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Probable Starters PPG RPG APG F Beau Reid Sr. 6-8 10.1 4 6 3 9 F Tony Farmer jr. 6-9 12.3 7.5 1.3 C Rich King Sr. 7-2 15.2 7.9 2.6 G Clifford Scales Sr. 6-2 10.1 3.2 2.7 G Keith Moody Sr. 5-11 4.9 2.2 3^2 F Carl Hayes Jr. 6-8 13.5 5.2 2.2 G Eric Piatkowski Fr. 6-6 11.0 3.7 2.0 F Dapreis Owens Jr. 6-8 5.8 3.5 0.7 F Bruce Chubick Fr. 6-7 2.2 1.9 0.2 F Michael Davenport Sr. 6-4 14.2 3.6 2.8 F Aaron Williams So. 6-9 10.2 6.9 1.1 C Brian Grant Fr. 6-8 11.3 8.4 0.7 G Jamie Gladden So. 6-0 15.3 3.4 3.3 G Jamal Walker Sr. 5-11 14.1 3.7 5.1 G Maurice Brantley So. 6-6 7.1 2.9 1.9 F Erik Edwards Fr. 6-8 4.3 3.1 1.4 G Colin Parker Sr. 6-6 3.9 1.1 0.7 NCAA tournament veteran Xavier confident facing NU CINCINNATI (AP) — Xavier’s basketball team, preparing for its sixth consecutive trip to the NCAA tourna ment, is tired of being cast as the David against the Goliaths of college basketball. After reaching the “Sweet 16” of the tournament last year, the Musket eers consider an underdog role be neath them. “Since we saw what happened last year, we’ve said, 'Hey, we can play against anybody,”’ senior guard Jamal Walker said. That’s the attitude 14th-sceded Xavier (21-9) is taking into its first round Midwest Regional matchup against No. 3-seed Nebraska (26-7) today at the Hubert H. Humphrey Mctrodome in Minneapolis. “We know we’re going to play a very good team, but we’re looking forward to the challenge,” said Xavier coach Pete Gillen, who wasn’t sur prised by his team’s seeding. Nebraska is enjoying the best sea son in school history and making its second NCAA appearance. The Com huskers are ranked No. 11. They beat 12th-ranked Kansas twice last week. They lost to Missouri 90-82 in the Big Eight championship game Sunday. Unranked Xavier is impressed but not shaken. The Musketeers beat St. Louis 81-69 Saturday to win the Midwestern Collegiate Conference tournament. They’ve won a season-high five consecutive games and nine of their past 11. “We believe in ourselves,” senior guard Michael Davenport said. “(Nebraska) is a tough team, but we’re no pushover. We’re playing our best basketball of the year right now.” Both teams score a lot of points, but in different manners. The Mus keteers look to run; the Comhuskers pound opponents inside. “It’ll be a contrast in styles be tween our quickness and fast-break ing against their physical (play), size and strength,” Gillen said. Huskers living a fairy tale Once upon a time, there was a family of giants called the Huskers living in the Great Flatland. A dwarf lived with the giants. Snow White and the other Seven Dwarfs kicked him out because, though they could handle a dwarf who was always Grumpy, they couldn’t handle one that was Moody. The giants and the dwarf lived with a Wizard and his Assistant Wizards and his Graduate Assistant Wizard, whatever that is. We know he was a wizard because he wore hideously colorful neckbands, the kind worn only by wizards and weirdos, but we’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. The Huskers were descendents of a great race of giants from the Black Forest. “Where’s that?”“I’vebeen there.” Shut up. You have not. It’s in Germany. But these giants couldn’t beat a bunch of pixies, letalone other giants. In the annual giant games one year, they went 10-18. When giants lose a lot, they shrivel up and they hear these ghosts going, “Booooo,” all the time. This hap pened to the giants. And many people thought the Wizard was a moron. Part of it was that their leaders didn’t really lead. Their leaders were Clifford, er, I mean, the Thief, the Giant o’ Giants and the Psycho Thug. Some thought the Pyscho Thug was really a machine, the Brutally Effec tive Arrogant Unit, or BEAU. “I’m telling what you said, and you’ll get your mouth slapped.” Shut up. I’ll deny it. Finally, though, the leaders grew Paul Domeier up and got ready for their last giant games. Early in the year they fought another group of giants, the Spartans. “That’s Titans.” No, it’s not, it’s Spartans. The battle was close and hard-fought, and fi nally the Psycho Thug threw a spear that killed all of the Spartans at once. In fact, they slew 15 of the 16 opponents from outside their region. They beat three giant families from a race called the Overrated Big Ten Conference. Then they started beating up on the giants that used to pick on them all of the time. They lost to the Mountain Goats of Colorado early in the sea son, but they beat the Goats later in their home cave. They beat their archrivals, the Little Redmen of the South, three times. They beat the Kansas Pterodactyls twice. They lost once in their own cave. Losing in their home cave put a magical curse on the team and Die Huskers couldn’t be the best group of giants in their region. In the combined giant games, though, they almost won their region, losing only to the Evil Cheat ers of the Southeast. The Giant o’ Giants finally acted like a giant. The Thief always fought hard, the Pyscho Thug didn’t hurt himself or anyone else. The Young sters did well. Sco did well. The Western Transfer did well. Thegiants didn’t need the Southern Transfer to do that well, after all. All in all they had a wonderful winter, and they magically grew until , they were ranked. They weren’t shriv eled any more, and everywhere they 'went they heard, “Yeah!” from the ghosts. They went 26-7 in the giant games, and people from across the land heaped praise on them, asked them to marry their daughters and sent them myrrh, flowers and copies of the Sports Illus trated swimsuit issue. Scribes and bards asked them to share their near-death experiences with the people. “Shut up. You’re making this up.” Can it, you sniveling twerp, I am not. “You’re not making this up, you loser. You’re talking about the Ne braska basketball team.” Yeah, so? Would you have pre ferred Goldilocks? You ask for a fairy tale today, that’s what you get. The Nebraska basketball team has been the biggest fairy tale around this year. A story of giants doing well in ■ giant games and killing Pterodactyls makes more sense than a college basketball with largely the same per sonnel going from 10-18 to 26-7 in one year. Now that’s a fairy-tale sea son. “So how does the story end?” Well, we don’t know. They will play again tonight. That might be The End. “I know how I want it to end.” How’s that? “Happily ever after.” Domeicr is a senior news-editorial major and the Daily Nebraskan sports editor. NU game on TV OMAHA (AP) — KMTV, Omaha’s Channel 3, will tele vise today’s first-round NCAA basketball tournament game between Nebraska and Xavier, General Manager Howard Ken nedy announced. The five-game lineup that CBS Sports will show on its Omaha affiliate station with approximate game times are Oklahoma State vs. New Mex ico, 11:20 a.m.; Iowa vs. East Tennessee State, 2:05 p.m.; New Mexico State vs. Creighton, 4 p.m.; Louisiana State vs. Con necticut, 7:10 p.m.; and Nebraska vs. Xavier, 9:40 p.m. Henderson dislikes A’s offer By Ths Associated Press Rickey Henderson, the American League’s MVP, is unhappy with his four-year, $12 million contract. Henderson wants it extended at a higher rate. The Oakland A’s offered a solution Wednesday, saying they were willing to shorten the deal, which has three years to go. “There will be no extension,” Oakland general manager Sandy Alderson said. “We see no benefit to the Oakland A’s in offering an exten sion.” There could be benefits to both sides in a shortening of the deal. Henderson could file for salary arbi tration but would lose his no-trade clause, giving the A’s the option of moving him to another team. “1 don’t want to be traded,” Hen derson said. “But when your back is up against the wall, you have to do what is right. I’m going to do what is right for Rickey.” “I don’t want to go out there with my head messed up, he said. “Sandy and I have a difference of opinion right now. He knows my side. He knows what can happen. He knows I’m not happy.” Fraternity men’s basketball B finals set By Brian Busenbark Staff Reporter On a night when temperatures in Lincoln fell below freezing, the Al pha Gamma Rho ‘B’ basketball team froze the Delta Tau Delta ‘B-2’ team’s offense long enough to get away with a 49-43 victory. Wednesday night at the Lee & Helene Sapp Recreation Facility, Alpha used a tenacious man-to-man trap defense to jump out to a 13 point lead. Delta failed to convert a field goal until Steven Kirchner’s layup with 7:45 left in the first half. In the second half, the Delts rallied behind a barrage of three-point shots to cut the lead to three with five minutes left in the game. “Our matchups weren’t working as well as they had earlier,” Alpha’s Roger Gentrep said. “So we decided to switch to a zone and play more aggressive.” The Alpha zone defense halted the Delta comeback, and Gentrep hit 4 of 6 free throws down the stretch. Gentrep scored 13 points and Mark Thayer added 11 for Alpha, 7-2. Kirchner led the Dells, who ended the season 7-2, with 17 points. In the other Fraternity ‘B’ men’s basketaball semifinal game, Delta Tau Delia ‘B-l’ ran past Sigma Alpha Epsilon ‘B-l’ 86-47. The Delts used their size advantage to cam a 45-26 rebounding edge over Sigma. Jason Moxness, Delta’s 6-foot-7 center, scored 22 points and pulled down 19 rebounds while Gregg Dahlgren led the Delts with 25 points. Delta ‘B-l \ 9-0, will face Alpha Gamma Rho in the Fraternity ‘B’ tournament final tonight at the rec reation center. * Gentrup said Alpha isn’t intimi dated by the size of Delta ‘B-l’play ers. “We’ve been outsized all season, so we’ll just stick to our defense and count on our three-pointers,” he said. Delta’s Moxncss has other plans, though. “If there is a mismatch inside, we’ll definitely try to attack it, and from there we’ll try to run and gun,” he said. Rec Scoreboard Results from Tuesday's games Men's basketball Fraternity A Beta Theta Pi 60, Sigma Alpha Epsi lon 58; Sigma Phi Epsilon A1 63, Delta Upsilon 51; Sigma Cni A1 44, Sigma Phi Epsilon A2 32; Alpha Tau Omega A2 85, AgMen 54. Fraternity B Alpha Gamma Rho 58, Alpha Tau Omega B2 34; Delta Tau Delta B1 65, Lambda Chi Alpha B2 61; Sigma Alpha Epsilon B2 57, Phi Gamma Delta B2 37; Delta Tau Delta B2 55. Sigma Phi Epsilon B1 50. Fraternity C Alpha Gamma Sigma 63, Sigma Chi 49; Delta Upsilon 38. Phi Kappa Psi 35; Farmhouse C2 72, Beta Sigma Psi 41. Independent A Dribblers 63, Beer Nuts 54; The Hosers 74, Boneheads 62; Heavy C & the Boyz 66, No Way 44; Burnt Toast 54. Team 3 51. Liteweight DAWGS 66, Scramm 252; Delta Tau r Delta 71, Vanilla Gorillas 55. Faculty/staff r Pseudopsych Psquad 53, Donut s Dunkers 42; Moving Crew 63, Atom Bombers 43; Fire 4 Ice 63, ECA 50; Chemistry 55, Eulers 35 Women's basketball Independent Volleyballers 69, Nay Crusaders 27; I U N. Nuns 33. Grant/Aurora 29; Your Loss FYI 51, Brew Crew II 34, Holy Hits 44, Muskotoers 40 Residence Schramm 7 39; Burr 2 East 36 Sorority Alpha Omicron Pi by forfeit over Delta Delta Delta, Alpha Delta Pi by forfeit over Gamma Phi Beta; Alpha Xi Delta 52, a. Delta Gamma 46, Alpha Phi by forfeit E, over Chi Omega SPRING BREAK S ALEBR ATION!! WOOLRICH - INSPORT - RUSSELL - TYR CHAMPION - STREETBAGS - GEAR 25% - 50% OFF SALE ENDS SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1991 " " I I I I Every Sunday Night!! . - - ■ — ■ ■ ■ — ■ - I ! 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