Nee
Continued from Page 7
Nebraska coach Danny N je agrees.
“They can make their season in
three games, quick,” Nee said.
A tournament victory would only
add to what has been a record-shatter
ing season for Nebraska. The Huskers
have already topped the season rec
ord for wins in a season and are a lock
for only the second NCAA berth in
school history.
The Big Eight tournament, how
ever, has not been a playground of
success for Nebraska. In the 14 years
since the tournament began, the Husk
ers are the only team to have never
reached the final game.
“Any win down there, I don’t care
against who, would be great,” King
said.
Rec Scoreboard
Results from Wednesday's games.
lien's basketball
Fraternity A
Delta Upsilon 64. Chi Phi 58; Sigma
Phi Epsilon A1 107. Delta Tau Delta 52;
Sigma Chi A1 58, Delta Upsilon 54;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 76, Farmhouse 64;
AgMen 55, Beta Sigma Psi 44; Beta
Theta Pi 59. Sigma Nu A1 55; Alpha Tau
Omega A2 82, Alpha Gamma Sigma 49;
Sigma Phi Epsilon A2 64. Phi Kappa Psi
49
Fraternity C
Chi Phi by forfeit over Sigma Phi
Epsilon C1; Delta Tau Delta C1 49,
Lambda Chi Alpha 43; Farmhouse C1 by
forfeit over Sigma Alpha Epsilon C2; Phi
Kappa Psi 38, Triangle 3b; Beta Sigma
Psi 56, Phi Gamma Delta 51; Chi Phi C2
61. Sigma Alpha Epsilon C1 60; Farm
house C2 67, Sigma Nu C1 39; Sigma
Phi Epsilon C2 by forfeit over Kappa
Sigma; Alpha Tau Omega C144, AgMen
41; Delta Upsilon 80. Acacia 25.
Residence B
Abel 7 46, Harper 2 31; Schramm 2
66, Burr 1 West 30; Burr 3 West 52, Abel
12 45
Uteweight
r—’ 1
Falstaff 54, Traingle 41; Alpha Tau
Omega 56, Beta Sigma Psi 42; Da was
58, Chi Phi 2 31; Phi Delta Theta 69,
Rodent Express 54; Vanilla Gorillas 41,
•Sigma Nu 39; CAS Express 61. Chi Phi 1
56; Delta Tau Delta 57, Selleck 8300 40
Small fry
Beta Sigma Psi 49, Dawgs 46; Air
Bisquits 81, Chi Phi 1 49; Sigma Nu 57,
Primetime 53; Untouchables 80, Kappa
Sigma 36; GC Browns tars 48, Triangle
45; Beer Nuts 90, Chi Phi 2 43; Beta
Theta Pi 76, Sigma Phi Epsilon 48; Phi
Kappa Psi 66. Delta Tau Delta 54.
Soccer
Fraternity A
Beta Theta Pi 2, Lambda Chi Alpha 1;
Delta Upsiion by forfeit over Phi Giunma
Delta; Alpha Tau Omega 4, Triangle 0;
Phi Delta Theta 7, Sigma Phi Ep6ilon 2.
Fraternity B
Kappa Sigma 2, Alpha Tau Omega 1;
Delta Upsiion bv forfeit over Chi Phi B;
Farmhouse B b, Beta Theta Pi B2 1;
Sigma Phi Epsilon 3, Beta Theta Pi B1 0.
Fraternity C
Sigma Alpha Epsilon 6, Chi Phi C 1.
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Baseball team
iO play twice
The Nebraska baseball team will
play Northern Colorado Saturday and
Sunday at Buck Beltzer Field. The
games will begin 12:30 p.m. each
day.
Northern Colorado is 2-2 on the
season entering a doubleheader against
the University of Nebraska-Omaha
tonight.
The Comhuskers swept a four-game
series between the two teams last
season. Coach John Sanders said the
Bears, a Division II team, will be
competitive. _NickHyfrek
NU track teams
send 10 to finals
From Staff Reports
Nine Nebraska women and one
man will compete today and Saturday
at the NCAA Indoor Track and Field
Championships in Indianapolis.
The Big Eight champion Com
husker women are led by senior sprinter
Ximena Restrepo, who qualified in
the 200-meter dash, the 400 and the
1,600 relay. Restrepo will bypass the
200 to focus on the other two events.
Going in, Restrepo has the fourth
best time in the nation in the 400
(52.74 seconds), and the relay team
(3 minutes, 36.34 seconds), which
qualified at last week’s Florida Fast
Times Meet, owns the fastest time in
the country. Shanelle Porter, Kim
Walker and Tranquil Wilson also are
on the relay team.
SPORTS BRIEFS
Bia 8 announces co-players of the year
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) —
Doug Smith of Missouri and Byron
Houston of Oklahoma State are co
winners of the Associated Press
Big Eight player of the year award,
the first time the award has had co
winners.
Jeff Webster, Oklahoma’s 6-8
redshirt freshman, was a runaway
winner for conference newcomer
of the year with 14 votes to two for
Oklahoma State guard Sean Sut
ton.
Husker gymnasts lose star perrormer
Two weeks makes a difference.
The Arizona State women’s
gymnastics team came to Nebraska
Feb. 24 without one of its top
gymnasts. Friday. Nebraska will
travel to Arizona State to face the
Sun Devils without Robin Richter,
a three-event performer for the
Comhuskers. Richter underwent
surgery Tuesday to repair her tom
Achillies tendon.
Nebraska coach Rick Walton
said because of the injury to Rich
ter, senior Nita Lichtenstein will
compete on the uneven bars. He
said he doesn’t know who will
replace Richter on the floor.
— Erik Unger
NU tennis team to meet Iowa players
The Nebraska men’s tennir 'cam
will face its toughest test to date
when the Comhuskers battle Iowa
tonight.
The Huskers will be trying to
avenge a 5-4 loss against the
Hawkeyes last fall and will com
piste the weekend with a dual Sat
urday against Gustavus Adolphus
in Iowa City, Iowa.
“If we play to our potential, we
should win both matches,” Nebraska
coach Kerry McDermott said.
- Jeff Singer
Swimmers get last chance to qualify
Nebraska will host the Com
husker Qualifying Invitational this
weekend at the Bob Devaney pool,
It will be held in between the pre
limaries and finals of the Big Eight
men’s championship Friday and
after the finals Saturday.
But don ’ t be fooled by the name.
Nebraska coach Ray Huppert said
this meet is nothing more than a
last chance for swimmers from
Nebraska, Kansas, Iowa State and
Missouri to get the times necessary
to qualify for nationals.
— Benji Greenberg
Attitude
Continued from Page 7
“When I didn’t produce, and
when the team didn’t produce, I
think a lot of people put some of the
blame on my shoulders,” he said. “I
think I took too much upon myself
because I was expecting bigger
things.”
All of which took the joy away
from the game for him.
“There were a lot of times I
came into practice with a bad
attitude,” he said. “I wasn’t having
fun on the court and 1 wasn’t
looking forward to practicing.”
Over the summer, Moody
worked on his game and spent a lot
of time talking to Coach Danny Nee
and the rest of the Huskcr staff.
The result: a clearer understand
ing of his role on the team and a
new attitude.
“It’s hard coming from a junior
college,” Moody said. “It usually
lakes a year to learn the system so
that junior year is tough.
“I think last year I was confused
and needed a lot of help from the
coaches. I wasn’t really sure what
the coaches were looking for, so I
was trying to do more myself.”
After talking with the coaches
this summer, Moody said he
realized what the coaches expected
of him.
As the point guard you re really
not much of a scorer,” he said. ‘‘If
you’ve got the open shot, you take
it. If you’re on fire, they’ll let you
keep shooting. But (Nee) wants you
to dish the ball off and gel the guys
moving and communicating.
‘‘Once we got that agreement,
then I had a whole new attitude
coming into the season.”
The transition from junior
college to Division I basketball was
only one of Moody’s problems last
year. He was also making the
transition from football player to
basketball player.
Moody was recruited to play
football as well as basketball when
he was a high school senior. He
eventually signed a letter of intent
to play football with Virginia Tech.
He redshirted his freshman year
but left after one semester because
of a new coaching staff and grade
trouble.
After spending a semester at
Northern Virginia Community
College to improve his grades, he
went to Hagerstown to play basket
ball. He had to sit out the first se
mester as a transfer and then
I think last year I was
confused and needed a
lot of help from the
coaches. I wasn’t really
sure what the coaches
were looking for, so I
was trying to do more
myself.
Moody
NU basketball player
averaged 13.4 points per game,
helping lead Hagerstown to the
national junior college tournament.
Despite being away from
football for two years when he
came to Nebraska, he still showed
the signs of his football days. The
years of weight lifting for football
were still evident.
“It was a hard transition for me
because I was still kind of bulky
from football,” he said. “I felt slow
most of last year and it was hard
losing that weight.”
Moody said that the football
weight is gone and that his body has
become adjusted to basketball
again.
“(The weight loss) has helped
my quickness a lot, especially in the
open court,” he said. “Now 1 don’t
feel a step slower than the guys I
face like I did last year.”
Even though the weight is gone,
the football player stigma remains,
Moody said.
“I think I’m always going to
have that because of my size,” he
said. “I’m short, I’m a compact guy
and I’m strong for my size.’
But the weight training Moody
went through as a football player
did give him some freedom this
summer, he said.
“Coach Nee told me not to
bother lifting any weights this
summer,so I just worked on my shot
more than anything else,” he said.
Moody played in a summer
league in Omaha and got the chance
to work on his shot as well as his
quickness and ball handling against
players from Creighton and the
Omaha Racers.
All of that work has paid off, he
said.
“When I’m out on the court, I
don’t make the mistakes and the
turnovers like I did,” he said. "I
don’t take the bad shots and get
beat on defense.
“Now the mistakes I make are
aggressive mistakes as far as
| attacking and pushing the ball up
the court, things like that.”
Moody said he tries to inspire his
teammates with his aggressive play.
“I like to think of myself as a
spark plug, a sixth man coming off
of the bench when the starting unit
is kind of at a stalemate with the
opposing team,” he said. ‘‘I come in
and get the ball and take off, get the
fast break going, get the guys
talking on defense and create a
different mood from the starters.
‘‘I think the guys know my role
well,and when they see me come
into the game they know the tempo
is going to pick up.”
The fans have come to expect
the same and Moody has become a
favorite. A chorus of “Moooooody”
usually follows his entrance into a
game.
It is a welcome change from last
season, he said.
“It’s given me a lot more
confidence knowing that the crowd
is behind me,” he said. “A lot of
times I’m on the bench and hear the
crowd calling my name saying, ‘Put
Moody in!’ and it gives me confi
dence where I’m so relaxed on the
court and I’m not afraid to make a
mistake.”
At me end 01 Sunday s game
against Kansas, Moody gave
something back to the fans. As he
came out of a game for the last time
at the Bob Dcvaney Sports Center,
he starting dancing on the sideline.
“That was a show of my appre
ciation towards everybody for my
two years of being here,” Moody
said, laughing. ‘ Last year was
rough and the fans stuck with me.
Now things have been going great
and it’s been the same.
The win over Kansas was a
lilting end to a regular season full
of unexpected success for the
Huskcrs, and Moody might be the
happiest of them all.
“It’s always been a dream of
mine to play Division I basketball,”
Moody said. “Not only did I gel to
play two years of quality Division I
basketball, but another dream of
mine is being lulfilled; That’s going
to the NCAA Tournament. I always
wanted the chance. We’ve worked
so hard and now we’re there."
Next season, Keith Moody will
be gone, but he said he hopes he has
left a lasting impression on the
Nebraska program.
“I wanl lo be remembered as a
guy who gave 110 percent every
time he was out there, and when
things were going bad he was still
hustling his butt off trying to make
things go right,” he said.