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Athletes nominated Two Nebraska athletes are among six individuals nominated for the NCAA Today’s Top Six awards. The Comhusker athletes nomi nated are Jake Young, a center on the Nebraska football team, and Virginia Stahr, an All-America middle blocker on the Husker volleyball team. Young, a senior from Midland, Texas, is a three-year starter. He was a semifinalist for the 1989 Lombardi Award, which is annually presented to the nation’s best lineman, and is a two-time All-America and All-Big Eight selection. Stahr is a senior from Waco who was the 1989 Volleyball Player of the Year. She is also a two-time All America selection. The other athletes selected are Chris Duplanty, a water polo player from California-Irvine; John Jackson, a wide receiver from USC; and Pat O’Kelly and Kerri Tashiro, soccer players from Seton Hall and Colorado College. r .■ ——. r-, 1. Sweet Hogs 14-1 2. SigEpB-2 11-3 3. ATO A-1 12-1 4. Sig Ep A-1 10-2 5. Abel 7 11-1 6. Brew Crew 7-1 7. No Clue 8-2 8. 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Tomorrow night at the Bob Dcva ney Sports Center, Texas Tech will try to avenge that loss against the Huskers. They will get their chance at 7:35 p.m., and Nebraska coach Danny Nee said the Huskers’ chances ofsuccessaredifficultbecau.se things are different this year. Reid, the Huskers’ leading scorer last season, is out with a knee injury, and both teams are filled with new players. Nebraska’s roster is full of players who weren’t with the Huskcr pro gram two years ago, while the Red Raiders will bring three returning starters, three returning lettermcn and nine newcomers to Lincoln. Nee said Texas Tech has over come its inexperience this season. He said he is leery of the 3-2 Red Raid ers. Texas Tech has recorded wins against Missouri-St. Louis, Midwest ern and Portland this season, and lost a pair of 1-point games to Austin Pcay and San Diego State. “They have some good people back and they have a lot of new faces,” Nee said. One of those new faces is Dcrcx Butts, a 6-foot-5 guard/forward who leads the Red Raiders in scoring with an average of 15.4 points per game. Butts’ backcourt partner, 6-3 Jerry Mason, averages 15 points per game. At the forward spots for Texas Tech are two juniors - 6-6, 225 pound James Johnson and 6-8, 210 pound Steve Miles - who average 3.8 and 7.6 points per game, respec tively. At center is 6-9,230-pound senior J.D. Sanders, who averages 7 points dliu .‘t U-UUUIIUO |./V/I Nee said he has been impressed by Sanders. “J.D. Sanders is a really, really good player,” he said. Sanders and the Red Raiders will try to run the Huskers until they're red, Ncc said. “Their coach, Gerald Myers, has been in this business a long time,’ ’ he said. “He coaches a really aggressive ball club that plays tight man-to-man defense and really forces the pace.” Ncc said he’s not relieved to be back at home even though it dropped a 65-56 road decision Tuesday to Northern Illinois. The loss extended the Huskers’ road losing streak to 13 games. Ncc said the attitude his team has taken is one of getting back down to business. “Just us being ready to play, that’s the key,” Nee said. “Players under standing their roles,rebounding, hit ting free throws - those arc the things we have to do. WORK from Page 7 arc on a 13-gamc losing streak on the road. The Huskers better shift gears or imagine what’s going to happen when they travel to places like Co lombia, Mo., Norman and Stillwater, Okla., and Lawrence and Manhattan, Kan. I rather care not to think about it. Oklahoma coach Billy Tubbs, who loves to kick you while you’re down, probably already is thinking about it... licking his chops in front of cameras in anticipation of clobber ing NU at Lloyd Noble Center. Heck, even Colorado’s unbeaten ight now. The Buffaloes even won a game on the road. It can be said that the Buffaloes haven’t played anyone yet, but has Nebraska? OK, Michigan State. Losing to the Spartans is some thing a lot of teams will do this sea son. There’s no shame in that. But to Miami of Ohio and South ern ... Western ... Northern ... well one of those Illinois teams? I’m not sure, but I think they’re Division I. Not having Reid, who is recover ing from knee surgery last summer, hurts. It’s hard to conjecture how much that affects the team. It surely doesn’t help, but shouldn’t be used as an excuse. Nor should inexperience, al though it could play a part in the Huskers’ overall confidence and or ganization at this point of the season. But there arc a lot of teams with young players who aren’t saving their best years for later. Nebraska isn’t winning -- or even playing well — on the road because of a lack of a veteran team. It’s because they’re out-hustled and outworked, which translates into being out-re bounded, outscorcd . . . oul everythinged. Hopefully, the Huskers aren’t going to be burned from three-point range all season, even in their victo ries. Players who get hot usually call for a finger to the eye, a knee to the groin, pulling their shorts down . . . anything to break their rhythm. It even may call for working a little harder on defense, although I’d rather sec their shorts pulled down. Right now, or within the next couple road games, the team needs a guy or two with the mental toughness to rub off on the other players when they start running the floor with their tails between their legs. Guys with the guts, determination and hustle to play hard every second on the floor. Playing tough “D” takes a little work — hard work. The banging it takes to get open on offense or in position for rebounds takes a lot of energy and wears the legs down. It creates fatigue. Playing on the road is tough. Fans arc rude and noisy, but like hard work and fatigue it’s also part of the game. Overcoming the pain from ex haustion takes players who are will ing to pay the price. Notice: that’s willing, not willing. Fowler is a junior news-editorial majorand is a Daily Nebraskan sports reporter and col umnist. NU history to repeat itself in bleak basketball season Colorado and Nebraska arc going at it again. After battling all season for the Big Eight football crown, it looks like they’re going to be going at it during basketball season as well. The only difference is there is nothing to give the Buffaloes an un fair advantage in the “1989-90 Big Eight battle for the basement.’’ In fact, the only poll that picked Nebraska or Colorado higher than seventh in the Big Eight predicted Kansas — the No. 2 team in the na tion- to finish eighth. It s ironic, isn’t it? Of the teams that Nebraska consistently pummels on the football field, the only one the basketball team reasonably can be favored over is the one team the Comhuskcrs lost to on the gridiron. Maybe it’s fair. After years of the Comhuskers dominating Big Eight athletics, plac ing high in almost every sport, maybe basketball season is payback lime And how could Nebraska win when the Big Eight is such a veritable plethora of basketball talent? Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma are rated in the Associated Press Top zr' and Oklahoma State and Kansas State received votes. The only team missing from the poll besides Colo rado and Nebraska is Iowa State, which lost only two starters from last year’s team that qualified for the NCAA tournament. Nebraska has never won a NCAA postseason tournament game, nor has it ever won the Big Eight Tournament, which has been domi nated by the conference’s ‘big three’ -- Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma. This year looks to be more of the same. Kansas won the preseason Na tional Invitation Tournament by de feating Nevada-Las Vegas and Lou isiana State, who were then the na tion’s No. 1 and 2 teams. That per formance rocketed the Jayhawks from the depths of obscurity to the top of the polls. Missouri, which is led by sopho more sensation Anthony Peeler, is ranked lourth after beating North Carolina to win this year’s Maui Classic. Oklahoma, whose basketball pro gram isn’t on probation (surprise, surprise), is once again pummcling the hell out of basketball teams across the country behind a lineup that al ways looks like an all-star team. Even lowly Colorado has poten tial in center Shaun Vandiver, who has led the Buffaloes to a 4-0 record this season. Nebraska? Well, let’s just say the Huskcrs arc a bad joke. They lost to Northern Illinois, which is no easy feat. They also recruited Kelly Lively. And center Rich King has missed more dunks than he has free throws. Enough said. Hopfonspergcr *s a freshman news-editorial major and is a Daily Nebraskan spnrtswriter and columnist.
