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Thursday, March 14, 1885 n .. . , ,nur 7 Daily Ncbraskan Pag 15 1 i . Nil beats Canisius to advance in NIT Staff Ecrr The Nebraska basketball team de r.t! Canislu3 Colle? 3 73-C3 Wednss- IVVV" - night St the fob to Sports ?lSS?JS?.Cf th8 IMuhhuu iMiv.. j For Nebraska It was its third con- M cecutive opening round NIT victory. :,! S ear the Corners opened with I awin against Creighten in Omaha end years ago the ikhers opened with 4tcry at homo e::i-t fes. I Ska's seccJd round opponent Win not be known until late Mday St when the NIT first rci-r.d to ' mmiileted. Wednesday wgz s rune iscKea mere like a football gor.-.e than a boskcti-all game at times. Fifty-sis fcub were called in the gsme, 31 on Csabtos end 25 on Nebraska. Three Czli:. Cr!..?.r.3 fouled out of the gome end two Buskers fouled out . When there are t!:t cf kzh called . there are usually t!:o a ht cf f.c3 throws shot. Wednesday night's gams did not deviate front that pattern. The Buskers shot 41 free throws tr.d sank 33. Canisius shot 23 free threes end made 18. I Leading the way to the charity stripe I was Nebraska's Dave Hoppen. The All- Big tignt center sonx 13 or lb rree scored 14, Curtis Moore 11 and Brian throws and finished the game with 21 Carr 10. Ray Hall led Canisius with 16, points. Mike Smrek, who played only 17 min After leading by 33-33 at the half, utcs, scored 14 and Michael Ray Jack Nebraska outscored the Golden Grif- so? added 10. !"Nk-.. r s f Y A I - V ' Dsve IIoppcn powers bis wsy psast Lsaaost G Ilbert far a lsy-mp. ITT H "1 nil tukff 1 1 1 f 9 i 1 ByMikenciUsy I Nebraska's men's borkctboll tern introduced Celsius College to a new , style of basketball Wednesday nlht ! when it defeated the Golden GriSns i 79-66 in the n rw-i etth National uctc&ixu u tnuuen uriuiis , Invitation Touraanent tt the Bob Dev- aney Sports Center. "For us. it was a uhvsicai come." I Canisius Coach Nick Maesf chnk sold. "We're not used to that physical of a game back on the coast." ,1 nuskers, particulrly gard Harvey Marshall had "one cf the best dsfsisive games weVe ployed all year." I . i Marshall, a S3Jr:.icrfixn Jackson, ' Tenn., held Car.bk3' kaai?..t gcoror " iir acgar" Esy Kill to 13 points, five fins 18-10 at the beginning of the second half to lead 54-43 with 11:54 to play. Nebraska led 61-51 at 8:33 on two HiaiKiSKiSS to jo la the game. But Neorasxa scored 11 or the next 14 poSnt5 to put th8 Gclden 0riffl . ., ... . ,'"5 hdrca shot 2 g.e the Golden GriT Mould r4Thh I 24 field oa! 0 2JfcrNeb:r.ka.Th.2 Kuskers scored d th IasW Rinf ! Pf t were able o control the game at the free throw line. The first half was all Nebraska u it jampea loaio-o iesa awwuon two or Horn's free throws. The lead f.tayed between five and seven point?, until 10:33 when two Demetrius Buchanan 3 thrcv3 put Nebraska up by 10. The Gclden GriSlis then eutsecrtd Ne- b:::!:a 10-2 to trail 23-25 with 5:13 to go to ths half, Conius only lead cf the gamewss 4-2 at 18:31. Alter Nebraska's initial run, the closest the Golden Griffins could est was 33-35 early in the second half. Besides Hoppen, Nebraska got dou- ble ftp res from four other players. Eill Jackra&rt scored 15, Harvey Marshall Ip 'V' ' Y below his average by "overplayinu him on the wings and playing hard-nesed defense." "They (the ofOciols) had a couple of "I knew he was coming in averaging The Busker's two-time All-Big Eight ' 'fouls on , everybody that were skepti 21 Dcints a game and that he was a center scored a fome-hiffli 21 points col." he said. .. ...... M .. i n realiy good Dau player, Marsaausaia. "I Jst tjieo to put as mucn pressure on him as I could." "Harvey did a great job on Hall," Iba said. "He chased him all around.' " Marshall finished with 14 points. Canisius, which is Id N.Yn was whistlsd far a tcizl cf 31 fouls in the game. Three Gclisa GriZns, isdudlrs 7-0 center l.!ikeSmrek, fouled cut. Smrek eiitedwith 8:33 remaining ia a, the gms when he fouled Ketroska's - ! Dave Hoppeii blcka & shat anisius Dave Hoppen. Hoppen scored on the play and added a free throw to give the Iluskers a 61-51 lead. : . . . - "... . . m& surpassed Andre Smith to taste second place on Nebraska's all-time scoring list. 'The officials never take you out of a there were two big men out there tonight, and they just wouldn't let them play." n said the careM cffidatin.t slowed Smrek's phpicsl play iiisiis. lie plarough, hard game in: lioppsn s id. 'The r:j were calling a 1 gams, mcsrcnu& saia oi ine inree lag uie nusxera- a ieaa iney never re- s wrrj Ten conference refefees who officiated iinquished better record th - ft ff 1 1. Al . ll A.V JT 1 ms i;.y cniy concern was ir.as A-i -X V.-- ' I &cn Cluia Ileir.ali during flrr.t hilf 111 ms lot of touchy fouls. He was a little unfortunate, Canisius held an early 4-2 advantage, but Nebraska forward Curtis Moore scored five unanswered points to give The 6-4 senior irca Mount Vernon, N.Y. said he was thankful to have the opportunity to plsy in Lincoln one last time. . Moore secrsd 1 i points before foul- ing cut with 6:13 remaining in the" game. ! I v ' (-' i V - r - y; I v: J ; A - J . - r play in Nebraska's victory over "It's my lost gome here," Moore said. "I just wanted to go ahead and have some fait."' Moore was doubtful the Buskers would be in the HIT a week ago. "After we lost to Kansas I wasn't sure if we were going to get a bid," Moore said. But then I locked at seme rt thlk t' tw'rafli it nt- tL 16-1S and we had a LI iDa wa3 happy to have his team in NIT for the third censecutive year, 'Tm very happy for the players," Iba said. 'Theywsnted to play another ball gome very badly and the seders wasted to play. It was o opportunity for them to ploy one mere time at heme."