Monday, January 13, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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By Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter
Senior Stacy Imming has left the
Nebraska women's basketball team
apparently for personal reasons, Coach
Kelly Hill said.
Hill said that Imming, a two-year
starter, apparently encountered some
personal problems this season and has
chosen to remove herself from the
Nebraska basketball program.
"She (Imming) has been an impor
tant part of our program," Hill said.
"It's going to be tough to adjust to her
loss."
Imming entered this season as
Nebraska's No. 16 all-time leading
scorer with 619 points.
Last season, she earned honorable
mention All-Big Eight honors while
averaging 12.7 points per game and
leading the Cornhuskers in assists.
"Her (Imming's) decision came as a
surprise to everyone," Hill said.
Hill said that the Huskers must try
to put the sudden departure of Imming
ysiAir it
out of their minds and try to concen
trate on their conference opening game
against Kansas Tuesday night at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Jayhawks, Hill said, will pose
problems for the 7-6 Cornhuskers even
though 6-6 Philicia Allen has grad
uated. "Kansas has been real successful
getting the ball inside so we're going to
have to try and help out on the points,"
she said. "They also have very smart
players and who are all upperclassmen
so it's going to be an adjustment for
us."
Hill said that she is hoping that
Nebraska's return to the Bob Devaney
Sports Center will solve some of the
team's recently encountered problems.
During the course of the semester
break, Nebraska dropped five of six
games after starting the season with a
6-1 record.
Hill said that many of those prob
lems can be traced to the fact that all
five of Nebraska's losses over the
semester break were road losses while
the Huskers picked up their only win
over the break against Eastern Ken
tucky at home.
Nebraska, Hill said, simply doesn't
have the experience they need at this
point of the season to be competitive
on the road.
"We have so many young players that
our inexperience shows up (on the
road)," she said. "The support at home
has been terrific but playing on the
road has been difficult because of the
experience factor."
Hill said that Nebraska will be trying
to accomplish several things during
the course of their game with Kansas.
The first and perhaps most impor
tant thing Nebraska will try and do, she
said, will be to open the Big Eight sea
son with a win.
' Hill said her team will also try to be
more patient offensively and work for
the higher percentage shot.
"We've got to start shooting the
higher percentage shot just so we can
get some confidence back in the heads
of some of our shooters," she said.
"That's one thing that really hurt us on
our recent road trip our shooting
percentage."
Hill said that patience probably
won't be a key factor for the Huskers
during the course of the Big Eight sea
son since Nebraska will try to overcome
its' usual height disadvantage by using
a fast paced offense.
Oklahoma and Kansas State, Hill
said, are definitely the early season
favorites for the conference champion
ship, although the title race is far from
over because of the competitiveness of
this years' Big Eight conference.
"This is the most competitive I've
seen the Big Eight since I've been
here," Hill said. "Iowa State is 10-1
right now and Colorado had an excel
lent non-conference season so there
really isn't any weak teams in the con
ference at all."
"We had hoped to be a little more
successful going into the Big Eight sea
son but everybody is 0-0 as far as we are
concerned," she said. "It should be an
exciting conference race."
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Analysis by Bob Asmussen
Senior Editor
If you would have asked Nebraska football
coach Tom Osborne before the 1985 season if he
would take a guaranteed 9-3 season, and the
answer would have been a definite yes.
If you had asked any Nebraska fan the same
question after a 9-1 start, the answer would have
been the complete opposite.
The Cornhuskers ended the season on a sour
note, losing 27-23 to Michigan in the Sunkist
Fiesta Bowl. Making the season even more of a
disappointment for Nebraska fans was the way
both the Michigan and Oklahoma games were
lost.
Nebraska played a solid first half against
Michigan and led 14-3. The team was moving the
ball well and the defense had done a good job of
shutting down Michigan's balanced offense.
But in the third quarter, all hell broke loose
for the Nebraska offense. Following the second
half kickoff, Nebraska gained no yards on its first
two plays. On third and 10, 1-back Doug DuBose
fumbled and Michigan recovered.
It took Michigan four plays to travel the 21
yards and pull within 14-10. On Nebraska's next
possession, quarterback McCathorn Clayton
fumbled and again Michigan recovered. This
time it took the Wolverines five plays to cover 38
yards and take a 17-14 lead.
The trend of Nebraska fumbling and Michigan
recovering continued for the rest of the quarter.
The Wolverines scored a Sunkist Fiesta Bowl
record 24 third-quarter points.
Nebraska trailed 27-14 at the end of three
quarters. What looked to be at least a comforta
ble win now was a struggle even to keep in the
game.
Osborne replaced Clayton with freshman
Steve Taylor early in the fourth quarter and
Taylor drove the team from the Nebraska 3-yard
line to the Michigan 19. The drive sputtered and
Nebraska lost the ball on downs.
Nebraska did score on Taylor's run with 2:29
left. Nebraska got the ball back with 51 seconds
left in the game after Michigan took a safety, but
could not score to take the lead.
Taylor's play late in the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl
guaranteed one thing for the 1986 season, a
quarterback controversy. In one corner will be
those who think you go with experience (Clay
ton) and in the other corner will be those who
see visions of Turner Gill in Taylor. Thankfully,
it's the coaches' job to decide who starts and
plays. That's why they get the big bucks.
The Sunkist Fiesta Bowl loss to Michigan was
certainly no embarrassment for the Nebraska
football program. Michigan was a field goal away
from the Rose Bowl and a possible national
championship.
But the thing that frustrates the fans,
coaches and players is that once again in 1985,
Nebraska had control of its own destiny in
regards to the national championship. Beat
Oklahoma, beat Penn State and the title was
theirs. Once again the team came up short.
The 1985 season should have proved not win
ning at all isn't so bad. Quick, name last year's
national champion. It was Brigham Young. The
Cougars, with many of the same players, had a
disappointing season, including an incredible
loss to pathetic UTEP.
So Nebraska didn't win the title. They didn't
lose to UTEP either. Being a model of consis
tency is not a bad thing. It is something that
should be commended. Nebraska came up short top 10. Start complaining when they lose to
against Michigan yet still finished 9-3 and in the UlbP.
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Nebraska junior l-back Doug DuBose is tackled after carrying the ball against
Michigan in the Sunkist Fiesta Bowl Jan. 1. DuBose gained 99 yards and
scored two touchdowns in Nebraska's 27-23 loss to the Wolverines.
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