Fans may find basketball standings a mite perplexing
By Trevor Partes
Staff Reporter
A glance at the Big Eight basket
ball standings after the first week
may leave some people, scratching
their heads.
Colorado, Kansas State and Mis
souri are leading the conference.
All three were picked in the pre
season to finish in the lower half of
the conference.
The teams picked to finish in the
upper division of the conference —
Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Iowa
State — are tied for last.
Oklahoma and Kansas have yet to
play Big Eight games.
Iowa State coach Tim Floyd said
during the Big Eight coaches’ weekly
teleconference that Colorado dealt his
11-2 Cyclone team a surprise in his
first conference game.
The Buffaloes defeated the Cy
clones 71-57 in Boulder, Colo.
“That scares me as a newcomer,”
Floyd said. “If that is supposed to be
the eighth-place team in the confer
ence, then this is a heck of a league.”
Floyd said this was no time for his
team to panic, even though they didn’t
fare well against Colorado.
“All 14 games on the schedule are
important,” Floyd said. “The pres
sure comes at home, because that is
where you have to win.”
Oklahoma State coach Eddie
Sutton said his team had struggled
this year, but some upsets usually
occur at the start of conference play.
“The intensity level rises,” Sutton
said. “There is not one powerhouse in
college basketball.”
The Cowboys are 9-5 after losing
to Kansas State Saturday night.
The Wildcats have jumped out to a
10-3 record.
Kansas State coach Tom Asbury
said it was important for his team to
start conference play with a win.
“I had at least 1,(K)0 people tell me
we were not going to win a Big Eight
game at all,” Asbury said.
One of the traditional powers in
the Big Eight, Missouri, has been a
surprise this year.
The Tigers lost nine players from
last year’s team that went 28-4 and
14-0 in the Big Eight.
Last year’s Big Eight Freshman of
the Year, Kelly Thames, tore his an
terior cruciate ligament before the
season and will not return for Mis
souri.
Missouri started the Big Eight sea
son beating Nebraska 77-64 Saturday
in Lincoln, and was rewarded by be
ing ranked No. 17 in the Associated
Press poll.
With Thames out, Tiger coach
Norm Stewart said he was happy with
the way his team had started out at 10
1.
“I always was taughtyou shouldn’t
be surprised,” Stewart said. “Any
body who wouldn’t be pleased has a
terrible outlook on life.”
Overall
Missouri
Colorado
Oklahoma
Big Eight Standings
Wednesday, January 11
Colorado at Missouri-Kansas City, 7:30 p.m.
St. Louis at Iowa State, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma State at Oral Roberts,
Thursday, January 12
Kansas State at Nebraska, 6:30
Notre Dame at Missouri, 7 p.m.
Saturday, January 14
Colorado at Oklahoma, 12:40 p.m.
Kansas at Iowa State, 2:50 p.m.
Kansas State at Missouri, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma State at Michigan State,
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Television to capture dual
against Gopher wrestlers
From Staff Reports
The Nebraska wrestling team will
make an appearance on television
tonight.
The Comhuskers will take on Min
nesota in a matchup of two top 10
teams tonight at 7 in the Bob Devaney
Sports Center arena.
The dual will be televised state
wide on Nebraska Educational Tele
vision with Bill Doleman on play-by
play and former University of Ne
braska-Omaha All-American R.J.
Nebe adding color commentary.
! The Golden Gophers are ranked
tenth in the country, and the Huskers
are ranked eighth.
Husker coach Tim Neumann said
the dual with Minnesota shovridtrffer
his team a tough test.
“They are a great team, and I’m
sure the dual will come down to the
heavyweight match,” he said. “On
paper there are six matches that are
toss-ups, and the other four are split
two and two, so I’m sure it will go
down to the wire.”
And if it goes down to the wire, the
dual will come down to the heavy
weight match between Nebraska’s
Tolly Thompson and Minnesota’s
Billy Pierce.
The Huskers have three wrestlers
who are ranked. Steve Baer is fourth
at 126, Temoer Terry is fourth at 150
and Thompson is fourth at heavy
weight.
Thompson is ranked fourth in th^
nation; Pierce is ranked fifth. Th
ompson defeated Pierce earlier this
season at the Omaha Open, and he
defeated him at the NCAA Champi
onships last season.
Nebraska
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point range.
Mikki Moore made all five of his
field goal attempts and had 11 points
in the win, and Melvin Brooks had 11
points and seven rebounds.
Juaquin Hawkins and Eric Brown
led the Long Beach scoring with 12
Women
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play, and they hope to build on that
success by making a few adjustments.
“We’re just doing a couple of little
things wrong that are causing us prob
lems,” Beck said. “Generally we
played OK. We need some outstand
ing ^ performances from other play
ers.
Beck said that she was pleased
with the performance of junior guard
points each, and Joe McNaull added
11. Terrance O’Kelley had 10 points
and nine rebounds.
The Comhuskers shot 60 percent
from the floor for the game, and the
49ers shot 35.9 percent.
“It looked like Long Beach just
ran out of gas,” Nee said in the radio
interview.
“It was an ugly-ass win.”
Kate Galligan. Galligan led all play
ers with 20 points and IT rebounds
off the bench in the Huskers’ loss to
Kansas.
Galligan said she believed that she
needed to take a leadership role to
help the Huskers be successful.
“I*1ve been around for three years,”
Galligan said, “so I kind of know
what it takes to win these games.”
Galligan, who has been used as
both a starter and off the bench, just
wants to be in the game at the end to
help the Huskers win.
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