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Wrestlers crush OU in dual season finale From Staff Reports No. 2 Nebraska ended its regu lar season in a big way Wednesday, pounding Oklahoma 33-6'in a dual in Norman, Okla. After losing the 118-pound match, the Comhuskers wonseven consecutive weight classes to take a 28-3 lead and never looked back. At 142 pounds, Nebraska’s Mike Eierman scored a 14-6 major deci sion over William Gay. That win put Eierman in good position for the Big Eight Tournament, accord ing to Husker coachTim Neumann. “That win pretty much guaran tees Eierman the No. 1 seed in the Big Eights,” Neumann said. “It will probably move him into the top six in the national rankings too.” At 158 pounds, Nebraska’s Matt Lindland pinned the Sooners’ Heath Martin in 1:52 and finished the regular season 34-0. Corev Olson, ranked No. 2 at 177 pounds, scored a 19-4 techni cal fall over Oklahoma’s Quincy Clark. “Corey Olson looked phenom enal tonight,” Neumann said. “Ev eryone really wrestled great. It’s really great to come down here and dominate them like we did.” The dual completed Nebraska’s dual season at 10-2. The Huskers will next be in action on March 6 in Norman at the Big Eight Champi onships. In addition, two seniors, John Buxton and Rick Coltvet, were named to the first team. Buxton, a computer science major, made the first team for the fourth consecu tive year. He has a 3.68 grade point average. Coltvet, an electrical engineer ing major, has a 3.10 grade point average. _ Singer Continued from Page 13 “We had a great one with (Indiana basketball coach) Bobby Knight who supposedly got all bent out of shape and wouldn’t talk to the network for something I said,” Olbermann said. “They figured out what day it was — and it turned out I was on vacation that week. “There are certain people who are notorious as being ultrasensitive; you just let that stuff go off your back.” He said he was a lot happier with the quality of production at ESPN than what he experienced in Los An geles. “The problem was it was a terrible broadcast; it was just a monstrosity, especially with the garbage we put on the air out there,” Olbermann said. “In LA, I was out on a raft with the other drowning survivors of a ship wreck, and the Kiwi 2 came by and they said ‘Hey, we want you to come on and be captain.”’ Olbermann added that it was prob ably his special zest that helped him get his promotion from Los Angeles to ESPN, so he’s not going to change now. “I’ve been doing it this way since I was at college,” said the Cornell graduate. “It’s what I need to do to keep it interesting to me.” And that’s what keeps it interest ing for the rest of us as well. 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Win over Buffaloes keeps Chandler’s record perfect By Derek Samson Staff Reporter__ Derrick Chandler pulled down a game-high 14 rebounds in Nebraska’s 76-67 victory Wednesday over Colo rado, but he also earned sole posses sion of bragging rights with his good friend, Colorado center Poncho Hodges. “This is a great win,’’ Chandler said. “Now I’m 4-0 against my best friend.” Chandler scored 12 points to go along with his 14 rebounds, including an eight of 12 performance from the free throw line. Hodges, a former teammate of Chandler’s at Alvin (Texas) Commu nity College, also scored 12 points, but only came away with three re bounds. “It’s hard for me to play against him because I always want him to do good,” Chandler said. “Once when he made a free throw I caught myself clapping and then I just have to re member it’s Nebraska versus Colo rado, not just Poncho.” Not only did Chandler help Ne braska win, but he also beat Hodges in the stat column. “We look at who won or lost first and that’s the most important,” Hodges said. “Then we will argue over who had the better game. Then we start saying, 'You got me on this game’ or 'I got you against them, but you still won.’” Going 0-4 against Chandler and the Cornhuskers was something Hodges didn’t expect. “He has the bragging rights, but it was fun. I had hoped to get them at least once before it was over,” Hodges said. “(The game) was there for the taking and we didn’t get it. “We had too many turnovers,” Hodges said. “If we had taken care of the ball, it could have been a different story.” Hodges also battled the Nebraska crowd, sparring with fans with nu merous verbal exchanges. “I did it to his crowd, too,” Chan dler said. ‘‘It gets us pumped up too, when we see someone going at it with our crowd.” Chandler said that it may not be the two friends’ last time to meet on the competitive level. “We’re not done yet. Whether it will be in the NBA or overseas, we’ll meet up again,” he said, “f think he has a good chance of playing pro ball and so do I, so we could be going at it again.” Hodges said (me reason for the game being so tight throughout was the Huskers looking past Colorado to Iowa State. “I don’t think they were fired up at all,” Hodges said. r‘They came out and played pretty lackadaisical, but we didn’t take advantage of the op portunity to get the win.” Osborne approves Byrne’s effort to toughen NU football schedule By Susie Arth Senior Reporter Nebraska football coach Tom Osborne said a possible four-game series between the Comhuskers and the University of Iowa would be good for the program. “I think it would be a good series," he said. “It’s fairly close for the fans to travel back and forth." The Omaha World-Herald reported Wednesday that NU athletic director Bill Byrne was attempting to close a deal with Iowa that would begin in 1996. The article also said Byrne was corresponding with officials from the University of Southern California, Michigan and Notre Dame about simi lar arrangements. But Byrne said he did not intend to spill the story to the press. “I’m not going to talk about future schedules until I have a signed con tract,” he said. But Byrne verified that he was talking to officials from the four schools. Byrne said his tentative plan was to add each of the schools to the Husker schedule in different years. Byrne said the possible matchups would add better competition to the schedule. “Our goal is to play the best teams in America,” he said. “We want to have games like this, but we still will have the ever-popular Utah States on our schedule because we don’t have to return.” Byrne and Osborne agreed that a major concern was that the Huskers maintain six or seven home games each year. “Financially speaking, you’d like to have no fewer than six home games one year and seven the next,” Osborne said. “So you have to schedule some teams that would come and not set up a return engagement.” The Huskers are now scheduled to play four non-conference games in 1996 — the University of Nevada Las Vegas, Michigan State, Arizona State and Colorado State. Thus, Ne braska would have to drop a team from its current schedule. The NCAA allows each team to play 11 games per season, and seven of the Huskers’ games are with Big Eight opponents. Bad winter slows down golfers start From Staff Reports For the second straight weekend, the Nebraska men’s golf team will be working to get the winter kinks out. The Comhuskers will travel to Tampa, Fla., to compete in the South Florida Invitational Friday through Sunday. Nebraska coach Lany Romjue said the meet would help him in his post winter evaluation of the team. “The first couple of tournaments we see where we need the work,” Romjue said. “Because this winter k. - has been horrible, we’re starting from a little further back." Last weekend, the Huskers com peted in the Crown Colony Invita tional in Lufkin, Texas, and finished 12th out of 15 teams. Nebraska scored a 334 the first day and was never able to recover, Romjue said. “It was our first shot outside and it was against a pretty good field,” Romjue said. “I fell with a normal performance, we could’ve finished anywhere from sixth to eighth." 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