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Osborne:First scrimmage satisfactory
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Nebraska’s Terry Rodgers eludes a Cornhusker defender.
Rodgers finished with 77 yards on nine carries.
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
Not good, not bad, just satisfac
tory.
That’s how Nebraska football
coach Tom Osborne described the
Comhuskcrs’ first scrimmage of
spring drills Saturday. He said he was
disappointed with the output by the
top two offensive teams, but the de
fensive units were “pretty aggres
sive.”
The top two offensive units scored
four times, three times on field goals.
Chris Drennan connected on field
goals of 27 and 45 yards, and Gregg
Barrios booted a 38-yardcr.
The lone touchdown of the day
came on a 1-yard run by I-back Ty
reese Knox. Knox, who led all rushers
with 87 yards on 11 carries, then
added a two-point conversion.
Osborne said the main reason for
the low offensive output was that
quarterback Steve Taylor and fresh
man I-back Leodis Flowers did not
play because of injuries. Also absent
from the top offensive units were
wingback Dana Brinson, I-back Ken
Clark, light end Chris O’Gara and
fullback Randy Williams, who were
all held out because of academic or
disciplinary problems.
In addition, comcrback Charles
Fryar, inside linebacker Leroy
Etienne, middle guard Mike Murray,
outside linebacker Broderick Tho
mas, and tackles Ray Valladao and
Kent Wells are not practicing on de
fense because of similar reasons or
injuries.
Taylor has been slowed by a thigh
injury, which he suffered during
winter conditioning, and Flowers was
held out of practice because of a
shoulder injury. The others were kept
from participating because of aca
demic or disciplinary problems.
“We didn’t throw the ball as well
as we could,” Osborne said, “and that
had a lot to do with the fact that Steve
wasn’t in there.”
Gerry Gdowski and Mickey Jo
seph, Nebraska s lop two quarter
backs this spring during Taylor’s
absence, “both did some good and bad
things,” Osborne said. He said Jerry
Dunlap, Tom Hasse, Kcithen McCant
and Mike Preston all performed well.
Gdowski rushed four times for 67
yards and completed one pass for 28
yards, but threw two interceptions.
Joseph rushed for 40 yards on 12
carries and completed a 5-yard pass.
Joseph said he and Gdowski need
to retain the leadership they displayed
in high school to be successful at
Nebraska.
“Steve’s not always going to be
there,” Joseph said. “Some games,
Steve might be hurt, and wc really
have to be able to take over that
leadership role.
“Gerry and 1 were leaders in high
school, and I know we can be here,
loo.”
Joseph, a redshirt freshman from
Murrcro, La., was rated as the top
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History favors Kansas in Monday’s NCAA title game
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP)—The
last time two teams from the same
conference met for the national
championship in college basketball,
the underdog won and matched the
mark for most losses by a champion.
On Monday night, Kansas and
Oklahoma of the Big Eight meet for
the title with the Jayhawks an eight
point underdog and enough losses to
set the record for most by an NCAA
champion.
When Villanova beat fellow Big
East member Georgetown in 1985,
the Wildcats were 10-poini under
dogs and the only unranked team in
the Final Four, which is the same type
of scenario Kansas faces this year.
“You have to be lucky, get some
breaks, win a game or two you’re not
supposed to win,” said Kansas coach
Larry Brown, whose squad dropped a
70-68 decision to Nebraska earlier
this season.
Brown, who coached the 1980
UCLA team that reached the champi
onship game as a heavy underdog but
then lost, said he hopes for a different
result this year.
Kansas, 26-11, and Oklahoma, 35
3, will meet for the third time this
season Monday at 8 p.m. Oklahoma
won the First two meetings, 73-65 and
95-87, and while the Jayhawks have
changed a lot this season because of
injuries and academic problems, the
Sooncrs and their vaunted pressure
defense have remained constant.
“I don’t know if you can compare
their press to any other,” Kansas
guard Kevin Pritchard said. “They
have the greatest press in the world,
and they showed that against a great
ball-handling team like Arizona.”
Oklahoma beat the second-ranked
Wildcats 86-78 in the semifinals,
while forcing Arizona, which had
committed 12 turnovers per game,
into nine turnovers in the first half and
15 in the game.
“The pace at which wc play is hard
for some teams to adjust to,” Okla
homa forward Dave Sieger said.
Pritchard, who had five assists and
seven rebounds in Kansas’ 66-59
semifinal victory against Duke, has
seen the press twice this season, and it
is tougher on him than most point
guards because he began playing that
position midway through the season.
But Pritchard has been successful.
When he moved to the point from his
shooting-guard position, the Jay
hawks were 12-7 and the next oppo
nent was Oklahoma. Pritchard played
33 minutes, and although the Jay
hawks lost, the game was a turning
point.
Kansas has gone 14-4 since then,
and one of those losses was to Kansas
State in the Big Eight Tournament, a
game Pritchard missed because of a
knee injury.
“I didn’t realize Pritchard had such
an impact on that team, but the game
they played without Pritchard they
just weren’t the same,” Oklahoma
coach Billy Tubbs said.
Tubbs said he doesn’t care what
other people th ink about the game. He
knows what his team will do.
“I don’t care who’s the favorite, it
doesn’t matter when the ball is rolling
down the floor and the players never
think about that,” Tubbs said.
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