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t bnday, February 0, 1CC4 r: : 1 ATA1 rG qJ - c By Ctu Pcsplsil Moe Iba has an Army recruiter's predicament he's looking for a few good men, five to be exact. After Nebraska's embarassing 69-48 loss to Iowa State Saturday, Iba said no player has a position assured for the remainder of the season. "We're going to find five people who want to play," Iba said. "It doesn't matter to me who those players are. And I told them that after the game. "I said we worked awfully hard to gain respecta bility, and to go out in front of our home fans and play that way should be embarassing to them. I've never had a team which never tried as hard as they could. We've got to get that back in the next five games." Iba and the 9,878 in attendance witnessed the Huskers suffer their most dreary night of a 14-9 season, shooting 31.3 percent from the field. The 21-point loss was Nebraska's worst since a 79-56 setback at Missouri during the 1982-83 season, and the worst at home since the Tigers defeated Neb raska 84-63 in the 1979-80 season. Nebraska had hit six of its first eight shots to take a 12-6 lead with 13:59 left. Stan Cloudy scored eight of his team-leading 20 points in that span on four jumpers. Iowa State then gave the Huskers a lesson in frus tration for the next 12V4 minutes as the Cyclones' sagging 2-3 zone defense collapsed around center Dave Hoppen...and collapsed Nebraska's offense. "The big thing we did was shutting down Hoppen," Iowa State Coach Johnny Orr said. "Everything in their offense is oriented around Hoppen." While the Huskers could muster only two Hoppen baskets spaced 7:38 apart, Iowa State seized a 27-1 6 lead. Ter ranee Allen scored eight of his 12 points in the spree, while Barry Stevens added six. Nebraska trimmed the Cyclones' lead to nine at halftime, and it appeared as if the Huskers would rally as they had in the earlier game at Ames (64-63, Nebraska). But Cloudy, Hoppen and David Ponce, a trio that averages 50 percent from the field, connected on only six of 22 second-half shots. And they were the only Huskers to score until reserve forward Curtis Moore drove the lane with 5:35 left. Starters Eric Williams and John Matzke failed to score, as substitutes Moore and Brian Carr, each with four points, were the only other players in the scoring column. Meanwhile, Stevens and Jeff Hornacek scored at will, each with 1 5 second-half points. ' Stevens built a 17-point lead for the Cyclones midway through the half on a 15-footer, a follow shot and a short jumper. Hornacek was perfect on all 1 1 free throws he attempted in the final 20 minutes. As a team, Iowa State made 18 of its last 19 from the line. "You've got to make them (free throws) when you're going down the stretch " Orr said. A belated llusker rally by Moore and Carr brought Nebraska to within nine with 3:18 left, but the wan ing moments were filled with fouls, Hornacek free throws and further frustration for Nebraska. Moore was ejected with 1:12 left for a flagrant technical foul on the Cyclones' Tom Peterson, a call which brought debris flying from some in the dwin dling crowd. Cloudy finished with 20 points, and Hoppen added 14 on a 4-for-9 shooting, his worst perfor1 mance since going 3-for-9 against Texas Tech. By winning, Iowa State further jumbled up the Big Eiht conference standings. Six teams ISU, Nebraska, Oldahoma State, Mis- f I -4 r Icwa Ctats's Earry Ctavcr;3 rails ever tlis Ilcsicra' Erin Carr enrcuta ta a 0-43 eil!ic: cf Netraa. Stevens eccred 23 pcir.ta in CatarJry r.ft's c.a. TLa Izzs Icn C.2 liters r.lt!i a 4-0 conference record er.i tl:c:r tl.ird ttra!g!t lc::3 at I:cro. . souri, Kansas State and Colorado are tied for third through eighth with 4-6 records. The legjam will be broken when the teams pair up for Wednesday niht games' . :, "I told our team that if we beat Nebraska, we'd be in a six-way tie for third in the Elg Eight," Orr said, "because I knew those other teams would win. Now you just have to look and see who plays who." Nebraska must travel to Oklahoma State Wed nesday, where the Huskers lost a 71-63 double overtime decision last season. Wichita Sivsie team bowls CV57 'region . Cyclone rally falls one point short By Gcctt Ahlstrsnd A furious second-half rally by Iowa State fell short, as the Nebraska women's basketball team held on for a 63-67 victory Sunday at the Bob Deva ney Sports Center. Trailing by a point, the Cyclones had the ball out of bounds underneath their own basket. They tried to lob a pass to Tonya Burns. The ball bounced off her fingers and was stolen by Husker center Angle Miller to ice the win. The victory evened Nebraska's Big Eight record at 5-5, and moved the Huskers to 15-8 overall The Cyclones fell to a dismal 0-10 in the conference and 4-19 overall. f "We played well enough to win, but that's about all," first-year Coach Kelly Hill said. "This is a big emotional lilt for us. We needed to win a close game at home." ......... ... . The first half saw the lead change hands seven times until a 12-4 surge by the Huskers gave Nebraska a 36 -27 halftime lead. - Nebraska limited Burns, Iowa State's leading scorer, to five points in the first half. But the 6-1 center from Loe, Ind., keyed the Cyclones' second half rally. Burns, who scored 42 points earlier in the season against the Huskers, burned the nets for 16 points after intermission. "We were struggling in the second half," Hill said. "Burns came on in the second half and get hot, like she always does." Nebraska countered Iowa State's one-two punch of Burns and Monica Missel, who finished with 20 points, with a balanced team attack. Miller led the way with 14 points, followed -by Debra Powell's 13. Cathy Owen and Stccy Inning each scored 10 points and He III Benson and Shelley Block each added 8. Wichita State won both the men's and women's divisions in the Region XI bowling qualifying meet in the tournament at both Nebraska unions this past weekend. In the men's competition, Wichita State, which is rated No. 1 in the nation, was led by Joey Duerr, the all-events champion, with 1E07 pins. He and team mate Tim Sites, wno was tilth in the all events com petition, were the top tandem in the tourney. WSU's two-day total was 8760. Nebraska finished with 533. UNL relied on a team effort led by Terry Synovec with 1748 pins and Bob Dill with 1739. Recreation spokesman Raleigh Hughes su?-cted that Nebraska's strong showing could give them a chance to qualify for the sectional niect in Denver in April. v "We rot beat bv 200 nin" Hiv W -m n,. rty ia t too mucn in Dowimg. We ve been push them (Wichita State) all year so I think we'll ft -ii t, - ii ui io me sectional meet. . No Nebraska bowlers finished in the ton five individual!'.- Wichita State won the women's competition with a strong balanced attack Kansas edged out1 the U-:brz;::i team for second place by only 12 r'ns It was the tcct finish ever for the UNL womcrC and Hughes suggested that they also might have a shot a, quswying for the eight-team sectional meet in Denver. "They take el :ht team p.v.n 1 so raayba they will f-Ure thv w .t strong teams so we raiht rVMMVr1 ing an