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Daily Nebraskan
Friday, February 28, 1986
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By Jeff Korbelik
Night News Editor
The red banner hanging on the south
wall in the track at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center lists the years that the
Nebraska women's t rack team has won
Big Eight indoor titles.
They have won a title every year
since 1980.
This weekend the women will try to
add 1986 to that banner at the Big
Eight I ndoor championships at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Nebraska track coach Gary Pepin
said the other Big Eight schools always
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Kansas State basketball coach Jack Hartman will end his
college coaching career against Nebraska Saturday night.
Hartman begin his career as a gradute assistant under Henry
Iba, father of Nebraska basketball coach Moe Iba.
All wrestlers could
By Doug Carroll
Staff Reporter
This weekend's wrestling meet will
be the season's last for some Nebraska
wrestlers who fail to place high. t
Nebraska will travel to Ames, Iowa,
this weekend to compete in the Big
Eight conference wrestling meet, which
is also the NCAA championships quali
fying tournament. The top three fin
ishers in each weight class qualify for
the nationals. Besides these wrestlers,
the conference coaches will vote on
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have tried to knock the Cornhuskers
out of that top position.
"It's like a good business. There are
always others who try to do better,"
Pepin said.
Pepin said the race for the title will
be closer this year. The Big Eight track
coaches again pick the Huskers as the
favorite, but Pepin said the Kansas
State women could challenge Nebraska.
Last year Nebraska won, scoring 187
points. Kansas State finished second
with 78.
"The women's meet will be a lot
closer than a hundred points," Pepin
said.
The Huskers need a team effort to
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another 10 wrestlers to take wild-card
berths to the national tournament.
Nebraska wrestling coach Tim Neu
mann said the team has been working
hard for the Ames tournament. The
team is ready to "lay everything on the
line," he said.
Nebraska hopes to qualify as many
people as it can for the national tour
nament, Neumann said. He said quali
fying all 10 team members is possible,
depending on how the seedings come
out. John Myers, 167 pounds, and Fritz
Stratton, 190 pounds, are the only
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win, he said. In past years the Nebraska
team has relied on big name athletes to
score most of its points.
Gone are Rhonda Blanford, Deb Clark
and MarciaTatc. Nebraska's remaining
ail-American is Angela Thacker. Thackei
will compete in the 00-yard dash, the
300-yard dash and the mile relay on
Saturday. She holds the U.S. record in
the 300.
"Last year our outstanding and older
kids carried the team and how the
younger kids did wasn't really that
important," Pepin said. "This year we
need our freshmen and sophomores to
qualify (for the finals in running events)
to get points."
Analysis by Jeff Apel
Senior Reporter
Thirty-two years ago, Kansas State
coach Jack Hartman began his colle
giate basketball coaching career as a
graduat e assistant under the legendary
Henry Iba
Now, 589 victories and two colleges
later, Hartman will coach his final,
regular season game with the Wildcats
when Kansas State faces Nebraska
Sat urday at the Ahearn Fieldhouse.
Hartman will end his 16-year coach
ing stint with the Wildcats against
Cornhusker coach Moe Iba, son of
Henry Iba
"It means a lot to me that I will be
closing out my regular season against
Moe," Hartman said. "Moe and I are
close friends, and I always enjoy coach
ing against him."
Hartman said that ideally, Kansas
State would win its final game against
Nebraska and then earn a trip to the
NCAA tournament by winning the Big
Eight tournament.
But with a 4-9 record in conference
'About the only thing I haven't been able to
accomplish during my coaching career is
have a team reach the final four. But I guess
there are always going to be things you feel
you haven't accomplished.'
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play, Hartman said, anything can
happen to his youthful Wildcat squad.
"We've had an up-and-down season
this year," he said. "We had a good,
non-conference season, but we've been
having some problems during the con
ference season."
Kansas State has a 12-3 non-conference
record.
Looking back on his 1980-81 squad
that upset San Francisco, then second
ranked Oregon State and Illinois to
advance to the final eight teams of the
NCAA tournament, his 1976-77 team
that won the Big Eight title despite not
make NCAA, coach says
Nebraska wrestlers who haven't beat en
at least one of their conference oppo
nents. Neumann also said he thinks
these two wrestlers have improved
enough that they might qualify.
The team has shaken the flu germ
that some wrestlers had, Neumann
said, and everyone is healthy except for
142-pounder Chris Marisette.
Marisette suffers from a second
degree shoulder separation, but is im
proving every day, and should be able
to wrestle Saturday, Neumann said.
I'm sure he'll be good enough to
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The women's team also is slowed
with injuries. Pepin said seven women
will not compete in the meet. Sprinters
Susan Samuels, Volanda Waddles, Holly
A-hmore, Karen Kruger are gone; so are
stance runners Laura Wight, Trine
Pederscn and Carol Nunnally.
"That group alone could score enough
to beat some schools," Pepin said.
He said the injuries may be one rea
son that the Big Eight coaches are
picking a closer conference race. He
said Oklahoma even sent out a press
release predicting Kansas State to
upset the Huskers. The last time the
Huskers met Kansas State was in a
dual on Jan. 25 in Manhattan, Kan.
having a player over 6-5, and his 1961 62
team at Coffeyville Junior college that
compiled a perfect 32-0 record.
But all of these achievements are
nothing more than a long string of
things Hartman has accomplished dur
ing his colorful coaching career, he
said.
Because he accomplished much of
what he wanted, selecting one event as
the highlight of his career is hard,
, Hartman said.
"About the only thing I haven't been
able to accomplish during my coaching
career is have a team reach the final
four. But I guess there are always going
to be things you feel you haven't
accomplished."
Hartman said the only tarnish he
sees on his coaching career is the
Wildcats' 67-66 loss to the 1 977 national
champions, the Marquette Warriors.
Although the apparently out-manned
Wildcats had played the heavily favored
Warriors to the final buzzer, Hartman
said a controversial call on a basket
ended Kansas State's hopes of reach
ing the third round of the NCAA tourna
ment. "There wasn't much consolation in
the fact that we lost to the eventual
national champions because that bas
ket, which ended up not being counted,
cost us the game," he said.
Hartman said he would like to close
his coaching career the same way it
began: with style.
Although Hartman said he isn't quite
sure what he will do after retirement,
he said he will remain a college bas
ketball fan.
"It will always be a follower of Kan
sas State," Hartman said. "I've enjoyed
my career here, I really have."
qualify for nationals," Neumann said. If
Marisette does, he will have another
two weeks to recover before the na
tional tournament March 13 to 15.
Marisette suffered the injury during
last Saturday's dual with Notre Dame.
Returning national qualifiers on the
team include Marisette, Terry Cook,
Keenan Turner, Jeff Coltvet and Gary
Albright. Marisette, who redshirted last
season, has qualified twice. Albright
has qualified three times and has fin
ished seventh and second in the tour-naff
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Nebraska defeated the Wildcats 75' -
"We annihilated them, but we had
more people there," Pepin said. "They
have a good team and a much stronger
team than last year. But there will be a
difference if we don't have all our
kids."
Friday's events will be run in the
morning and the afternoon. Only the
long jump and the three-mile run will
be completed. All running event preli
minaries will be run on Friday. Satur
day's events begin at noon. This is th
ninth consecutive year the Nebraska
women have been host to the confer
ence championships.
Huskers hope
for final game
win, sixth place
By John Carlson
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women's basket
ball team will be looking for a sixth
place Big Eight finish when they
play Kansas State in their final
game Saturday in Manhattan.
Nebraska coach Kelly Hill said
the game is "do or die for us" in
obtaining the sixth-place finish.
"The cards are on the table," she
said.
Hill said the Huskers, 11-15, are
playing with a lot of confidence
after playing a good ball game in a
68-66 loss to Colorado Tuesday night.
"We played-well against Colo
rado," Hill said. "We are not a team
of superstars, but when we play
together we are a good team. We just
need to get unt racked."
Hill said the 14-12 Wildcats are
quicker and stronger.
"They have several big players
and are very physical," Hill said.
"But at the same time they run the
fast break very well. They are a very
explosive team."
The Huskers will have trouble
matching up with junior Amanda
Holly, a transfer from Arkansas, Hill
said. Holly leads Kansas State in
scoring and rebounding with 12.2
points and 7.1 rebounds a game.
"She is both a great inside and
outside player," Hill said.
She said Husker sophomore
Maurtice Ivy and junior Angie Miller
will be the key to the Nebraska
attack. Ivy averages 19.0 points a
game and Miller 18.5 points.
"We not only need points from
them, but also from Stephanie Bolli,"
Hill said. "Each team will probably
try to neutralize the best player, so
we will need a team effort," she
said.
Hill said she hopes the Huskers
can end the season on a winning
note and gain momentum for the Big
Eight tournament next week in
Kansas City.
, "Defense will be the key (at the
tournament)," Hill said. "It will
imake the difference in the ball
games we will play."
She predicted Oklahoma and
Missouri as the favorites in the
tournament, The Huskers will find
out their tournament opponent after
all Big Eight games are finished
Saturday,
Neumann said the pre-meet favor
ites for the conference championship
are Iowa State and Oklahoma. Iowa
State is ranked No. 2 and is coming into
the meet "higher than a kite" after a
19-16 upset over top-ranked Iowa last
Sunday, Neumann said. Oklahoma is
ranked No. 5 and will be the Cyclones'
main team competition.
No. 12 Nebraska and No. 8 Oklahoma
State probably will battle for third,
Neumann said. The Huskers are "too
young to challenge for the champion
ship right now," he said.
