Friday, February 18, 1983
Daily Nebraskan
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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.
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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
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