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NU ready for ‘emotional’Cyclones
ooach predicts
Husker victory
By Tony West
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s basketball
team has found its way back to the top.
After a sweep of Colorado and
Missouri—two of the Big Eight’s top
teams — last weekend, the
Comhuskers returned to the Associ
ated Press Top 25 at No. 25 this week.
“We played like a top 10 team this
weekend,” Coach Angela Beck said.
“I admired the team’s effort.
“We are moving forward and play
ing with confidence.”
The Huskers, 13-4 overall and 4-2
in the conference, will close the first
half of their Big Eight schedule Sun
day in Ames, Iowa, against Iowa State.
Game time is 2 D.m.
TheCycloncsarc2-16ovcrall,and
1-6 in the Big Eight.
But Beck said with former Ne
braska assistant Theresa Becker now
the head coach at Iowa State, the
Cyclones would be emotionally ready.
“This will be an emotional game,”
Beck said. “Some of our kids got
really close to Coach Becker.”
However, “it would take a lot of
emotion from them to beat us,” Beck
said. “They are not as talented as us.”
Beck said it would be a huge sur
prise if the Cyclones pulled off an
upset against Nebraska.
“If our defense shows up, we shouId
win,” Beck said. “Knowing us is easy;
stopping us is what’s difficult”
Beck said the win was a must for
the Huskcrs if they were to stay in
contention fora Big Eightchampion
shipandan NCAA Tournament berth.
“We got the NCAA committee to
look at us,” Beck said. “This is a very
important win we must get. We need
to focus on Nebraska this week and
play with the same determination as
we did this weekend.”
One negative for Nebraska is the
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Nebraska’s Meggan Yedsena drives past Colorado’s Stephanie Mack during a game last
Friday. The Cornhuskers will play at Iowa State Sunday.
absence of freshman guard Kate
Galligan. Galligan, a starter who was
averaging six points per game, tore
the anterior cruciate ligament in her
left knee against Missouri and will be
out for the rest of the season.
Senior Sara Offringa, Nebraska’s
third-leading scorer, will start for
Galligan.
Beck said if her team could control
the tempo, play defense and rebound
well, the Huskcrs should win the game.
“I just want us to play Nebraska
basketball,” Beck said.
NOTE
The Huskcrs will enter this battle
without the services of freshman guard
Kate Galligan. She suffered a torn
anterior cruciate ligament in her left
knee during the first half of the Ne
braska-Missouri game on Sunday. The
freshman started 14 of 16 games and
was averaging 6.6 points, 2.2 rebounds
and 2.1 assists a game. Galligan is a
former Iowa High School Female
Athlete-of-the-Year and will most
likely have to sit out the remainder of
the season for the Huskcrs. Sara
Offringa will re-enter the starting
position in place of the injured
Galligan.
Allen
Continued from Page 7
Last week in a triangular with
Oklahoma and Iowa State, indi
vidual events were dominated
by Nebraska. Che Bowers, the
defending national champion on
the pommel horse, was first in
the event. Dennis Harrison was
first in the rings, and sophomore
Richard Grace was the all
around champion.
Allen singled out the perfor
mance of Jason Christie last
week and added that he was
pleased with the fresh man’s per
formance.
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We want to send a
message to other
teams around the
country.
-Allen
NU men's gymnastics
coach
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This weekend, however, the
opponent is much more formi
dable. Ohio State finished third
in the national championships
in Lincoln last year.
The Buckeyes return 12
lettcrmen to a team that lost
only two gymnasts from last
season.
“I’d like to keep the same
scoring pace that we’ve had to
start the season with,” Allen said.
“Ohio State is a good team, and
they will definitely provide a
challenge for our guys.”
Following the meet in Co
lumbus, the Nebraska men will
host defending Big Ten cham
pion Minnesota at home on Feb.
13.
“Preparing for regionals and
nationals is very important and
we want to keep our kids on a
strong pace to not only go
undefeated, but produce a na
tional champion caliber squad,”
Allen said. “We have young guys
on this team and this type of
road schedule will prepare them
for the end of the season.”
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Nee says team improving,
taking ‘one game at a time’
by Prill uarter
Staff Reporter_
Nebraska basketball coach Danny Nee said
that his team may have saved itself by winning
a Big Eight game Monday at Colorado.
The win improved the Comhuskers to 1 -3 in
the Big Eight and 13-6 overall entering
Saturday’s conference showdown with Mis
souri.
“0-4 and it’s a whole different posture,” Nee
said at his weekly press conference Thursday.
“But this is the same position we were in a year
ago, and we just have to take them one game at
a time.”
Last year, Nebraska started the Big Eight
season 1-3 before rebounding to finish 7-7 in
the conference and gaining a second-straight
trip to the NCAA Tournament.
Despite a skid that has seen the Huskers lose
five of nine games, Nee said his team is finally
coming around after lackluster practices at the
beginning of ihc month.
“I see things that arc improved about Ne
braska basketball,” Nee said. “Cutting down on
our turnovers. I think the free-throw shooting is
improving. I think the field-goal percentage for
a majority part of the team is improving.”
Nee said the chemistry on his team has also
improved since the win at Colorado.
“A chemistry thing is that the five individu
als blend together and act as a unit,” Nee said.
“If one player is not knowing what the others
are doing on the court, that can destroy chem
istry.
“It’s a very delicate thing,” he said. “I do
think you need it, but I think it’s really over
stated.”
Nee also said that junior forward Tom Best
will miss Saturday’s game with a back injury.
Best has played in 18 games this season, but
missed the Colorado game with the same in
jury.
13 win Hall of Fame honors
LARCHMONT, N.Y. (AP) - Coaching great
Bo Schembechler, wide receiver Lynn Swann
and defensive end Alan Page are among the 13
newest members elected to the College Foot
ball Hall of Fame by the National Football
Foundation.
The list also includes former Nebraskaguard
lincbacker Bob Brown, who played for the
Comhuskers from 1961-63.
Schembechler compiled a 234-65-8 record
in 27 years of coaching at Miami of Ohio from
1963-68 and at Michigan from 1969-89. He
ranks sixth all-time in victories and 18th in
winning percentage (.775) among Division I
head coaches.
Seventeen of his Michigan teams went to
bowl games, including 15 straight from 1975
89. His teams cither won or lied for 13 Big Ten
Conference titles.
Swann played at Southern California from
1971-73 and helped the Trojans to an 11-0
season and the national championship in 1972.
He was drafted by the Pittsburgh Stcelers in
1974 and was a member of four Super Bowl
championship learns.
Page, now in ihe first year of a six-year term
as a Minnesota Stale Supreme Court judge,
played at Notre Dame from 1964-66. He helped
the Irish toa three-year record of 25-3-2 and the
1966 national championship. Page, elected to
the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1988, spent 15
seasons in the NFL and played in four Super
Bowls as a member of the Minnesota Vikings.
Joining Schcmbcchler, Swann, Page and
Brown in the College Hail of Fame arc Dick
Anderson, Colorado safely from 1965-67; John
Cappellcui, Penn State running back, 1971-73;
Steve DeLong, Tennessee guard, 1962-64, and
Buddy Dial, Rice end, 1956-58.
Also, Harry Gilmer, Alabama halfback,
1944-47; the late Pat Harder, Wisconsin full
back, 1941-42; Dick Modzclewski, Maryland
tackle, 1950-52; J.D. Roberts, Oklahoma guard,
1951-53, and the late Bobby Dodd, Georgia
Tech coach, 1945-66.
The new members will be inducted at the
National Football Foundation and College Hall
of Fame Awards Dinner Dec. 7 in New York.