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Catch the UNL Men s Gymnasts in action as
they host New Mexico.
SUNDAY
Feb. 27
5 p.m.
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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
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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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the Big Eight tournament and win a
game or two there, I sec no reason why
we can’t make the NCAA tourna
ment, which is our ultimate goal.”
But if their effort falls short,
Piatkowski said, he and his team
mates would do their best to win the
NIT.
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.”
