Comhuskers open home season with Ameritas Classic
Nebraska will face
Morehead State
in first round game
By Trevor Parks
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska basketball team
opens its home season with the
Ameritas Classic, playing host to
Morehead State tonight in a 6:30
game at the Bob Devaney Sports Cen
ter.
The 2-1 Comhuskers are coming
off a third-place finish at the San Juan
Shootout, while the 2-0 Eagles are
coming in with wins over Montreat
Anderson and Centre.
Husker coach Danny Nee said
playing three games in three days at
Puerto Rico gave the younger play
ers a chance to begin to blend with
the veterans.
“Fatigue was never a factor,” Nee
said. “The more game experience we
can give them in any kind of circum
stance is going to help them.”
Nee said the Eagles should offer
Nebraska a tough game and the side
lines could be very animated with
former Creighton assistant Dick Fick
at the helm.
“I’m not near his league,” Nec
said. “He’s a professional.”
Nebraska has won 13 straight
home openers since a 62-59 overtime
loss to doming in 1980.
One of the premier players on the
Eagles’ team is Johnnie Williams,
Nee said.
In two games this season, Will
iams is averaging 20 points and three
rebounds a game.
“They really get up and down the
court,” Nee said. “Versatility is how
I would describe them. They have a
lot of guys who play a lot of minutes,
and they really put some numbers on
the board.”
Nee said Mikki Moore would get
the start at center in place of Chris
Sallee.
“Moore or Sallee will be a either
or the whole year just depending on
the matchups of the centers,” he said.
Sallee is currently recovering from
a severely sprained ankle, but Nee
said Sallee would be available Friday.
Nee said the other two teams in
the Ameritas Classic — Southern
Mississippi and Idaho State—should
offer a difficult challenge to his team
in the second game.
Both teams are familiar to the
Nebraska basketball program.
The Huskers played Southern Mis
sissippi in the semifinals of the 1986
National Invitational Tournament in
New York City.
“Getting a team with their tradi
tion was really a major coup,” Nee
said.
Two years ago at the Ameritas
Classic, Idaho State lost to Kent State
and Colgate in Lincoln.
Idaho State, 2-0 is led by two-time
All-Big Sky Conference first-team
player Jim Potter.
This season Potter, who was
named to the Ameritas Classic All
Toumament team in 1992, is aver
aging 16.5. points per game and a
team high 12.5 rebounds a game. _
“It’s a pretty solid balanced field
and I’m pleased with it,” Nee said.
The Golden Eagles beat the Husk
ers 82-75.
Amer
Starters for tonight‘s 6:30 game
against Morehead State at Bob
Devaney Sports Center. Idaho
State will play Southern
Mississippi at 8:30.
Pro- rP9
Nebraska (2-1)
G Erick Strickland 15.3 4.3
G Jaron Boone 15 5
F Melvin Brooks 12 5.7
F Terrence Badgett 8 5.7
C Mikki Moore 3.3 3.3
Morehead State (2-0)
G Jerry Fogle
G Johnnie Williams
F Tyrone Boardley
F Mark Majick
C Mike Scroghan
15.5 2
20 3
16.5 7
4 1
16 5.5
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Beck: Duke trip not just a game
By Pwek Samson
Senior Reporter
The Nebraska women’s basketball
team will gain more than game ex
perience when it travels to Durham,
N.C., for the Duke Invitational this
weekend.
It will get a lesson in the history
of college basketball.
Coach Angela Beck said one big
reason she got her team in the tour
nament was to witness the Duke bas
ketball program firsthand.
“I wanted to go down there be
cause it’s got a rich basketball tradi
tion and make it a little educational
trip,” Beck said. “It will be a great
setting. We’re going to tour the Dean
Smith dome and just enjoy that kind
of atmosphere. I think it will be very
educational, and we plan to have a
good time.”
But there also will be basketball
involved.
Nebraska tips off against Indiana
State Saturday at! p.m. A win would
“I can't say this team
will ever be the favorite.
We’ve got a lot to prove
before we can become a
favorite. ”
■
ANGELA BECK
NU women’s basketball coach
put the Comhuskers in the champi
onship against either Duke or the
University of Wisconsin at Milwau
kee.
“We want to win it,” Beck said.
“We tiy not to look too far ahead, and
we know we have Indiana State in
the first round. We know that we’ll
do well as long as we do the little
things right.
“It’s our first road test of the year,
so we’ll have to see how our young
players will play on the road. Gener
ally, I feel like the right things are
working at this time.”
To win the championship, Beck
said the 3-1 Huskers would have to
play an underdog role against Duke.
“It’s set up so Duke and Nebraska
will meet in the championship, but I
don’t think we’re the favorite,” she
said. “I can’t say this team will ever
be the favorite. We’ve got a lot to
prove before we can become a favor
ite.
“But I think we’ve seen some good
teams so far, and we’ve seen our
selves under a lot of different
stresses.”
Beck said Wednesday night’s 91
66 win over Kent State would im
prove Nebraska’s odds again^LDuke.
“We’ve got a lot of confidence
going right now,” Beck said. “Our
goal was to have a big win (against
Kent), and we got a big win. So we’re
going to go down to Duke with a big
smile on our face. We feel like we can
do the job there.”
Wrestlers to face seasoned ISU team
By Clay Short
Staff Reporter
Nebraska wrestling coach Tim
Neumann knew that this year’s team
would have a difficult schedule.
After an impressive third-place
finish in last weekend’s Mat Town
Invitational in Lock Haven, Pa., the
Cornhuskers return home for a chal
lenging dual match against Iowa
State.
“Iowa State has a great team. No
body outside of the Big Eight really
realized how good their returners
are,” Neumann said. “They have
eight starters coming back, and all
are excellent wrestlers.”
Neumann said Saturday night’s
7:30 match at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center was important.
“This is Iowa State, and it is a Big
Eight dual, so this matchup is a little
bit personal,” Neumann said.
The Huskers will have a different
look than they did last weekend at the
Mat Town Invitational.
Freshman Brad Canoyer gets the
start at 118 pounds in place of Darin
Giese. Also, Erik Josephson will start
at 177 pounds, replacing Ryan Tobin,
who still is recovering from an in
jury.
Joe Stephens replaces Mike
Eierman, who is out indefinitely with
a groin injury, at 142 pounds. At the
Mat Town invite, Stephens made it
to the semifinal before an illegal slam
injured his opponent, leaving him
with a sixth-place finish instead of a
shot at the championship.
“If we wrestle better than we did
at the Mat Town, then we will be
fine,” Neumann said. “All of the
teams in the conference know how
tough Iowa State is.
“Unless one team doesn’t perform
up to its capabilities, I think it will
come down to the heavyweight
match. If that’s the case, it would fa
vor us, because we are stronger at
heavyweight.”
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