Wednesday, January 22, 1986
Daily Nebraskan
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Nebraska wins, loses
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska athletic department
suffered some wins and losses off the
playing field last week in New Orleans
at the annual NCAA convention.
According to Nebraska faculty re
presentative James P. O'Hanlon, who
represented Nebraska at the convention
with Athletic Director Bob Devaney
and Chancellor Martin Massengale, the
biggest victory for Nebraska was the
ruling on drug testing before post
season football bowl games.
"I was certainly very supportive of
it," O'Hanlon said. "It was up last year
and it was felt work was needed on it.
Everybody in the conference voted for
it."
According to the ruling, 72 players
will be tested, 36 from each team. Of
these, 22 will be notified before the
testing. The other 14 will be selected at
random.
It will cost $200 to test a player,
making the total price tag $14,400. The
NCAA will pay for half, the bowl 25
percent and each competing team will
pay for 12.5 percent each.
Athletes who test positive will be
punished by whatever means their
school's athletic office sees necessary.
The list of drugs banned numbered
79, which were classified into seven
groups anabolic steroids, diuretics,
psychometer stimulants, sympatho
mimetic amines, miscellaneous central
nervous system stimulants, substances
banned for specific sports and street
drugs like cocaine and maryuana.
The NCAA failed to pass this ruling
last year because the program didn't
inlcude street drugs.
The NCAA also limited the testos
terone and caffeine levels that can be
measured in urine samples.
Another victory for the Nebraska
athletic department: The failure to
pass revisions of Proposition 48, a plan
that sets academic standards for
freshman athletes entering Division I
schools.
According to the guidelines set by
Proposition 48, student-athletes must
have at least a 2.0 grade point average
on a 4.0 scale in 11 high school core
subjects. Student-athletes must also
score a minimum of 700 on the Scho
lastic Achievement Test or 15 on the
American College Testing exam to be
eligible for competition as freshmen.
The proposition becomes effective in
1989.
Nebraska's major disappointment
was that the NCAA voters rejected
proposals to increase the amount of
money athletes can receive in Pell
grants.
Massengale and Nebraska football
coach Tom Osborne had strongly sup
ported the increases.
In other actions, the NCAA also
voted to:
O reduce from eight to seven the
number of sports needed to remain a
Division I-A member
delay for at least a year a proposal
to allow five years of athletic eligibility
instead of four
0 keep Division I and III men's and
women's indoor track championships
O limit to one game or tournament
a year that a basketball team may play
without it counting toward the max
imum games allowed
approve a resolution calling for
stronger federal legislation against
gambling on college sports, and
when circumstances clearly
warrant," permit the restoration of
eligibility of an athlete involved in
secondary or major rules violations.
"When you look at the specifics, we
lost a lot of things," O'Hanlon said. "I
felt reasonably good about the con
vention. There were some disappoint
ments. When you're voting on 1 1 things,
you're going to win a few and you're
going to lose a few."
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Nebraska's Chris Logan goes up for a shot against Missouri Saturday at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Costello walks on to success
By Kristi Reetz
Staff Reporter
Walk-ons making it big on the Nebraska foot
ball team are a common occurrence. But walk
ons succeeding on the women's basketball pro
gram is another matter.
One walk-on who has played well is Ann Cos
tello, a 5-8 junior guard from Leawood, Kan.
Costello attended Shawnee Mission East, a
three-year high school. While there, she played
volleyball, softball and basketball. She earned
seven letters.
"I continued with basketball in college rather
than the other sports because basketball's
always been my favorite," Costello said. "When I
was growing up, it seemed like I was always
playing basketball."
Deciding where to play college ball really
wasn't a problem for Costello, she said.
"I came to Nebraska partly because I wanted
to get away from home for a while," Costello said.
"I also liked the school a lot when I visited
here."
Nebraska women's basketball coach Kelly
Hill said Costello is a valuable player for the
team.
"So far this season, Ann's performance has
been great," Hill said. "She can make big contri
butions to our team because she makes few
mistakes and she's a real good leader. The
strongest part of her game is her outside shoot
ing. She's also very smart offensively and is so
consistent."
Costello said she's made a contribution to the
team but that her defense needs work.
In the Cornhuskers 74-68 win against Missouri
on Saturday night, Costello scored 10 points for
Nebraska.
"The past few games we've played really well
as a team," Costello said. "If we continue playing
as we are, there's no reason why we shouldn't be
in Kansas City in March to play in the Big Eight
final four."
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from league losses at home
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Probable starters:
Oklahoma State (9-6)
F-Andre Ivy 6-4 Jr.
F-David Taylor 6-5 Sr.
C-Alan Bannister 7-4 Fresh.
G-Terry Faggins 6-5 Sr.
G-Melvin Gilliam 6-1 Fresh.
Nebraska
F-John Matzke 6-5 Sr.
F-BernardDay 6-4 Jr.
C-DaveHoppen 6-11 Sr.
G-Harvey Marshall 6-3 Sr.
G-BrianCarr 6-1 Jr.
Tip-off: 7:35 p.m. at Gallagher Hall in
Stillwater, Okla.
By Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter
Nebraska and Oklahoma State have taken
similar paths to identical 0-2 Big Eight con
ference basketball records.
Oklahoma State, 9-6, dropped a 55-51 decision
to Missouri, then lost 92-75 to Kansas.
Nebraska, 10-5, lost 81-70 to Kansas, then
dropped a 67-66 decision to Missouri on a last
second shot by Tiger guard Lynn Hardy.
Although both of the Cowboys' conference
losses were on the road, Oklahoma State as
sistant coach Mickey Weiberg said he sees
similarities between the two teams.
"We like the Nebraska basketball team. We
think they are one of the best in the Big Eight,"
Weiberg said. "They're similar to us in that they
have good, all-around athletes who can really
play the game of basketball."
Weiberg said that stopping Cornhusker center
Dave Hoppen will be Oklahoma State's No. 1
priority.
Hoppen, a senior, leads the Big Eight in
scoring plus-22 points a game. .
"Their big man (Hoppen) is definitely one of
the premier players in the nation," Weiberg said.
"The problem you run into when you try to
defend against someone like him is if you try and
collapse on him, Nebraska has got such fine
outside shooters that they will hit from the
outside and force you to come out and cover their
guards and forwards."
The Cowboys lost their leading scorer, junior
Muhammad Akbar, because of academic in
eligibility after the first semester.
Another player, guard Nolan Richardson, also
was declared academically ineligible.
Despite these losses, Weiberg said, the
Cowboys are actually a better team now than
they were when they had Akbar in their starting
lineup.
"I think primarily we have a better team now
because we have more of a true team effort," he
said. "The players relied on him (Akbar) a little
bit too much, so without him in our lineup, we've
been getting better production out of our other
players."
Nebraska basketball coach Moe Iba said he
has been trying to stress to the Cornhuskers just
how important this game is in terms of the Big
Eight standings.
When you're 0-2 in Big Eight conference play,
Iba said, each game is critical.
"The biggest thing we have to do to be
successful against Oklahoma State is cut down
on the number of turnovers," Iba said. "Turnovers
are just killing us right now."
Iba said that he is anxious to see how Hoppen
matches up with Alan Bannister, Oklahoma
State's 7-4 freshman center from England.
In the Cowboys' loss to Kansas earlier this
season, Bannister scored 26 points, even though
he was covered by the Jayhawks' Greg Dreiling
and Danny Manning.
"He (Bannister) is kind of an unknown
quality," Iba said. "It should be a challenge for
Dave (Hoppen) to cover him because he
(Bannister) has got a lot of potential."
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Nebraska's Ann Costello is covered by Missouri's Eileen Keene in the Corn
huskers 74-63 victory on Saturday.