Wichita State looks for answers
in matchup against Husker team
By Derek Samson
Staff Reporter
How good is the Wichita State
basketball team?
That’s still a question for first-year
Shocker coach Scott Thompson, but
with Nebraska would provide the an
swers.
“We’re in such a rebuilding pro
cess. We’re not ready to play .’’Thomp
son said about the 7:35 p.m. game at
Levitt Arena in Wichita, Kan. “We
have such a long, long road ahead of
us, we’re just concerned about our
selves.”
The 1-1 Shockers started off the
season with a 93-71 loss at Alabama,
but Thompson said the Comhuskers
were belter than the Crimson Tide.
“We look at Nebraska being even
better than Alabama. With the great
talent they have, they’re just a super,
super team,” he said. “We’re going to
have to come out ready to play more
than we did at Alabama.”
Guard Jimmy Bolden leads Wichita
State with a 14-point scoring average,
while Chad Elston is right behind,
averaging 13 points per game.
“I have four starters back, but
they’re coming off a 8-20 team,”
Thompson said. “You can have veter
ans back, but you are still introducing
your system and trying to get things in
place.”
Wichita State will play its second
home game of the season against the
Huskers, although the crowd shouldn’t
Nebraska at Wichita State
7:30 p.m. Saturday
Levitt Arena, Wichita, Kan.
Nebraska PPG RPG
G Eric Piatkowski 20.3 11.0
G Bruce Chubick 9.7 6.0
C Derrick Chandler 14.5 11.5
F Jaron Boone 13.0 4.5
F Jamar Johnson 8.0 4.0
Wichita State PPG RPG
F Claudius Johnson 9.0 6.0
F Michael Wiggins 9.5 6.5
C John Smith 8.0 3.5
G Tory Joyner 1.5 2.5 ma^^mam*
G Jimmy Bolden 14.0 4.0
make much of a difference, Thomp
son said.
“We’ re com ing off the worst record
in the history of Wichita State basket
ball and attendance has dropped off,”
he said. “Hopefully, we can make it a
game and get the fans into it.”
As far as height, the front lines of
the two teams are comparable, with
the main difference being 6-foot-10
Nebraska center Derrick Chandler.
“I’d say we match up with them
pretty well until you get to the big
guy,”Thompson said. “We don’t have
anybody that’s going to match up
with him.”
Thompson and Nebraska coach
Danny Nee coached together at Notre
Dame under Digger Phelps for three
years (1977-80). Thompson said he
liked how Nee had his team playing
early this season.
“They’ve got tremendous talent
and they play really hard,” Thompson
said.
Nebraska is not the first and won’t
be the last Top 25 team that Wichita
State will face. After the opening
game loss to Alabama, other current
Top 25-caliber teams on the schedule
include Kansas, Florida and Xavier of
Ohio.
“This year, we seem to be playing
a lot of those,” Thompson said. “I
inherited this schedule. It’s not my
idea of trying to build your program.”
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Teammates notice
Chandler’s absence
By Jeremy Fitzpatrick
Staff Reporter_____
For more than half the game, the
Nebraska basketball team found
out what life without Derrick Chan
dler was like Thursday night.
Chandler, who injured his ankle
in Monday’s game against The
Citadel, played only 13 minutes in
the Comhuskers’ 100-83 win over
Creighton, scoring six points.
Junior guard Eric Piatkowski
said that because the Comhuskers
won’t have another true center on
the team until recruit Amos Gre
gory becomes eligible next Friday,
Chandler’s limited play hurt the
Huskers’ performance.
“It affects the team a lot,”
Piatkowski said. “I think it’s quite
obvious that we’re not that big
underneath — we’re not quite that
physical.
“And when he’s out of the game
we have really good players, but
they’re not centers.”
Freshman guard Erick
Strickland said the Huskers missed
Chandler’s defense.
“He’s a big force in the middle,
and any time you don’t have Der
rick in there you are missing a big
part of your defense,” he said. “It’s
a lot easier for you knowing you
can over play your man and
backdoor — you’ve got somebody
there to stop those kind of easy
points.
“So we miss Derrick and we arc
looking forward to getting him back
in full stride.”
Chandler said his ankle feltgood
before the game and that he was
prepared to play more minutes.
“I told coach the only way he
could have kept me from not actu
ally playing was to tell me not to
dress up "Chandler said. “I figured
once he told me to dress up that I
was going to see substantial play
ing time.
“When he cleared the bench a
couple of times and I was still was
on the bench, I started getting frus
trated.”
When freshman Terrance
Badgett picked up his third foul
late in the first half, Chandler said
he knew Nebraska coach Danny
Nee would have to play him.
“I went in and I felt good, and I
told him I felt good, so he said just
get ready for the second half,”
Chandler said. “He said, ‘You’re
not going to play that much, but
when you go in their try to loosen it
up, and get your wind back’, so
that’s what I tried to do.”
Freshman guard Jaron Boone
said Chandler inspired theHuskers
when he entered the game.
“When he came in it was big
booster,” Boone said. “He came in
and got a couple of boards, couple
blocked shots and that really got us
fired up because at that point we
were getting kind of down, out of
the flow of the game because the
referees were taking us out.”
Shields, Hill named
to All-American teams
From Staff and Wire Reports
Nebraska senior guard Will
Shields, winner of the Oulland Tro
phy as the nation’s top lineman Sun
day, on Thursday was named to The
Associated Press All-America first
team.Comhuskcr outside linebacker
Travis Hill also was named to the
second team, the only other Huskcr to
be named to any of the first three
teams.
San Diego State running back
Marshall Faulk and Florida Stale out
side linebacker Marvin Jones were
the only two repeal selections from
last year’s team.
Top-ranked Miami had three se
lections on the team (quarterback Gino
Torrctta, linebacker Micheal Barrow
and defensive back Ryan McNeil)
while second-ranked Alabama had
two (linebackers Eric Curry and John
Copeland). No other team had more
than one first-team selection.
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