Moore wants to fill big role
By David Wilson
Staff Reporter
Nebraska center Mikki Moore
would like to play every minute of
every game.
“I want to be a player like Big
Country (former Oklahoma State
center Bryant Reeves) was, play 30
40 minutes every game.”
Although Moore said he hated
sitting the bench for almost half of
Nebraska’s 87-69 win over UMKC
Wednesday night, the 6-foot-11
junior said he understood why
Coach Danny Nee did it.
“They wanted the other players
to get more reps,” Moore said. “He
doesn’t want me to get tired with
three crucial games coming up.”
The Comhuskers will travel to
Stillwater, Okla. to face Oklahoma
State on Saturday, then they will
play host to Missouri and Kansas.
Moore, who was a key player for
the Huskcrs in their first two Big
Eight games, said he wished Reeves
still played for Oklahoma State.
“I wish he was still there because
playing against a great player will
make you great,” Moore said. “It
would help me get ready for the Big
Eight Tournament.”
After only averaging 8.6 points
in the Huskcrs’ first 14 games,
Moore has turned his season
around, scoring a season-high 16
points in each of Nebraska’s two
Big Eight matchups.
“We can’t play like wimps down there. We’ve
got to show them who wants it the most and
we have to take it, point blank. ”
MIKKI MOORE
NU center
Moore said his improvement this
season had to do with getting a feel
for the ball early in the game.
“If they get the ball to me toward
the beginning of the first half, and I
hit a shot or get a good rebound or
get a blocked shot, everything starts
flowing for me,” Moore said. “It
just sparks me.”
Along with junior forward Ber
nard Garner, Moore has signifi
cantly improved the Huskers inside
game.
“Me and Gamer think a lot alike,
and he has good eyes,” Moore said.
“He can pass very well.”
Moore’s four blocked shofs
Wednesday night against the the
Kangaroos moved him into a
three-way tie for the Big Eight
lead with Kansas’ Scot Pollard
and Kansas State’s Gerald Eaker.
Moore’s 112 career rejections
currently ranks third on
Nebraska’s all-time list behind
Derrick Chandler and Rich King.
Moore needs 32 blocks to tie
Chandler for second place.
Although Moore started all but
four games for the Huskers last
year, he did not earn the starting
spot to begin this season. He was
forced to miss Nebraska’s two ex
hibition games and played spar
ingly early in the regular season
after being suspended for violating
the team’s new point-system rules.
Moore didn’t regain a starting
position until the sixth game of this
season. Since then, he has started
in 11 of Nebraska’s past 12 games.
Over the past three games,
Moore has shot 85.7 percent from
the field, improving his team-lead
ing field-goal percentage to 67.4
- percent. That percentage would
lead the Big Eight, but Moore’s 3.5
field goals per game doesn’t meet
the minimum requirement of five.
Moore, who has shot over 50
percent in each of Nebraska’s past
13 games, should pose a threat
against Oklahoma State Saturday.
“We can’t play like wimps down
there,” Moore said. “They’re not
going to give it to us. We’ve got to
show them who wants it the most
and we have to take it, point blank.”
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overtime setback that left Colorado’s
record at 5-9. Colorado is 0-3 in the
Big Eight with losses coming to Kan
sas State, Nebraska and Missouri.
Athletic Director Bill Marolt, say
ing he, too, was disappointed with the
direction the basketball team was go
ing, announced the appointment of
assistant coach Ricardo Patton as in
terim coach through the Big Eight
tournament in March.
Harrington, in the middle of his
sixth season with Colorado, said he
told. Marolt on Monday he was going
to announce his resignation, and told
his players of his plans just before the
Southern Utah game. He had an
nounced his decision shortly before
that to a group of about 100 alumni
boosters.
The program, Harrington said, is
in better shape now than when he
came to Colorado.
“I think it’s a good program, but I
think it will be better with me not
coaching,” Harrington said.
Marolt said he would start a na
tional search for a coach. Patton,
Marolt said, will be a candidate.
“There was a lot of selfish play
going on. I don’t think it was so much
players not respecting the coach. It
was players not respecting players.”
Nebraska coach Danny Nee, whose
team beat the Buffs 79-74 on Jan. 10,
said he was dissapointed Harrington
quit.
“Joe Harrington is a friend of
mine,” Nee said, “a coach that I really
like. It’s the pressures of the job. I was
really shocked, the timing of it and
how it happened because I think he
might have one of his better teams.”
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half on an Erin Washington 3-pointer
to make the score 49-35. Washington
led all scorers with 24 points.
The Huskers responded with a 14
3 run to give Nebraska its largest lead
of the evening at 67-41.
When the reserves came into the
game, many of the 6,785 fans — a Bob
Devaney Sports Center season-low—
headed for the exits as an ice storm
began to pound Lincoln.
“Andy Markowski’s playing with
a really difficult situation with that pad
on his hand,” Nee said. “Getting Leif
and Chad any kind of minutes, I re
ally think is going to help them.”
Nebraska outshot UMKC 53.1 per
cent to 37.1 percent, sending the Kan
garoos home with a 4-7 record. The
Huskers will resume conference play
on Saturday night against Oklahoma
State in Stillwater, Okla.
Nebraska improved its all-time
record to 7-0 against the Kangaroos.
The two teams have met each of the
past seven seasons. Nee said he was
thankful for the opportunity to get
some rest for his starters before a
rough stretch of conference games.
Nebraska will face Oklahoma
State, Missouri and Kansas in its next
three games.
“I felt we did everything we wanted
to do,” he said. “I was pleased with
the outcome.”
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