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Friday, February 18, 1983 Daily Nebraskan 13 Padtiy. . . Continued from Page 12 That's step number two. Third, with the cxa'ption of states like Indiana -Uranch McCraeken and Bobby Knight country -- and Kentucky, where the late Adolph Rupp and now Joe Hall ;iie making it routine to go "uptown and almost common to make the l inal lour, basketball tor years, has been a city game. An overwhelming majority of thoroughbreds came out of Chi, the Big Apple, LA. and But today, theie's gieat ballplayeis in stales like Montana, Louisiana jnd Maine. This has come about because basketball lias come center ring, made the spotlight, gone SKO. It happened because the game was nude for IV and the tremendous exposure of the boob tube. Major sponsors prefer college basketball because the ratings are strong and it hits the light audience. Fans like it because the ball is big, not like a hockey puck you can't see. Ilie lighting is excellent, the court is small enough for good camera angles, the players are always visible because of their limited amount of dothing. Also, with a few exceptions over the last 20 years, basketball camps - specialized basketball camps - have' sprung up by the thousands throughout the land. There used to be just a handful of guys w ho had them, but not anymore. Now the coach at Last Cupcake has one, the Little Sisters of the Poor have one, everyone has one. If you've got the time, we've got the camp. In addition, basketball coaches have finally left the shadows of the goalposts. It used to be, at many schools, they were also assistant coaches in football, but now basketball coaches are extremely well-paid, have competent staffs, and the schools have provided them the monies to promote, recruit, and scout. Most coaches, too. try to help themselves by trying to keep their schedule relatively soft. That's because most teams go to the NCAA on their record. Some bids are based on conferences, but the rest on record. So today, outside of a regional hook-up. non-conference bookings are usually weak sisters. That's why so many schools today start their conference with 10-0 records. Finally, televised regional or national games provide a big playoff and have spawned larger recruiting budgets and bigger facilities - some of them mammoth in size. Syracuse is touching close to 30,000 at tip-off time, and the University of Tennessee is building a new arena to seat 25,000. So, college basketball, welcome to the major leagues, the heavyweight division, the eighth race, the super bowl of college sports. But forget about any consistence in in dividual schools any more, the fabric has been irretriev ably changed. And parity will be the word for whatever college basketball is for the next century. Parity has already sent the word "upset" the way of the buffalo. Today, you can never count a game an "upset" unless it's on the road. Lven Chaminade beating Virginia is not that much of an upset, because it was at Chaminade. There is no upset on the road. Only if you beat 'em on their turf. SHARING is CARING" Thanks to You it Works for All of Us THANK YOU FOR CARING GIVE BLOOD Aiiii'i ii .hi Kt'll Cl I INS iTiradisiieirs prepare iw champiomisSiD By Jeff Korbclik Nebraska will warm up for next week's Big Light Indoor Championships by hosting the Coloiado State and Wichita State track teams in a triangular Saluiday at 1 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. "Wichita Slate has a good piogiam with good athletes and 1 hey will be bunging a lot of athletes." Nebiaska Assistant Coach Dick Railsback said. "Colorado Slate lacks some depth, but has some good individuals." Railsback explained that the Ilu-keis will be moie prepared for this meet than they were in their fust dual with Southern Illinois. He said his team realizes that the teams will be coming in living to win the meet, and Wichita State "is not going lo come up to gel whipped again." Nebiaska leads the indoor seiies historv between the schools with a iccoid of 4-0 against both Coloiado Stale and Wichita Slate. Nebraska won the same tnangulai last year, edging Wichita State by nine and a halt points. Colorado State finished a distant third. Wichita Stale will featuie defending Missouri Vallev Conference 60-yard high hurdle champion, Mai veil Keid. (7.55) and high jumper Maik Todd (7-0). Reid will also compete in the triple jump, in which he has a 49-8 leap this year. Coloiado State will also featuie their hurdlei in defending Western Athletic Conference 110-yard high hurdle and 4U0-yard intermediate Iiuidle champion Lorenzo Zackery. The Huskers will host next week's indoor champion ships. Railsback said the triangular this weekend should keep the athletes sharp. "I feel teams should compete the weekend before the Big Eight," Railsback said. "We are able to run guys in different events and move them around more. It is also nice mentally." Last week Nebiaska hosted the Husker Invitational and Railsback was pleased with how the meet turned out. "There were some really good marks and it was a good meet to see for the fans." Railsback explained. "We had a couple of places that we could have dime better, but on the whole we did vet well." Nebiaska won one event in last week's competiton. the mile iclay. This week they received news that the i clay team qualified fot the NCAA Indoor Championships while competing earlier this ear at the last man Invitational in Tennessee. The louisome of Mike Cie locha. Dennis Wallace. Not man Mills and Jim Hayek um a 3:2 hand-timed mile. The automatic liming mal functioned and the hand held time is last enough to quahlv . 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