. "At the
time, the station was third in the ratings and had nothing
to lose. I was unemployed and gimmick or not, I wasn't
about to turn down the job."
Her talk was sponsored by the Women's Resource Cen
ter and Student Y.
"I've worked hard at my trade and I hope that I've lost
some of the newness from being the first woman sports
caster," she said. "I like being acknowledged for being just
a sportscaster and not as a woman sportscaster."
Schatz said that being accepted as a sportscaster has
been difficult.
"There are times when I'm the only woman out on the
playing field and I can't expect them to treat me just like
one of the boys," Schatz said. "It's like I'm barging into a
little male universe that's nice and neat. A lot of coaches
and athletes don't know how to react to me. I think now
they're getting used to me."
Schatz said while the field of sportscasting is challeng
ing, it is also quite satisfying.
"The pressure really starts to build on you," she said.
"There have been times when I'm dressing and editing
right up to the minute before I go on the air."
"The field has just skyrocketed for women," Schatz
said. "Ten years ago you never saw any women in cither
sports or news. Now there are lots of opportunities for
women."
Schatz said that she would like to do some play-byplay
broadcasting in tne future. She is sure that she wants
to stay in sports.
"I've never touched news in my life," Schatz said. "I
don t think I could deal with all of the nasty things like
murder, a bad economy and unemployment. The econo
my m sports is just fine. You get to see people transform
physical action into tremendously skillful movements
The only negative aspects you deal with are the losers.
And they realize that it's just a game, so they're usually
not too bad to deal with."
Being on television affects the way a lot of people act
around you, Schatz said. F
"TV tends to glamourize you in other people's minds "
acnatz said. "It's unreal how crazy people will act around
a television personality. It's the only thing I really hate
about my job.
