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Daily Nebraskan
Tuesday, February 11, 1986
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Alan Bannister and Archie Marshall,
get prepared for bad games.
No, I'm not saying you two are bad
players. In fact, you both are really
helping your team.
Bannister has learned how to coor
dinate his 7-4 frame and Marshall has
become the sixth-man Kansas so des
perately needs to get to the Final Four.
What Bannister and Marshall are
about to experience is the "Daily Neb
rakan jinx." This jinx makes Sports
Illustrated's jinx look like an ordinary
curse.
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What? A Daily Nebraskan jinx? You
bet.
Let me explain.
This semester we have tried to do a
profile on a different player from each
of Nebraska's Big Eight opponents. We
think this is a good way for the readers
to get to know something a little extra
about the other team. We also have
discovered that it's a good way to
guarantee that player has a rotten
game.
The first player inflicted with the
jinx was Kansas guard Calvin Thomp
son. Thompson was cruising along,
scoring about 15 points a game. But,
talking to Daily Nebraskan reporter
John Carlson ended all that. Thompson
hit Lincoln and his point total hit nine.
Not a good game for the guy.
Next on the jinx parade was Okla
homa State's Terry Faggins. Faggins
was coming off a great game against
Kansas, but scored only 16 against
Nebraska, none of the points coming
late when the game was on the line.
Label this one as a partial success for
the jinx.
But, as sad as Faggins had to be after
the Cowboy's one-point loss, his feeling
wouldn't come close to that of the next
jinxee, Jeff Grayer.
Grayer had been running amuck in
conference play and was among the
league's leading scorers. Daily Nebras
kan reporter Steve Thomas talked to
Grayer and wrote a story. Unfortunately,
space limitations forced us to hold the
story. We hoped Grayer would have a
good game so we could run the story
Monday. Not a good idea
Grayer would have had a good game
if he was a prize fighter, or a hockey
player. Midway through the first half of
the Nebraska-Iowa State game, Grayer
got into a fight with Nebraska's Chris
Logan and both players were ejected.
Grayer scored one point.
The jinx lost its spunk against Okla
homa's Tim McCalister. The jinx couldn't
slow down the Oklahoma guard, but
not much of anything else has either.
McCalister scored 20 as Oklahoma
dealt Nebraska its worst loss in a
decade.
The DN jinx was back on track
against Colorado's Randy Downs. Downs
didn't hit double figures in the game
and hasn't been the same since. Satur
day, he scored only four points against
Kansas State.
Norris Coleman was the next player
profile on tap. Fortunately for Norris
and unfortunately for Nebraska, we
could never reach Coleman, a former
Army sergeant turned basketball star.
With no jinx to worry about, Coleman
went out and scored 26 points as the
Wildcats defeated Nebraska 64-54 at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
The latest to fall victim to The Jinx
is the player you'd least expect it to
happen to, Missouri guard Lynn Hardy.
You remember Hardy he's the guy
who made the game-winning shot at
the buzzer against Nebraska earlier in
the season. Well, we zapped him Friday
with a story and he scored two points
against Nebraska. Hardy missed all
four shots from the floor and hit only
two of four free throws.
After Bannister and Marshall are
plagued, the next few weeks will see
players from Oklahoma, Iowa State,
Colorado and Kansas State have bad
games after Daily Nebraskan stories on
them. Maybe this time we'll be able to
reach Coleman.
Iba wrongfully maligned by critics
With Cornhuskers center Dave
Hoppen sidelined by a knee injury,
there seems to be an increased cry for
the ouster of Coach Moe Iba. Such a
stance is not only unjustifiable, but it
also demonstrates irrational and close
minded thinking.
Detractors say that Iba can not
recruit effectively to contend for the
Big Eight title. Well, correct me if I am
wrong, but Iba did recruit Hoppen and
guard Brian Carr, two players who
could start for any team in the country.
And what about the claim that Iba lets
the best Nebraska high school talent
slip to out-of-state schools? I am sure
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Iba would love to have players such as
Ron Kellogg, Cedric Hunter and Kerry
Trotter on his team, but it seems kind
of hard to sign such players when every
time they pick up a newspaper they
read how poor the Husker program is. It
doesn't take a genius to realize that Iba
is caught in a Catch-22 situation.
Other critics believe Nebraska will
never be a basketball power as long as
Iba is at the helm. That attitude only
reinforces the "win at all costs" epi
demic which seems to be running ram
pant in college sports today.
Now that Iba has guided the Huskers
to yet another winning season, Nebraska
has had 13 consecutive winning sea
son, a Big Eight record. Yes folks,
Nebraska has been a more consistent
winner in basketball than both Kansas
and Oklahoma.
It would be unfortunate for Nebraska
to lose a coach of Iba's stature. Iba is
the definitive "gentleman" coach. He
does not hesitate to praise opponents,
he does not blast officials for poor
calls, and he does not make excuses for
losses. There is more to coaching than
winning conference titles, and Coach
Iba is the classic example. Keep up the
good work Moe, and we'll see ya tour
nament time.
Jerry Guinan
December 1985 graduate
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