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Nebraska's Derrick Vick puils a rebound away from Kansas
State's Mitch Richmond as Brian Carr (left) and Bill Jackman
move into assist during Friday's 47-45 Cornhusker loss.
By Jeff Korbelik
Editor
KANSAS CITY, Mo. Nebraska's
basketball team's chances for an NCAA
tournament bid slipped away Friday
afternoon at Kemper Arena after senior
guard Brian Carr's last-second three
point desperation shot bounced off the
back of the rim, giving Kansas State a
47-45 win in the first round of the Big
Eight tournament.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said he
felt the Cornhuskers had to reach the
semifinals of the tournament to receive
any consideration for a bid.
"I personally don't think because of
our record with the two Division II
teams on our schedule that 17 wins
which computes out to 15 is enough
... I don't think it is," Nee said. "I
think Kansas State will get one. I think
the team that reached the semifinals would
have been the fourth team in. That's my
personal feeling."
The Wildcats, losers to Missouri in
the second round, join Kansas, Okla
homa and Missouri, the conference and
tournament champions, in receiving
NCAA bids.
With 4:40 remaining in the game, the
Wildcats' Mitch Richmond hit a jump
shot to pull Kansas State to within
three. At the 3:44 mark, Kansas State
guard guard Lynn Smith hit another
jumper to .pull his team within one.
Kansas State's leading scorer and re
bounder, Norris Coleman, came off the
bench and hit a turnaround jump shot
with 2:10 remaining. It proved to be the
winning basket.
The Huskers attempted to win with a
last-second shot, but guard Henry Bu
chanan's three-point tiy from the corner
with six seconds left fell short off the
front of the rim. Richmond grabbed the
rebound and Buchanan fouled him.
" It's the shot I wanted," Buchanan
said. "We practice the last-second shot
every day in practice. If it had gone in,
everything would have been all right.
But it didn't It felt good when I
' released it. Then I saw it angle off to
the right. As it veered, I knew I didn't
follow through like I should have."
Richmond hit his first free throw but
missed the second, giving Carr and
Nebraska a final chance. Carr said the
Huskers didn't have anything planned.
They wanted to push the ball up the
court and see what kind of shot they
could get, he said. Carr said he thought
his shot from about 31 feet away was
going in.
"I thought when I let it go that I shot
it too far," he said. "But as it got closer
and closer to the rim and started drop
ping pretty fast . . . then I thought it
might go in. It hit the back of the rim
and came out. I had my hopes up."
Both teams shot poorly and both
coaches attributed the shooting to the
opposing team's defense and pre-game
jitters. The Huskers only hit 36 percent
from the field, and Kansas State hit
only 42.3 percent.
Carr lead the Huskers with 1 1 points.
Anthony Bailous and Derrick Vick each
added seven. Kansas State was led by
Coleman's and Richmond's 11 points.
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Nebraska has a chance to improve
its 1986-87 men's basketball record
when it faces Marquette Wednesday
night at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center in the first round of the
National Invitation Tournament.
The invitation, which was exten
ded to Nebraska Sunday, marks the
fifth-straight year the Cornhuskers
have been invited to a post-season
tournament.
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Nebraska's Bernard Day (30) and Derrick Vick battle Kansas State's Mitch Richmond for a
loose ball during Friday's first-round Big Eight Conference Tournament game in Kansas City.
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Radnov qualified for the NCAA meet
by winning their consolation matches.
Other Nebraska wrestlers could qualify
for the NCAA meet because 10 addi
tional Big Eight wrestlers are chosen to
go as wild-card selections.
Ferrie, competing for the first time
in two weeks because of injuries, won
his opening match by decisioning Steve
Cross of Missouri 7-2. He lost his semif
inal match but came back to win his
consolation match, decisioning Vince
Silva of Oklahoma State 54.
Traynor and Radnov also lost their
semifinals matches and won in the
consolation round. Traynor, who lost on
a criteria decision, won his consolation
match with a 5-4 decision against
Oklahoma's Doug Watson. Radnov deci
sioned Jim Prettyman of Missouri 5-4.
Led by a first-place finish from Cody
Olson, the Nebraska wrestling team
posted 38.5 points, which was good
enough for a fourth-place finish at the
Big Eight Championships Saturday in
Stillwater, Okla.
Oklahoma State and Iowa State, the
No. 2- and No. 4-ranked teams in the
country, tied for first place. Both teams
scored 76.75 points. Oklahoma edged
Nebraska for third place with 41 points
and Missouri, the only other Big Eight
school with a wrestling team, finished
fifth with 32.5 points.
Olson, who wrestles at 177 pounds,
is the first Nebraska wrestler to win a
Big Eight title in three years. He beat
Oklahoma's Joe Stafford in the semifi
nals on a 4-3 decision and went on to
win a 4-2 decision over Missouri's Jim
Hardy in the finals.
The only other Cornhusker to reach
the finals was 134-pound Gil Sanchez,
who decisioned Iowa State's Jeff Gib
bons 7-1 in the semifinals. Sanchez,
ranked No. 2 nationally in his weight
class, was decisioned 14-3 by No. 1
ranked John Smith of Oklahoma State
in the finals. Both of the 42-2 Sanchez's
losses have come at the hands of Smith,
while Smith's only loss was to Sanchez
earlier this season.
Sanchez and Olson automatically
qualified for the NCAA Championships,
which will be March 19 through 21 in
College Park, Md. Three other Huskers
150-pound Bill Ferrie, 180-pound
Mike Traynor and heavyweight Mike