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Staff photo by John Zoz
'Hey, Dad, calm down, we're up by 50," is what Nebraska volunteer Assistant Coach
Bret Iba is probably thinking during Nebraska's 9846 victory over Southwest Mis
souri State. Nebraska will play Kansas State tonight at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
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By Kevin Warncke
The Nebraska men's basketball team
will battle one of the co-leaders in the
Big Eight Conference race when they
host Kansas State tonight at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Nebraska is coming off a 72-69 loss
at Colorado, while Kansas State romped
Iowa State 8155, last Saturday.
The game marks Nebraska's first home
conference game while Kansas State is
on the road for the first time.
"Any home game is important; it's
important that we don't lose two games
in a row" Coach Moe Iba said. "It's
early in tl e Big tight, yet there are only
two teams with no losses in Kansas State
and Missouri. And we can take care of one
of them Wednesday night."
Kansas State. 10-5 overall, is led in
scoring and rebounding by center Les
Craft. Craft has averaged 11.5 points
and 5.8 r ebounds a game.
"He is a good post man," Iba said.
"He's one of the better ones in the con
ference. He's always played well against
us before and w e wouldn't think he would
come in and not play well."
Sophomore Eddie Elder ranks second in
scoring and rebounding with a 10.1 scor
ing and a 5.3 rebounding average.
Other starters include forward Tyrone
Jackson and guards Ed Galvao and Fred
Marshall.
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Although they lost four starters from
last ear's team, Iba said th3t the Kansas
State learn still lias talent.
"They are not down talent -wise, mavbe
by experience." he said. "But they've
played 15 games and they're getting ex
perience." Iba said he does not foresee any lineup
changes, which means that Nebraska will
be starting Dave Hoppen at center, Stan
Cloudy and Claude Renfio at forwards
and David Ponce and Greg Downing at
the guard positions.
Although Hoppen is on a scoring ram
page, tallying 44 points in his last two
games, Iba said that no changes were made
in the offense to get the ball to him more
often.
"Dave's play has been better than
before," "He's played awful good basket
ball." He also said that anytime someone has
the hot hand, the players try to get that
person the ball.
"Hoppen's certainly a fine addition to
their team," Kansas State Coach Jack
Hartman said. "He plays with poise and
composure that you wouldn't expect
from a freshman at that position."
Iba also squelched any rumors that his
players might be looking beyond the Kan
sas State game to Saturday's contest with
Missouri.
"If they are, they're crazy," he said.
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By Mark Quandahl
Nebraska swimmer and natural resource major, Rick
Gilbertson, has a confession to make.
"My girlfriend, Cam Lutz, makes me study," he
said. "She is my tutor."
"My first year down here it was rough," Gilbertson
said. "I really didn't study that much in high school,
so it hit me like a brick. But now I've got someone to
help me."
When he isn't studying, Gilbertson, a sophomore from
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, spends much of his time competing
in breaststroke and individual medley events tor the
Cornhusker swimming team.
Gilbertson said he chose Nebraska because it was
close to home and because of the impressive facilities
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
"I was considering going to LSU until I saw their
pool," Gilbertson said.
While at Cedar Rapids Kennedy High School, Gil
bertson twice earned All -American status in both the
100 yard breaststroke and 200 individual medley. At
Nebraska, he owns the school record in the 400 yard
individual medley with a time of 4:00.49. Last year as
a freshman he qualified for the NCAA meet in the 200
breaststroke and was the Big Eight champion in the 400
meter individual medley. At last year's Big Fight meet,
Gilbertson also placed second in the 200 individual med
ley and scored 42 team points, which tied him tor se
cond place on the team with junior Kevin Weires.
"I think I do my best in the 200 breast stroke," Gil
bertson said, "But right now I'm looking to improve my
400 1M."
He said that his school record in the 400 individual
medley was "pretty nice," and that he is looking for
ward to winning it four years in a row at the Big Eight
meet.
Although Gilbertson said competition will be stiff
at this year's Big Eight meet, he is still confident of a
good Husker showing.
"We're going to smoke 'em" he said.
"The Big Eight is a good conference," he said. "There
are some studs in there." He cited Kansas' Olympian Ron
Neugent and fellow Huskers Matt Rye and Tim Brinner
as the swimmers who will push him.
Gilbertson thought the Huskers were successful as a
team because, "everyone helps everyone."
"And Cal (Bentz) is a good coach," he said. "He's
really all right."
"Last year I set a goal to make the NCAA in three
events, but I only made it in one," Gilbertson said.
"This year I'm determined to make it in all three."
Gilbertson said he is looking forward to Friday's
meet against Iowa State in Ames and Saturday's meet
against Iowa in Iowa City.
"It'll be like going home," he said. "I'll be compet
ing against the hometown boys."
deal Sdopeo1 Eowl salvages storage NFS
This may be the understatement of the year but this
has not been a normal season in the National Football
League.
The season got off on the wrong foot when the Players
Association threatened to strike if the owners didn't
give them a percentage of the gross revenues. The con
fident owners either didn't take the players seriously
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Asmussen
or wanted a strike because they wouldn't listen to the
players. The owners offered better pensions and a high
er minimum salary but were definitely against the shared
revenue idea.
After two games, the players took a walk, and didn't
come back. For the next eight weeks American football
fans had a choice between Canadian , football (How's
it goin, 'eh? or CBS boxing, 1 mean, Sports Spectacular.)
Finally, the players decided they'd take the owners
measly offer and get back to playing football. At this
point the NFL Commissioner, Pete Rozelle, decided
the playoff system had to be changed. The league went
from its normal 10-team playoff to a National Hockey
League-like, 16-team Super Bowl tournament.
But the strike wasn't the only thing strange about
the 1982-83 NFL season. Admitted workaholic Dick
Vermeil resigned from his job as coach of the Phila
delphia Eagles. Vermeil, who had been known to spend
18-hour days working, resigned because he said he was
burnt out with coaching. Vermeil has since been hired
as football analyst with CBS Sports. Rumor has it that
he'll be at the games by 2 a.m.
Another strange happening in the NFL season is that
Ed Biles is still the coach of the Houston Oilers. The
Oilers, with Biles as their coach, have gone from having
a legitimate shot at the Super Bowl to battling the Balti
more Colts to stay out of last place in the AFC.
There were other strange occurences as well. Sam Mc
Cullum was cut by the Seattle Seahawks after being one
of the leaders in the Players Association. McCullum was
picked up by the Minnesota Vikings and had a fine sea
son. Leeman Bennett was fired after his Atlanta Falcons
did another fold in the playoffs. Marv Levy was fired
by the Kansas City Chiefs after receiving a vote of con
fidence from owner Lamar Hunt.
After all this craziness we've come down to the final
two teams, Miami and Washington, in the Super Bowl.
Thank you for these two teams, football gods.
In the season that might not have been, two of the
more stable and respected teams will battle for the league
title. These teams are not pass happy like most in the
NFL. They rely on defense and (gasp) strong running
games.
This is the game I really hoped for. A decade ago,
two teams that relied on defense and a strong running
game played in the Super Bowl. They were coached by
two of the most respected coaches in the league and they
played a low scoring but exciting game. The two teams in
Super Bowl VII were the Miami Dolphins and the
Washington Redskins.
piere are other similarities between Super Bowl VII
and Super Bowl XVII. Miami's running attack is led by
Andra Franklin who has many of the running charac
teristics of Larry Csonka. Washington's quarterback,
Joe Theismann, could be thought of as a young (and
thin) Billy Kilmer. Instead of the no-name defense that
Miami had in 1973, the defense's nickname in 1983
is the killer Bees (Bob Baumhower, Bob Brudzinsky,
Doug Betters, Kim Bokamper, Lyle Blackwood and
Glenn Blackwood).
Who's going to win the game? The fact that Daily
Nebraskan prognostics Jeff Goodwin picked Miami
should cause me to pick the Rams by 20 (they have so
much talent but a terrible owner). Being an old Miami
fan 1 11 have to p,ck the Dolphins by a touchdown. The
prediction may be wrong if the ghost of Miami kicker
Garo Yepremian should appear and hit a wide open
Mike Bass for a Washington touchdown.
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