Jayhawks’ combination too tough for NU
By Paul Domeier
Senior Editor
LAWRENCE, Kan. — Kansas just
had too many Jayhawks for the Ne
braska men’s basketball team Wednes
day night.
On the court, 10 Jayhawks scored
four or more points as Kansas me
thodically picked apart the Com
huskers.
Surrounding the court, 15,800
Jayhawks cheered the players to an
85-77 victory.
That’s a tough combination.
“Allen Fieldhouse is one of the
toughest places to play in the confer
ence,” Nebraska coach Danny Nee
said. “Right now, Kansas is playing
the best basketball of any team in the
conference.”
Nebraska lost despite 25 points
from Rich King. The 25 points are the
most for any Husker this season, but
came in the absence of Nebraska’s
usual scoring balance. Only three
Huskers reached double Figures, and
Beau Reid Clifford Scales and lead
ing scorer Carl Hayes combined for
16 points.
Three Jayhawks in particular hurt
Nebraska: Terry Brown, with a great
First half; Mark Randall, with a great
second half; and back, back, backup
freshman forward Richard Scott w'ith
the game of his career.
The loss dropped No. 15 Nebraska’s
record to 18-4 overall and 4-3 in the
Big Eight. Kansas, ranked 18th, im
proved to 164 and 5-2.
King scored the game’s first three
points. Brown countered with a thres
point goal.
The Huskers seemed on the verge
of taking control, jumping to a 12-6
lead, and after momentarily losing
the lead midway through the half,
going up 31-24.
But, Nee said, he wasn’t too confi
dent at that point.
“I knew it was a long, long way to
go,” he said.
Brown turned the game around
with his long, long shots. In the clos
ing minutes of the first half, he hit
three more three-pointers, his stan
dard fadc-away variety.
Reid said couldn’t believe Brown
was taking those shots, let alone making
them.
“Our coach would kill us if we
took those kind of shots,” he said.
Kansas jumped to a 45-39 lead at
halftime.
Randall, who had 11 points and
five rebounds in the second half, took
control when play resumed, hitting a
free throw and scoring three of Kan
sas’ first four second-period baskets.
The Jayhawks extended their lead
to eight points, 56-48; the Huskers
scored the next seven points.
Then Scott relumed to the Kansas
lineup.
Scott had scored four points in the
first half. He came in and scored two
more baskets against King so King
couldn’t sag back and block shots.
Scott was fouled twice while shoot
ing. A 39-percent frec-throw shooter
coming into the game, Scott made all
four of his foul shots—two bouncing
high off the back rim before going in
and one clanging off the backboard.
Scott scored 14 points, one short
of his career best posted against Hawaii
Loa.
“He’s not the guy I’ve been hear
ing about or reading about all year,”
King said.
Scott’s second pair of free throws
made the score 70-59. The lead reached
as many as 14, at 75-61 and at 77-63,
but the Huskers rallied to cut the lead
to nine. But Nebraska started to crack,
Reid took the ball downcourt and
shot a three-point airball, and Tony
Farmer got the long rebound and missed
a three-pointer of his own. Kansas
scored to put the lead back to 11.
The Jayhawks began to run down
the shot clock each possession. Ne
braska tried fouling, but the closest
the Huskers could get was six points
down with 14 seconds remaining.
Despite the loss, the First time
Nebraska has suffered consecutive
losses this season, Nee was upbeat
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Huskers hang on
to heat Jay hawks
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Reporter
Angela Beck, Nebraska women’s
basketball coach, was on her knees
for the last second of Wednesday
night’s game against Kansas.
Her Comhuskers, leading by four
with 15 seconds left in the game,
almost ended up on their backs.
Trailing by 10 midway through
the period, Nebraska battled back to
take its biggest lead of the second
half, 69-65, on two Karen Jennings’
free throws.
On their next possession, the Lady
Jayhawks’ Stacy Truitt hit a three
pointer that cut Nebraska’s lead to
one.
Then, it happened.
Kelly Hubert look the ball away
from the referee for the inbounds pass
and rifled it in the direction of Kristi
Dahn. Beck said she could feel her
heart in her throat as the ball sailed
over Dahn, wide open at midcourt,
and bounced out of bounds before she
could chase it down.
“I had just screwed up at the other
end,” Dahn said, “so I thought I had
better get it.
“By the end I was just hoping to
touch it before it went out of bounds.”
Since no Huskcr touched the ball before
it crossed the opposite cndline, the
Lady Jayhawks were given the ball
under their own basket with a one and
one-tenth seconds left.
“I felt a lot of hard work come to
an end,” Beck said. “That one pass
and it’s over. And we’re not going to
call for the foul in a situation like that.
We’re going to give them a shot.
“And they took a shot. They had a
shot to win the game.”
Kansas passed the ball inbounds to
Terrilyn Johnson, but her four-foot
jumper rattled off the rim as the clock
ran out.
After the game Beck was jubilant. •
“This is the best win we’ve had in
two years,” she said. “Last year, I was
always on the other side of this kind
of win.”
The Huskers, who trailed by seven
at the half, out scored the Jay hawks by
eight in the second half to win, 69-68
in front of 1,011 fans at the Bob
Devancy Sports Center. It was the
first time this year that Nebraska had
battled back from a halftime deficit to
win.
“I’m ecstatic,” Beck said.“I’m not
ecstatic about being down at half, but
I’m glad we won.”
The win pushed the Huskers to 15
7 overall and 6-3 in the Big Eight.
Kansas fell to 13-8 and 4-5.
Nebraska was led by Karen Jen
nings’ game-high 23 points and 13
rebounds.
Kansas jumped out to a 10-point
lead early in the game, but Kay Kay
Hart’s 5 of 5 shooting from three
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Osborne happy with recruiting class despite cutbacks
By John Gardner
Staff Reporter
Despite the number of cutbacks in grants
this year and the poor season-ending perform
ance by the Nebraska football team last season,
Coach Tom Osborne said he is very pleased
with the quality of the recruiting class of 1991.
Osborne said the number of scholarships
that can be given each year has been reduced to
25. Nebraska has recruited 23 thus far.
With the new policy, each team can desig
nate only six recruiters to go on the road,
compared with up -to 14 in the past. These
recruiters now can pay only three visits to each
player, com pared with lOor 12 before, Osborne
said.
“Recruiting has become a little bit of a
guessing game,” Osborne said. “The numbers
are getting smaller every year, making it diffi
cult to make several contacts with players.”
1991 Cornhusker recruits:
• Ernie Beler, SS, 6-0,220, Bayonne, N.J.:
Beler is a transfer from Ellsworth Community
College in Iowa. He originally signed a letter of
intent with Nebraska in 1988, but didn’t qual
ify under the NCAA’s Proposition 48 stan
dards. Osborne said he has grown from 190
pounds in high school to 220, so he may be
moved to linebacker.
• Trumane Bell, SE, 6-4,205, Chicago, III.:
Bell’s strengths are his size and good hands. He
was high school teammates with tight end
Johnny Mitchell at Chicago Simeon High School.
Bell will be a junior this fall.
• Ken Bello, OLB, 6-2,220, North Bergen,
N.J.: Recruiting analyst Tom Lemming calls
Bello one of the top 100 defensive players in
the country coming out of high school. He was
an honorable mention Parade Magazine All
American last year.
• Brook Berringer, QB, 6-3, 190, Good
land, Kan.: Osborne said Berringer attended
camp last year, but wasn’t heavily publicized.
Berringer has good speed and can throw well,
he said.
• Anthony Cole, CB, 5-11, 160, Torrance,
Calif.: Cole is a transfer from El Camino Junior
College in Torrance. Osborne said he was in
great need of two or three comerbacks, and
Cole was the best junior college comer he
could find. He is a very good cover man and
weighs closer to 170, Osborne said.
• Doug Coleman, ILB, 6-2, 220, Ocean
City, N.J.: Recruiting Analyst Max Emfinger
calls Coleman the fifth-best linebacker in the
country. Coleman was the 1990 Philadelphia
Inquirer Defensive Player of the Year.
• Troy Dumas, SS, 6-3, 185, Cheyenne,
Wyo.: Osborne said Dumas has good speed and
admitted early to liking Nebraska.
• Phil Ellis, ILB,6-1,215,Grand Island: An
All-State linebacker selection by The Omaha
World-Herald, Osborne said Ellis is a very
good athlete and “runs quite well.”
• Mark Gilman, TE, 6-5, 220, Kalispcll,
Mont.: Osborne said Gilman was probably the
best all-around athlete recruited by Husker
coaches. He played wide receiver and quarter
back in high school.
• Aaron Graham, OL, 6-4, 255, Denton,
Texas: Graham was an All-State center in
Texas and also threw the shot and discus for his
high school’s track and field team.
• Charles Green, FS, 6-3,185, Ruston, La.:
Osborne said Green is a big safety with good
speed. He has been timed at 4.6 seconds in the
40-yard dash.
• Luther Hardin, DL, 6-3, 230, Belleville,
111.: Osborne said Hardin doesn’thavc an ounce
of fat on him right now. He originally weighed
300 pounds and has gotten all the way down to
230.
“We’re hoping he doesn’t play at 207,”
Osborne said.
• DeWayne Harris, OLB, 6-3, 220, Besse
mer, Ala.: Osborne said Harris was the most
heavily recruited player. He was a USA Today
high school All-American.
• Clester Johnson, QB, 5-11,180, Bellevue:
Johnson was an All-State quarterback at Bellevue
West High School. Usbomc saia he is a very
good runner and throws well enough to be a
quarterback.
• Ralph Lott, CB, 5-10,160, Live Oak, Fla.:
Lott, an All-State cornerback in Florida, was
very heavily recruited in the South. Osbome
said Nebraska was very lucky to get him.
• Dennis Martin, DL, 6-3, 240, Pittsburgh,
Pa.: Osbome said he can play both offensive
and defensive lineman. Martin moved from
Denmark when he was 12 so he could play
football.
• Abdul Muhammad, WB, 5-11, 175, Car
son, Calif.: Nicknamed the “Little Rocket,”
Muhammad, who runs the 40 in 4.4, was All
City in Los Angeles. He picked Nebraska over
Miami, UCLA, USC, Oregon and Texas-El
Paso.
• Steve Ott, OL, 6-4, 210, Henderson: Ott
was a two-time All-State lineman at Hender
son. Osbome said at 210 pounds, Ott possesses
great speed, “but needs to gel bigger.”
• Christian Peter, DL, 6-2, 265, Middle
town, N.J.: Peter, now at 300 pounds, runs the
40 in 4.8. Osbome said the only thing he had to
go on was a reel of a scrimmage. But that’s all
ne needed.
“That was probably the best reel I’ve ever
seen,” Osbome said. “He has amazing quick -
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