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.
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Texas Tech will try to avenge
last season’s one-basket defeat
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By Cory Golden
Staff Reporter
December 11, 1988.
Nebraska forward Beau ReiJ
drives for a layup with 10 seconds left
to give the Comhuskcr basketball
team a 71 -69 win over the Texas Tech
Red Raiders in Lubbock, Texas.
December 9, 1989.
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
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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.
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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.
