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Mideast contest
anybody’s game
By Tim Pearson
Staff Reporter_
In what may be the toughest of all
the NCAA volleyball tournament
regionals, there is no definite favorite 1
to win the Mideast, coaches said.
No. 2 Stanford will meet No. 9
Penn State in the first match at 5:30
p.m. Thursday, and No. 7 Nebraska
will face No. 6 Illinois at 7:30 p.m.
The matches will be held on the mini’s
home floor at Huff Gymnasium in
Champaign, 111.
“I think it's pretty evenly balanced.
This is by far the deepest and most
evenly balanced regional out of the
four,” said Stanford coach Don Shaw.
“It’s going to come down to who plays
well.”
Illinois coach Mike Hebert agreed
with Shaw’s assessment of the Mid
cast as the toughest regional.
“There arc four teams here, any of
whom can win it,” he said. “This is
certainly the toughest (region) by far.”
Stanford, which enters with a 27-2
record, has lost both of its matches to
lop-ranked UCLA. Sending Stanford
into the region makes the Cardinal
and Illinois co-favorites, said Penn
Stale coach Russ Rose.
I think m terms of geography,
Illinois is the favorite,” Rose said.
“But throw Stanford into the Mideast,
and they’ll make it interesting.”
“On paper, (Stanford) has some ot
the best talent in the country. But I
have to give the nod to Illinois, be
cause they’ll be playing in front of
4,(XX) people at home.”
Shaw said his team would be con
sidered the favorite, according to its
No. 1 seed in the regional.
He said he wouldn’t call Illinois
the favorite because of its home-court
advantage.
“It’ll be a giant advantage (for
Illinois), but if they don’t play well,
they’ll get beat,” Shaw said.
Hebert also said he wouldn’t call
his team the favorite.
“We have to play well. (The home
court advantage) is only an advantage
if wc take advantage of the advan
tage,” he said.
The 22-5 Cornhuskcrs need middle
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blocker Stephanie Thatcr, who has
been out the last three matches with
an ankle injury, to win the regional,
Rose said.
“Without Thaler, they could be in
trouble,” Rose said. “It’s regionals
and they need Thatcr to play.”
Hebert said his team was preparing
for its match against Nebraska assum
ing Thatcr will play. Even if she
doesn’t, he said, the Huskers will
adjust.
“If she doesn’t play, she doesn’t
play. We experienced that earlier this
season, when we lost (outside hitter)
Tina Rogers for a few matches,”
Hebert said.
“We adjusted and won a few
matches. I expect Nebraska to play
just as tough without her.”
The winners of the semifinal
matches will meet 7:30 p.m. Friday at
Illinois, with the winner advancing to
the Final Four Dec. 17-19 in Albu
querque, N.M.
Player of the Week
awarded to Piatkowski
From Staff Reports
One Nebraska basketball player
received accolades Tuesday while
another was greeted with good news
on an ankle injury.
Junior forward Eric Piatkowski was
named as the first Big Eight Player of
the Week of the season following his
performance in last weekend’s
Ameritas Classic.
Piatkowski scored 48 points and
pulled down 25 rebounds in
Nebraska’s win over Colgate and Kent
State.
His 847 career points rank the 6
foot-7 forward 22nd on the all-time
Nebraska scoring chart. Piatkowski is
also 10 three-point shots shy of the
Comhusker career record of 105 held
by Ray Richardson.
Meanwhile, Nebraska senior cen
ter Derrick Chandler had his left ankle
x-rayed on Wednesday morning. Re
sults showed that there was no break
in the foot, associate head trainer Jack
Nickolitc said.
Chandler injured his ankle just
before halftime of the Comhuskers’
86-46 win over The Citadel on Mon
day night. He is listed as doubtful for
Nebraska’s Thursday night game
against Creighton and is questionable
for the Comhuskers’ game Saturday
at Wichita State.
The ticket office reported Wednes
day that 8(X) upper-level tickets re
main for the Creighton game at the
Bob Dcvancy Sports Center. That
game will be televised live by Prime
Sports Network.
Huskers
Continued from Page 7
"They each have that innate ability
not to be strung out in pressure situa
tions.”
Tonight’s game is the beginning of
a three-game home stand for Nebraska.
The Huskers will also host the
CablcVision Classic this weekend,
which leatures St. Mary’s, Eastern
Washington and Howard.
Beck said the home games were
important for her team to build its win
total and to improve.
“We’re inching up to where our
goal has to be, and these three games
arc very important to our future,”
Beck said. “We need to concentrate
on each game and win them to our best
ability.”
The three home games in a row
will also give the Huskers a chance to
establish themselves as a dominant
home-court team, Beck said.
“We don ’ t want anybody to beat us
at home, so we’re going to make it
very lough for anybody to come in
here and beat us,” Beck said.
