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Robin Trimarchi/DN Nebraska’s Tom Best attempts to block the shot of Kansas State’s Deiyl Cunningham on Saturday. The Huskers won by a score of 80-59. Huskers Continued from Page 7 “We know what the black uni forms mean — that it’s time to go out and do it,” said Boone, who had 14 points off the bench, two behind Eric Piatkowski’s team-high 16 points. “It’s a sense of pride, just to reach down, come out and play basketball.” Forward Terrance Badgctlsaid Nee gave the Huskers the inspiration they needed to play well. “I think it’s our biggest win — I think we played together with the team concept that we had,” Badgett said. “Coach Ncc said Tm depending on you; I think you’re the best team in the Big Eight*. He said a lot of posi tive words that made us play hard.” Kansas State coach Dana Allman, whose team dropped to 5-3 in league play and 15-5 overall, didn’t have too many positive things to say about the Wildcats’ play. “We weren’t sharp all day — we didn’t prepare ourselves well enough physically, mentally and emotion ally,” Allman said. “They did what they had to do to lake us out of the game.” Nee said hcls finally seeing his team play like ips capable of playing. “I think we’re getting better in every aspect of the game and we’re coming together at the right time,” he said. Badgett said it’s time for the Husk ers to peak if they’re going to make a l third-straight trip to the NCAArTour namcnt. “I think our team is coming to gether,” Badgett said. “We want to go to the NCAAs real bad — there’s not much that can stop us but ourselves.” Another team hoping to make it to the NCAA tourney in March is Okla homa Slate. The Cowboys, who, after Saturday ’ s win against Colorado, have a half-game lead on Nebraska in the Big Eight with a 5-4 mark, will play Nebraska tonight at 8:30 p.m. at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. The game will be televised live as part of ESPN’s “Big Monday” pack age. But what looms large for Nebraska on “Big Monday”isOklahomaStatc’s “Big Country.’ Bryant Reeves, the Cowboys’ 7 foot sophomore center, is leading the conference in scoring and rebound ing, and was instrumental in Okla homa State’s 78-73 win over the Husk ers last month in Stillwater, Okla. Nee said containing Reeves is the key to beating Oklahoma State. “I think Oklahoma Stale is an im proving basketball team,” Nee said. r<I think when you have a center like Reeves who dominates the stats—he creates a presence and he’s gotten better.” 1 IMPROVE YOUR NIGHT LIFE. Too many accidents are caused by car drivers who didn’t see the motorcyclists. That’s why reflective vests, bright clothing, and reflectorized tape are so '—* important. They help you be seen. And standing out on a dark, crowded yV/ . '' road can keep your evening from being ruined. MtTWtCYCLE llftTY poemnor Micro Madness Free Microcomputer Classes rer x «V The Computing Resource Center is offering free microcomputer seminars to UNL students. The seminais will feature an Introduction to Microsoft Word for the Macin tosh and WordPerfect for IBM machines. No reservations are required. Lab Location Dates Times Advanced Microsoft Word for the Macintosh Andrews Wednesday. February 17 3:Q0 - 4:30 pm Introduction to WordPerfect 5.1 for IBM Sandoz (IBM) Monday. February 15 3:00 - 4:30 p.rn. Huskers keep Big Eight title hopes alive with weekend wins By Tim Pearson Staff Reporter Two conference wins at home over the weekend kept the Nebraska women’s basketball team’s flicker ing Big Eight title hopes alive. Friday, the Comhuskers beat Kan sas State for the second time this season,69-50, behind Karen Jennings’ 26 points. On Sunday, the Huskers avenged an earlier loss to Kansas with a 66-52 win over the Jayhawks at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. With three conference games re maining, the Comhuskers stand at 8 3 in third place behind Colorado and Oklahoma State, who share the top spot. The Huskers most likely need to win the rest of their games to win the title, including a win at Boulder, Colo, against the No. 4 Buffaloes. Senior guard Sara Offringa said the win over the Jayhawks would be a tremendous confidence booster going into this Sunday’s game against Colo rado. “It’s a win,” she said. “It’s a big Beck Continued from Page 7 ference. Nebraska built a 33-28 half time lead intoa 21 -point spread, as the Huskers cruised to a69-50win against Kansas State at the Devaney Sports Center on Friday. Nebraska went on a 24-8 run to begin the second half and took a 57-36 lead on a Jennings basket with 10:51 to play. Joinings scored nine of her game-high 26 points during the run. ' Beck said the tenacity of the Husk ers after intermission propelled the - u If we can’t get the title, we want to get the (Big Eight) tournament. —Offringa NU guard -99 - conference win. It will give us a new air of confidence each day in prac tice.” Earlier this season, on Jan. 22, the Huskers upset the Lady Buffs in Lin coln to give them their sole loss of the season. Even though Nebraska beat Colo rado 62-50, Offringa said that in no way are the Huskers the favorite. “I look at us as the underdogs. They’re still up in the conference and ranked No. 4,” she said. “We’ re going to have to play almost flawless, and we’re going to have to execute offen sively. In their first game, the Huskcr de fense held the Lady Buffs to 24 of 62 shooting for 39 percent. Offringa said the same kind of team to victory over Kansas State. “These guys played real aggres sive in the first five minutes (of the second half).” Beck said. “It took them (Kansas State) outof their game.” The Wildcats were held to 22 points in the second half and shot only 36 percent on the night, which included a 0-for-6 performance from the three point line. Besides Jennings, Nebraska had a balanced scoring attack, as four other Huskers finished with at least eight points. Senior Sara Offringa scored 12 for the Huskers. defensive effort is needed to sweep Colorado. < * “We need to play an errorless game to beat them.” Forward Nafeesah Brown, who scored 20 points and grabbed 16 re bounds, agreed. “This game gave us a lot of confi dence,” she said. “To beat Colorado, though, we’re going to have to main tain the same intensity as today and have the same intensity as the last time we played Colorado.” The Huskers are looking for a good seed in the Big Eight tournament March 6-8, and, hopefully, a spot in the NCAA Tournament. Offringa said that if the Big Eight title can’t be won, then the Big Eight tournament title will be tops on the Huskers’ wish list “You always want to say you like your chance (of winning the Big Eight), but we can ’ t look past our next game,” she said. “We’ve got to de pend on Oklahoma State and Colo rado getting knocked off by some body. “But if we can’t get the title, we want tp^el the (Big Eight) tourna ment/]__ Yedsena said that this weekend’s performance was indicative of the real Husker team stepping up. “We have gotten back to Nebraska defense,” Yedsena said. Yedsena said the weekend’s Husker wins would be “confidence-builders,” as the team embarked on a crucial roadtripagainstColorado.ateam tied for the lead in the Big Eight and ranked No. 4 nationally. Nebraska will play the Buffaloes on Sunday afternoon and then travel to Columbia, Mo., to face Missouri on Tuesday night. Nebraska ends 72-year drought after thrashing Oklahoma State from itan nepons Nebraska’s wrestling team broke a 72-year losing streak to Oklahoma State on Sunday. The Comhuskers, ranked No. 2 in the country, beat the Cowboys 39-12 in a dual at Stillwater, Okla. The win upped Nebraska’s dual mark to 8-2 for the season. The last time Nebraska beat Okla homa State was in 1921. “It’s really nice to beat Oklahoma State for the first time in my career,” Nebraska coach Tim Neumann said. ‘‘We wrestled with the type of inten sity that we are going to need at the NCAA Championships. “Our guys are geared toward the Big Eight and NCAA meets right now." Nebraska notched eight major de cisions, technical falls or pins in the victory. Senior Malt Lindland, ranked No. 1 at 158 pounds, registered a 16 7 decision over the Cowboys’ George Parker. The victory improved Lindland ’s record to 33-0 this season. Husker Corey Olson, ranked No. 2, won his match at 177 pounds by pinning Oklahoma State’s Travis Gatins in 3:48. On Friday, Nebraska delivered Neumann his 100th career victory by scoring a 37-3 dual win over Missouri at Columbia, Mo. In the Missouri dual, the Huskers got major decisions from Tony Purler at 126pounds and No. 2 Rulon Gardner at heavyweight. Gardner defeated Jeremy Lay by a score of 16-5. “We wrestled with a lot of inten sity,” Neumann said. “Our guys seem to be staying focused and are continu ing to improve.” Husker swimmers blast Southern Illinois From Staff Reports Nebraska ended its home swim ming and diving seasons with a bang Saturday. Both the men’s and women ’ s teams blew out Southern Illinois at the Bob Devaney Sports Center pool. The men won by a score of 180-98, while the women won by a score of 217-80. Captain Alan Kelsey once again led the Nebraska men, touching first * in the 100-yard butterfly with a time of 49.37 seconds. Husker Larcn Ttttmaim recorded a season-best in the 50-yard freestyle with a time of 21.11. For ihe women, Melanie Dodd won both the 50 and 100-yard freestyles. The Nebraska200-yard freestyle team won with a lime of 1:35.84. In diving, Kevin McMahon earned two seconds behind Southern Illinois' Rob Siracusano. But it was the women's team that Nebraska diving coach Jim Hocking said was impressive. “Wow, our ladies had some of the best dives of their careers,” Hocking said. “We arc peaking at a time we need to be at our best with the confer ence meet and the NCAA meets to look forward to.” Nebraska swimming coach Cal Bentz said ihc teams’ performances against the Salukis were encouraging. “We had some swimmers swim as well as they ever have unshaven,” he said. Nonetheless, Beniz said his team needed to look now towards prepar ing for the Big Eight Championships, which will be held March 4-6 in Okla homa City. .“Asa team, we need to work on our mental focus for the Big Eight Cham pionships," Bentz said, “llu; team is In a transitional stage, and we need to refocus our attention to the task at hand.” lennis team sweeps pair of duals From Staff Repons The Nebraska women’s lennis team swept two duals to open its season Saturday. The Huskers beat Creighton 6-3 and defeated Northern Illinois 9-0 at Woods Tennis Complex. Comhusker coach Scott Jacobson said he was pleased with his team’s first outing, bul^he gave Creighton credit for playing close in the first match. “I thought Creighton played well,” Jacobson said. “They earned every point they got.” . The biggest match of the day for Nebraska may have been in No. 4 singles, where HuskerTinaCoutretsis came back from a 5-2 deficit in the third set to beat Creighton’s Cori Komori 7-6,2-6, 7-5. Jacobson said Coutretsis’s win pushed the momentum in Nebraska’s favor. “The match in No. 4 singles was critical for us,’’ Jacobson said. “(Coutretsis) came back to score five straight, and her victory put us up 4 Against Northern Illinois, the Husk ers didn’t lose a set and cruised to the win. No. 1 singles player Zarina Galvan cruised in her match against Janelle Crabtree, winning 6-2,6-2. In doubles, the Huskers’ No. 1 singles team of Galvan and Heidi Junius won by a score of 6-2,6-4. “We felt more confident after the Creighton match,” Jacobson said. “We went on to beat Northern Illinois 9-0 so we feel pretty good.” The Huskers will next be in action on Feb. 21, when the Huskers face Drake in Des Moines, Iowa.