Beck: NU needs a win at home
By Derek Samson
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska women’s basketball
team, which is coming off a four
eame road trip, finally will find itself
r—I in familiar sur
roundings Friday
when it takes on
Creighton at 7
p.m. in the Bob
Devaney Sports
Center.
After losing
three of their last
four games,
Beck Coach Angela
Beck said the Huskers needed to get
back on track against intrastate rival
Creighton.
“It is important to get any type of
wins you can get during the preseason,”
Beck said. “We need to start getting
some momentum, and it is a goal of
ours to go undefeated at home, so I
think it would be a setback for us to
-li
We need to improve and learn from our mistakes
we made during those losses. I think it is a relief
for us to finally be back home. — Beck
Nebraska women’s basketball coach
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lose this.
“We need to improve and learn
from our mistakes we made during
those losses. I think it is a relief for us
to finally be back home.”
After losing to Southwest Missou
ri State on Wednesday, the 3-3 Husk
ers need to beat Creighton to raise
their spirits, Beck said.
“We need to get back winning and
get some momentum rolling,” she
said. “This schedule has not been one
that is easy. We had three losses come
on the road to teams that had won 24
or more games last season.”
With the team’s youth, Beck said,
the rivalry with Creighton isn’t as
intense as in past years.
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“It’s a rivalry in a sense of the past
and being in the same state,” Beck
said. “But I have 11 underclassmen
who don’t know much about
Creighton. All they know is it is an
other team coming to our floor that we
need to beat.
, “I don’t put a lot of hype on that
this is Creighton. We know that
Creighton is not a team that we can
take lightly.”
AfterCreighton, Nebraska will face
Arkansas State for the second time
this season. The Indians, who beat the
Huskers in Arkansas, will face Ne
braska on Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
Win
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way to win,” Nee said. “I could very
easily be sitting here talking to you
about a loss.
“We remember what happened
against Appalachian State.”
The Huskers used solid pressure
defense in the second half to make
sure they didn’t lose another road
game, like the 93-84 loss to Appala
chian State in Boone, N.C.
Nebraska’s pressure cooled the Jays
in the second half as Creighton hit
only 1 of 6 three-pointers and 9 of 24
shots overall.
But the biggest blow to the Blue
Jays’ chances at an upset was the foul
trouble of King and Vanderheydt ear
ly in the half.
Vanderheydt picked up his fourth
foul with 18:02 remaining and King
was whistled for his fourth with 16:02
remaining.
Creighton led 30-29 when King
left the game and the Huskers then
went on a 17-6 run behind the inside
scoring of Bruce Chubick and the
defense of Erick Strickland.
Chubick scored all 13 of his points
in the second half, while Strickland
— who finished with nine points,
seven assists and seven steals—came
away with five second-half steals.
The Blue Jays answered the Husk
ers’ run with a 7-0 run of their own to
cut it to 46-42 with 6:49 remaining.
But the Huskers responded with a 6-0
run that killed the Creighton rally.
Nebraska, now 4-2, plays host to 1 -
2 Wichita State Saturday in a 1 p.m.
game at the Bob Devaney Sports Cen
ter.
Nebraska. 23 44 67
at Creighton. 28 25 53
Nebraska—Stnckland 2-84-79, Boone
2-60-04, Best 2-4 0-04, Chubick 5-53-413,
Piatkowski 6-16 4-6 17, Glock 3-5 2-2 9,
Moore 0-0 0-0 0, Brooks 1-1 0-0 2, Badgetl
4-7 0-2 9. Totals 25-52 13-21 67.
Creighton—Singleton 2-8 2-28, King 6
91-413, Halligan 4-7 4-4 15, Tucker 1 -6 3
5 5, Vanderheydt 3 7 2-2 8, Wharton 1 -7 0
0 3, Crutcher 0-21-4 1. Totals 17-46 13-21
53
3-Polnt goals — Nebraska 4-21
(Strickland 1-6, Boone 0-3, Piatkowski 1-6,
Glock 1 -3, Badgetl 1 -3), Creighton 6-13 (Sin
gleton 2-3, Halliqan 3-5, Wharton 1 -5). Fouled
out—Tucker, vanderheydt Rebounds—
Nebraska 31 (Best 7), Creighton 32
(Vandeiheydt 10). Assists — Nebraska 17
(Strickland 7), Creighton 14 (Tucker 5). To
tal fouls — Nebraska 20, Creighton 20
Chubick
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“Our effort on the road needs to be the
same as at home. I had some effort in
the first half, but I don’t think it was
my best.
“My effort was much better in the
second half.”
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said
Chubick’s inside game played a ma
jor role in the outcome.
“I though Bruce Chubick was a
major factor in this game,” he said.
“He had a lot of tap-ins. He was above
the rim tapping in and keeping the ball
alive.”
Chubick said outscoring the Blue
Jays by 19 in the second half was a
sign of Nebraska’s confidence.
“We never hit the panic button,”
Chubick said. “This team can score so
fast. Only being down by five (at
halftime) is just two possessions.
“I knew if we put the effort into it
we would win. We all knew what we
had to do.”
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