Sports
That old Red ‘magic’ spells Tiger defeat
By Chuck (ireen
Senior Reporter_
Call it coincidence, call it luck,call
it “Cornhusker Magic.” Call it some
thing.
Just don’t call it non-existent.
A jump shot and free throw by
Henry T. Buchanan with five seconds
remaining in the game gave Nebraska
a 70-68 w in against Missouri Saturday
at the Bob Devancy Sports Center.
The w in marked the seventh time
since last February — and the fifth
time at home — Nebraska has won a
game in the last 10 seconds. Last
season, the Huskers beat Iowa Slate,
Kansas, Kansas Slate and Marquette
on last-second shots in the sports
center.
Buchanan, w ho led all scorers with
20 points, knows about the “magic” as
well as anyone,
"We have confidence here,” he
said. “Coach (Danny) Nee always
gives us commence, i ou nave 10 ne
confident that good things will hap
pen. If you gel dow n and think things
aren't going to happen, they won’t.”
Missouri led the Huskers 62-48
w ith 3:11 left in the game. With 1:55
remaining, Nebraska had cut the Ti
gers’ lead to four, 62-58. Missouri
guard Lee Coward hit both ends of a
onc-and-one at the frec-throw line,
but Nebraska answered w ith two free
throws by Pete Manning the next trip
down the court.
A three-point jump shot by
Buchanan pul the Huskers w ithin one,
68-67, w ith 35 seconds left. Manning
fouled Missouri’s Derrick Chicvous
to pul the Tiger forward at the line.
Chicvous, w ho hit three of 10 shots
from the line Saturday, missed the
front end of the onc-and-one, and
Nebraska’s Derrick Vick grabbed the
« rebound. Thirty seconds remained.
“Coach said to shoot the ball with
about 10 seconds left and to try to draw
a foul,” Buchanan said. “I got both."
Buchanan was fouled by Coward
and made the free throw to ensure
Nebraska’s first Big Eight w in of the
season. A desperation three-point shot
by Chicvous with :01 remaining
bounced off the rim and fell harm
lessly to the court.
"He loves pressure,” Nee said of
Buchanan. “He’s a pressure player.
Every time I took him out, he started
getting mad, like a pent-up lion.”
Nebraska outscorcd the Tigers 22
6 in the last 3:11 of the game.
Missouri coach Norm Stewart
wasn’t impressed with his team’s
performance against Nebraska.
“It was a tough loss,” he said. “I
really think our guys played well up to
the 2 1/2-minufe mark, with a few
exceptions.”
One of the exceptions, Stewart
said, was the Tigers’ frec-throw
shooting. Missouri connected on 18 of
30 shots from the stripe, including
seven of 16 in the second half.
“You’d expect shit like that in the
fifth or sixth grade,” Stewart said.
Last season at the sports center,
Missouri hit 37 of 45 from the line in
its 87-71 w in against Nebraska.
Nee, on the other hand, was offer
ing prayers of thanks.
“God bless Henry!” Nee said.
“This is unbelievable. I’m really
proud of our players. They stayed in
there and played hard. There wasn’t a
player on the team that didn’t do
something to contribute to the win.”
rNcnrasKa was also icu ny via,
who scored 12 points, and Manning,
w ho added 10. Freshman center Rich
King, who played IS minutes, added
eight points, six rebounds and three
blocked shots.
“He’s been practicing well, and we
wanted to give him a chance,” Nee
said of King. “Al ter the game, I shook
his hand and said, ‘You’re in the Big
Eight now-.’’'
Missouri, 0-2 in the Big Eight and
9-4 overall, was led by Chievous, who
scored 17 points, Coward and Doug
Smith with 14 each and Nathan
Buntin, w ho added 10.
Buchanan said the Tigers may have
caused another problem for them
selves.
“They came in lackadaisical,
thinking they were going to walk all
over us, and wc caught them,”
Buchanan said. “We figured all week
that they’d be that way.”
Manning agreed.
“They walked in eating popcorn
and drinking sixlas, like, ‘Throw the
ball up and let's go,”’ Manning said.
“They came like they just wanted to
watch the game. It was a big boost,
because cverybtxly was saying Mis
souri would w alk away with the game,
but they didn't.
“They couldn’t.”
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Lornhusker women declaw the Tigers,
Ivy ties NU career-scoring record
By Jeff Apel
Senior Hdiior
An 84-79 victory over Missouri
Saturday at the Bob Dcvaney Sports
Center left the Nebraska women’s
basketball team in a first-place lie in
the Big Eight, but also left Cornh usker
forward Maurticc Ivy one point away
from the Cornhusker career scoring
record.
Ivy, a 5-foot*9 senior, scored 24
points against the Tigers to tic Debra
Powell’s career scoring record of
1,843 points. Ivy will have a chance to
break the record when Nebraska faces
Kansas Stale at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
at the Sports Center.
Ivy said she won’t spend the next
three days thinking about the record.
She said she would be concerned
about it only if she is held scoreless
against Kansas Stale.
“My main concern is to play bas
ketball,’’ Ivy said “I don’t think about
scoring even though it’s my job. My
basic concern is to put Nebraska on the
mapasatop-20 team. I think we’re on
the tip of it right now.”
Nebraska women’s basketball
coach Angela Beck said Ivy’s accom
plishment isa tribute to the high inten
sity level that the two-time All-Big
Eight selection plays at.
Missouri coach Joann Rutherford
said the Tigers weren’t trying any
thing special to slop Ivy. She said
opponents have to give Ivy 20 points
each time they face her.
“She’s a great player,” Rutherford
said, “but she’s not the reason we
lost.”
Rutherford said Missouri, 9-6
overall and 1-1 in the Big Eight, lost
because of the way the Tigers per
formed in the first six minutes against
Nebraska. The Huskers led by as
many as 13 points during the early
stages of the game.
Beck said the win against Missouri
was important because it kept the
Huskers in a first-place lie in the Big
Eight. Nebraska, which raised its rec
ord to 12-2 overall and 2-0 in the Big
Eight, is tied with Oklahoma, Kansas
and Oklahoma Stale for ihe confer
ence lead.
Nebraska guard Amy Stephens
said the win was also important be
cause of the toughness of this year’s
conference. She said Iowa Suite and
Kansas Suite arc the only teams that
can be counted out in the race for the
Big Eight title.
“It’s going to be up for grabs,’’
Stephens said.
Beck said she was pleased with the
victory over Missouri because the
Huskers survived a physical second
half which “wasn’t to Nebraska’s
advantage.” She said the first and
second halves of the contest were
“like two different ball games.”
Nebraska look a 21-8 lead when
guard Pam Ficne hit a 4-fool jump shot
with 14:12 remaining in the first half.
The Huskers extended their lead to 32
15 on a 7-foot jump shot by Stephens,
but Missouri used four points by for
ward Sharon Bax to cut Nebraska’s
lead to 46-33 at halftime.
The Tigers then outscorcd Ne
braska 39-24 to lake a 72-70 lead with
4:23 remaining, but the Huskers used
eight points by Ivy — including two
free throws with 1:25 remaining that
tied the scoring record — to produce
the five-point win.
Beck said she was concerned enter
ing the game because the Huskers had
only 1 1/2 days to recover from their
conference-opening victory over
Iowa Stale.
Nebraska defeated the Cyclones
91-K7 Thursday night in Ames, Iowa
“We were tired.” Beck said.
“Luckily, our legs didn’t go away
front us.”
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