Jay hawks’ coach
to confront former
boss in Final Four
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — No
matter what Roy Williams does, his
name will always be linked to Dean
Smith.
This is Williams’ fifth season as
coach at Kansas and he’s already as
sured of second place on the all-time
list for victories by new coaches dur
ing that span. When the Jayhawks
take the floor Saturday, it will be his
second Final Four appearance. Seems
he should be able to shake the name of
his former boss.
Problem is, the team going against
Kansas will be Smith’s North Caro
lina Tar Heels. It was the same way
two years ago when the former boss
and his long-time assistant met in the
semifinals in Indianapolis with the
student prevailing 79-73.
You can’t hear Williams’ name
without hearing Smith’s. It’s that way
when one serves as an assistant to the
other for 10 years and then has a
program remarkably similar when he
dot o out (Mi his own.
jo much was made of all this in
1991,” Smith said. “This game will be
decided by ourplayers and the Kansas
players. Roy and I are al ways going to
be friends, regardless of what hap
pens. We’ve already got a golf date
set for April. That’s when we’ll be
competing against each other.”
Saturday, though, it’s basketball.
North Carolina (32-4) against Kansas
(29-6), followed by Kentucky (30-3)
and Michigan (30-4). All but Kansas,
the second seed in the Midwest, were
top seeded in their region. The win
ners meet Monday night for the na
tional championship.
Smith brought a North Carolina
team to the 1982 Final Four in New
Orleans and those Tar Heels left with
the coach’s only national title. This is
Smith’s ninth Final Four.
Williams had a good seat for that
' 82 game as Sm ith ’ s assistant. He can
quickly and in detail recall the timeout
with 32 seconds left that led to Michael
Jordan’s game-winning shot 15 sec
onds later.
“That one timeout sticks out in my
mind,” Williams said. “Coach Smith
taught me something each and every
day I was there. But that confidence
that he was able to show and give our
kids during that timeout of the
Georgetown game is something I can
still remember. The look on his face.
1 can still remember everything about
that timeout just like it was last night.”
The 1991 meeting was the game
Smith didn’t see to its conclusion as
he was ejected in the final minute
after he was charged with his second
technical foul.
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Husker’s Jennings
namedAll-American
From Staff Reports
Nebraska’s Karen Jennings will
be among 10 players honored this
weekend at the NCAA Women’s
Final Four as a Kodak Women’s
All-American.
Jennings, who led the
Comhuskers to the second round of
the NCAA Tournament, becomes
Nebraska’s first-ever first-team All
American.
Jennings played in 119 games in
her career at Nebraska, scoring in
double figures in 114 of those
games. She is a two-time Big Eight
Player of the Year and broke the
school scoring record with 2,405
points.
Jennings, a two-time GTE Aca
demic All-American, holds a 3.89
grade pointavefage in exercise sci
ence.
Joining Jennings on the first team
were Andrea Congrcaves of Mer
cer, Toni Foster of Iowa, Lauretta
Freeman of Auburn, Heidi
Gillingham of Vanderbilt, Lisa
Harrisonof Tennessee, Katie Smith
of Ohio State, Sheryl Swoopes of
Texas Tech, Milica Vukadinovic
of California and Val Whiting of
Stanford.
Swoopes and Whiting were the
only repeat selections to the team,
while Smith became only the sec
ond freshman to be named to the
team.
The team is selected annually
by a panel of women’s basketball
coaches around the nation.
Softball
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to improve this weekend.
“Tnis is a very important weekend
for us,” Revelle said. “We need to go
out and play up to our potential in
every game.”
With the cancellation of Wednes
day night’s doubleheadcr against
Creighton due to rain, the Huskers are
in need of playing more games to keep
up with die rest of the Big Eight
teams.
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. “We’re just excited to play. The
other Big Eight teams have had a few
more games than us and now we’re
playing catch up,” Revelle said. “We
really need to get playing and get
some more games in."
Women's Gym
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Walton said conditioning for the
meet had been good for his team, but
it must now focus.
"The physical preparation is over,”
Walton said. “Now (the team) has to
mentally be able to stay in the meet.
They have to be able to go from a
relaxed state to a competitive frenzy
in a matter of seconds.” •
With seven teams competing in
only four events, waiting and then
competing briefly is a major part of
the competition.
Nebraska is scheduled to begin the
meet on the vault, a strong event for
the Huskers, according to Walton.
Walton said the team’s rotation
would be an advantage to overcom
ing the arena’s distractions.
“The best way to get away from
the pressure is to start good,” Walton
said. “If (the team) starts in a hole,
they’ll have to fight the crowd.”
ButdespiteWalton’sconcems with
the crowd, he said the attention was
good for women’s gymnastics.
“It lends a lot to the excitement to
the event,” Walton said.
Walton said he had high hopes for
his team.
“We’ll make it interesting; it’ll be
close,” Walton said. “This is a meet
of attrition. People that can endure
the longevity of the event will do
well.”
Dalton
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of the best and on the top ,” he says.
“But I tried not to be overconfident or
cocky.”
Whether his family was living in
Minnesota, South Dakota, Missouri
or Nebraska, baseball has been there
always.
“Baseball was the one constant,”
he says. “I made a lot of friends play
ing it.”
Yet, it wasn’t until later that Dalton
decided he wanted baseball to be part
of his life for good.
“My senior year in high school I
decided to concentrate on baseball,”
he says. “It was the smartest decision
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I could have made .”
And ever since then, the determi
nation came out in full force.
“When I go out, I have a fire in
side,” he says. “I’m really competi
tive; I hate to lose.”
Dalton says he hopes he can take
this competitive edge all the way to
the major leagues.
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“I’d at least want to get a shot at
playing pro ball,” he says. “I don’t
know what I’d do without baseball.”
Iftheprosdon’tpanout for Dalton,
not surprisingly, he says he will try to
rub off his own style onto future play
ers.
“I’d be a tough coach, a motiva
tor," he says.
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Nebraska notified the NCAA of the
possible violations, but did confirm
that Nebraska did indeed contact the
NCAA about its in-state rival.
Byrne also refused to comment on
the nature of the violations.
Despite the distraction, Sanders
said his team would be focused on the
game and ready to play.
While the series is the conference
opener for Nebraska, Oklahoma State
has already played seven conference
games and has a 3-4 record.
As a result, Oklahoma State, the
1992 Big Eight regular season and
tournament champion, is third in the
conference. Oklahoma, hoping to re
turn to the College World Series, is
off to a fast start, leading the pack with
a record of 5-0.
The 10-9 Com huskers will start
Troy Brohawn and Brian Martin in
the first two games against Oklahoma
State, he said, but no decision has
been made yet on the third game. The
left-handed Brohawn is 3-0 with a
2.08 ERA this season while Martin is
3-1 with a 4.94 ERA.
A soild team effort will be needed
for the Huskers to be successful in
Stillwater, he said. However, Sanders
said he expected his team to “step it up
a notch.”
Notes:
• Both Nebraska and Oklahoma
State have been cold lately. The Husk
ers have lost six of their last eight
games, while the Cowboys have come
away without a victory in their four
games.
• Nebraska has six starters hitting
over .300 for the season to date. They
are Sagmoen, Darin Peterson (.356),
Jed Dalton (.338), DarinErstad (.321),
James Garcia (.313) and Derek Dukart
(.309).
