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Friday, March 18, 1983
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Staff photo by John Zoz
Dave Hoppen rebounds against Tulane's John Williams
in last night's 72-65 defeat of the Green Wave.
By Bob Asmusscn and Kevin Warneke
It became a Cloudy night for the Green Wave of
Tulane Thursday at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Nebraska's 6-4 junior forward Stan Cloudy scored
20 points as Nebraska beat Tulane, 72-65 in a first-round
National Invitational Tournament game.
Nebraska hit the opening basket only 27 seconds into
the game, as Dave Hoppen's jumper ripped the net.
Hoppen sank his second basket with 18:14 remaining
in the first half to give Nebraska a 4-0 lead.
From then on, neither team could take total command
as the lead changed nine times before the end of the
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Claude Ren fro gave Nebraska a six-point lead when he
slammed home his rebound of a Greg Downing missed
shot with 13:45 to go in the first half.
Lenard Johnson's layup with 10:08 in the half gave
Nebraska its biggest lead. 22-15.
But the Green Wave fought back and outscored Ne
braska 10-2 in a span of 4:38 to take a 27-24 lead with
5:14 remaining.
With 3:54 remaining in the half, Hoppen's hook shot
from inside the lane put Nebraska ahead 30-29.
The lead seesawed back and forth until Stan Cloudy's
lip-in of David Ponce's desperation shot sent Nebraska to
the locker room with a 36-35 first-half lead.
Hoppen and Ponce each contributed 10 points to aid
the Husker first-half cause, while Howard Jenkins kept
Tulane close with 12 points.
Nebraska's first-half eltort was aided by the crowd of
12,053.
'"That was the loudest crowd we've had all year,"
Nebraska Coach Moe Iba said. "The players couldn't
hear what we were saying.
"I knew they came ready to cheer, so I wanted to be
ready to play," Ponce said.
"The crowd always helps you out," Cloudy said. "May
be if you're in Tulane with a nine-point lead, maybe it
wouldn't have turned out that way."
The nine-point lead Cloudy referred to was with 5:14
left in the game, when he hit a 12-foot jumper from the
right side to give Nebraska a 62-53 lead.
The Huskers were able to accumulate this lead, with a
controlled offense that committed only one turnover up
to that 5:14 point.
Tulane had numerous opportunities to get back into
the game during the last five minutes, but 42 percent
shooting from the field in the second half hindered the
Green Wave.
Tulane had its opportunity to grasp victory, thanks to
poor free throw shooting by the Huskers down the
stretch.
The usual steady free throw shooting of Hoppen failed
to materialize as he missed five straight free throws in the
last 4:37 of the game.
"1 was glad they didn't matter," Hoppen said. "1 had
no idea what went wrong. When 1 missed those two free
throws in a row (at 4:37) I just started thinking about
them too much."
Two consecutive slam dunks by Cloudy and Renfro
iced the game for the 20-9 Huskers.
Cloudy, with 10 of 17 shooting from the floor, led the
Huskers with 20 points. He was followed closely by
Hoppen and POnce's 16 points a piece. Renfro added 10.
Elton Webster led Tulane with 15 points. Jenkins was
held scoreless in the second half and finished with 12
points.
John Williams scored 10 points and Paul Thompson,
averaging 17 points a game, was held to 10 points.
Nebraska out-rebounded their counterparts 37 to 31,
led by Cloudy, who pulled down 14 caroms. Renfro had
nine.
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Rumors. You hear them all the time. Half the time
they're true and half the time they're not. One other
thing about rumors is that they are always interesting.
To illustrate my point, I'll introduce two rumors in
my column today. One will be true while the other
may or may not. Try and guess which is which.
Rumor No. 1 :
A certain coach of a certain athletic team at a certain
university in Lincoln may not have the same position
Bob
Asmussen
next year. This coach has been with the university for
a good many years and his position may be one that is
considered sacred. But, as we all know, life is tough in
the Big Eight, especially for coaches who are not in
credibly successful.
The rumors have been flying in regard to this person
tor quite a tew years. Is he gone? Why is he still around?
Will he ever lead us to victory again? All valid questions,
none of which have very good answers.
So the big problem is: What to do with this person
with all these years of dedication? I know what you do
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with him. You don't fire him, you don't demote him
but you promote someone else. Who do we promote?
I know, the successful coach of another program at the
same school.
See what I mean? Rumors really are interesting. They
are also confusing. It probably would have helped if 1
had mentioned the name of the person whose job is
being dimished, or the program that he coaches. It would
have been helpful, .but for me it also would have been
stupid. That's the other fun thing about rumors, if you're
a reporter at a newspaper that puts the rumors ;n print,
and then turn out to be true " . . the athletic department
will never speak to you again, and you'll be doing the
women's page in Biloxi, Miss., for the rest of your natural
life.
Rumor No. 2:
A certain Daily Nebraskan sports editor is beating
around the bush. He's afraid that if he mentions the
coach's name or the program he'll get in serious trouble.
This is the rumor that is true. I'm afraid for a lot of
people, but especially for myself. It's taken me this long
to mention the coach in question, Frank Sevigne, and
the program in question, the Nebraska men's track pro
gram. See, that didn't hurt too bad, at least not until
tomorrow.
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By Mark Quandahl
Nebraska Men's Swimming Coach Cal Bentz is obvious
ly pleased with the achievements of the 10 Cornhuskers
who have qualified for the NCAA meet to be held March
24 through March 26 in Indianapolis, Indiana.
"This group of people really applied themselves to
the 'goals we had set," Bentz said. "And the payoffs
were bound to come."
Bentz said the 10 qualifiers tied the Husker record for
the number of participants in nationals, and were entered
in more individual events than ever before in Nebraska
history.
Tim Brinner qualified to participate in the medley
relay, and the 100-yard and 200-yard breaststroke. Rick
Gilbertson got the nod tor trie 200 breaststroke while
David Hecker will participate in the 800-yard freestyle
relay. Jim Korff will be included in the 400 freestyle
relay, Matt Rye is in the 200 breaststroke, and Earl
Welliver qualified for the 400 medley relay, the 400
freestyle relay and the 800 freestyle relay. Kevin
Weires also qualified tor the three relays as did former
All-American Cliff Looschen, who will also be in the 100
and 200 backstroke and the 100 and 200 freestyle.
Bentz said he thought everyone who qualified for the
Huskers would do "just fine."
"We're going to swim really fast," Bentz said. "And
let the team place take care of itself.
I guess what it all comes down to is a question of
journalistic integrity. It is a question for me of whether
I write what I know or not. In my heart, I know the
right thing to do is to write what I know. Common
sense, on the other hand, tells me to do what will en
hance my relationship with the athletic department.
Also, I've got a friend who might be affected by
the fact that this news is out early, and that is another
problem. He trusted me enough to tell me what he knew,
and for that I thank him. At the same time, I wish he
would understand that I'm writing this for the sake of
truth and nothing else. Oh sure, I like to beat the Lincoln
Journal to a story just like everyone else, but in this
case, I know I'm not beating them to the story because
they have the same information I have.
In my opinion, you can look for some measures about
Coach Sevigne to be taken Saturday at the NU Board of
Regents meeting. Women's Coach Gary Pepin will likely
be promoted to share Sevigne's duties. The status of
Dick Railsback and Mark Fluitt, Sevigne's assistant
coaches, is up in the air at this time, but more will be
known later this week.
Here's one for honesty. Hello Biloxi.
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'We're going to really concentrate on individual per
formance, and after the smoke clears, we should be sitting
pretty well," Bentz said.
Bentz said the team was in the "taper and rest" phase
of training until they take off for Indiana on Tuesday
morning.
"This meet is probably going to be the fastest in the
world this year, as is usually the case," Bentz said.
In the diving competition, Coach Jeff Huber said
Dave Goodwin will compete on the 1 -meter board,
while Reynaldo Castro will be on both the 1- and 3
meter boards.
"If they can get in the groove, and if they get hot,
they'll score really well," Huber said.
Both are capable of getting in the top six."
"This is the strongest group of qualifiers that we have
ever sent to nationals," Huber said. "And that goes not
only for us, but for the whole zone." He said the better
the zone qualifiers do at nationals, the more spots will
be reserved for them next year.
"Every person we have entered is capable of scoring,"
Bentz said. "And we have more scoring opportunities
than ever before, so all we need to do is to make sure
that everyone hits."
"We feel really good," he said.
"At this point in the season, we've done the things
we've set out to do."