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Ohio State’s Curtis Wilson attempts to move past Nebraska
guard Clifford Scales.
Tonight’s basketball game
to match Nebraska rivals
By Tim Hartmann
Senior Reporter
Probable Starters
Nebraska (4-3)
Jeff Rckcwcg F
Derrick Vick F
Pete Manning C
Eric Johnson G
Henry T. Buchanan G
Creighton (2-2)
Chris Rodgers F
Bob Harstad F
Chad Gallagher C
James Farr G
Rod Mason G
Creighton basketball coach Tony
Barone said Tuesday that although a
rivalry has developed between Ne
braska and the Bluejays, tonight’s
game is just another contest for his
team.
Nebraska faces Creighton at 8:05
p.m. at the Omaha Civic Auditorium.
The game will be televised by KPTM,
channel 42.
m: point 10 Missouri vaucy
Conference games just like Nebraska
points to their Big Eight Conference
games,” Barone said.
Barone said he realizes that the
Nebraska-Creighton game is a big
one for the fans because of the rivalry
that has developed over the years.
“Any time you have two college
basketball teams that arc that close in
terms of distance you arc going to
have a rivalry,” he said. “There will
be a lot of enthusiasm on the part of
the fans and the players.”
Nebraska holds a 12-7 edge over
Creighton. The Cornhuskcrs lost to
Creighton 78-66 last season in
Omaha, but came back to defeat the
Bluejays 70-65 in overtime later that
season in Lincoln.
Nebraska is 4-3 this season after
defeating Detroit 63-58 Monday
night. Nebraska coach Danny Nee
was unavailable for comment.
Derrick Vick, a senior forward
from Chicago, leads the Huskers in
scoring, averaging 13.3 points per
game. Guards Fric Johnson and
Henry T. Buchanan have averaged
9.1 and nine points a game. Forward
Jeff Rekeweg has scored 8.6 points
per game.
Because starting center Richard
van Poelgccst re-injured his fool he
broke last season, it’s questionable
whether he will play in tonight’s
game. Pete Manning, a transfer from
Seminole (Okla.) Junior College, will
start if van Poelgccst is unable to play.
Barone said Nebraska’s inside
players concern him, especially 7
fool-2 freshman center Rich King. He
said it will be important forCreighton
to keep the ball out of King’s hands.
‘‘I think you can’tallow the ball to
get into those inside guys,” Barone
said.
Creighton starts three freshman:
center Chad Gallagher and forwards
Bob Harstad and Chris Rodgers.
Senior Rod Mason and junior-college
transfer James Farr start at the guard
positions.
Mason leads the 2-2 Blucjays in
scoring with an average of 21.3 points
per game. Mason is the only returning
starter from last season’s 9-19 team,
and Barone said the team’s inexperi
ence has shown.
The freshmen are “playing just
like freshmen — inconsistent,” he
said.
Barone said he would like to sec
ihc team show improvement against
Nebraska, especially in getting re
bounds. And, he said, he doesn’t want
Creighton to get in a running game
with the Huskers.
“We have to play control basket
ball, but we will run when we have the
chance,” he said.
Five double-figure scorers pace NU
HUSKERS from Page 6
needed to get a run, I think our transi
tion game was the biggest part of it.
We finally started to hit some of our
buckets and we tried to open it up a
little bit. That’s how I think we got
back into it.”
Rasmussen said Nebraska is a bet
ter team than what it showed.
“They are a very, very good offen
sive ballclub right now,” Rasmussen
said. “I know Nebraska has played
better than that and we’ve played
better than that. I’ve seen Nebraska
sharper. It just happened that neither
team was playing well and so the
score was close at half.”
Nebraska committed seven turn
overs in the game’s first six minutes,
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while Creighton built an 11 -6 lead. A
three-point play by senior Maurticc
Ivy two minutes later gave the Husk
ers their first lead, 13-11.
Nebraska increased its lead to 25
19 on a jump shot by junior Amy
Stephens with three minutes left in the
half. Creighton scored 10 of the last
12 points of the hal f, though, and took
a 29-27 lead at halftime on a follow
shot by Gradovillc.
Creighton continued its sloppy
play in the second half, committing
14 more turnovers while shooting 36
percent from the field. Nebraska
committed seven turnovers and shot
45 percent.
Beck said she was pleased with the
way her team came back in the second
half.
“1 guess we deserved to win this
game because in the second half,
when we had to come back, we did,”
Beck said.
Nebraska took the lead for good
with 14:48 left to play when junior
Kim Harris hit a jump shot, which
gave the Huskers a 38-37 lead and
started the Nebraska run.
A pair of three-point field goals by
junior Mary Hohl pulled the Lady
Jays to within 11 points, 60-49. Ne
braska scored 6-straight points to put
the game out of reach.
Nebraska led by as many as 16
points in the final two minutes of the
game.
Nebraska will play at No. 6-ranked
Iowa Friday night and then face
DcPaul Sunday at 7:30 p.m.
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