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-SPORTS BRIEFS Men’s volleyball club wins tournament The University of Nebraska-Lin coln men’s volleyball club won the championship of the Big 10 Vol leyball Tournament last weekend in Champaign, 111. In opening pool play, the club finished 3-1, defeating Iowa State 15-7,15-2, Northwestern 15-7,15 11 and Iowa 15-3, 15-9. The lone loss came to Michigan State 15-13, 15-13. UNL then advanced to the at large pool as the No. 2 seed. The team once again beat Iowa State 15-11, 15-9 in the semifinals and Park College of Kansas City, Mo., 15-7, 15-12 to win the champion ship. UNL setter Corey Helle, a jun ior from Princeton, III., was named the tournament’s most valuable player. The club ends its preseason with a 7-1 record and will be idle until the regular season begins in Janu ary. I Bench player moves to big time Before the season began, the ques tion lingering over the Nebraska men’s basketball team had nothing to do with glitz. It had a lot to do with guts. The Comhuskers have always had flash. Look at this lineup: There’s the ever-entertaining Carl Hayes, a rifle named Piatkowski, a point guard with an awfully cool name, a Valley Boy three-point gunner from California and a center who once played well against the Denver Nuggets’ Dikembe Mutombo. And there’s always Coach Danny Nee’s ties. Coming into the season, Nee didn’t question his team’s ability to look good. What he did want was a Com husker to complement the glamour boys by coming off the bench, giving a bloody effort and leaving with little or no fanfare. Hello, Bruce Chubick. Chubick, the 6-foot-7 sophomore from Atkinson West Holt, has epito mized guts for Nebraska this season. After suffering a broken bone in his fool just a month and a half before the Huskers’ season opener, he is now proving that a small-town boy can make it in the big time. And as the 4-0 Huskers enter their matchup with No. 22 Michigan State tonight in East Lansing, Mich., Chubick’s play has to be considered the pleasantest of surprises for Nee and his coaching staff. Numbers don’t lie: Chubick opened with 10 points and nine rebounds against Sam Houston State, then 15 points and 6 boards against Southern Cal, 11 and 8 against Southern Utah, 9 and 2 against The Citadel... Is this the same Bruce Chubick who averaged one basket and one rebound just a year ago? And if so, what’s changed? This summer, Chubick looked to be about as much as a rebounding threat as 5-foot-11 teammate Matt Mar. A stomach ailment drained him and he dropped almost 30 pounds, his weight plummeting from 230 pounds to just over 200. But then a trip to Europe on the Big Eight select team taught Chubick that to play with the big boys, you can’t be afraid to bang with them. “I kind of like the contact. It’s unlike how it used to be.” How it used to be for Chubick was easy. At Atkinson West Holt, he averaged a monster 33 points per game, scoring at will on outsized opponents all across the state. He was named the USA Today Nebraska Player of the Year twice, and led the Huskies to the 1988 Class C-l State Championship. After redshirting his first year, he had to withstand a rash of injuries just to survive into his sophomore season. Surgery on both shoulders. Back problems. Ankle problems. The stom ach virus. vi Chubick signed with Nebraska, and detractors said he would be unable to play against stronger, bigger players closer to his own size. All of that on top of this season s injury, when on Sept. 30, he broke a bone in his left foot while running pre-season conditioning drills at Ed Weir Track. The doctors said he would be out six to eight weeks, but Chubick said he knew better. “Myself, I thought I could be back, he said. “I wanted to make a point the first game. That was the goal the whole time I was hurt, to get back for the Sam Houston game.” And he was back in a big way. After he scored big against the Bear kats, Chubick and fellow bench play ers Dapreis Owens and Chris Cresswell proved themselves as huge assets to the Huskers when they helped engi neer Nebraska’s 93-84 win over South ern Cal at home. But Chubick, although he is aver aging double-figure scoring in his reserve role, said he can’t label him self as “Official Bench Spokesman” quite yet. “I don’t know if it’s proper for me to be the spokesman per se,” he said, laughing. “I just like the fact that (the bench) is surprising a lot of people.” And with his early season produc tion, Chubick, too, is surprising a lot of people. “There’s always going to be those people that say you can’t, but if you’ve got it in your mind that you can, it’s up to you,” he said. Whether you’re a glamour boy or, like Chubick, just a gutsy basketball player. Adkisson is a junior news-editorial major and a Daily Nebraskan sports staff reporter. John Adkisson The best way to wrap up the term What better way than with an IBM Personal System/2. Make your holidays really happy and the new year less hectic with a computer designed for your college needs. See how the PS/2 was designed just for you with its mouse that makes it easy to use and its special student price* that makes it even easier to own. 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Carolina 4-0 1,260 6 6 Seton Hall 2-0 1,216 7 7 St. Johns 3-0 1,204 8 8 Oklahoma St. 5-0 1,188 11 9 Indiana 1-1 1.075 10 10 Kansas 3-0 1,017 12 11 Arkansas 2-1 976 2 12 Connecticut 2-0 735 15 13 Utah 3-0 696 14 14 Kentucky 1-1 656 13 15 Alabama 3-0 628 . 16 16 LSU 2-1 491 9 17 Georgia Tech 3-1 452 18 18 Georgetown 2-0 445 17 19 Oklahoma 3-0 419 19 20 DePaul 1-0 397 20 21 Iowa 2-0 393 21 22 Michigan St. 3-0 385 23 Wake Forest 3-0 335 22 24 UNLV 2-0 247 25 Michigan 0-0 232 23 AP Men’s Flag Football 1. Beta Theta Pi-Al (9-0) 2. C & S Express (10-0) 3. Harper 3 (10-0) 4. Alpha Tau Omega B-l (11 0) 5. Triangle-A (10-1) 6. Sigma Phi Epsilon A-2 (9 2) 7. Pi Kappa Phi-B (8-1) 8. Too Old to Care (7-1) 9. Law I (8-2) 10. Cather 2 (7-3) From the Office of Campus -i