Friday, January 17, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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Chievous
Hoppen,
in battle
By Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter
Nebraska center Dave Hoppen re
gained something he lost last season
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Indoor meet to test
track teams' skills
By Richard Cooper
Staff Reporter
Nebraska track coach Gary Pepin
said Saturday's indoor meet against
Wyoming, Drake and Wichita State
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center
will show the teams how to defend
their Big Eight indoor titles.
Pepin said both teams are young
but have excellent athletes. They
are well-balanced and have a good
chance at the Big Eight title.
"We are going to go out, run and
see what the athletes' strengths and
weaknesses are so we can go back
and get our athletes ready for the
big meets," Pepin said.
Pepin said he is most concerned
about sprints on the men's team.
Keith Jones, the defending Big Eight
champion in the 60-yard dash, is on
the team but won't compete Satur-'
day because he only has practiced
one week.
Pepin said he is a little worried
because John Kelley and Dana Brin
son have not contacted him.
The rest of the team's strongest
areas are distance, middle distance
and the field events, he said.
During semester break the team
picked up a few more athletes who
should help, he said. One of them,
Carl Mouton from Randburg, South
Africa, was his country's Junior
National Champion in the 800.
Pepin said Mouton should give
Regis Humphrey good practice
competition. Another strong addi
tion to the team is Kent Wells, a
gold medalist in the shotput at last
year's Nebraska State High School
meet.
Pepin said this year's men's team
has a lot of potential. The Corn
huskers have 18 returning letter
men, one All-American and four all-
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Tiger coach says team needs best game to win
Probable starters: expected to return against the Corn- Missouri. boost of c
Missouri (14-5)
F Derrick Chievous 6-6 Soph.
F Mike Sanbothe 6-7 Fresh.
C Dan Bingenheimer 6-9 Sen.
G Jeff Strong 6-1 Sen.
G Lynn Hardy 6-2 Soph.
Nebraska (10-4)
F Bernard Day 6-5 Jr.
F John Matzke 6-5 Sen.
C DaveHoppen 6-11 Sen.
G Brian Carr 6-1 Jr.
G Harvey Marshall 6-3 Sen.
Tip-off: 7:35 p.m. at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center.
By Mike Reilley
and
Jeff Apel
Staff Reporters
Missouri men's basketball coach
Norm Stewart said earlier this week
that a win against Oklahoma State on
Tuesday night would give the Tigers "a
good feeling" about themselves as they
head into Saturday night's game against
Nebraska.
The Tigers did win, 55-51, and with
out the help of their leading scorer,
Derrick Chievous. Chievous, who aver
ages 18.9 points a game, missed the
game with a sprained ankle. He's
Sellers face off
of NBA hopefuls
when the Cornhuskers played in the
Sun Bowl Tournament.
Hoppen, Nebraska's all-Big Eight
center, said he missed not playing this
season against Creighton center Benoit
Big Eight performers.
Iowa State and Kansas State have
good teams and will challenge the
Huskers for the Big Eight title,
Pepin said.
The women's team has the talent
to push strongly for the National
Championship, Pepin said. The
Huskers will return 22 letter winners,
six all-Big Eight performers and four
Ail-Americans.
He said the women's team is the
team to beat in the Big Eight. The
Huskers have dominated the con
ference by winning five straight Big
Eight indoor championships and
four out of the last five years have
won the national championship.
Leading the Huskers will be 12
time All-American Angela Thacker.
Pepin said Thacker will not com
pete in the long jump this season
because of a bad knee. She is in
excellent running shape and should
have a good season, he said.
Pepin said the team is well
balanced but is a young team with
only four seniors. The distance team
is strong, with some of the top
runners in the Big Eight.
Jill Noel, Laura Wight and Mary
Amen all were national qualifiers
last year and helped the women's
cross country team win the Big
Eight title last fall. Pepin said with
the addition of two runners from
Denmark, Heidi Christiansen and
Trine Pedersen, the distance team
will make the Huskers tough to
beat.
The season's first meet is basi
cally a practice met, he said. It will
give the coaches a chance to see
how in-shape the athletes are.
All three teams competing against
the Huskers will have some good
individuals but won't be very strong
as teams, Pepin said.
huskers.
Still, with or without Chievous, Ste
wart expects a tough game.
"We're going to need our best game
to date in order to win," Stewart said.
With Chievous out, the rest of the
Tigers had to pick up the scoring slack
against Oklahoma State. Center Dan
Bingenheimer had 16 points, including
four free throws in the final 30 seconds
to secure the win. Guards Jeff Strong
and Lynn Hardy added 15 and 12 points
respectively.
Coach Moe Iba said he doesn't know
which Missouri team Nebraska will
face in the game against the Tigers
Saturday.
Iba said that facing Missouri is
almost like facing two teams because
the Tigers can use either a big or small
lineup.
That, Iba said, could pose problems
for the Huskers.
"Missouri can put in a big lineup in
the game just like Kansas can," he
said. "They can also use a smaller
lineup, so we won't know which one to
expect until game time."
Iba said that Nebraska will have to
control both the transition game and
the offensive boards to succeed against
Benjamin and Oklahoma center Way
man Tisdale. Both chose to forgo their
senior college basketball seasons to be
eligible for the National Basketball
Association draft.
But in the Sun Bowl Tournament,
Hoppen again faced a player of Ben
jamin and Tisdale's caliber: Ohio State's
Brad Sellers.
"Facing a player of Sellers' caliber
definitely helped me to get ready emo
tionally before the game," Hoppen
said.
Hoppen started slowly at this year's
tournament: Three early fouls sent him
to the bench with only two points.
Reserve center Deak Vance, who left
the team Monday, replaced Hoppen. He
scored six points, pulling Nebraska to
38 points against Ohio State's 44 at
halftime.
Cornhusker coach Moe Iba said the
early problems Hoppen had against
Sellers were because of a recent slump.
"I think David (Hoppen) is pressing
a little bit right now," Iba said. "He's
struggling."
Hoppen ignited a second-half Ne
braska rally that resulted in a 69-66
victory over the Buckeyes. He scored 17
second-half points.
The key to his second-half success,
Hoppen said, was that he stayed out of
foul trouble, even though Ohio State
continued to play physical basketball.
Hoppen said Sellers' quickness and
jumping ability are his main strengths.
"I think he is really a good ball
player," Hoppen said. "He moves really
well on the floor."
Sellers said he didn't approach the
game against Hoppen differently than
any other game.
Players in the Big Ten Conference
face opponents of Hoppen's caliber all
the time, he said.
"We don't do too many specific
things to try and stop anyone," Sellers
said.
Sellers said he was far from satisfied
with his 13-point performance against
Nebraska. He shot only four of 13 from
the floor.
Even so, Sellers said, the Ohio State
team had not experienced any letdown
after the Buckeyes 58-57 loss to UTEP
the night before.
"We just take one game at a time, so
there wasn't any type of letdown at all,"
he said. "We'll be back, I guarantee it."
Missouri is a very strong team inside.
Iba said.
"We'll have to play for a full 40 min
utes if we plan on winning," he said.
"We can't afford to go out and have a
second half like we did against Kansas
if we plan on winning."
Iba also said that senior Chris Logan
would continue to come off the bench
for Nebraska even though he scored 12
points in the Husker's 81-70 loss to
Kansas.
Logan, Iba said, seems to feel more
comfortable coming off the bench.
"Chris (Logan) was always picking
up two early fouls when we started
him," Iba said. "We decided to try hav
ing him come off the bench, which
seemed to have worked out pretty
well."
NU women face Tigers
Nebraska's women's basketball team
will try to rebound from its 84-64 loss to
Kansas when it plays Missouri Satur
day at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The Cornhuskers were without the
services of sophomore starter Maurtice
Ivy, who is recovering from an ankle
injury suffered in practice.
"Maurtice being back is an extra
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Nebraska's ail-American candidate, Dave Hoppen, puts up a
shot against Northeast Missouri State. Hoppen, who scored
25 points against Kansas on Wednesday, will lead Nebraska
against Missouri at the Bob Devaney Sports Center this Sat
urday. Tip-off is set for 7:35 p.m.
boost of confidence for the team,"
Coach Kelly Hill said.
Missouri, now 9-5 on the season,
defeated Oklahoma State 81-65 Tues
day night. The Tigers are without the
help of their leading scorer, 5-1 1 senior
guard Sarah Campbell, who quit the
team for personal reasons.
Missouri has a 12-5 advantage in the
series and has won eight of the last
nine meetings. The Huskers beat the
Tigers 93-79 in Lincoln last year.
Missouri has two strong inside
shooters in 6-1 center Renee Dozier and
6-1 co-captain Renee Kelly. The Tigers
have a lot of quickness, although they
are not perimeter shooters like the
Jayhawks, Hill said. Freshman Eileen
King will add pressure from the outside
for the Huskers, Hill said.
The Tigers must stay in their offense
and stay out of foul trouble if they want
to beat Nebraska according to Joann
Rutheford, who is in her 1 1th year as the
Tigers coach.
"We've got to play a total game to
beat Nebraska," Rutheford said. "Neb
raska is a good ballclub. We always
have a tough time with them. We will
have to play exceptionally well to beat
them."
Nebraska will take a 7-7 record into
the game. Tipoff is set for 5:15 p.m.
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