Davis
votes for
himself
By Todd Walkenhorst
Staff Reporter
If Iowa State tailback Troy
Davis had a vote for the Heisman
trophy, he
knows who
he would
vote for.
Himself.
“I would
still vote
myself for
the
Heisman,”
|_| said the 5
Davis foot-8, 185
pound sophomore from Miami.
Davis needs 170 yards Satur
day in Columbia, Mo., against
2-8 Missouri to become the first
sophomore in NCAA history to
rush for 2,000 yards in a single
season.
He would also become only
the fifth Division I player to ac
complish the milestone joining
an elite group of runners, all of
whom are former Heisman win
ners.
Rashaan Salaam of Colorado
rushed for 2,055 in 1994. In
1988, Barry Sanders of Okla
homa State ran for 2,628.
Nebraska’s Mike Rozier rushed
for 2,148 in 1983 and Marcus
Allen rushed for 2,342 with
Southern California in 1981.
Iowa State first-year coach
Dan McCarney said he realized
early that he had a tremendously
talented runner on his team.
“The first time we gave him
the ball in March,” McCarney
said, “we knew we had some
thing very special.”
Through 10 games, Davis has
rushed for 1,830 yards on 321
attempts, and he has accounted
for 2,243 all-purpose yards.
Davis said he noticed a differ
ence this year when he walks
around the Iowa State campus.
“I walk around campus and
people know who I am,” Davis
said. “And they say 'Hi.’”
Davis said after voting for
himself for the Heisman, it
would be a tough choice to de
termine who was runner-up.
“I think Tommie Frazier is
second,” Davis said. “Eddie
George (of Ohio State) is doing
a hell of a job, but I consider
Tommie Frazier as my second *
vote.”
Missouri coach»Larry Smith
said it would be difficult to stop
Davis.
“There’s no question he’s the
real deal all the way,” Smith said.
“Even when he doesn’t have the
ball, he’s a great ball player.”
Smith said he knew his play
ers would be out to stop Davis
from reaching the 2,000-yard
mark on Saturday.
“I don’t think there’s any
question that we don’t want to
be the team that gives up that
milestone,” Smith said. “Of
course, our guys want to Win the
game, and we’d be happy if he
ran for 5,000 yards and we still
win the game.”
NU firmly focused
on Final Four
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
Nebraska volleyball player Allison
Weston wants to go to the Final Four
so badly that sometimes she lies awake
at night thinking about it.
Only five matches and 28 days
away, that Final Four feeling is becom
ing an obsession. The NCAA Tourna
ment semifinals and finals in Amherst,
Mass., are within Weston’s reach for
the second time in as many years.
“It means everything in the world
to me,’’ Weston said. “That’s been our
ultimate goal ever since last Decem
ber when we lost to Penn State.
“Especially at this point in the sea
son in the last four weeks, it’s going
to be very hard to sleep at night, to
study, to do anything.”
To try to take her mind off the past
Nebraska failures of not making the
Final Four will be difficult, Weston
said.
“It’s like Christmas Eve when
you’re a kid, and you know that Santa
is coming the next day,” Weston said.
“I’ll sit down and start reading books
for class and hopefully it will take my
mind off it.”
One of the reasons adding to
Weston’s lack of concentration is last
season.
On Dec. 10, 1994, Penn State
caused Nebraska more than a few
sleepless nights, handing the
Cornhuskers their first and only loss
of the season. The setback prevented
Nebraska from making a trip to Aus
tin, Texas, which would have been its
first Final Four appearance since 1990.
Weston, a 6-foot middle blocker
from Papillion, who is Nebraska’s all
time kill leader, said she could feel that
this was the year for her and her team
mates to make the Final Four.
“This is the last go around, and ei
ther we do it or there are no more
chances left,” Weston said. “Last year,
in the back of our minds we knew we
could do it next year, but unfortunately
for the seniors, last year it slipped by.
I don’t want that to happen this year.”
One reason, Weston said, Nebraska
is so close to making the Final Four is
sophomore Lisa Reitsma. Weston is
averaging 4.4 kills a game. A year ago,
Frazier back
after injury
From Staff Reports
Nebraska quarterback Tommie
Frazier returned to practice Thursday,
and “held up pretty well,” according
to Coach Tom Osborne.
Frazier had missed the last two
days of practice after injuring his leg
and foot during the Cornhuskers’ 41
3 win over Kansas Saturday.
No. 1 tight end Mark Gilman also
returned, but did not go through the
entire practice.
The Cornhuskers’ practice, which
was in sweat clothes only, lasted less
than two hours.
“We didn’t want to go three days
in a row (of full contact) and beat them
up,” Osborne said. “We’ll take Satur
day and Sunday off. That always wor
ries you a little bit, but at this stage of
the season they could use a couple
“This is the last go
around and either we
do it or there are no
more chances left. ”
ALLISON WESTON
NU middle blocker
* ' - * \ 1 V '
she averaged 4.9 kills a game.
Reitsma has picked up the slack,
averaging more than four kills a game
after playing very little as a freshman
last season. Reitsma has helped to take
pressure off Weston this season, she
said.
“With Lisa on the right side, that’s
just one more thing the other team has
to worry about,” Weston said. “It’s
been great to go out and know that
they just can’t camp in the middle.”
Because of Reitsma, Weston said
she had time to focus on other parts
of her game.
“It’s really not that big of a deal
because Lisa takes up the slack,”
Weston said. “That’s what makes this
team a better team then last year’s.”
Weston, a two-time first team All
American and the reigning Big Eight
player of the year is second on the
team in digs with 194, and also leads
the Huskers with 82 block assists. She
is tied for the team lead with 19 solo
blocks and has hit a team-best .393 in
26 matches.
In 1994, Penn State was only the
second team ranked in the top 10 Ne
braska faced all season. This year, the
Huskers have played four top 10
teams, and five teams ranked in the
top 11.
Because of the lack of good com
petition last season, Weston said Ne
braska didn’t know quite where it
stood once the NCAA Tournament
began.
“This year, we know what’s out
there,” Weston said. “We know what
to do and we know how to do it. And
that just excites me because I think
about it all the time, how far we can
go and what we can do.”
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^Hicks
Daily Nebraskan staffers pick the winners
of 10 major college football games this
weekend, with winners in bold;
Kansas at Oklahoma St.
Iowa St. at Missouri
West Virginia at Miami
Michigan at Penn St.
Northwestern at Purdue
Alabama at Auburn
Notre Dame at Air Force
Washington St. at Washington
UCLA at Southern Cal.
Pick the score
Colorado 21 at Kansas St 28
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