Thursday, January 16, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
Page 13
Sport
By Bob Asmussen
Senior Editor
Unfortunately for the Nebraska bas
ketball team, Wednesday night's first
half was the calm before the storm.
The storm came in the form of No.
8 ranked Kansas. A team that might
have proved in Wednesday's first half
that it can be vulnerable, but rallied in
the second half for an 81-70 win.
Nebraska played a solid first half in
building a 37-32 lead.
The biggest play of the half for
Nebraska came with 1:03 left, when
Kansas coach Larry Brown was called
for a technical foul. Brown was protest
ing a foul called on 7-foot center Greg
Dreiling, his third foul of the game.
Nebraska center Dave Hoppen sank
the foul shots and Brian Carr hit both
technical foul shots. Hoppen's dunk
with :20 left in the half made it a six
point Nebraska possession.
But taking a five-point lead on the
Jayhawks at halftime might be similar
to getting into a war with Rambo, you
usually end up only making them mad.
Harvey Marshall hit a basket with
18:57 left in the game to give Nebraska
a 39-32 lead. On Kansas' next trip down
the floor, Danny Manning hit an 18-foot
shot and was fouled. He converted the
free throw and Kansas trailed 39-35.
Dreiling followed Manning's three
point play with a dunk shot and the
Jayhawks trailed 39-37. Nebraska got a
41-37 lead on a tip-in by Hoppen.,
The turning point of the game may
have been at 16:05 when Kansas' Ced
ric Hunter converted the first of back-to-back
steals and layups. The second
layup gave Kansas a 43-41 lead, its first
lead since the 1:46 mark of the first
half.
"In the first half, we had been care
less and gave some turnovers, but they
didn't lead to buckets," Nebraska coach
Moe Iba said. 'They did lead to buckets
in the second half."
Iba said Kansas did a much better
job defensively in the second half.
Nebraska shot 59 percent from the
field in the first half, but hit only 50
percent of its shots in the second half.
"I think they came out and covered
people they wanted to cover a little
tougher in the second half," Iba said.
After Hunter's basket gave the Jay
hawks a 43-41 lead, Kansas scored the
next four points to go up 47-41. The two
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Gymnastic coach wary of Oklahoma,
By Kristi ReetZ Staff Reporter
Francis Allen, Nebraska men's gym
nastics coach, said he thinks his team
is in for a tough time when they travel
to Norman to face the Oklahoma Soon
ers and Iowa State Cyclones Saturday.
"Oklahoma is the darkhorse to fin
ish in the top three of the NCAA at the
end of the season," Allen said. "They
will be tough to beat on their home
floor." i
Nebraska goes into the meet having .;;
won and lost to both Oklahoma and A
Iowa State this season. The Huskers
finished ahead of the teams at the Big :
Eight Invitational, but lost to them at .
the Windy City Invitational.
A big boost for the Huskers will be
the return of all-arounder Kevin Davis.
Davis, a sophomore from Lithonia, Ga.,
dislocated his ankle in September and
teams traded baskets until Chris Logan
and Bernard Day hit consecutive buckets
to pull Nebraska closer. Day was fouled
on his basket and his free throw pulled
the game to within 51-49.
With the momentum seemingly
headed in Nebraska's favor, old neme
sis Ron Kellogg came through again for
Kansas. Kellogg, who scored a Sports
Center record 39 points in last season's
game, converted a three-point play
with 11:38 left to put Kansas back up
by five pointy, 56-51.
The team's traded baskets for the
next eight minutes, with Nebraska
never gettting closer than three and
Kansas never leading by more than
eight. Kansas scored five consecutive
points late in the game to go up 76-64,
the Jayhawks biggest lead of the night.
Iba said the key to the Kansas vic
tory was the way the Jayhawks exe
cuted, and the fact that Nebraska
failed to execute, in the first five min
utes of the second half.
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"I think Kansas came out and played
a little harder in the second half than
we did," Iba said. "In the second half,
we stood around pretty bad five min
utes and let them back in. They out
hustled us."
Kansas' shooting percentage in the
second half was 74 percent and the
Jayhawks shot 64 percent for the game.
Manning hit 1 0 of 1 4 shots on his way to
21 points.
"Manning hurt us very badly in the
ballgame," Iba said.
Dreiling scored 1 6 points for Kansas,
Hunter and Kellogg scored 14 points
each. Dreiling led the Jayhawks with
Please see GAME on 15
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Cedric Hunter enjoyed his home
coming Wednesday night in more ways
than one.
The 6-0 junior from Omaha scored a
season-high 13 points as he and his
Kansas teammates defeated Nebraska
81-70 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center
before a crowd of 14,273.
The Omaha South High School grad
uate said the game didn't mean any
more to him just because it was against
the Cornhuskers.
competed in only four of six events at
the last meet.
"Davis' return means that we'll have
six scores to consider instead of five,"
Allen said. "With him back we have a
buffer for the others. They can compete
better and not be as tense about doing
well."
The gymnasts had Christmas off to
"recuperate from a long year of competi
tion. ' :'.. "Some of these guys have been com
peting all year long, including in the
summer," Allen said. "They can lose
their intensity when they have to per
form constantly, so they deserved a
break."
The 1985 NCAA all-around cham
pion, Wes Suter, said he thinks the
semester break helped him a lot
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than in the past because I had some
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from a five point second half deficit to beat the Huskers 81-70.
"I just took it as any other game,"
Hunter said. "I was really glad I got a
chance to play in front of my family and
some of my friends that I haven't seen
in awhile. Other than that, it was just
another game."
As a senior at Omaha South, Hunter
had narrowed his choices of where he
was going to play college basketball to
Nebraska and Kansas. He said that he
doesn't regret his decision to become a
Jayhawk.
"I looked at (Nebraska) and they
looked at me," Hunter said, "but it just
didn't work out. I went and visited
really good workouts over break since I
didn't have any classes to worry about,"
Suter said.
Suter is up for the 1986 Nissan
Award, which is awarded to the top
senior collegiate gymnast in the coun
try. Suter says he's not thinking of any
individual awards now, but concentrat
ing on a team championship at the
NCAA meet in April.
The Nebraska women's gymnastics
team is also in action this Saturday. It
will meet Oklahoma State in Stillwater.
Women's coach Rick Walton said he
is optimistic about the meet.
"We expect to win it," Walton said.
"It's our conference opener and our
first real NCAA meet. We hope to kick
off the season with a win so we can
establish outselves as NCAA contend
ers.
The Huskers got a confidence boost
Kansas and I liked what I saw and I
decided to go there."
Kansas coach Larry Brown said he.
was pleased with Hunter's performance.
"Cedric is certainly in a class with
Carr," Brown said. "He's our best de
fender and he's gotten so much better
offensively."
Hunter said he didn't think this was
his best game of the year, despite his
season best of 14 points.
"I turned the ball over a couple too
many times," he said. "I wasn't really
that aggressive, either. I think if I'd
have been more aggressive we wouldn't
in December when they defeated Japan
in an exhibition meet. Freshman all
arounder Crystal Savage of Sioux Falls,
S.D., said she enjoyed the meet.
"I think it helped us a lot," Savage
said. "It showed us where we are as a
team and how we compare with eve
ryone else."
The Huskers had Dec. 20 through 29
off for Christmas, then started practic
ing twice a day for 10 days before set
tling into the regular practice schedule.
Walton said he thinks his team is
ready for the opening meet.
"I was actually a little surprised
about the exhibition meet because
even though it was a long meet, eve
ryone performed with consistency,"
Walton said.
Walton said the injury situation is
looking better. Freshman Mary Ocel
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have been down as much as we were (in
the first half).
"We knew we had to put some pres
sure on (Nebraska) to make them start
committing some turnovers so we could
get back into the game," Hunter said of
the second half. "We just put a lot of
defensive pressure on them and they
started turning it over."
"I've been talking about him long
before I came back up here," Brown
said of Hunter. "I'm not just talking
about him to rub it in (the fact that he
went to Kansas). I'm just thankful we
got him. I can't say enough about him."
Iowa
from Apple Valley, Minn., is coming off
of a shoulder injury and will compete in
two or three events. Janet Holling, a
sophomore from Elkhorn, will perform
on the uneven parallel bars after hav
ing knee surgery before Christmas
vacation. The knee is still not com
pletely healed, though.
"My knee is still giving me prob
lems," Holling said. "I just started
doing my routines this week, and that
doesn't give me much time to prepare.
It just needs alittle more time to heal."
Freshman Jeaneane Smith, an all
arounder from Loves Park, 111., said she
thinks the Huskers have a good chance
at winning the meet.
"If everyone performs as they're
capable, we can definitely win it,"
Smith said. "A win would give us gveat
momentum going into the heavy part of
our schedule."