Sallee helps to create
basketball team unity
By Todd Walkuhorst
Staff Reporter
Nebraska basketball center Chris
Sallee and his teammates are looking
for team unity this season, an ele
ment that may have been missing
from prior squads.
“The other guys said that players
used to just try to go out and get their
numbers,” Sallee said, “but now team
unity is preached to us. We even have
meetings on Tuesday nights to try to
create unity and a family feeling.”
Sallee, a 6-foot-10 junior from
Scottsdale, Ariz., said that the return
ing players created ateam atmosphere
from day one.
“They accepted us from the begin
ning,” Sallee said. “They saw it as a
team after that.”
With the team unity, new players
were able and expected to contribute
to the program.
“Us younger guys step up,” he
said. “The three returning guys are
the focal point of our team.”
In Nebraska’s exhibition victory
over the Russian Red Army Wednes
day night, Sallee compiled 11 points
and eight rebounds.
Nebraska coach Danny Nee was
impressed with many of his players’
efforts Wednesday night, including
Sallee’s. Nee said that Sallee’s per
formance would help him down the
road.
“Chris Sallee had a good game
that he needed,” Nee said.
Sallee still has elements of his
game that he would like to work on
before the Huskers’ regular season
opener Nov. 25 against Northeast
Louisiana in Puerto Rico.
“Rebounding is going to be cru
cial,” Sallee said. “I would like to
increase rebounds, it will take more
practice boxing out.”
Nebraska’s new players have been
able to practice in
the Huskers’ first two exhibitions.
Sallee said he thought the newcom
ers have been able to blend in well in
the last few weeks.
“The transition has been smooth,”
he said,“but we’re not completely all
together yet.”
The Huskers appeared to be slug
gish in the first half as they held only
a 51-47 lead at halftime, but Ne
braska outscored the Russian Red
Army 54-36 in the second half.
“He (Nee) was pretty hard on us at
halftime,” Sallee said. “It was a wake
up call. We came out and played hard
in the second half.”
Recruits
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gotten stronger. Not only that, he’s a
smarter player.”
Garner accepted the Huskers’ of
fer last week when his team stopped
by Lincoln en route to Hutchinson
(Kan.) Community College for its
season-opening tournament. West
ern Nebraska, already 5-0 this year,
won the tournament. Gamer is aver
aging 15.3 points and 9.6 rebounds
per game.
Campbell said Gamer originally
had planned to sign in the spring, but
after going through a few weeks of
the recruiting process, he chose to
sign early.
Many of the nation’s top teams
were pursuing Gamer, Campbell said.
“We had at least 20 people come
in here to see him,” Campbell said.
“He just didn’t want to go through it
all the way until the spring.”
Colorado
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was in a position to win,” Pettit said.
‘Tonight’s a different story.”
He said Nebraska came in and
took control from the beginning.
“I watch Colorado,” he said, “and
it’s a lot different to win something
than to keep it. And tonight I felt they
were playing to keep, and they were
a little tentative. It will be interesting
to see what happens in the Big Eight
(tournament).”
Colorado quickly established a 5
2 lead in the second game. But be
hind the serving of Maria Hedbeck
and Billie Winsett, Nebraska stormed
back, taking a 10-5 lead.
After fi ve sideouts, Nebraska con
tinued to dominate. The Huskers
scored the final five points, with the
last two kills coming from Winsett,
who led Nebraska with 10 kills.
Pettit said Colorado billed the
match as the biggest in school history
and set itself up for a letdown with a
lengthy pre-match pep rally, with
speeches from the seniors on the
squad.
“There were 3,600 people here to
see us,” Pettit said. “That’s what it
amounts to.”
Colorado’s largest crowd before
Wednesday was 2,879 against Ne
braska in 1992.
Huskers fight off Red Army raid
By Tfvor P«rk»
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s basketball
team got a wake-up call from Coach
Danny Nee at halftime.
After Nee’s halftime speech,
the Comhuskers responded by de
feating the Russian Red Army-Air
Force basketball club 105-83 in
front of8,485 Wednesday night at
the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
At halftime the Huskers led only
51-47, allowing the Russian Red
Army-Air Force to shoot 47 per
cent.
Nee said one reason for the
troubles in the first half was that
the Russian Red Army-Air Force
basketball club caused his team
some problems.
“Nebraska did not play up to its
potential,’’ Nee said. “After half
we adjusted and played a little
better.”
Husker guard Jaron Boone
agreed with Nee and said the de
fensive effort in the first half was
dismal.
“On a scale of one to 10, about
a four,” Boone said. “We came in
at halftime, we recognized what
they were doing and adjusted on it,
then we started playing better.”
Boone led Nebraska with a
game-high 22 points.
in uie first halt Nebraska trailed
25-19 before a three pointer by
Erick Strickland and a lay up by
Tom Wald pulled Nebraska within
one.
Nebraska regained the lead, 36
33, in the first half when Jason
Glock made a three-pointer.
Glock’s basket would give the
Huskers a lead they would never
relinquish the rest of the game.
Forward Terrance Badgett said
the Huskers struggled because they
got out of their game plan in the
first half.
Badgett said Nee made them
aware of that at halftime.
“They (the coaches) had a game
plan for us and with us not listen
ing, we paid for it in the first half,"
Badgett said. “We listened to it at
halftime, and that helped us a lot."
Whatever happened at halftime
worked.
The Huskers held the Russian
Red Army-Air Force basketball
club to only 36 points in the second
half.
The Russian Red Army-Air
Force basketball club shot just 41
percent in the second half.
Included in that was a 20-4 run
started by a Boone 3-pointer to
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give Nebraska a 67-57 lead.
During that span, the Huskers
rolled off 12 straight points before
Alexander Petrenko ended it with
a jumper to make the score 84-63
with 8:44 remaining.
Valeri Tikhonenko led the Rus
sian Red Army-Air Force basket
ball club with 19 points.
The Huskers shot 63 percent in
the second half to help put the
Russian Red Army-Air Force bas
ketball club away.
Down the stretch, the Huskers
were led by Chester Surles, who
scored nine of Nebraska.’s final 21
points.
Suries put Nebraska over the
100-point mark with a layup with
1:51 remaining.
With the regular season starting
Nov. 25 against Northeast Louisi
ana at the San Juan Shootout in
San Juan, Puerto Rico, Boone said
the Huskers still had some things
to work on.
“The next six days we need to
really focus,” Boone said. “Hope
fully we can go down and win the
tournament.”
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