Records through Feb. 25
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Rank Record _ SchoolPoints
1 25 0 UNLV 1.575
2 24-1 Ohio St. 1,503
3 27-2 Arkansas 1,455
4 214 North Carolina 1,346
5 23-4 Indiana 1,277
6 24 4 Syracuse 1,269
7 22-5 Arizona 1,198
8 23-6 Duke 1,108
9 25-2 Utah 1,042
10 20-5 Kansas 1,012
11 21-3 New Mexico SL 822
12 20-5 Oklahoma St. 772
13 20-6 Kentucky 767
14 20-4 Southern Miss. 708
15 23-5 Nebraska 664
16 20-7 UCLA 637
17 19-6 St. John’s 630
18 197 LSU 589
19 24-4 E. Tennessee St. 472
20 18-7 Seton Hall 358
21 20-2 Princeton 317
22 19-9 Pittsburgh 165
23 18-7 Mississippi St. 158
24 17-8 Alabama 129
25 19-9 Virginia 105
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Nebraska's Keith Moody finds an effective way of keeping
Kansas State’s Jean Derouillere from completing a layup
Saturday.
Nee says he intends
to stay at Nebraska
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
Danny Nee will stay at Nebraska
— at least for a while.
Responding to reports that said he
was actively pursuing more prestig
ious coaching jobs, Nee said he is
happy as Nebraska men’s basketball
coach.
“I’m not out looking for a job,”
Nee said. “I’ve got a good job. I’ve
got a real good job.”
He called the reports, which ap
peared in The Sporting News and the
Des Moines Register last week, “care
less.”
“I think responsible journalism is,
if you hear a rumor, you check with
the source,” Nee said. “I don’t think
you just repeat rumors and print stuff.”
But, Nee said, nothing is forever.
“Philosophically, I don’t think you
can stay at a coaching position for 9,
10, 12 years anymore,” Nee said. “I
just think that you have to stay ahead
of the posse.”
Nee, who has led the Huskers to a
23-5 record this season, mostly
downplayed talk of the length of his
tenure and instead focused on Ne
braska’s Wednesday night game at
Oklahoma State.
With a win against the Cowboys,
Nebraska, ranked 15th in this week’s
Associated Press poll, would give itself
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CONFERENCE
Basketball standings:
Oklahoma State 9-3 20-5
Kansas 9-3 20-5
Nebraska 8-4 23-5
Missouri 6-6 14-10
Colorado 5-7 15-10
iowa State 5-7 11-17
Oklahoma 4-8 15-12
Kansas State 2-10 12-13
a shot at its first Big Eight title, or at
least piece of it, in 40 years when the
Huskers return home to play Kansas
on Sunday.
“I don’t think that Nebraska bas
ketball could put itself in a better
situation,” Nee said. “The last week
of the season, and the games mean
something.”
Nee said his team should feel no
pressure.
“Right now, the pressure is on the
teams that were expected to win,”
Nee said. “We’re going to step up
there, and we’re going to be very
loose.”
Phase III progress delayed; scheduling conflicts result
By Chuck Green
Senior Reporter
While delays continue to push back the
completion target date of Phase III of the NU
Coliseum and Mabel Lee Hall, officials at the
Olficc of Campus Recreation ponder ways to
solve arising scheduling problems.
Stan Campbell, director of campus recrea
tion for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
said the work on the Coliseum cannot start until
asbestos is first removed from the facility.
Although the removal was scheduled to
begin on or after Feb. 18, the work has not
begun because of delays in city permits and
other paperwork, Campbell said.
Because of the delays, he said, most of the
renovations and additions are not expected to
be completed until spring 1992.
But some intramural and club sport activi
ties already have been affected even before the
renovation has begun. Because some areas
have been closed in preparation for asbestos
removal, some club sports have been forced to
relocate practices and meetings.
The UNL fencing club has moved practices
to the East Campus Activities Center, Campbell
said, and some other club sports have moved to
Mabel Lee Hall, “or wherever they can find
someplace to go.”
Campbell said there is little danger of hav
ing to cut activities because of the construc
tion. Once the work begins, though, it will have
an effect on the scheduling of campus rec
activities, he said.
“One of our primary concerns is scheduling
die men’s and women’s basketball playoffs,
and the volleyball playoffs,” Campbell said.
The closing of the Coliseum will cost the
campus rec office three basketball courts and
five volleyball courts, he said, and the con
struction may cause more game dates to be
scheduled, with the games being scattered at
various sites around campus.
“Traditionally, we’ve completed our play
offs before spring break,” Campbell said. “We
may have to re-schedule so that we play many
of the games after break.”
Additionally, Campbell said students who
come in for pickup games will suffer from the
lack of space.
Campbell said work on the Coliseum’s
basketball and volleyball courts will be among
the first things completed
The floor will be replaced, Campbell said,
the orientation of the basketball courts will be
changed to run north and south, rather than east
and west, as they do now. This will add a fourth
court, he said.
Other Coliseum improvements will include
larger men’s and women’s locker rooms, the
addi lion of a dry sauna to each locker room, the
removal of the balcony overhang in the north
end of the Coliseum, the addition of class
rooms and the capacity enlargement of the
Comhusker volleyball team’s home court.
“It will be an entirely new facility when it
finally gets done,” he said.
Phase III progress delayed; scheduling con
flicts result
Volleyball coach
going national
By John Adkisson
Staff Reporter
John Cook has followed the ad
vice of a currently popular coaching
clich6: He has taken his coaching to a
higher level.
No, Cook hasn’t im roved his
coaching abili
ties. Cook, a
volleyball assis
tant at Nebraska
tor the past three
seasons, has
been hired as an
assistant for the
United States Cook
National men’s team in San Diego,
Calif., the highest level of coaching.
After winning gold medals in 1984
and 1988, the national team suffered
a coaching shakcup late last year.
Coach Bill Neville and assistant Brad
Saidon left, citing a lack of financial
support from the United States Olym
pic Committee. Saidon returned to
his position as the coach of Colo
rado’s women’s team.
Former Stanford coach Fred Sturm
was given the national team’s head
job on Jan. 1 and Cook was hired as an
assistant at the same time.
“Il was a rcaily spur-of-the mo
ment type thing,”Cook said. “Within
a matter of days, I was flown out here,
hired, and moving my things to Cali
fornia,” Cook said.
Cook described the responsibili
ties of his new position as similar to
what he did as an assistant at Ne
braska; scouting opponents, helping
design offenses and assisting players
with fundamentals.
There is one major difference,
however.
“This is the first time I’ve really
coached men for an extended period
of time,” Cook said. “It’s a little new
for me, but it’s not as hard as I thought
at first.”
Although he is a California native,
Cook said he already misses Nebraska.
“The first week I was out here, my
pickup truck was stolen,” Cook said.
“It’s just a totally different lifestyle
out here, and I hope to return to Lin
coln to raise my children in the fu
ture.”
Cook and his wife Wendy also
have had to make another adjust
ment. Lauren Alyssa Cook was bom
earlier this month.
“It’s different, the late nights and
everything,” Cook said, laughing. “But
it’s fun, 100.”
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Women’s basketball pair earn Big Eight conference honors
Nebraska sopnomore Karen
Jennings has been named to the
first icam of the Big Eight women’s
basketball all-conference team.
Also, Jennings was named Big Eight
player of the week for the third
time this year, only the second
lime a player has received that
recognition three times in the same
season.
Last week, Jennings led the
Lomhuskers with 25 points and 15
rebounds in an 87-60 win over
Missouri, and she had 27 points
and 14 rebounds in a 75-72 loss to
Oklahoma.
Jennings, the leading scorer in
the Big Eight at 20.3 points per
game, was conference co-newcomer
of the year last season.
Winning that award by herself
mis year was Nebraska iresnman
Meggan Yedsena. Ycdsena also
made honorable mention all-con
ference.
Diana Miller and Nadira Hazim
of Kansas Slate, Debbie Johnson
of Colorado and Oklahoma State’s
Liz Brown, the conference player
of the year, joined Jennings on the
first team. Miller, Hazim, Johnson
and Brown arc seniors.
Saturday
Noon: #4 KANSAS STATE vs. #5 IOWA STATE
2 p.m.: #1 OKLAHOMA STATE vs. #8 MISSOURI
6 p.m : #3 NEBRASKA vs. #6 OKLAHOMA
8 p.m.: #2 COLORADO vs. #7 OKLAHOMA
Sunday
2 p.m. and 4 p.m.: SEMIFINAL GAMES i
Monday
7 p.m.: FINAL
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Alexander chosen Big Eight basketball player of the week
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —
Victor Alexander of Iowa State,
who scored 59 points in two Cy
clone victories, was chosen Big
Eight men’s basketball player of
the week.
The senior center from Detroit
had 27 points and 11 rebounds in a
97-88 victory at Oklahoma. He had
32 points, 14 rebounds and five
steals in an 89-76 victory over
Missouri.