Preparation
Continued from Page 7
any other major changes to prepare
for Florida State.
“You can’t really do a whole lot
different,” Osborne said. “We played
well last year, we just didn’t win the
game.”
While the Huskers won’t change
much in terms of preparation, Osborne
said, Nebraska might throw the ball
more in the Orange Bowl than it did in
the last two regular-season games.
“It will be a little warmer in Miami
than it was here for the Iowa State and
Oklahoma games,” Osborne said.
“With the warmer weather, we will be
able to throw the ball a little better,
and you have to do what the condi
tions will allow you to.”
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NU women split games
in weekend invitational
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska women’s basket
ball team split two games in the
Idaho Invitational last weekend.
Nebraska dropped its first game
102-79 to Brigham Young Univer
sity, but the Cornhuskers bounced
back in the consolation game with
a 107-74 victory over Idaho.
The BYU defeat was the team’s
second-straight loss after it lost to
Arkansas State Tuesday.
Coach Angela Beck said the
Huskers suffered a tough week on
the road.
“I was a little disappointed after
that BYU game,” Beck said. “We
haven’t become a very good road
team. This was kind of tough be
cause our first two games on the
road have been against really good
teams.”
Nafeesah Brown led Nebraska
with 26 points, making 12 of 16
shots from the field and grabbing a
team-high nine rebounds against
BYU. Meggan Yedsena added 12
points and nine assists in the loss.
“I was really pleased with the
way we came back against Idaho,”
Beck said. “We had some meetings
and talked about our last two losses
and about getting back on track.”
Brown again led scoring with 27
points, while Yedsena scored 14
and contributed nine assists.
Beck said she hoped the win
would provide a boost for the 3-2
Huskers when they travel to South
west Missouri State Wednesday.
“I hope it gives us a little mo
mentum going into Southwest Mis
souri,” she said. “It will be another
tough challenge. We need to be
real positive going in there because
that’s a tough place to play.”
Banquet to honor
Osborne, assist
Nebraska youth
Fmm Staff Reports___
A February banquet to honor Ne
braska football coach Tom Osborne s
200th win will also help junior high
and middle school youth in Nebraska,
banquet chairmen announced Friday
at a press conference in Omaha.
Walter Scott Jr. and George Abel
said funds for the Tom Osborne En
dowment for Youth would be solicit
ed at the Feb. 3 dinner in Lincoln.
The dinner committee has set a
goal of $250,000 for the Osborne
Endowment.
Abel said the endowment project
was Tom and Nancy Osborne’s idea.
“We learned that for the past few
years Tom and Nancy have been set
ting aside $ 10,000 from their income
to support a program they initiated to
stabilize life for boys and girls at the
junior high level who were identified
by their schools as being ‘at risk,”’
Abel said.
Piatkowski
Continued from Page 7
Sports Network didn’t come close to
making up for losing in the game’s
final seconds.
“I had a great game, but I wouldn’t
say it was my best game,” he said. “If
I was looking at it personally, then I’d
be very happy.
“Recognition-wise, it was on Prime
Sports, but that’s as far as it goes. Our
main goal is to win basketball games,
not individual stats.”
The 6-foot-7 senior has been men
tioned in some publications as an All
American candidate and a repeat pick
for All-Big Eight.
But Piatkowski isn’t letting the
All-American hype get to him.
“If you start thinking about those
All-American things and All-Big
Eight repeat, that puts pressure on
you,” he said. “I’m not going to think
about that stuff.
“I’m just going to go out and play
basketball the way I know how to play
basketball.”
Piatkowski already has garnered
one award so far this season. He was
named the Ameritas Classic’s most
valuable player last weekend.
Being named MVP didn’t make up
for his performance at Appalachian
State, though, he said.
“It made the pain go away a little,”
he said. “I didn’t shoot a great per
centage, but I stayed focused. Gradu
ally as the season goes on, I’ll get
better.
“One of my goals is to improve
with every game, and by the end of the
season to be at a high level.”
Along with improvement,
Piatkowski, one of four seniors on the
squad, hopes to display leadership.
But he doesn’t consider himself to be
the one player the team will look to
when things get tough.
“All four seniors are doing a better
job than any other year I’ve been here
of providing leadership for the team,”
Piatkowski said. “They’ll maybe look
to me more so in a big game, but they
can do a lot of great things.
“When we go out there focused
and playing up to our potential, we’re
very, very good and we’re going to
challenge for the Big Eight champi
onship. But if we go out there not
focused, then things could go real
bad.”
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Peter
Continued from Page 7
had to watch everybody else play
while I sat on the bench,” Peter said.
McBride said Peter’s transition
after his redshirt season was not as
smooth as the average Huskcr.
“He had a little trouble getting
r cvcrythingstraightenedout,”McBride
said. “He has had great ability, but he
just had to learn that he was not going
to play until he learned that he had to
do things our way, not his way.”
Peter said the coaches were correct
in saying that it took him awhile to
adjust.
“1 was stubborn-headed when I got
here,” he said. “1 thought bigger was
better, and that’snot the case. You’ve
got to be willing to cooperate with the
coaches. It’s cither their way or the
highway.
“But I think sitting out helped me
in the long run. It made me hungrier.
1 wanted more playing (time) man i
would have if 1 hadn’t sat out.”
McBride said he had hoped to give
Peter some significant playing time
on Nov. 6, when the Huskers defeated
Kansas 21-20 in Lawrence, Kan.
“It didn’t work out,” McBride said.
“But he came around in the weeks
leading up to (the Oklahoma) game.”
Peter said the Oklahoma game was
just a sample of what he can do on the
football field.
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