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Husker men manage win without Johnson
By Nick Hytrek
Senior Editor
A point was made at the Bob
Dtfvancy Sports Center Saturday.
The Nebraska men’s basketball
team, minus point guard Jamar
Johnson, beatColorado 84-70 in front
of 14,484 people.
Johnson was serv ing a one-game
suspension after being ejected for
lighting from Wednesday ’s game at
Oklahoma State, leaving the No. 25
Comhuskers without a true point guard.
The Huskers, 18-7,6-6 in the Big
Eight, struggled at times against the
12-13,3-9 Buffaloes, but Coach Danny
Nee said that was not surprising.
“Coming in with the adversity we
have of not having Jamar, we knew
w e were going to have a lough time of
it,” Nee said. "We gulled it out and
did the things w e had to do to w in the
game.
“I was really pleased on how my
team hung in there.”
Nee also said he was pleased with
those w ho handled the Kill in Johnson's
absence.
“I thought (Eric) Piatkowski,
Michael (Hughes) and Chris
(Cresswell) and everyone under the
circumstances did good,” he said.
“(Playing w ilhoul Johnson) wasn't a
dramatic adjustment, but to do it for
40 minutes was the major concern.”
Despite playing the last-place team
in the league, Nebraska center Der
rick Chandler said the Huskers didn’t
have any trouble gelling ready to play.
“Coach (Nee) syid tins is a game
we must win,” Chandler said. “We
knew Colorado had been upselling
people, we just didn't want it to hap
pen to us.”
Colorado's three conference w ins
include upsets of Oklahoma, Okla
homa Slate and Missouri.
Early on, the Buffaloes threatened
to make Nebraska the fourth team on
that list.
Taking advantage of Nebraska's
lack of a true point guard, Colorado
used lull-court pressure to force turn
overs and set up quick baskets.
The Buffaloes were able to open
up a six-point lead on three occasions
in the first half, the last being at 23-17
with 9:17 remaining, on a short jumper
by Randy Robinson. Robinson led all
scorers with 26 points.
The Huskers then began to lake
the ball inside and regained the lead,
scoring 10-straight points for a 27-23
lead.
Chandler, w ho led the Huskers in
scoring w ith 17 points, said the inside
people realized they would have to
make something happen to bring
Nebraska back. "
"We look it upon ourselves to try
to post up a little harder and help
bring the ball up,” Chandler said. "I
don't think they were denying us too
tough.”
A Carl Hayes tip-in at the buzzer
gave the Huskers a .39-32 halftime
lead. Hayes came off the bench to
score 14 points.
The Buffaloes, however, weren’t
about to give up. Colorado outscored
Nebraska 17-10 to open the second
half and tied it at 49-49 w ith 10:44 to
play.
Dapreis Ow ens and Bruce Chubick
then scored Nebraska's next eight
points to push the lead to 57-52.
The Buffaloes could come no closer
than four pointsand the Huskers made
13 of 16 free throws dow n the stretch
to pull away for the win.
Owens finished the day with 16
points and Chubick had 12. Piatkow -
ski was the fifth Husker to score in
double figures with 4-H—
If anything, the Huskers learned a
valuable lesson because of Johnson 's
absence Saturday, Chubick said.
"I think now, should something
happen to Jamar, I think we'd be a
little less shell shocked by that hap
pening," Chubick said.
"Obviously we don't want to play
w ithout him again."
Nee said Ins team was beginning
to tire and he planned to give the
players tw o days off before resuming
practice on Tuesday.
“I just feel that I need a fresh horse
going into March," Nee said. "I'm
not going to ride a dead horse, so
we're going to give them two days
off.
"We know w hat we have to do.
We just have to play at our ow n level
of emotion and intensity and play
hard, and we can take care of busi
ness."
Colorado.32 38 — 70
At Nebraska.39 45 — 84
Colorado — Terrell 2 5 0 0 4, Dean 5 8
3 6 13. Hodges 12 15 3 Law 4 150 0 8
Boyce 2 9 1-4 5. Robinson 12 18 1 2 26
Hunter 1 5 0 0 3. Golgart 0 0 0 0 0.
Stephens 2 6 2 2 8 Price 0 0 0 0 0 Pulliam
0 1 0 0 0 Totals 29-69 8-19 70.
Nebraska — Hughes 1 63 35, Chubick
4 5 4-4 12.Chandler 6 125 8 17.Cresswell
2 91-27. Piatkowski 363 311. Hayes 5 14
4 5 14 Owens 5-9 6-8 16. Glock 1-3 0 0 2
Totals 27-64 26-33 84.
Three-point goals — Colorado 4 22
(Terrell 0 1 Law 0 5. Boyce 0 2. Robinson
1-4. Hunter 14, Stephens 2 2). Nebraska 4
14 (Cresswell2 9, Piatkowski 2 4. Hayes 0
1) Rebounds — Colorado 41 (Law Robin
son 9) Nebraska 45 (Hayes 8) Assists —
Colorado 19 (Law 7) Nebraska 19 (Pi
atkowski 5) Total fouls (dq) — Colorado
26 (Robinson). Nebraska 16 Turnovers —
Colorado 18 (Law. Robinson 4). Nebraska
17 (Hughes 5) A—.14,484
Fans, team ease Glock s jitters
By Susie Arth
Staff Reporter
Alter collecting four straight cham
pionships at the BobDcvancy Sport’s
Center, you’d tiiink Jason Glock would
be comfortable there. Not yet.
Glock was a star at Wahoo High
School, help- -
ing lead the
Warriors to
four-straight
slate titles.
But he has
had to adapt
to playing
Division 1 ~f
basketball at m
Nebraska. m———r
In Salur- GlOCk
day’s 84-70 Comhuskcr win over
Colorado, Glock showed he could
play in the Big Eight. He scored two
points, had lour rebounds and two
assists. Glock was coming off a six
point performance against Oklahoma
Slate.
“I came here wondering il I was
going lo redshirt," he said. "I knew 1
wouldn’t make a great impact on the
team this year, so I'm just taking this
season day by day."
Glock, w ho played nearly I j> min
utes Saturday, said he was still tense
when Coach Danny Nee told him to
get into a game.
“I miss not playing," Glock said.
“But I’m still not real tuned in and
I ’m still a little nervous w hen 1 do get
out there.”
Because Glock has been gelling
more playing lime the past two games,
he said his nervousness was starting
' to ease.
Although Glock said he believed
the only reason he had been playing
more was because Carl Hayes and
Jamar Johnson were suspended in the
past two games, he still was ihanklul
tor the experience.
“I’m gelling used to playing with
the other players both in practice and
in games,” he said. "The more I play,
the better I’ll gel.”
Clock, who has become one of the
crowd favorites at the Bob Devaney
S|x>rts Center, said the support had a
relaxing effect.
“I can alw ays hear the crowd cheer
ing for me w'hen I go out there,” he
said. “That really helps me a lot.”
Clock said his teammates also had
been very supportive and had helped
him get rid of his freshman jitters.
Senior guard Chris Cresswell es
pecially has taken him under lus w ing,
he said.
“Cresswell and I are kind of the
same players,” he said. “He always
helps me to relax and he always tells
me I did a great job.”
dock said he drought he still needed
to work on his quickness, ball han
dling and shooting so he could feel
completely comfortable when his
number was called.
“I’m still learning,” he said. “I’m
looking forward to our next lew games.
1 don’t know what my playing lime
w ill be, but that doesn’t really matter
to me as long as we win.”
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Staci McKee DN
Nebraska’s Carl Hayes shoots over Colorado point guard
Billy Law in Saturday’s 84-70 Cornhuskers win at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center. Hayes came off the bench to score
14 points; he was one of five Huskers to score in double
figures.
Track teams top of Big 6 heap
By John Gardner
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska track anti field teams
did exactly what coaches predicted
they would do at the Big Eight Indoor
Championships this weekend.
They won.
But each team did it in different
fashion.
The women ran away with the title
at Anschutz Sports Pavilion in Law
rence, Kan., scoring 166.5 points, easily
outdistancing second-place Kansas,
which finished with 79.
On the men’s side, it was much
closer than that.
All day, Nebraska and Iowa State
lought for the title of Big Eight’s best.
With only the 1,600-mclcr relay
remaining, the Huskers had a threc
point lead, but Iowa State had the best
relay team in the conference. Ne
braska would have lost the title had
they placed two spots lower than the
Cyclones.
Bui from ihc lime Ken Waller shol
oul of ihc blocks, it was apparent who
would come out on top. Nebraska
ended up winning the cvcni easily, in
3 minutes,9.86 seconds, lo secure ihe
victory. Iowa Stale was disqualified
from ihc event, making the final score
Nebraska 116 and Iowa Stale 103.
Nebraska coach Gary Pepin said
he had never seen a conference mcci
come down to ihc Iasi event.
“We lold the kids in the past lhal il
might come down to ihc relay lo win
ihc mcci,” Pepin said.
In ihe mcci, the men scored in 12
of 17 events and sent home four indi
vidual champions and the relay crown.
Kevin Coleman slrciched oul his
nation-leading effort in the shot pul,
launching a throw of 65-3 1/2.
Stephen Golding repeated as the
55-hurdles champion, winning in 7.42.
Patrick Trainor used a strong kick lo
win the 600-yard run in 1:10.72. Fresh
man Robert Thomas won the triple
jump on his final attempt with a leap
of 51-1 1/2. Also in that event, Chad
Muma turned in a season-best jump
of 48-2 3/4 to place filth.
“Robert’s jump was huge for us,"
Pepin said. “That and Minna’s final
jump gave us the lead going into the
relay.”
In the women’s competition,
Nebraska took control from the first
event. The Huskers scored in 15 of 17
events and produced nine individual
champions and also won the 1,600
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Lady Buffs extend streak;
roll over Huskers 83-63
By Chris Hopfensperger
Senior Editor
Colorado saved its best for last
and handed the Nebraska women’s
basketball team its worst loss of
the season.
The Lady Buffs beat Nebraska.
83-63, in front of 2,183 people at
the Coors Events Center in Boul
der, Colo., in the last game of the
regular season.
After starting the Big Eight
season 0-3, including a 75-69 loss
to the Cornhuskcrs, Colorado fin
ished the conference season 11-0.
“We knew this was going to be
a lough game,” Nebraska coach
Angela Beck said. “They were on a
I O-gamc winning streak and this is
a difficult place to play.”
The Huskers haven't won at
Colorado since 1985.
Nebraska fell to 19-8 overall
and 9-5 in the Big Eight and fin
ished third in the league. The Lady
Buffs, 19-8 and 11-3, secured sec
ond place with the win.
Colorado freshman Shelley
Sheet/, who scored a then-carcer
high 25 against Nebraska in Lin
coln, led the Lady Buffs with 31
points, seven steals and five as
sists.
The Huskers were led by junior
Karen Jennings’ 25 points. Sopho
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