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Husker hopes ride on ISU game By Derek samson Senior Reporter The Nebraska women’s basketball team has a chance to end its season with a win when it travels to Iowa State Sunday, but Coach Angela Beck said the Huskcrs would not take the 7-18 Cyclones lightly. The Cyclones, who are 2-11 and in last place in the Big Eight, have shown signs of improving since Nebraska beat them 88-49 in their first meeting, Beck said. “They’re going to be much im proved since the first time we played them. It will make their season to beat us. We’re preparing and working re ally hard this week. We know it won’t Beck be easy to beat them out there. We re going into this like it’s a tournament game.” A win would give Nebraska fourth place in the Big Eight. The Huskers are 15-12 overall and 7-7 in confer ence play. A victory is imperative if Nebraska wants to make the NCAA tourna ment, Beck said. Otherwise, she said, the Huskers w ill need some big wins at the Big Eight tournament, which be gins March 5 in Salina, Kan. * “I really feel it’sa must-win,orelse we’ll need a miracle in Salina,” she said. “It means a top halfof the bracket finish for us. I think that’s really im portant for our postseason expecta tions.” The Huskers might play an emo tional Iowa State team. Beck said. “It’s not the most ideal situation to have your final game on the road when it is senior night. There will be all the hoopla for the seniors, but we’ll just have to go out ana piay naru. i neir seniors have never beaten us, so I know they’ll be ready.” In the Jan. 30 win over the Cy clones, Nafcesah Brown scored 21 points and Meggan Ycdsena scored 17 for Nebraska. “That game was a game that every thing just went right for us and noth ing seemed to go their way,” Beck said. “That’s what scares me about this one, because everything just seemed to go our way in the first game. “We had our transition game going and got up and down the floor pretty well. Our defense was pretty strong and our pressure seemed to cause them problems.” The Huskers will not be at full speed going into Iowa State, Beck said. Brown has been bothered with an illness the entire week, and Kate Gall igan strained her right knee. Both players are expected to play. I Men’s tennis team barely tested By Trevor Parks Staff Raportar The Nebraska men’s tennis team is looking forward to a season in which it can compete with anyone, accord ing to Coach Kerry McDermott. Two meets into this season, the Comhuskers are ranked sixth in the region, which consists of the Missouri Valley and Big Eight conferences. The 2-0 Huskers travel to Des Moines, Iowa, to play the Drake Bull dogs, who arc fourth in the region, at 6:30 p.m. Friday. McDermott said Drake was one of the top teams in the region. The Huskers will also play Tulsa, ranked No. 7 in the region, and Lou isville in Des Moines on Saturday. Last weekend, the Huskcrs beat Creighton 6-1 and then beat South west Missouri State — eighth in the region — 5-2. McDermott said he was pleased with last weekend’s performance. “I really don’t know where we are against the top six in the region,” McDermott said. “1 was real pleased. We had a good effort.” McDermott said this team’s atti tude was better than that of last year’s team. After last season, McDermott didn’t renew MikeGarcia and Antho ny Cunningham’s scholarships. Jan Frode Andersen also left the team. McDermott said he was looking forward to putting last season’s prob lems behind the team. “I was looking to recruit someone who gave 100 percent effort,” McDermott said. “This team might not be as talented as last year’s, but they have a good attitude and work hard.” The only two returnees from last year’s team are Andy Davis and Jay Scgrist. McDermott said the major new comers were Fredrick Ricsbeck,Omar Acevado, Henrik Andersson and Brad Bemthal, a senior who transferred from Kansas. This weekend will give McDermott a chance to find out what this team is made of, he said. “We play three solid matches,” McDermott said. “It would be nice if we could win all three.” A&M regents vote to seek ties with Big Eight COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — With little discussion and no dissent, Texas A&M Universi ty’s Board of Regents ended the school’s nearly 80-year affiliation with the Southwest Conference in favor of a greener affiliation. The Aggies’ expected decision to accept a Big Eight Conference merger offer Thursday followed Baylor University’s defection. Tex as and Texas Tech were expected to follow suit today, bringing the SWC another step closer to extinc tion. “We are proud to have been asked and enthusiastic about join ing a conference with these eight great universities,” E. Dean Gage, A&M’s interim president, said. Dodd Continued from Page 7 run from Sunday to Wednesday. The women will be going for their 1 Sth consecutive Big Eight title, while the men will try for their 14th consec utive Big Eight title. Dodasaid she had been swimming since the age of 7, but she attributed her success to her arrival at Nebraska. “Coming to UNL has improved my swimming greatly," Dodd said. “The swimming program here is absolutely fantastic." Dodd has accomplished most of her goals in just over a year at Nebras ka, but she still has one big goal on her mind. That goal is to compete in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Ga. “It would make me feel great. It’s something I’ve always dreamed about." But before she pursues her Olym pic dream, Dodd said her immediate focus was on the NCAA Champion ships, which will be March 17-19. Last season, Dodd finished fifth in the 100-meter freestyle, and she has already qualified in the 100- and 200 meter freestyle events this year. 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Not making the NCAA tourna ment “would be disappointing,” he said, “especially for the seniors, be cause this team is all we have. “But if that is what is in the cards for us, then at that point in time, the NIT will mean everything in the world for me to go out and win that.” Up to now, Piatkowski said, the Huskers’ 15-8 season has been disap pointing, but he said a few shots here and there could have made a world of difference. “We have underachieved," Piatkowski said. “We are under what we wanted to happen. When you look back at an awful lot of the games that we have lost, we’ve lost 1 don’t know how many games by just a few points." Five of the Huskers’ eight losses have come by seven points or less. This is the difference from last year, when the Huskers beat Missouri by one point twice, he said. “And we had a couple of other games that were veiy close that we won," Piatkowski said. Last season, Nebraska was 7-4 in games decided by less than 10 points, and the Huskers won four games by four points or less. “It has been different,” he said. “We could very easily have another four or five wins under our belts and already be in the NCAA tournament.”