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Staff photo by John Zoz
Nebraska's Chris Leigh guards Missouri's Joni Davis
in a game earlier in the year at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center. Leigh and her Cornliusker teammates
will play Kansas today in the first round of the Big
Eight post-season tournament.
Nebraska's women's basketball team begins its second
season at 2 p.m. today in the first round of the Big Light
Tournament.
The Huskers, who finished the regular season 14-13.
play Kansas at Norman, Okla. The winner of the tourn
ament receives an automatic bid to the National Col
legiate Athletic Association's 32-tcam tournament.
Nebraska defeated Oklahoma State 96-75 Saturday,
mostly due to an impressive first half running game.
"My feeling is that there is no team in this conference
we can't beat when we play with the intensity and team
work we did (Saturday)," Coach Colleen Matsuhara said.
"This is another season beginning in Norman," she
said. "We have to get the same kind of play, back to back,
that we had in the first half of the Oklahoma State game
and we have to do it for three straight games.
Kansas State, ranked ninth in the nation, won the
conference regular season schedule with a 12-2 mark.
The Wildcats are seeded first in the tournament and will
open against Oklahoma State.
Second-seeded Missouri will battle Iowa State while
Oklahoma and Colorado will meet in other tirst-round
action.
The Huskers have lost twice to Kansas, losing 100-S4
March 1, in Lawrence. The Jayhawks finished the regular
season in third place with an 8-5 record, after going 2-9
through the pre-conference schedule.
Freshman Vickie Adkins scored 32 points in the last
Husker-Jayhawk match. Adkins, 6-!, who averages 123
points per game, will be joined in the starting lineup by
6-6 Philicia Allen (15.4 points per game, 9.6 rebounds
per game); 6-0 Barb Adkins (1 1 .8, 6. 7); 5 -9 Angela Taylor
(10.5, 2.3) and 5-10 Angie Snider (19.3. 62).
The Huskers will counter with 5-10 Deb Powell (17.6,
5.6); 5-1 1 Terri Parriot (8.3, 4.4); 6-0 Kathy Hagerstrom
(10.2, 4.8); Cadiy Owen (8.9, 2.9) and 5-7 Kelli Benson
(7.0, 3.1). Crystal Coleman (15.7, 5.2) and Chris Leigh
(7.8, 3.5) might be inserted in the starting lineup in place
of Powell and Parriot, Matsuhara said.
Coleman and Powell were honorable mention
selections to the all Big Eight team. The team, selected
by conference coaches, included Oklahoma senior center
Molly McGuire, Colorado junior center Lisa Van Gore,
Missouri senior forward Lorraine Ferret, Kansas junior
forward Angie Snider and Kansas State senior guard
Piiscilla Gary. The 5-5 Wade Trophy candidate was the
only unanimous selection.
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Wrestlers nope for high finish
in season-ending NCAA meet
Daily Nebraskan file photo
Nebraska's Al Freeman (right) battles with an Indiana wrestler in last year's NCAA
championship meet. Freeman will lead the Cornhuskers in this year's meet today
through Saturday in Oklahoma City.
By Randy Wymore
It's almost over.
The Nebraska wrestling team enters
the first round of the season-ending NCAA
wrestling tournament today at the Myriad
in Oklahoma City, Okla.
The Cornhuskers qualified all 10 team
members, a fact Nebraska Assistant Coach
Kelly Ward says will be an advantage for
the future.
"We're real pleased with that," he said.
"It's more of an aid to us for next season."
Ward said underclassmen like Matt
Campbell and Mike Knox who are going
to the tournament tor the first time - are
ble to get experience under their belts for
the tournament next year.
The favorite for the team title at this
point probably would have to be a toss-up
between Iowa and Oklahoma State.
The Hawkeyes finished the year as the
Big Ten Conference champion with more
than 200 points and nine individual champ
ions. The Cowboys, like the Huskers and
Iowa, qualified all 10 of their team
members. They also go in as the Big Eight
champion.
"I think they (Iowa) have a real good
change of winning the title," Ward said.
"But they'll have to contend with Okla
homa State."
Ward said that Iowa State should finish
third, and if the Huskers wrestle up to their
capabilities, Nebraska will return to
Lincoln with a fourth-place finish.
If, however, the Cyclones have problems
during the three-day affair, Ward said that
the No. 3 spot is a possibility.
A little added honor was bestowed upon
the Cornhuskers last weekend with five of
the Nebraska wrestlers being named to the
Big Eight All-Academic team.
Campbell (U8 pounds), Al Freeman
(142), Rory Cahoj (150), Bill Scherr (190)
and Knox (HWT) make up one-half of the
honorary squad.
Freeman, Cahoj and Scherr are all
repeaters to the team.
Ward said that having five people on
the conference All-Academic team is also
a tool for the future.
"It's something that's a little extra
nice," he said. "It's like icing on the cake."
Ward said that credentials like that
speak as much for the school and the
program as they do for the Husker squad.
He said that it really helps in recruiting
when a prospect's parents can see that an
athlete at Nebraska also gets a quality
education.
The NCAA tournament will end
Saturday.
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News bulletin:
Starting late Tuesday night, high school students from
across the state broke new road trip speed records getting
to Lincoln for the Nebraska Boys State Basketball Tourn
ament. They are considered armed (usually with two) and
dangerous.
It's a shame that there are some people who come
into Lincoln and care absolutely nothing about this
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campus and the students on it. But let's stop talking
about state legislators and get back to high school
students.
This weekend thousands of these kids will pour into
our city - at the city's advantage. Stores will sell more
products (particularly liquor stores). The police will
fine many people for parking violations (of course, it's
hard to collect the fine if the kid is back in North Platte).
And restaurants will do more business than Dolly Parton's
"Best Little Whorehouse in Texas."
Despite this economic boom, these out -of-t owners
will cause nothing but trouble for those of us who like
peace and quiet. (OK, this doesn't include Abel Hall
and fraternities.)
Most parents don't know the real reasons their little
darlings come down for the tournament. They actually
think, get this, that these kids are down here to watch
the basketball games, and maybe to go to a movie (PG,
of course) and get some ice cream later.
Most parents don't know:
1. When the tournament ends, some kids won't get
home until some time in May.
2. That their children are even gone.
3. That Rembrandt died in 1669.
4. That most kids don't know the name of the school
their team is playing against, and even if they did, it
wouldn't matter because they won't be at the game
anyway.
But those are the parents' problems. I'm more concern
ed with the students of UNL. That's me and you, baby.
And you can make it through, if you follow my five
point plan for surviving the state tournament weekend.
1. Wear nothing but rock concert T-shirts so they will
think you are one of them.
2. Only eat in restaurants when it is absolutely neces
sary. And don't order Domino's pizza. Most of the
delivery men won't make it through the weekend without
being mugged.
3. Go to the high school basketball games. They are
entertaining and one place where you can be sure to get
away from the high school crowd.
4. You can also escape them in bars and churches.
They can't get into the bars, and churches are the last
thing on their minds. (A note: Don't confuse the churches
with bars. Most priests don't know how to make Moscow
Mules.)
5. Lock yourself in your room or apartment until
Sunday night. Option B: Lock yourself in with a member
of the opposite sex.
That's all I can do for you.
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