Sports
Husker men fail at home, women on road
Nee says comments from coach
were taken as personal affront
By Steve Sipple
Staff Reporter
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said Monday
that he took comments made by Missouri
coach Norm Stewart following the Tigers’win
Saturday personally.
“Any time you get attacked like that, you
take it personally,’’ said Nee, whose team
dropped an 89-72 decision to the Tigers at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center. ‘ ‘There’s noother
way I could take it.”
Moments after Saturday’s game, Stewart
said Nee was4 ‘bush league’ ’ and criticized his
coaching.
“We were playing a ballclub that had a lot
of people back, and for some reason, they’re
not winning,’ ’ Stewart said. “You worry about
a club that’s got a lot of people back and they ’re
not winning.”
Nee said he was surprised by Stewart s
verbal barrage.
“He must be under a lot of pressure, being
Sth-ranked, the Sports Illustrated article ... it
could be a lot of things,” he said.
The latest issue of Sports Illustrated carried
an article about Stewart’s problems with a St.
Louis Post-Dispatch reporter. The reporter,
Jim Thomas, said Stewart made threatening
remarks to him because of that paper’s articles
on the recruiting methods of a Missouri assis
tant coach.
Thomas said Stewart told him: “I know
some people who can cake care of your 1 -year
old (son).”
Nee, who spoke at his weekly press confer
ence, was asked if heexpects the problems with
Stewart to escalate when Nebraska plays Mis
souri Feb. 28 in Columbia, Mo.
“I don’t think it could ”VT J
In addition, Ste
wart was critical of the
positioning of Ne
braska’s band at the
sports center. The
band is stationed per
pendicular to the visi
tors’ bench, at the end a
of the court. Stewart
had his players move
their chairs onto the
playing floor during Nc«
eacn lime out so his players could hear belter
Nee said the actions of the Nebraska band
weren ’t so bad when compared to the antics of
The Antlers, a group of Missouri fans noted for
their unruly behavior and verbal assaults on
players, coaches and fans.
Stewart’s complaints about the band were
unwarranted, Nee said.
“Obviously there’s a coniradiction there,”
Nee said.
Despite Saturday’s loss, Nee said he was
confident going into tonight’s game against
Iowa State in Ames, Iowa.
Tipoff is set for 7:08 p.m. al the James H.
Hilton Coliseum.
Beck says team s youtmutness
will be beneficial next season
By Mark Derowitsch
Senior Reporter_
Nebraska women’s basketball coach
Angela Beck isn’t ready to give up this season,
but she’s already looking to next season.
Beck said the Comhuskers should be an
r| improved team next
I year. She said Nebraska
is experiencing a youth
movement, which
should pay off next
year.
‘‘I see a light at the
end of the tunnel,”
Beck said during her
weekly press confer
ence.
Beck But, Beck said, Ne
braska’s near future doesn’t look that bad,
either. . ^
‘‘We have a bright future,” she said. Our
February looks great. The problem we’re fac
ing this year is that Colorado has four or five
kids who have been there for a long time. The
time is ripe for them to win the Big Eight
championship.”
Beck said the Huskers, who arc now 11-8
overall and 2-4 in the Big Eight, have five
home games during the next month, and they
should have a chance to win three road games.
‘‘We can still win 18 games,” she said,
‘ ‘but wc think we’re playing at a medium level
on the road. You have to perform at a high level
in order to win on the road.”
Beck said the Huskers haven’t performed
well on the road this season. She said Nebraska
must cut down on mental errors.
“We’re not executing at the end of the
game,” Beck said. “We have the ability to
execute, but we are not putting the ball down.
Beck said poor execution is a big factor for
the Huskers.
“The will to win is greatly overrated,” she
said. “Having a will isn’t enough. The will to
execute and perform is greater than that.
“We’ve not had the ability to execute and
perform at the end of the game.”
Nebraska has been hit hard with injuries this
season, which has hindered its performance at
the end of the games, Beck said.
Post players Wendy Kriebel, Kristi Ander
son and Sarah Muller have each suffered stress
fractures.
Beck said the injuries have forced her to
cancel planned changes for the starling lineup.
“My job as a coach is to find winning
combinations,” she said. ‘‘I just haven’t been
able to find it yet this year.
“I wanted to move Amy Stephens to the
point guard, but we had two injuries and I had
to re-juggle it and she’s back to playing the No.
2 guard position.”
Stephens, a senior from Alliance, is averag
ing 20.3 points per game this year, while con
necting on 46.4 percent of her shots from the
field.
Nee says Comhuskers can defeat Iowa State in Ames
By Mark Derowitsch
Senior Reporter
A win on the road is a rare occur
rence in the Big Eight, but Nebraska
men’s basketball coach Danny Nee
said he thinks the Cornhuskers have a
chance for one Tuesday night.
Nee said the Huskers, who are now
12-8 overall and 0-4 in the Big Eight,
could defeat Iowa State at the Hilton
Coliseum in Ames, Iowa. Tip-off for
the game, which will be televised by
KPTM (channel 42, Cablevision
channel 9), is set for 7:08 p.m.
“At this point in time, this is a
game where we have a chance,” Nee
said. “Il would be an upset if we win
— I’d call it an upset if we won. But
we’ve been upset before.”
Nee said Nebraska and Iowa State
are similar teams. He said both teams
arc rebuilding.
“It’s a good matchup for both
teams,” Nee said. “We’re both in the
same shoe box in talent, depth -
everything.”
The Cyclones, who enter the game
with a 10-7 record overall and a 1-4
mark in the Big Eight, are led by
center Victor Alexander. Alexander
is averaging 19 points and 8.4 re
bounds per game.
“Alexander has ihe ability to
score,” Nee said. “He really docs a
good job for them.”
But Nebraska forward Beau Reid
said the Huskers can’t concern them
selves about what its opponents arc
doing.
“I think we need to Quit worrying
so much about what other teams do
and start worrying more about what
we do,” Reid said. “I think that
sometimes we start focusing on what
other teams do and their offenses and
how many great shooters they have.
“I think we start focusing on the
wrong things instead of focusing on
ourselves. *
Iowa State has a 6-2 record at
home this season, and Nee said that
could be a factor in the game.
“The thing about Iowa State is
that in the Hilton Coliseum, they’re
really, really tough,” he said.
' ‘They’re very explosive offensively,
and they put numbers on the boards
quickly.”
Nee said Iowa Stale has played
very well this season, but can play
very poor.
The Cyclones lost to Kansas 127
82 at Lawrence, Kan., prior to drop
ping a liw-iuu ovcrume decision 10
No. 1-ranked Oklahoma in Ames.
“They can lose by 45 points one
night, and then come within a cat’s
whisker of beating Oklahoma,’’ Nee
said.
Reid said the game is important
because Nebraska is starling to won
der what it lakes to win a conference
game.
“We’re both frustrated and con
fused,’’ he said. “When you look at
the good teams, and what they have,
we have the physical talent to do well
in this league. We have all the tools.
We just don’t have that edge.’’
Lady Huskers need to work on execution, beck says
By Mike Kluck
Staff Reporter
Nebraska women’s basketball
coach Angela Beck breathed a sigh of
relief after seeing a frustrating Janu
ary come to a close.
The Comhuskcrs’ frustration with
January ended when they dropped an
84-75 overtime decision to Missouri
Sunday in Columbia, Mo. The loss,
Nebraska’s third-consecutive Big
Eight road setback, dropped the
Huskcrs to 11 -8 overall and 2-4 in the
conference.
As February begins. Beck said she
won’t be looking at the disappoint
ments of the past month. But she said
she will be looking ahead to the pos
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DN player-coach Mike Kluck said
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He said the only weakness the team
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while committing five turnovers.
sibilities of a new month.
“We arc going to put the past
behind us and have a great Febru
ary,” Beck said. “We have the op
portunity to turn the whole confer
ence race around. It will be a little
tough to win the regular-season con
ference race with Colorado at 6-0 in
the conference. But we arc looking to
Finish second or third in the confer
ence and regain a little credibility.
We want to be in a position for a Big
Eight chammonship and have an 18
win season'1
Beck’s optimism with February
stems from Nebraska’s schedule.
Five of the Huskers remaining eight
games arc at the Bob Dcvaney Sports
Center, where Nebraska has a 29
gamc winning streak. She said the
Huskers goal is to finish with a 9-5
conference mark and receive a bid to
the NCAA tournament.
Beck said she is not totally disap
pointed by Nebraska’s three road
losses because the Huskers were in a
position to win all of them. In addi
tion to the loss at Missouri, Nebraska
also dropped a 83-80 road decision to
Kansas Slate and a 68-65 decision to
Oklahoma.
"I feel sorry because we had the
ability and we were in a position to
win,” Beck said. “I don’t think we
executed to our full potential. In the
Missouri game we had two shots at
the end that didn’t connect."
Beck said she is surprised by
Nebraska’s 2-4 record in the Big
Eight. r ic said the .vorst she ex
pected the HusVers tc oe was 3-3, but
didn’t foresee i ebraska losing all
four road games.
Beck said she was disappointed
with the 25 turnovers the Huskcrs
committed against Missouri. She said
the Huskcrs would have won if they
would have converted one of their
turnovers into a shot.
Beck said she was pleased with the
performance of guard Sabrina
Brtxrks. The senior transfer from
Moberly (Mo.) Junior College led the
Huskcrs with 26 points.
‘‘I hope it wasn't a fluke," Beck
said. "I knew she would be moti
vated to be playing against two kids
she went to junior college with. Her
junior college coach was also there.
She just needs to have that inner
motivation every night."
Beck said Nebraska planned to
reset its goals for the rest of the season
on Monday night. She said the Husk
ers arc going to work on executing
belter and being more consistent.
"The will to win is really over
played," Beck said. "The ability to
execute has much greater impor
tance. I blame a lot of our losses on
the inconsistency of some of our
players."
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