Comhuskers beat Wildcats,
set record for season wins
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s basketball
team forced Kansas State to the edge
of the grave several limes Saturday,
but it took the final buzzer to stop the
Wildcats’ breathing.
After sputtering through a second
half dry spell, the Comhuskers set a
school record for wins in a season by
beating Kansas State 85-78 before
14,557 fans at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
Nebraska, which led by as many as
12 points in the second half, with
stood a late 10-1 Wildcat run to raise
its record to 23-5.
The 23 wins are the most ever by a
Nebraska team, eclipsing the old mark
of 22 set in 1919-20 and tied by teams
in 1977-78 and 1982-83.
Huskcr coach Danny Nec said
selling ihc record is a significant
achievement lor his players.
“To me, it means we’re blazing
new trails,” he said. “They’ve been
playing this game for over 90 years
here, so it’s a tribute to our seniors
who have worked very hard.”
Early on, it looked as if the Husk
ers might run over Kansas State, the
last-place team in the Big Eight.
A layup by guard Jose Ramos gave
Nebraska a 43-31 lead with 2:11
remaining in the first half. But Kan
sas State scored on its last three pos
sessions of the half, including two
free throws from center John Rettigcr
alter time had cxDircd. to trail 45-37.
The Huskcrs came out firing in the
second, taking a 54-43 lead with 16:33
remaining and trading baskets with
the Wildcats until they had a 70-58
lead with 8:46 left in the game.
Then Kansas Stale responded, and
Nebraska scored only six points in the
next six minutes to allow the Wild
cats to close the gap. A jumper in the
lane by Kansas Stale forward Mau
rice Brittain made the score 75-72
wiih 3:21 left.
Junior forward Carl Hayes, who
scored the Huskers’ first seven points
of the second half, said Nebraska al
lowed Kansas State to hang around
too long.
“At times in the game, we should
have put them away,” Hayes said.
“But a couple mistakes here, a couple
mistakes there, cost us, and it came
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Cornhuskers need to regain hunger, Reid says
By Nick Hytrek
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s basketball
team needs to regain its desire. Beau
Reid said.
Reid, who broke out of a two
game slump by scoring 21 points
against Kansas Slate Saturday, said
the Comhuskers need to piclurc them
selves as being 5-23 instead of 23-5.
“We just have to get to thinking of
ourselves as the underdog,’’ the sen
ior guard said. “It’s real tough when
you’re 23-5 to play a team like Kan
sas State that’s 12-12 even though
they’re a good basketball team.
“It’s lough to think of yourself as
an underdog and as having to go out
and prove yourself and earn some
respect,”
Reid, along with Husker co-cap
lain Clifford Scales, suggested that
some of his teammates have let them
selves become satisfied with the team's
success.
“Right now, loo many guys arc
just playing cool,” he said. “No one
wants to (do) the dirty work anymore.
Everyone wants to look good.
“I think we’ve been enjoying it a
little too much lately. There’s a time
and a place for that and 1 don’t think
now is the time or the place. It’s time
for people to dig deep and quit resting
on our laurels.’’
Reid said the success of the team
has been part of the reason for the
inconsistent play the Iasi few weeks.
“We’re still playing good in
stretches,” he said. “We gel up on
people, bul we don’t have that knock
out blow like we had before and it’s
because we gel up by 10 or 12 and it’s
like, ‘Oh, well. We’re going to win
again.’
“Before we were always scared,”
he said. “Even when we were up 15,
we were still scared because we’d
never won before. We were still scared
that people were going to beat us and
we never changed the way we played.
“Now we get the lead and people
don’t play as hard. I think it’s lime to
forget what’s happened now and go
for the throat,” he said.
Despite the recent struggles, Reid
said he thinks things will change this
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Gymnasts take 2nd
By Erik Unger
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women's gym
nastics team won the consolation
prize Sunday at the third annual
Masters Classic, but it was a good
consolation prize.
Second-ranked Alabama won the
event with 192.8 points, a new
meet record. The Comhuskers, with
a season-high score of 187.2, edged
out fifth-ranked Arizona State. The
Sun Devils scored 186.65 points.
The team score was only one of
Alabama’s four meet records.
Alabama’s Dee Dee Foster, the
defending hational all-around cham
pion, set records with a 9.9 on the
balance beam, a 9.9 on the floor
exercise and a 38.90 in the all
around despite falling on the un
even bars.
“My legs are tired and I was
overaggressive on the bars, like 1
was on Friday,” Foster said. •
Foster also fell on the bars Fri
day night in a dual at Oklahoma, a
meet Alabama won with 193.4
points.
Nebraska coaSh Rick Walton
said he was impressed with the
Crimson Tide’s performance, es
pecially because the team’s score
didn’t drop even when using many
reserve gymnasts.
Walton said he was pleased with
Nebraska’s overall performance,
especially on the vault and bars.
Lisa McCrady had a 9.6 for a third
place finish on the beam and a 9.7
first-place performance on the bars.
She placed fourth in the all-around.
Freshman Robin Richter placed
fourth in the vault with a 9.5 and
tied for fifth on the uneven bars
with teammate Shelly Pendley. Both
scored 9.6.
r
Walton said he was disappointed
with the Huskers’ performance on
the beam. He said the team made
many unexpected mental errors and
fundamental mistakes because of a
lack of concentration.
“The team saw a good indica
tion of what they need to do to get
in the top three or four,” Walton
said. “They need to get busy.”
Crimson Tide coach Sarah Pat
tcrson said the key was Alabama's
success on the beam. The Crimson
Tide claimed the lop six places in
that event.
“We need to have a good beam
routine to win the national champi
onship,” Patterson said.
Walton said his team needs to
have a good performance on the
road in the next two meets and
j qualify for postseason competition.
Michelle Paulman/Dafly Nebraakan
CeCe Ocel of Nebraska swings through her uneven
bars routine Sunday. Ocel scored a 9.2 on the event.
William Lauer/DaHy Nebraskan
Nebraska’s Beau Reid (40) scraps with Kansas State’s Jean
Derouillere (20) on Saturday as Darryl King of the Wildcats
grabs the ball. Reid had 21 pojnts and seven assists for
Nebraska.
Track team takes title
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP)— Ximena
Restrepo captured two events Satur
day to lead the Nebraska women to
their 12th straight title at the Big
Eight Indoor Track and Field Cham
pionships.
The Huskers totaled 151 1/2 points
to beat second-place Kansas Slate
with 135. Oklahoma was third with
74 points followed by Colorado with
64, Kansas with 311/2, Missouri with
31, Iowa State with 30 and Oklahoma
State with 10.
Iowa State captured the men’s title
with a record 168 points. Nebraska
was second with 90 (joints, followed
by Oklahoma with 68, Kansas State
with 61 1/2, Kansas with 44, Missouri
with 42, Colorado with 37 1/2 and
Oklahoma State with 16.
Restrepo broke her own Big Eight
record in the 200-meter dash with a
time of 23.93, qualifying her for the
NCAA championships, March 8-9 in
Indianapolis. Restrcpo also won the
600-yard run in 1:19.14.
Comhusker Fran ten Bensel and
Lisa Graham finished 1-2 in the mile
with limes of 4:44.15 and 4:48.51
respectively, both qualifying for na
tionals. Ten Bensel also won the 1,000
in 2:54.73 and Graham won the 800
in 2:09.27.
Other Huskcr women winners
included Kim Walker (55), Shanclle
Porter (400) and Joanne Gome/, (triple
jump). Cris Hall, also a member of
the Nebraska volleyball team, quali
fied for the NCAA meet in the high
jump by matching the 6-foot winning
height. However, Hall finished third
because of more missed jumps.
The only individual winner for the
Nebraska men was Stephen Golding,
who took the 55 hurdles in 7.26. The
Husker 400 relay team finished third.
Loss puts NL1 3rd seed
From Staff Reports
In 10 seconds Sunday afternoon,
the Nebraska women’s basketball team
lost its game and second place in the
Big Eight.
Oklahoma guard Robin Smith
scored twice in that stretch, which
grasped and sealed a 75*72 win over
the Comhuskers.
The loss, which dropped the Husk
ers to 17-10 overall and 8-6 in the
conference, bottlenecked the Big Eight
race. Nebraska finished at 8-6 in the
league along with Colorado and Kaasas
State, but through tie-breaking proce
dures is seeded third for the this
weekend’s Big Eight tournament in
Salina, Kan.
The Huskers had led by 14 at
halftime, but had to fight back to take
a one-point lead, 72-71, with 43 sec
onds left in the game.
The Sooners then drove the length
of the floor but missed a three-pointer
as the shot clock expired. Neither
team could control the rebound and it
bounced out of bounds off a Nebraska
player.
Oklahoma brought the hall inbounds
and Smith hit a jumper to pul the
Sooncrs up by 1. She then stole the
Huskers’ inbounds pass and pul the
ball in as lime expired.
Nebraska.43 ?9 — 72
At Oklahoma . 29 46 — 75
Nebraska—Jennings 13-22 1-1 27,
Hesch 0 4 0-0 0, R Taylor 1-3 2-24, Dahn 4
100-08, Yedsena 1-32-2 4, Hubert5-13 1
111, Russell 2-4 2-2 6, Halsne 5-7 0-1 10.
Offringa 1-20-0 2, S Taylor dO 0-0 0 Totals
32 68 8-9 72
Oklahoma—Alexander 3-12 1-4 8,
Epps 7-17 13 15, Bassett 6-10 8 9 20,
Smith 6 10 2 2 16, Stites 4 11 1-2 9, Web
stei 0 21-21, Johnson 0 1 0-0 0, Matzke 1 -
4 0 0 2, Walker 2-4 0-0 4 Totals 29 71 14 22
75
3-point goals—-Nebraska 0-2
(Yedsena 0 1, Offringa 0-1), Oklahoma 3-15
(Smith 2-5, Alexander 1-3, Stites 0-2,
Matzke 0-2, Epps 0-1, Joh/%on 0-1) Re
bounds—Nebraska 49 (Hubert 16), Okla
homa 38 (Bassett 8) Assists—Nebraska
18 (Yedsena 6), Oklahoma 10 (Alexander
4) Turnovers—Nebraska 23 (Yedsena 8),
Oklahoma 14 (Smith, Stites 4V Total
fouls—Nebraska 22, Oklahoma 16 A—
1.766