Dynamic Duo’s mission
only half accomplished
after beating Missouri
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
OMAHA — Far the Dynamic Duo,
the mission is only half accomplished.
Creighton’s Bob Harstad and Chad
Gallagher, two of the most prolific
scorers in that school’s history, com
pleted only part of a “Big Double”
over Big Eight schools by leading the
Bluejays to a win over Missouri
Tuesday night.
Now comes Nebraska.
Creighton will face the Comhuskers
in an 8:08 p.m game tonight at the
Bob Devaney Sports Center, and
Harstad said the Bluejays can’t spent
too much time celebrating their win
over Missouri.
“It was a big win for us, but we’ve
just got to take it, put it behind us, and
take care of business down at Ne
braska,” Harstad said.
Both Harstad and Gallagher have
started since their freshmen seasons,
and finished 1-2 respectively in last
season’s Missouri Valley player of
the year voting.
Harstad, a 6-foot, 6-inch forward,
scored 16 points in the win over
Missouri. That was after a career
high performance on Nov. 30 in which
he posted scored 38 points in a 93-47
win against Texas San-Antonio.
Coming into this season, Harstad
needed only 337 points to break the
school career scoring record.
Gallagher, a 6-10 center, isn’t far
behind. He scored 16 points against
the Tigers, and ranks 11th on
Creighton’s all-time scoring list
Gallagher said playing the Husk
ers in Lincoln is always special for
him.
“It’s a game you always look for
ward to,” Gallagher said. “When you
play against Nebraska, no matter what
the record, it’s one of the great games
of the year.”
Harstad said he’s anticipating a
tight game tonight.
“Playing in the Bob Devaney
Center, in front of a great crowd,
always makes you ready to go,” Harstad
said. “I’m sure it’s going to be a
tremendous basketball game,”
If Creighton is to beat Nebraska,
the Dynamic Duo will have to put the
clamps on 7-2 Husker center Rich
King, who is averaging 13 points and
seven rebounds per game. Both Harstad
and Gallagher played against King in
a summer league in Omaha, and both
complimented the play of the Ne
braska center.
“He may only be 7-2, but I person
ally think the guy plays about 7-6,”
Harstad said. “His height is of course
an advantage, but he’s also got a soft
touch. He’sadefinite NBA prospect.”
Gallagher said he was equally
impressed with King.
“He’s a great player, and we’re
going to have to work hard on trying
to stop him,” Gallagher said.
One advantage Harstad and Gallagher
will have over King is having already
played against a top-notch center in
Missouri All- American Doug Smith.
Creighton held Smith to a 4 for 16
shooting performance Tuesday night.
“For us to beat them (Missouri), it
came down to having to stop Doug
Smith,” Harstad said. “We did that,
and I think playing against King will
be just as tough.”
King
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And preventing passes to Gallagher
means stopping the main man who
feeds him, forward Bob Harstad.
“I’m thinking about Gallagher and
Harstad,” King said. “I’ll be guarding
either one of them. The key to the
game will be rebounding, they’re a
good rebounding team.”
Harstad, who is listed a 6-7, led ti.e
Blue Jays in rebounding last year by
averaging nine a game.
“He’s such a tough player,” King
said. “If the guy was 7-foot, he’d be
all-world. He plays like he’s 7-foot
and he’s a questionable 6-7. It’s a
good thing he’s not any taller, or he’d
be incredible.”
Harstad was the guy who ruined
Nebraska’s last second hopes a year
ago when he stripped the ball from
King with 21 seconds left and Creighton
up 84-83. Creighton’s Duan Cole
sealed the win with two free throws in
the closing seconds.
“We controlled the game for 38
minutes and then the last two min
utes, gave it up,” King said. “That’s
the worst way to lose.”
King said the mistakes that led to
such comebacks are in the past.
“That team’s long gone,” he said.
“That’s the old Nebraska.”
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to play in Final Four
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
Linda Bareness has missed two
too many Final Fours.
Bareness, a Fifth-year senior
volleyball
player, was
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tator. when
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Finals in 1986
and 1989.
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son as a Comhusker outside hitter,
Bareness said she is ready to go
back to the Final Four, only this
time in uniform.
“It* s the dream of any collegiate
volleyball player to play in the
Final Four,” Bareness said. ‘‘Not
everybody has the opportunity to
be there.”
As a redshirt in 1986, Bareness
watched as her teammates advanced
to the championship match before
losing to Pacific. Although she didn’t
make the trip to Stockton, Calif.,
she said being a part of the volley
ball team’s first Final Four was
still memorable.
“I was still overwhelmed by the
program back then,”Barsness said.
“It was more of a ‘go there and
celebrate’ type of thing.”
Three years later, Nebraska again
played in the championship game,
this time losing to Long Beach
State in Honolulu. Barsness made
the trip, but was sidelined with a
knee injury that had ended her
season.
“Last year I was jealous of my
teammates,” Barsness said. “I
wanted to gel out there and play no
matter what.”
This year, Barsness and her
Nebraska teammates are only two
steps away from returning to this
year’s Final Four in College Park,
Md. If the Huskers defeat Pitts
burgh at home Friday and beat the
winner of the Penn State-Wiscon
sin game Saturday night, they will
return to their third Final Four in
five years.
That would be fine with Bareness.
“The goal this whole season has
been to win the national champi
onship,” Bareness said. “We’ve had
a great season, but if we don’t win
a national championship we won’t
be satisfied.”
On a personal basis, Bareness
said, a national title would make
all of last year’s rehabilitation pay
off.
“If we win it, all the ups and
downs I’ve had will seem really
worthwhile,” Bareness said.
After starting her sophomore
season, Bareness has taken on a
substitute role behind Nebraska’s
starting trio of Cris Hall, Janet Kruse
and Eileen Shannon.
She said that although she’s
backup, her experience may help
the Buskers in this weekend’s
Mideast Regional.
“I think the experience will be
very helpful to the team,” Bareness
said. “(Busker setter) Val (Novak)
is comfortable setting me, and I’ve
been in some pressure situations
before.”
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