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Friday, February 25, 1983
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Hioto courtesy of Missouri Sports Information
Dave Hoppen (left) gets set to pass during Nebraska's game with Colorado while '
Steve Stipanovich shoots over Houston's Carlton Young in last year's NCAA Tourna
ment. The two centers will face each other Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center when No. 10-ranked Missouri comes to town.
Hoppero phm on stoppami' op
By Kevin Warneke
When Nebraska center Dave Hoppen
takes to the court Saturday against
Missouri, he will be looking to do more
than just avenge an earlier loss to the
Tigers.
In their initial matchup this season
against Missouri, Nebraska was humiliat
ed 79-56, and Hoppen suffered a personal
defeat as Missouri center Steve Stipanovich
tore the Nebraska defense apart for 22
points.
Hoppen, meanwhile, was held to 11
points, but was guarded mainly by Missouri
forward Greg Cavener.
"1 don't think I was pleased with the
way I played against Missouri," Hoppen
said. "I was double-teamed and couldn't
get the ball the way I wanted to.
"I especially wasn't pleased since we got
beat as bad as we did."
Hoppen stated two reasons why he
thought Cavener guarded him instead of
Stipanovich and also added that he felt it
was a compliment to a certain degree.
"1 think they do this to keep Stipano
vich out of foul trouble," Hoppen said.
"Also, Cavener's more of a defensive
specialist.
"In a way I take this as a compliment
since that they're worried about me and
that they're putting their best defensive
player on me."
Hoppen said he probably will be guard
ing Stipanovich in Saturday's game and
assumes that Cavener will again be guard
ing him.
"He probably is the best center I have
faced and that's because over the summer
he worked very hard," Hoppen said. "He's
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more versatile. He shoots the 17-foot
jumpers and also goes to the boards. He's
also very quick."
The reason why Hoppen thinks Stipano
vich is having such a good season is be
cause of what he calls a "double threat."
"He's got a double-option," Hoppen
said. "His versatility is so much better this
year. He can shoot from anywhere and is
more of a threat outside."
Hoppen said that in order to shut down
Stipanovich point-wise, he will have to pre
vent him from getting the ball inside.
"If I work on defense and not let him
catch the ball that will help," he said.
According to Hoppen and Nebraska
Coach Moe Iba, Hoppen will not need to
score a high amount of points to have a
good game.
"He needs to play a good defensive
game and get his usual amount of re
bounds," Iba said. "With the big guys
they're going to have around him he's not
going to score that much."
"1 think a good game isn't always scor
ing 25 points," Hoppen said. "There's
more to my game than just scoring."
Hoppen is Nebraska's leading scorer,
averaging over 13 points a game and also
pulls down nearly five rebounds a game.
Hoppen said he is confident that Ne
braska will be ready on Saturday evening
and revenge will be on its mind.
"I think we were a little bit nervous
when we went down to Missouri and play
ed them," he said. "We've got something to
prove. I've got something to prove and the
team has something to prove.,
"We've got to get over trie stigma that
Missouri can't be beat," he said. "And we
can beat Missouri."
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By Tim Woods
Steve Stipanovich deserves his acclaim
as one of the top collegiate basketball
players in the United States. At least
members of the Virginia Cavaliers think
so.
"Steve's just ,a tremendous player,"
two-time college Player of the Year Ralph
Sampson said Sunday. "He really took
it to us."
Virginia, rated No. 2 in The Real Top
10, defeated Stipanovich and No. 10
Missouri Sunday in East Rutherford,
N.J., 68-53, but not until Stipo had shown
his all-around skills to a national television
audience.
The 6-11 senior center from St. Louis
scored 27 points, collected 12, rebounds
and blocked five shots in a performance
that failed to surprise teammate Jon
Sundvold.
The 1982-83 season has provided
Stipanovich an opportunity to iest his
skills against a number ol nationally
rated opponents.
In November, he scored 22 points in
leading Mizzou to an upset victory over
defending champion North Carolina. In
the Tigers' Big Eight Conference opener
Jan. 19 against Oklahoma State, Stipo
scored a career-high 32 points in an 84
63 MU victory.
All told, Stipanovich is scoring 19 5
points per game, highest in his career.
The increased scoring output was
expected by Tigers Coach Norm Stew
art. "The past three seasons, Steve has
been surrounded by players whose main
responsibility had been scoring," Stewart
said. "Larry Drew, Curtis Berry and
Ricky Frazier were good scorers, so we
asked Steve to play tough defense and
hit the boards.
"This season, in oder for us to be
successful, we needed Steve and Jon to
assume more of the scoring load," Stewart
said. "Both of them have responded to
that challenge, and both are playing the
best basketball of their careers."
Stipanovich burned Virginia and
Sampson with his outside shooting, hit
ting jump shots from up to 17 feet.
"We knew he had a good jumper,"
Cavaliers guard Rick Carlisle said. "We
knew it was part of their plan to pull
Ralph away. from the bucket.
"But when Stipanovich started flit
ting those 17-footeis, well, there wasn't
much we could do about it," Carlisle
said. "You give some guards those shots,
so you don't expect 6-1 1 centers to be
able to hit them."
Stipanovich said his shooting from so
far out was the best way to neutralize
Sampson's inside domination.
Stipanovich said, however, that he
expects to have to play more of an inside
game Saturday when Mizzou faces Ne
braska and Dave Hoppen.
"1 don't think Virginia was expecting
me to go outside," he said. "But we've
played Nebraska so many times, they know
what to expect.
"Greg and I were able to neutralize
Hoppen to an extent when we played
them before," Stipanovich said of the
Tigers' 79-56 victory Jan. 29 in Columbia.
"It will probably take a similar style to
control him again."
Hoppen is one of the bright young
players who should make Big Eight basket
ball thrive in the future, Stipanovich said.
"You can just tell that he's got all the
right tools," Stipo said. "He plays a smart
game, and doesn't try to do things that
go outside Nebraska's team concept."
Stipanovich said that the conference
as a whole is the best this year since he
came to Missouri in 1979.
"If having the good center is what it
takes to build a winning team, then there
should be a lot of good teams in the Big
Eight next year," Stipo said. "Maybe then
the conference will get the national respect
it deserves."
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Oklahoma gained a share of second
place in the Big Eight Conference Thurs
day night with a 84-74 win oyer the
Nebraska Cornhuskers in Norman.
The Sooners were led by the one
two scoring punch of David Little and
Waymon Tisdale. Little scored 32 points,
including 18 in the first half as the Sooners
jumped to a half-time lead of 35-28.
Tisdale added 27 points for the Sooners.
Oklahoma jumped out to a 6-0 lead,
but the Huskers came back to take a
10-6 lead and led for most of the first
half. That was until a Tisdale jumper put
the Sooners ahead 25-24. Oklahoma would
never trail again.
Nebraska cut the lead to 1 point at
37-36 with four minutes gone in the
second half, thanks to baskets by Dave
Hoppen and Greg Downing jumper. But
that was as close as they came, as the
Sooners outscored the Huskers 18-8 to
streak to a 5544 lead.
The game was all but over for the
Huskers when Hoppen picked up his
fourth foul with ten minutes to play.
The game, which was televised live
from the Lloyd Noble Arena on, Lincoln
Cablevision, dropped Nebraska into a
three way tie for second with the Sooners
and Oklahoma State. Nebraska is now
7-4 in the conference and 16-7 overall.
Oklahoma moved up to 74 in the
conference and 20-7 overall.
The Sooners played the game without
head coach, Billy Tubbs, the victim of a
car-pedestrian accident in Norman Mon
day. Tubbs is recovering in a Oklahoma
City hospital with a contusion on the
brain. The Sooners will meet Colorado in
Boulder Saturday.
The Huskers must now face 10th
ranked Missouri before a sell-out crowd
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
"We can't do too much with only one
day to prepare," Iba said. "We will just
have to do what we do better than last
time, and perhaps play better defense
on them."
In Columbia, Mo., the Tigers domi
nated throughout the game and posted
a 79-53 win. The major concern for Iba
going into that game was matching up
the Tigers man for man, and with 6-9
Greg Cavener shooting over 6-5 Claude
Renfro, 6-6 Mark Dressier shooting over
5-10 David Ponce and Nebraska's Dave
Hoppen unable to help because he was
covering 6-11 Steve Stipanovich, those
fears were more than verified.
"I think it's a situation where Missouri
has the best basketball team in the con
ference," Iba said. "We got beaten very
badly in Columbia and our ballclub has a
lot of pride. It will still be a big game
for us." "
The only change for the Tigers since
the Jan. 29 game is the insertion of 6-1', 4
Prince Bridges into the starting lineup.
Bridges, who had been sidelined early
in the season with a foot injury, hit
the winning basket with one second left
the last time the Tigers were in Lincoln.
Bridges, averaging 5.9 points per game,
is the least lethal of the Tiger starters
pointwise. Stipanovich averages 19.8 points
per game and 9.2 rebounds, to lead in
both categories. Jon Sundvold averages
16.8 points per game, while Cavener
averages 10.9 points and 8.3 rebound's.
The fifth starter is junior Ron Jones,
a 64 forward, averaging 7.3 points and
4.2 rebounds a game.
Missouri lost two games last week, one
to conference foe Oklahoma State 79-73,
the other to Ralph Sampson and Virginia
68-53 on national television.
The Tigers rebounded by blasting Colo
rado 88-53 at home Wednesday night.
Nebraska's starters and averages before
the Oklahoma game were Claude Renfro,
8.2 points and 5.6 rebounds, Stan Cloudy,
10.0 and 4.5; Dave Hoppen, 13.6 and
4.9, David Ponce 7.4 and 1.5 and Greg
Downing 7.7 and 2.5.
