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Tuesday, November 13,1990
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Junior Sue Hesch drives between Australia’s Jenny Whittle (15) and Trisa Fallon (13)
NU women’s team
loses first game
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Reporter
Angela Beck wanted her women’s
basketball team to beat up on some
one in Monday night’s exhibition game
at the Bob Devancy Sports Center.
Instead, the Cornhuskcrs got
thumped, 85-64, by the Australia Junior
Nationals in front of a quiet crowd of
810.
The Huskers shot 30.5 percent from
the floor and committed 30 turnovers
in their new run-and-gun offense
against the all-star group from across
Australia, but Beck said she is not
discouraged.
“We didn’t play anything like I
thought weean play,” Beck said. “But
I knew this was going to be a tough
game. We weren't going to come out
and totally control them.”
The Australians, who arc 4-0 on
their nine-game tour of the United
States, finished their regular season
about two months ago.
That experience and the Huskers’
new offense gave the Australians an
advantage, Beck said.
“You can’t put an offense in in one
month and expect the kids to know
it,” she said. “They’re much more
gelled than we arc, obviously.”
Beck said the team “just got
outswapped” and needed to be more
aggressive on offense and defense.
“We’re going to have to dig a
couple levels deeper,” she said. “1
want this to be the most aggressive
team we’ve ever pul on the floor.
“We had one or two times when
we dove on a loose ball. We could
have been on the floor 15 times in this
game.”
The Australians run an offense much
like the Huskers’ own, and play a
pressing defense. Beck said the Husk
ers weren’t able to prepare for every
thing the Australians threw at them,
and that disrupted the Nebraska game
plan.
After the first half, Nebraska trailed
by 10 and had turned the ball over
only 10 times. But the Huskers were
shooting 29.5 percent and were not
getting the second shot opportunities
on offense, Beck said.
On Sunday, the Australians de
feated Big Eight foe Colorado 77-66
and Australian coach Ray Tomlinson
said he would give the Buffaloes the
nod over the Huskers.
“They’re focused just a little bit
better on what they’re doing,” he said.
“It was a bit of a scramble there
tonight.”
UNLV 1st
in AP poll
The Associated Press
UNLV starts the college basket
ball season w here it can’t end it — as
No. 1.
The Runnin’ Rebels, who won the
national championship at ter being the
preseason No. 1 last season, were
banned from this year’s NCAA tour
nament and won’t be able to defend
their title. But that didn’t slop the poll
voters from making them No. 1 in
Monday’s preseason poll.
All but 15 of the 65 voters on the
national board of writers and broad
casters had UNLV first on their bal
lots. The Runnin’ Rebels had 1,601
points, well ahead of Arkansas, 1,506,
and Arizona, 1,488, which each re
ceived live first-place votes.
Michigan State was fourth with
one first-place vote and 1,302 points
and was followed in the lop 10 by
North Carolina, Duke, Alabama,
Indiana, Georgetown and Ohio State.
UNLV has four starters back from
the team that beat Duke 103-73 in the
most lopsided championship game
ever played. All-American Larry
Johnson and dclensivc star Stacey
Augmon both opted to return to the
Runnin’ Rebels raiher than go to the
NBA, only to find out in July they
could not defend their title.
Coach Jerry Tarkaman, the center
of the 14-year-old allegations, and
the school offered several alternative
punishments to the NCAA’s Infrac
tions Committee last month. It is
possible the postseason ban for 1991
may yet be overturned.
North Carolina, the highest team
in the poll not ranked in last season s
final balloting, had 1,282 points, 120
more than Duke, which received two
first-place votes. Alabama had 1,110
points to edge Indiana by 21. Geor
getown had the final two first-place
voles and 1,054 points, while Ohio
State’s 887 points made the Buck
eyes the third Big Ten team in the lop
10 with Michigan State and Indiana.
North Carolina, which in 1982 was
the last team to start and finish No. 1
before UNLV, and Indiana both have
freshmen to thank for their lofty rank
ings. The Tar Heels have the nation’s
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9 Georgetown RKJs
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16 Georgia Tech gBS 9
17 Connecticut gEp 3
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19 Temple gBEj
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22 Texas Kftl -
23 Louisville 16
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lop recruiting class with five players
led by 7-fool Eric Montross, while
Indiana’s young team will be aug
mented by guard Damon Bailey, one
of the most-publicized grade school
players who was scrutinized nation
ally throughout his successful high
school career in the Hoosier state.
UCLA started the second ten and
was followed by Pittsburgh, Syracuse,
LSU, Oklahoma (the No. 1 team in
last season’s final poll), Georgia Tech,
Connecticut, Virginia, Temple and
Missouri, which was just socked with
a two-year probation that includes a
ban from this year’s NCAA tourna
ment.
The final five spots went to Geor
gia, Texas, Louisville, Southern
Mississippi and St. John’s.
Nee finds good, bad points as Huskers
prepare for Czechoslovakian exhibition
By Paul Domeier
Senior Reporter
Nebraska men’s basketball coach
Danny Nee said he found some good
and some bad while re-evaluating the
Comhuskcrs’ first exhibition game
and preparing for tonight’s second
and final exhibiuon, against a Czecho
slovakian louring team.
Nee said the first thing he noticed
from the video tape of the Huskers’
128-89 victory over High Five Ameri
can on Friday was Nebraska’s ragged
defense. Then in the second half, Nee
said, both the offensive and defensive
structures broke down.
“Everything became transition,”
Nee said. “We want to run, but we
want to be under control.”
Nee said he discovered at least one
piece of good news, Nebraska’s abil
ity to hold onto the ball in such a last
paced game.
'“Fourteen turnovers was just great,”
he said.
Nee said the Huskers have kept
adding things since the opening vic
tory.
“We had a good, productive week
end,” Nee said.
Yet Nee said the Huskers haven’t
perfected some things, like the team’s
Nebraska Comhuskers Czechoslovakia Nationals
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Nebraska Comhuskers
F Dapreis Owens 6-8 Jr. Mansfield, Ohio
F Carl Hayes 6-8 Jr. Chicago III.
C Rich King 7-2 Sr. Omaha, Neb
G Beau Reid 6-8 Sr. Lancaster, Ohio
G Clifford Scales 6-2 Sr. Maywood, III
Czechoslovakia Nationals
F Jaroslav Kovar 6-6_
F Pavel Becka 6-7
C Kamil Novak 6-10 Bob Devaney Sports Center
G Vaclav Bruby 6-4 Today, 7:35 p.m.
G Jozef Michalko 6-1
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/one defense.
“We can play, you’re just not going
to sec every thing,” he said.
Whatever the Czechs show at 7:35
p.m. in the Bob Devaney Sports Center
will be new, since Nee said he knows
nothing specific about the team. He
said that as far he knows, this team
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has no relation to the Czech team that
heal Nebraska 69-66 in an exhibition
game three years ago.
The Cz.cchs were 4-2 going into a
game late Monday against Drake. The
team has defeated Marquette, a team
that received votes in the Associated
Press preseason Top 25, 79-62.
Only CU stands between Huskers, title
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
One win equals 15 straight.
It may noi be logical math, but for
the Nebraska volleyball team, the
equation is simple. By winning to
night’s match at Colorado, the Com
huskers will clinch their 15th con
secutive Big Eight championship.
Nebraska, 25-2 and 10-0 in league
play, will have to play well if it is to
beat the Lady Buffs and win the title,
Coach Terry Pettit said.
“We’re going to need to execute
and play good defense,” Pettit said.
“If we do, we’re going to be all right.”
Colorado is second in the confer
ence with a 7-2 record. The Lady
Buffs dropped a 15-5, 15-4, 15-11
decision to Nebraska last month.
Colorado assistant coach Mike McLean
said the second meeting could be
different.
“The first tune in Lincoln, the great
crowd you had rattled us a little bit,”
McLean said. “I think we have a lot
better chance of winning out here.”
McLean said the third game of the
match, in which Colorado led 9-8
before losing, sparked confidence in
the Lady Buffs.
“Once we started to gel rolling in
the third game, the kids were able to
relax a little,” McLean said. “We had
some great rallies, and I think that
built a little confidence.
“If we can pass well, we should be
able to get some hits past their front
row.”
Pettit said that Colorado did not do
a good job of passing in the first
match.
"Their passing was a big reason
we were able to win,” he said. "Whether
that was caused because of us or not,
I don’t know ”
Pettit said Nebraska also will have
to control Tiffany Jestadt, Colorado’s
leading outside hitter
‘She did a nice job the first time,”
Pettit said. “We’ll have to make some
adjustments on her.”
The Comhuskcrs arc coming off a
two match weekend sweep with wins
at Missouri and Kansas State. The
match with Colorado will be Ne
braska s fourth road match in a week,
but Pettit said fatigue will not be a
factor.
Wc ve had lime to rest up,” Pettit
said. “And since we’ve seen them
before, wc know what they’re going
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