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
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