Pollsters
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than Nebraska.”
Moran said Florida State deserved
to be ranked above Nebraska in the
coalition poll simply because of the
recent matchups the Huskers and Sem
inoles have had.
“The games be tween Nebraska and
Florida State have been no contest,”
Moran said. “(Nebraska) has the same
coach, the same offensive system and
the same defensive system. Until they
can prove they can beat teams like
Florida State at the end of the year,
they will not get people’s respect.”
The Huskers, who lost 27-14 to the
Seminoles in the 1993 Orange Bowl,
have switched from a 5-2 to a 4-3
defense this season.
Some critics say the Huskers’ six
straight losses on New Year’s Day
keep them low in the rankings but
Sherman said the opposite is probably
true.
“Tradition goes both ways,” he
said. “The reason they’re ranked this
high is because of their tradition.
Nebraska people think that it is their
birthright to be ranked high.”
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Nebraska people
think that it is their
birth right to be
ranked high.
—Sherman
Chicago Tribune
sportswriter
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Iowa State coach Jim Walden de
fended the Huskers earlier this week
when he said Nebraska should be
ranked second ahead of Bobby
Bowden’s Seminoles.
“I think a lot of writers have gotten
into this ‘let’s do it for Bobby’ men
tality,” Walden said. “I’ll be so damn
glad when that guy finally wins one so
we can get on with doing things the
way we have done them for the past 25
years.”
However, Sherman defended his
fellow sportswritcrs.
“(Walden) should try as hard toget
i .500 record as he does knocking
athcr coaches,” Sherman said.
Tough tourney
will challenge
No. 8 Huskers
From Staff Reports
After taking five titles at the Wyo
ming Open last weekend, the Nebras
ka wrestling team will be hard-pressed
to match that figure this weekend at
the Omaha Open, Cornhuskcr coach
Tim Neumann said.
“I was pleased with the results last
weekend,” he said. “If you go a level
higher, the results would be drastical
ly reduced.”
The Huskers, ranked eighth in the
country, will face competition from
Top 20 teams in Omaha.
The competition will include Iowa,
last year’s national champion, Iowa
State, Minnesota and Northern Iowa.
“There are five or six good Top 20
Division I programs at this meet,” he
said.
Neumann said the No. 8 ranking
was a surprise to him to start off the
season.
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“We were constantly working on
different things.”
Pettit said he hoped those things
would pay off against the Sooncrs
tonight and maybe again next Friday
m the Big Eight tournament.
If the conference standings stay
the way they are, the Sooners and
Huskers will meet again in the first
round of the Big Eight tournament.
The Big Eight’s second- and third
place teams face each other and the
first- and fourth-place team square off
in the tournament’s first-round, Nov.
26.
Pettit said his team would be ready
for both matches if they had to play
the Sooners twice in the span of a
week.
“We need to win them both,” he
said. “We need to take care of this one
and then take care of the next one.”
The Huskers arc now in second
place in the conference behind Colo
rado with a 9-2 mark. The Buffs stand
at 10-1. If it wasn’t for the loss to the
Sooncrs, the Huskers would be tied
for the lead.
But that’s out of their hands now,
Aspegren said. The Huskers have to
depend on sixth-place Missouri to
defeat the Buffs Saturday to tic for the
title.
“We just have to put the Oklahoma
loss past us,” Aspegren said.
Kansas golf champion recruited
From Staff Reports
Rachelle Tacha, a four-time
Kansas state champion and 1992
Midwest Golfcr-of-the-Ycar, has
signed a national letter of intent to
pi ay golf for Nebraska, Cornhuskcr
golf coach Robin Krapfl said.
“Rachelle was our No. 1 re
cruit,” Krapfl said. “She possesses
a well-rounded game with no weak
nesses. She has the ability to start
for us as a freshman and become
one of the top players in the confer
ence.”
Tacha, the No. 1 junior golfer in
Kansas, led the Manhattan (Kan.)
High School girl’s golf team to the
1993 state championship.
Nebraska men’s golf coach
Larry Romjue signed Ryan
Neitfeldt of Grand Island and Judd
Brewer of Lincoln Pius X to na
tional letters-of-intent earlier this
week.
Neitfeldt won both the state jun
ior match and medal play tourna
ments in 1993. Brewer won the
Nebraska State High School tour
nament last spring. Brewer also
finished 14th at the National PGA
Junior Championship this summer.
NU to compete at Minnesota
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska men’s and wom
en’s swimming and diving teams
will be in action at the Minnesota
Invitational in Minneapolis this
weekend.
The women’s team, which beat
Southern Methodist University in
Dallas last weekend, will face two
teams that finished in the top 30 last
season, including Kansas, the de
fending Big Eight Conference
champion.
The men’s team, which lost to
SMU last weekend, will face six
Top 20 teams from a year ago.
The Nebraska women’s victory
last weekend was an early- season
upset. S MU was coming offa lourth
place finish at last year’s NCAA
Championships.
Melanie Dodd won the 200 and
100 freestyle and led the Husker
400-meter medley relay team to
victory. Penny Heyns won the 200
meter breaststroke, and Jane
Glazebrook was the winner in the
200 breaststroke.
Jennifer Hamly won the 1-meter
diving competition.
The Husker men were led by
Chris Ford, who finished first in the
200-metcr backstroke. Francois
Boshoff took the 100-mcter
freestyle, and Gyorgy Kovacs was
the champion in the 1,000-meter
freestyle.
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