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van Poelgest, King and Lively
Three tall players give Huskers high hopes
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
Nebraska basketball coach Danny
Nee is building a skyline this season,
but some of the skyscrapers might not
be completed until next year.
Nee said that 7-foot-2 Rich King
and 6-foot-11 Kelly Lively may not
make an immediate contribution be
cause they might be redshirted this
season. A definite decision on
whether to redshirt the two freshman
recruits will be made later this year, he
said.
“Kelly Lively and Richard King
give us the si/e w hich we haven’t had
in the past, but 1 don’t know if they’re
going to be ready this year,’’ Nee said.
“We’re going to have to build them
up.”
King and Lively will join 6-loot-9
sophomore Richard van Poclgcest on
the Nebraska roster.
Van Poclgcest, who enters the
season as the only Husker with colic
giatc experience at center, said he will
probably move to the forv\ ard position
if King or Lively play this year.
“If Rich King is going to play right
away, Lm going to move out to power
forward, “ van Poclgeest said. “If not,
1’U still function as a center.”
Van Poclgeest said he would wel
come a move to forward.
“I prefer the power forward posi
tion,” he said. “There are more things
to do. You can shoot the ball more if
you want to, and you’re not so limited
in your moves.”
Lively said although he would like
to redshirt this season, he will do
whatever will benefit the team.
“I’d kind of like to redshirt, but it
depends on if the team needs me this
year or not,” Lively said. “The deci
sion hasn’t been made yet.”
King said he is also not sure
w hether he will redshirt.
“It looks like I’ll probably play, but
that’s not 1(K) percent sure,” he said.
Van Poclgeest played in 24 of
Nebraska’s 33 games last season,
averaging 2.7 points and 1.9 rebounds
per game.
He spent the summer playing for
the Netherlands National Team. He
said that experience enabled him to
secure a spot on the Netherlands’
Olympic Team, if it qualifies in 1988.
Van Poelgecst said he has im
proved since last season.
“This last summer 1 went home and
played for the first time against (other
members of) the national team, and
there 1 really saw the difference,” van
Poelgecst said. “I was quicker, faster
and stronger than players I used to
play w ith.”
Van Poelgecst said this season’s
team, which includes eight players
who didn’t play for Nebraska last
year, will be inexperienced.
“We’re going to be a real young
team; there’s going lobe a lot of power
and energy,” van Poelgecst said. “I
think it’s going to reflect in the results
because we’re still young. But it’s
going to be real exciting .”
King was the Nebraska Gatoradc
player of the year last season while
playing for Omaha Burke High
School. He averaged 20.4 points, nine
rebounds anti 5.1 blocked shots per
game.
Lively, who was named the Wyo
ming Gatoradc player of the year last
season, averaged 16 points, 10.6 re
bounds and five blocks per game
while leading Torrington, Wyo., High
School to the 19X7 state champion
ship.
Lively and King said they can al
ready tell the difference between high
school and college basketball.
“It’s a lot tougher, a lot more excit
ing and a lot more demanding,’’Lively
said. “It’sgoing to requircalotofliard
work.”
King said he could tell the differ
ence between the two programs be
fore he stepped on the court at the Bob
Dcvancy Sports Center.
“In lifting weights and the condi
tioning program, the intensity level is
a lot higher, and you’ve got to push
yourself a lot harder,” King said.
King, Lively and van Poelgccst
said they will improve by playing
against each other.
“It’s good for me because in my
high school the tallest guy was 6-6,”
King said. “I’m not used to playing
against people real tall, so it’s a chal
lenge.”
Van Poelgccst said practicing
against players whoare taller than him
will help later this season. He said he
is looking forward to facing Kansas
forward Danny Manning, a 6-11 sen
ior who earned consensus All-Amer
ica honors last year.
Van Poelgeest said Kansas will be
the team to beat in the Big Eight.
But he said Nebraska can upset the
Jayhawks.
“I read an article about Kansas with
Danny Manning and (center) Marvin
Branch as big guys,” van Poelgeest
said. “I don’t know how their
backcourt will be. 1 think it will be a
blast to beat them as we did last year.”
Navy ROTC defeats Army in flag football
By Lori Griffith
Staff Reporter
Former Navy quarterback Roger
Staubach wasn’t there, but the Univer
sity of Ncbraska-Lincoln’s Midship
man ROTC football team still de
feated the Army ROTC 21 -6 Tuesday
at Whittier Field.
Army wingback Robert Hurley
said the loss was disappointing be
cause it marked the sixth lime in seven
years that the Cadets have lost to
Navy. He said the turning point in this
year’s game occurred when Navy
intercepted an Army pass for a third
quarter touchdown.
“It’s traditionally been a physical
game,” Hurley said. “But this year it
was played on more of an intramural
level.”
Hurley said he was disappointed
about the loss because the Cadets had
oulscorcd opponents 170-30 in five
previous intramural games this year.
The loss dropped Army to 4-1.
Army t'^m captain Cascv Sctsodi
said he blamed the loss on the ofHci
aling. He said the officials didn’t
know the rulesof flag football because
they were throwing penalty flags that
shouldn’t have been thrown.
Army was cited for 120 yards in
penalties compared to 40 for Navy.
Setsodi said the Army-Navy game
is a tradition. He said the game is
played in honor of the first NCAA
sanctioned meeting between the two
schools in 1890.
Just as the Navy ROTC leads in
their series, the Cadets lead in the
NCAA-sanctioned series. Navy cn
lered this season by winning 41 of 80
meeting between the two schools.
The Midshipmen took a 6-0 lead
when they took the opening kickoff
and drove the length of the field for a
touchdown.
Army lied the score 6-6early in the
second quarter when Hurley inter
cepted a Navy pass and returned it for
a touchdown.
Navy took a 13-6 lead when a pass
by Army quarterback John Fleming
was intercepted and returned for a
Cadet touchdown.
Navy extended its lead to 19-6 late
in the fourth quarter when a Fleming
pass was again intercepted and re
turned for a touchdown.
The Midshipmen then brought the
game to its final 21-6 outcome when
Hurley recovered a bad snap in the
Army endzonc.
Setsodi said both teams were
pleased because neither side suffered
any serious injuries even though
punches were thrown throughout the
game.
Osborne will tie all-time Big 8 record with win Saturday
By Sieve Sipple
Staff Reporter
Nebraska coach Tom Osborne can
tie the all-time Big Eight record for
victories with a win against Missouri
Saturday in Columbia, Mo.
But accomplishing that, Osborne
said, will not be easy.
“I’m about 90 percent certain we’ll
get all we can handle down there,”
Osborne said Tuesday at his weekly
press conference. “Our games with
M issouri over the years have been real
tough affairs. They’re much more
physical than they’ve been in the last
two or three years.
“It will be a real tough ball game.”
Osborne and Oklahoma coach
Barry Switzer can both reach former
Soonc r coac h B ud W i I k i nson ’ s record
of 145 victories with wins Saturday.
Osborne has com pi led a record of 144 -
32-2 and Switzer is 144-25-4. Wilkin
son coached the Sooners from 1947
63, compiling a 145-29 record and
three national championships.
But if recent games in Columbia
arc any indication, Osborne said,
reaching the milestone won’t be easy.
In 1981 Nebraska escaped with a 6-0
win on a last-minute touchdown by
fullback Phil Bates. In 1985 Dale
Klein kicked an NCAA-record seven
field goals to give the H uskers a 28-20
victory.
Osborne said Missouri’s wish
bone offense, which ranks seventh in
the nation with a 301.1-yard-pcr
gamc rushing average, will again
make things lough for the undefeated
Huskcrs. He said the Tigers play a
more physical offense than Oklahoma
State, which Nebraska defeated 35-0
on Oct. 17 in Stillwater, Okla.
“Oklahoma Stale had a reasonably
good running game, but it was mostly
off of draws and delayed action plays
that came off their passing game,”
Osborne said. “Whereas Missouri
comes right at you — they’re not
going to throw the ball to set up the
run, they’re going to run the ball to set
up the pass.
The Tigers’ offense has been led by
a trio of running backs. Senior half
back Robert Delpino, a 6-foot, 198
pound senior, leads Missouri with 577
yards and eight touchdowns. Fullback
Tommie Stowers, a 6-3, 215-pound
sophomore, has rushed for 463 yards,
and Darrell Wallace has gained 424.
Osborne said the Tiger defense will
also cause problems because of the
variety of schemes they show. He said
the Tigers basic front is a 4-3 — four
down linemen and three linebackers.
But Osborne said Missouri isn’t in
the traditional 4-3 defense more than
5 or 10 percent of the time.
Osborne said two players are ques
tionable for the game.
Corncrback Tahaun Lewis, a 5-11
freshman, “may be out two weeks’
after accidentally poking himself in
the eye with a knife, Osborne said. He
said I-back Tyreesc Knox is suffering
“severe” turf toe and is a “possibility”
for Saturday’s game.
In addition, light end Todd Mil
likan was held out of Tuesday’s prac
tice becauseofa recurring groin injury
but will probably play Saturday.