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By Bob Asmussen
Sports Editor
Mark DavisDaily Nebraskan
Kansas forward Danny Manning goes in for a dunk Saturday at Allen Field
house in Lawrence, Kan. Nebraska's Anthony Dailous and Harvey Marshall
look on.
LAWRENCE, Kan. Last season, Omaha
Northwest graduate and Kansas forward Ron
Kellogg seemed to be on a personal crusade
everytime the Jayhawks played Nebraska. Satur
day, Omaha South graduate Cedric Hunter joined
that crusade.
Hunter scored 17 points and Kellogg 15,
including -13 in the second half, as the No. 3
ranked Jayhawks defeated Nebraska 79-61 at the
Allen Fieldhouse. Kansas had defeated Nebraska
81-70 Jan. 15 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
"He's just great," Kansas coach Larry Brown
said of Hunter.
About the only regret Brown has about Hunter
is that he is listed at 6-0. Brown said Hunter is
probably closer to 5-9. Players under 6-0 are
eligible to win the Francis Naismath Award. Jack
Moore of Nebraska was a recipient of the award.
"It's a shame we list him at 6-feet, because
he's probably the best player in America under
6-feet," Brown said. "I think the people are just
starting to realize what he can do."
Hunter was six of eight from the field and had
four assists. Hunter committed only one turnover
in the game.
Nebraska was able to keep Saturday's game
close in the first half thanks to the play of junior
forward Bernard Day. Day hit six of 10 first half
shots and had 12 first half points. He finished the
game with 22 points.
The lead went back and forth the first 12:07 of
the game. Nebraska led 22-21 at that point on
two free throws by Brian Carr.
Kansas took the lead, 23-22, on a floor shot by
Archie Marshall. Marshall came off the bench
and contributed eight first half points.
Marshall's basket started a 9-0 Kansas run
that was capped by Greg Dreiling's hook shot
with 5:14 left in the half. Nebraska closed the
margin to five points, 31-26, with 4:23 left in the
half on a 20-foot jump shot by Harvey Marshall.
Kansas led 35-27 at intermission.
"We played well the first half," Nebraska
coach Moe Iba said. "But, I thought their transi
tion game really hurt us. We lost some of our
patience on offense."
After Dreiling hit a shot to start the second
half, Nebraska scored six consecutive points to
cut the Kansas lead to four points, 37-33, with
17:45 to play.
Kansas then outscored Nebraska 1 1-3 to take
a 50-36 lead with 14:13 left in the game. The
exclamation point of the Kansas spurt was a
devastating jam off the fast break by Calvin
Thompson. Thompson pulled the ball behind his
neck before slamming it through the basket.
Brown said he was impressed with the type of
game Nebraska was able to play. He points out
the height advantage his team had against
Nebraska.
"They control the tempo so well," Brown said.
"It's a good game for us. It's a good lesson. You've
got to give them credit. The kind of quickness
they showed gives us problems."
One player that didn't give the Jayhawk's
problem was Dave Hoppen. Brown said Nebraska
is not as good without the injured center in the
lineup.
"They're not as effective without him," Brown
said. "They work hard and move the ball well,
but it's just not the same. Hoppen's going to get
his 25 points every night. Give them credit, they
try hard out there."
The loss drops Nebraska's record to 15-8 over
all and 5-5 in Big Eight play. Nebraska still holds
sole possession of fourth place in the confer
ence. Nebraska was led by Day's 22 points and
Brian Carr's 17 points. Marshall added 1 1 points.
Kansas, 24-3 and 10-1, was led by Hunter's 17
points and Thompson's and Kellogg's 15 points
each. Dreiling had 12 points and Marshall added
10 points. No Kansas player took more than 10
shots in the game as the Jayhawks shot 66 per
cent. Kansas has not shot less than 61 percent in
its last four games.
Hill blames 'horrible' officiating for NU loss
By Kent Endacott
Senior Reporter
LAWRENCE, Kan. Nebraska wo
men's basketball coach Kelly Hill didn't
need a chalkboard to analyze the Corn
husker's 83-76 loss to Kansas at Allen
Fieldhouse Saturday.
"It was the officials," Hill said. "The
officials really hurt us. This is the only
conference game this year where the
officials have hurt us.
"Our girls were getting good posi
tion, and Kansas would jump over our
backs. The officiating was horrible."
Even so, Kansas, led by Jackie Mar
tin's 15 rebounds, outrebounded Ne
braska 51-44, and shot only 44.6 per
cent 29 of 65, for the game. Nebraska
also struggled from the field, hitting
only 35 of 79 shots, 44.3 percent for the
game.
"Rebounding was really the differ
ence in the game," Hill said. "It goes
back to the officiating."
With 14:06 remaining in the first
half, Kelly Jennings, Kansas's 6-6 sopho
more center, converted on a three
point play to give the Jayhawks a 21-18
lead.
Nebraska's Maurtice Ivy, who led all
scorers with 27 points, hit a 20-foot
jump shot with 3:03 remaining in the
first half to tie the game 29-29. Kansas,
however, outscored Nebraska 9-2 to
take a 38-31 half time lead.
A basket by Kansas' Toni Webb with
three minutes remaining in the game
gave the Jayhawks a 15-point lead.
Nebraska outscored the Jayhawks 1 1-2
in the final two minutes of the game.
"We faced a very inspired ball club
tonight," said Marian Washington, the
Kansas women's basketball coach.
"When we let up our intensity, it's a
sign of a young team, but they've got a
good attitude and they've worked hard
to meet the challenge all year."
The loss is the fourth straight on the
road for Nebraska, and drops it to 4-6 in
the Big Eight and 1 1-1 2 overall. Kansas
moves to 6-4 in the Big Eight and 15-8
on the year.
Hill said the Huskers didn't handle
Kansas' pressure well enough to win.
Nebraska turned over 19 times, while
Kansas had 13 turnovers.
"Our guards didn't handle the pres
sure very well, and gave up some transi
tion buckets," Hill said.
Hill said the Huskers had difficulty
matching up to the Jayhawk's size
inside.
"We didn't try to do anything differ
ent to stop Jennings," Hill said. "But
she definitely was a factor."
Jennings scored 17 points, most
from within three feet of the basket,
and grabbed 10 rebounds. Evette Ott
led the Jayhawks, scoring 18 points.
"We're doing anything we can right
now to keep the team going," Washing
ton said. "We have a lot of sophomores
who are getting stronger in every
game."
Nebraska will meet Big Eight leader
Oklahoma at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m.
Husker track teams split;
women win, men are second
By Jeff Korbelik
Night News Editor
Nebraska's women's track team, without Ail
American Angela Thacker, won the women's tri
angular against Kansas and Colorado Saturday
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
Nebraska's men's team, slowed by injuries
and illness, finished second to the Kansas men.
The women scored 72 points, runner-up Kan
sas finished with 4012 and Colorado scored 3714.
The Kansas' men's team won with 76'2 points.
Nebraska scored 6OV2 and Colorado scored 27.
Nebraska coach Gary Pepin said he was
pleased with both teams' performances despite
the men's second-place finish.
Thacker, the U.S. record holder in the 300-yard
dash, elected to bypass the triangular to com
pete in the Milrose Games in New York Friday
and the Bally Invitational in Chicago Sunday.
Thacker currently has the best team times in
the 300- and 60-yard dashes. In Saturday's meet,
Michelle Miller, a freshman from Altadena,
Calif., filled in for Thacker nicely by winning
both races.
Miller edged teammate Angela Jones in the 60
and later came back to edge teammate Vicky
Johnson in the 300.
Other Nebraska women ever.t winners included
sophomore Tammy Thurman in the high jump,
freshman Linetta Wilson in the 500-meter run,
senior Sha-ri Pendelton in the triple jump, and
junior Karlene Erickson in the two-mile run.
Wilson's time in the 500 meters was fast enough
to qualify her for the national meet in March.
Outside of the shot put, Nebraska placed four
with Mike Schebel winning, the field events
caused the downfall of the men's team. The men
did not have a competitor in the triple jump, and
the highest finishers in other field events
included: Todd Stanton, fourth in the long jump,
Devin Kosmicki fourth in the pole vault and
James Blackledge, third in the high jump.
Nebraska missed the performances of long
jumpers Von Sheppard, Edrick Floreal and high
jumper Jeff Loescher. Floreal, Nebraska's lead
ing triple jumper, is out with a hamstring injury.
Loescher, holder of the school record in the high
jump, is sidelined with an ankle injury.
Pepin said he hopes to have all of them back
for the Big Eight championships February 28 and
March 1 at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. Pepin
also said that Nebraska basketball player Anthony
Bailous might compete in the long jump.
Nebraska junior Anthony Small was a double
winner in the men's competition. He won the
60-and the 300-yard dashes. He also joined John
Hastings, Regis Humphrey and Karl Mouten in
the winning mile relay.
Other men event winners included: senior
Kurt Russell in the mile run, Hastings in the
440-yard dash, Mouten in the 880-yard run and
junior Jean Verster in the 1,000-yard run.
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