jCoach: Huskers out of sync against Kansas
From Staff Reports
“LAWRENCE, Kan. — The NV
braska women’s basketball team got
buried Wednesday night.
Throwing dirt from the free throw
line were the Kansas Jayhawks. Ne
braska lost to the Jayhawks, 83-63, in
front of650 fans at Allen Fieldhouse.
Kansas, last in the Big Eight in
free throw percentage, missed only
three free throws in their 21 trips to
the line.
Karen Jennings led all players with
10 rebounds and 23 points, but missed
12 of her 20 shots from the floor.
Lisa Tate, the Jayhawk’s 6-foot, 3
inch center, had six blocked shots as
Kansas held the Huskers to 41 per
cent shooting.
Last in the Big Eight in field goal
percentage (40.1 percent), the Jay
hawks shot 42 percent from the field
against Nebraska in the second half.
“We just didn’t adjust to their
defense,” Nebraska women’s coach
Angela Beck said. “We faced a very
hot team tonight and never really got
into sync.
“I don’t think Kansas is 20-points
better than we are.”
Nebraska fell to 12-6 overall and
3-2 in the Big Eight. Kansas upped its
record to 12-5 and 3-2.
The Huskers, going after their sixth
road win of the season, stumbled at
the end of the first half and didn’t get
up.
The Jayhawks used a 6-0 run to
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We just didn’t adjust to
their defense. We faced
a very hot team tonight
and never really got
into sync.
Beck
NU women’s basketball coach
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close the first half, turning a 29-29 tie
into a 35-29 lead. Kansas then wid
ened its lead to 43-32, with an 8-3
run, to the begin the second half.
Nebraska never got an y closer than
seven points, 43-36, the rest of the
game.
Sophomore Stacy Truitt, one of
the five Jayhawks who scored in double
figures, led Kansas with 16 points.
With 6:30 remaining in the game,
the Huskers made a run at Kansas.
Meggan Yedsena closed the gap to
65-53 with a basket and a foul. She
failed to complete the three-point play,
but Sue Hesch got the offensive re
bound and was fouled. Hesch missed
the first half of her two-shot foul.
Kelly Hubert, fouled on the next trip
down the court, did the same, narrow
ing the lead to 10.
A Jennings’ basket made the score
65-57, but the Jayhawks outscored
the Huskers 18-6 down the stretch for
the final margin.
Nebraska will play Oklahoma
Saturday at 3 p.m. at the Bob Deva
ney Sports Center.
Nebraska.29 34 — 63
At Kansas.35 48 — 83
Nebraska—Hesch 1-3 1-2 3, Jennings
8-20 7-9 23. Hubert 0-3 1-31, Dahn 6-9 9-9
12, Yedsena 3-8 0-1 7, Halsne3-85-811,R.
Taylor1-2 0-0 2, Offringa 0-0 0-0 0, Yancey
0- 10-00, Russell 1-22-24. Totals 235616
25 63.
Kansas—Johnson 1-3 8-9 10, Shareef
2-6 0-0 4, McCloud 6-10 2-3 14, Truitt 6-12
4-5 16, Hart 5-10 4-4 15, Chennault6-10 1
1 13, Bonham 1-2 2-2 4, Tate 2-4 0-0 4, Kite
1- 5 0-0 3. Totals 30-62 21-24 83.
3point goals—Nebraska 1-5 (Dahn 0
1, Yedsena 1 -4), Kansas 2-7 (Hart 1 -1, Ch
ennault 0-1, Kite 1-5). Rebounds—Ne
braska 37 (Jennings 10), Kansas 37
(Johnson 9) Assists—Nebraska 13
(Yedsena 5), Kansas 13 (Hart 5) Turn
overs—Nebraska 30, Kansas 24 Total
fouls—Nebraska 20, Kansas 22 A—650
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Giants looking for way to stop Bills’ offense
TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Dave Duer
son says the only way to stop the
Buffalo Bills’ no-huddle offense is to
intercept the snap from center.
That’s impossible, so Duerson and
the New York Giants will have to
figure out another way to stop an
offense that has scored nearly 100
points in two playoff games.
The Buffalo offense has been so
formidable that when Giants coach
B ill Parcells, whose team has allowed
more than 20 points in only four of its
18 games this season and allowed the
fewest points in the NFL, was asked
Wednesday if he was “conceding”
Buffalo 21 points in Sunday’s Super
Bowl, he replied:
“Concede them 21? Isn’t it 0-0
when they start the game? If it isn’t,
I’m not going.”
The Giants already have seen the
Bills’ no-huddle, in a regular-season
game at Giants Stadium Dec. 15.
After New York scored on its
opening drive, Jim Kelly drove Buf
falo to two quick touchdowns against
a defense that appeared to be a half
step behind every play.
Then the Giants stopped the Rills
twice, Kelly injured his knee, Giants
quarterback Phil Simms bruised his
foot and the shootout became a battle
of backups. Buffalo won 17-13.
Kelly is back now and running the
no-huddle better than ever, rolling up
44 points against Miami and 51 against
the Los Angeles Raiders in the play
offs.
What’s ironic about Buffalo’s use
of the no-huddle is that it first came to
coach Marv Levy’s attention two years
ago when Cincinnati used it to beat
the Bills in the AFC title game. At
that time, Levy vehemently protested
that Cincinnati coach Sam Wyche
was bending the rules and preventing
him from getting specialists on the
field to defend against the pass.
Then the rules were amended, al
lowing defenses time to substitute if
offenses did. Suddenly, Levy and
offensive coordinator Ted Marchibroda
decided they would try the no-huddle,
a major departure for a coach who at
Kansas City about a decade ago was
still running the winged-T, an offense
more in vogue during the 1950s.
This season they’ve used it regu
larly, particularly in the second half
of the season. It’s one of the main
reasons they led the league with 428
points, an average of 29 points per
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New trivia king crowned at UNL I
By Brian Busenbark
Staff Reporter
f
Quick, who was the youngest player
ever inducted into the NFL Hall of
Fame?
Keith Mann knew the answer —
Gale Sayers—Wednesday as he won
the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
intramural sports trivia contest at the
Campus Recreation Center Confer
ence Room.
Mann, a freshman news-editorial
major, beat out more than 150 trivia
buffs, including defending champion
GeneTingwald. Mann defeatedTing
wald in the final, 150-90.
“When you have an interest like
this, it’s good to be able to use it,”
Mann said.
Mann said he didn’t study prior to
the competition, but he has always
been a sports trivia fan, specializing
in college football and basketball.
The intramural contest concentrated
on football, baseball, basketball and
potpourri. All the entrants took a written
test last week to narrow the field to
Wednesday’s eight quarterfinalists.
Those eight met in a quiz-show
style tournament. Brian Swan, Chris
Reade, Chris Caskey and Troy Pfan
nenstiel lost in the first round.
Mann, who works for the Nebraska
sports information department, de
fcatcd Doug Duda in one semifinal,
while Tingwald eliminated Todd
Consbruck in the other.
The final included questions like:
Where did Dave Meggett, the run
ning back who will play for the New
York Giants in Sunday’s Super Bowl,
attend college? (Towson State) Who
was the last person to win the NBA
scoring title before Michael Jordan?
(Dominique Wilkins) Who has played
in the most NHL playoff games?
(Gordie Howe)
But Mann didn’t take his victory
too seriously.
“This is really meaningless stuff,”
he said. “It won’t really help you in
life.”
Younger McEnroe defies
injury, Italian at Open
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP)
— Patrick McEnroe overcame a
pulled back muscle and a tena
cious Italian to become the most
improbable scmifinalist at the
Australian Open Wednesday.
It was a five-set copy of his
better-known brother’s Grand Slam
start.
Unseeded and ranked 114th in
the world, McEnroe was in con
stant pain after injuring his lower
left back in the fifth game of the
second set against Cristiano Caratti.
The “Caratii Kid,” No. 101 in
the rankings, smelled blood and
came back from two sets down, but
McEnroe — with the help of a
handful of shots that hit the net and
fell over — held on to win on his
fifth match point, 7-6,6-3,4-6,4
6,6 2.
McEnroe, long known as a
doubles star, pumped his fists in
relief and elation as Caratti’s final
backhand hit the net. The two
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