Senior hopes talent will deliver
Chandler predicts
good chemistry
By Tony West
Staff Reporter
Don’t think Nebraska center Der
rick Chandler is underestimating the
Cornhuskcrs’ chances this season.
“We have good team chemistry
and I feel this may be the best team
that Nebraska has ever seen.
“If we have good team cohcsivc
ncss with playing and communicat
ing with each other, we have a shot at
making the Final Four this season,”
Chandler said.
A 6-10 senior, Chandler made a
smashing debut last season at Ne
braska after transferring from Alvin
Community College in Texas.
He averaged 12 points, 12 rebounds
and three blocks per game on a team
that made its second straight appear
ance in the NCAA Tournament.
To accomplish a similar perfor
mance this year, Chandler said the
Huskcrs need to come together as a
.team.
“We have to peak early and have
good team chemistry,’’Chandler said.
“We have a great team and are deeper
ip all positions than a year ago.
“Wc have great talent, with good
young players and experienced vets
back,” he said.
Chandler came to Nebraska after
completing his career at Alvin, hop
ing to fit into a program that was
already building under Coach Danny
Last season, Nebraska's center Derrick
Chandler was named as an honorable
mention All-Big Eight selection. A look at his
top games last season:
Opponent Rebounds Blocked Shots Points
Creighton 10 3 15
Wisconsin 10 6 17
Eastern Illinois 13 0 17
Oklahoma 20 1 16 H
Oklahoma 12 4 17
Connecticut 11 2 17
. Scott Maurer/Df
Ncc.
“Ncc had staled to me the program
here was on the rise, and they had
some good recruits coming in," said
Chandler.
Another reason he came, he said, is
that he knew that the league’s premier
centers — Doug Smith of Missouri
and Byron Houston of Oklahoma Slate
— would be graduating.
“The big men were leaving the Big
Eightand I would have a good chance
to be one of the best,” he said.
As the team’s only senior this sea
son, Chandler said he would like to
instill a strong work ethic in the
younger players for Nebraska.
“I like to play the role of exempli
fying the play-hard altitude,” Chan
dler said. “I want other players to say,
• 1 ~h
‘Hc wants to play like Derrick,’ and
play hard night in and night out.”
In early season practices, Chan
dler said that the team has found some
depth this year with such recruits as
freshmen Jaron Boone, Erick
Strickland, Andre Woolridgcand two
players who didn’t play last season:
Terrance Badgett and Tom Best.
“All the players play different, but
all arc still really good,” Chandler
said.
This season, Nebraska will focus
more on the inside game rather than
run an up-tempo offense, Chandler
said.
“We have more depth this year so
we can play tough and bump a little
more without worrying about running
- it
Rankings don’t mean
much, when you con
sider that any team can
beat another on a given
night.
—Chandler
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out of quality players from the bench,”
he said.
Slowing the ball down gives him
mixed emotions, he said.
“I like to play physical,” Chandler
said, “but I also like to play Okla
homa-stylc and move the ball up and
down the court in fast break situa
tions.”'
The Huskcrs have been ranked as
high as 11th by Sport Magazine and
22nd by CNN/USA Today, but were
picked a disappointing fifth in the
conference.
Chandler said the team isn’t pay
ing much attention to their prcscason
ranking.
“Rankingsdon’t mean much, when
you consider that any team can beat
another on a given night,” Chandler
said. “A lot of the people who do the
ranking come out of the Kansas and
Missouri areas instead of Nebraska.
“We just want to prove them
wrong.”
Cornhuskers’
two tight ends
miss practice
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska football team
practiced for two hours in Me
morial Stadium on Tuesday
without its top two light ends in
preparation for Saturday’s game
at Iowa Slate.
William Washington, the
team’s top tighlcnd, missed with
a sprained arch in his fool.Gerald
Armstrong, Washington’s
backup, missed his second
straight day after suffering a
knee strain in the Kansas game.
Nebraska coach Tom
Osborne said Armstrong would
likely not play this weekend.
Two other players — full
back Lance Lewis (sore back)
and linebacker Trev Alberts (flu)
—• miss&Llhc workout.
Two players who missed
Monday’s practice, wingback
Abdul Muhammad and offen
sive tackle Zach Wiegert, re
turned to practice Tuesday.
A *
Healthy Huskers
head into first meet
By Tim Pearson
Staff Reporter__
Alter almost two months of prac
tice, the Nebraska wrestling team is
ready for this weekend’s Wyoming
Open, Coach Tim Neumann said.
“We’ve been working on match
strategics in practice getting ready for
the season,’’ Neumann said. “The in
tensity needs to be picked up more
right now.”
Neumann’s Huskers arc relatively
healthy going into their first meet of
the season.
“(Junior) Frank Velazquez has a
bummed-up knee, but other than that
were pretty healthy going into the
weekend,” said Neumann.
Neumann said that the team’s goals
were to win the Big Eight Champion
ship and place in the lop four at the
national championship.
Senior Corey Olson, an NCAA
runner-up at 177 pounds last year,
said that the Huskers could contend
for the national title.
“If things jp (well), and we stay
away from injuries, then we have a
shot at it,” he said.
Neumann said he expected Olson
to do belter than last year.
“He finished last season well, but
he had seven losses over the season,”
he said. “I expect hi m to be undefeated,
Big Eight and national champ. He’s
good enough to win; and he should
dominate.”
Olson said he also expected a bet
ter finish than last year’s.
“I’d be foolish not to have a goal of
winning nationals,” he said. “I want to
have my best national tournament
ever and dominate if possible.”
Although Olson was an NCAA
runner-up last season, he said hccould
have done belter.
“I started out well, and then I got
beat by a lot of guys I should’ve beat,’’
Olson said. “It wasn’t by any means a
great year, but a promising one.”
Neumann is also expecting big
things from seniors John Buxton and
Matt Lindland, co-captains along with
Olson.
‘‘They’ve been doing a good job,”
Neumann said. “They’re working
like champions; they expect to be
national champs.”
Neumann said he isconfidcniaboul
his team.
“At 118 we have Darin Giese, who
is a freshman. It’s tough to wrestle
varsity as a freshman,” he said. “I’m
not worried about the other nine
weights.”
Other teams competing this week
end arc Boise Slate, Northern Colo
rado, Air Force Academy, University
of Wyoming, Ft. Lewis of Colorado,
Western State in Colorado, Adams
Stale, Southern Colorado and North
ern Montana.
The Huskers have been practicing
since Sept. 15. Neumann said that
wrestling is different from basketball
as far as starling practice.
“We start practice 144 days before
the Big Eight meet, not including
Sundays and the holiday vacation,”
he said. __
Adkisson
Continued from Page 6
cnon than ihc idea ol "what goes
around comes around.” No learn can
stay great for loo long, and no team
(unless you’re the Cleveland Indians)
can slay buried in the dumper lor an
extended period of time.
The kids ol the ’80s will likely talk
the same way about Miami, the 49crs
and the Lakers, and the cycle will start
anew with this decade.
N There’s no need to go overboard.
We can keep the Bee Gees tapes and
the leisure suits in the closet, please.
Some things deserve to stay in the
past.
But it’s nice to know that for a
couple of weeks in 1992, everything
old can be rcinvigorated.
Adkisson is a senior news-editorial major
and the Daily Nebraskan sports editor.
Goalposts
Continued from Page 6
dents that aren’t interested in any
enthusiasm, just in raising hell,”
Dcvancy said. “Ovcral I we have a real
—- good student body. I enjoy them and
I’m pleased with their enthusiasm.”
Hug agreed that the majority of the
students arc kept under control, but
it’s those few unruly students that
make his job tougher.
“I was still disappointed in the
actions of a few,” Hug said.
“You always look forward to the
(gotten) going it seems like you look
forward for it to end,” he said. “The
more problems there arc, the more
you look forward to the season being
over.”
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