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Stewart can’t find right mix
By Trevor Parks
Senior Reporter
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Missouri coach Norm Stewart tried
a little bit of everything to stir up his
team Wednesday.
The Tigers, who dropped to 13-5
overall and 2-2 in the Big Eight, lost
76-58 to Nebraska at the Bob Devaney
Sports Center.
Before the game began, Stewart
had his team shoot around for 20 min
utes and then go to the locker room.
With 15 minutes to go before the
game, Missouri returned to the floor
and stayed on the court until the open
ing tipoff.
Stewart also had his team open the
contest in a 3-2 zone defense. After
the game, he said the Tigers had never
had much success opening any game
in that type of defense.
“IVe never played one when they
didn’t make the first two shots,”
Stewart said. “I knew that on the first
two shots they could have shot them
behind their backs and they would
have gone in.”
The Comhuskers made their first
four shots of the game and built a 9-0
lead. Meanwhile, the Tigers’ offense
struggled, missing their first four shots
and committing three turnovers before
guard Jason Sutherland made a basket.
Eventually, Nebraska built a 36-15
lead with 3:03 remaining in the first
half, but Missouri scored 11 of the fi
nal 14 points before the break, to trail
39-26.
At that point, Stewart said his team
still had a chance to come back and
avoid its worst-ever defeat at the
Devaney Center.
“We come back out to start the sec
ond half and it’s our ball, we get a
bucket, make a stop, get a bucket and
now you’ve got a new game,” Stewart
said. “The third time down the court
we shot the ball quick, and then the
fourth time down the court we shot the
ball quick.”
Sutherland drilled a 3-pointer, and
after an Erick Strickland miss, L. Dee
Murdock made a layup to make the
score 39-31 — the closest the Tigers
came in the second half. The Huskers
then scored the next seven points to
regain control of the game.
The Missouri offense struggled the
entire game, scoring only 58 points
and making 20 field goals, both sea
son lows.
With 5:07 remaining in the game
and Missouri trailing by 10, Stewart’s
frustration with his team showed af
ter forward Derek Grimm was called
for a charging foul.
Stewart disagreed with the call and
walked down the sideline along the
Missouri bench. For a few seconds, he
played band director in front of the
Husker band.
Sixteen seconds later, Stewart was
called for a technical foul by official
David Hall.
To try to rally his team, he used 13
players in the game. Stewart said he
didn’t have any timetable for estab
lishing a consistent lineup.
“If you’ve got the personnel, you
play the personnel,” Stewart said. “At
one point, we had some good things
going and we stayed with that lineup.
But we can’t take that long to find it.”
Wildcats become 'surprise team’
By Mike Kluck
Senior Reporter
Kansas State basketball coach Tom
Asbury isn’t ready to pat himself on
the back for his team’s accomplish
ments this season.
But the rest of the Big Eight Con
ference coaches are.
Wednesday night in Manhattan,
Kan., the Wildcats beat Oklahoma
State 62-59, improving their record to
13-4 and 4-1 in the Big Eight.
“Kansas State is probably the sur
prise team in my opinion,” Oklahoma
State coach Eddie Sutton said earlier
this week. “During December they
really bounced around looking for
their identity. Right now they’re play
ing very good and are in a position to
finish in the upper division.”
Since the Wildcats’ 15-point win
over Oklahoma in Norman, Okla., on
Saturday, many of the league coaches
have taken notice. The Wildcats are
second in the conference behind in
state rival Kansas, which is 3-0 in the
Big Eight.
Two of the Wildcats’ conference
victories were on the road, where Kan
sas State did not win a league game
last season. By defeating Colorado on
Jan. 13 and Oklahoma on Saturday,
the Wildcats recorded their first back
to-back Big Eight road wins in three
seasons. Kansas State also beat Cali
fornia on the road on Dec. 29.
“It’s way too earty to sprain our
wrist patting ourselves on the back,”
Asbury said. “It’s way too early and
way too premature to take too many
looks back. A month and a half from
now I will want to sit back and evalu
ate what we have accomplished.”
But for now, it’s opposing coaches
who have to evaluate the Wildcats,
especially their defense. Kansas State
has held the top scorers in the Big
Eight — Oklahoma’s Ryan Minor,
Iowa State’s Dedric Willoughby and
Colorado’s Chauncey Billups — to
16-of-63 shooting for 25 percent.
The Wildcats lead the league in field
goal percentage defense, limiting their
opponents to 38 percent shooting.
They’re third in the league in scoring
defense, allowing only 65.5 points per
game. In its four conference games,
Kansas State has limited its opponents
to less than 40 percent shooting.
“They have won and built their
philosophy of winning on playing ex
cellent defense,” Sutton said.
Asbury said Kansas State’s phi
losophy of defense was installed last
year during his initial season with the
Wildcats. But it took a year and a good
recruiting class for the defense to start
paying dividends.
“We’re doing a pretty good job of
making people earn their baskets,”
Asbury said. “That’s the thing you
have to do to be a reasonably good
defensive team as long as you have
the size.”
Tennis
Continued from Page 7
player. McDermott said DinoTeppara
was another key newcomer for Ne
braska.
Iowa State and Kansas State do not
have a men’s tennis program, but the
other five Big Eight teams will com
pete in the tournament. McDermott
said he would have a chance to assess
his Big Eight foes.
“Colorado is going to be a better
team,” McDermott said. “But right
now I see Kansas as the team to beat.”
McDermott said the Huskers could
be a factor in the Big Eight race this
year.
“I certainly think we can be right
up there with Colorado, probably
Oklahoma and Oklahoma State,” he
said.
Nebraska begins its nonconference
schedule on Feb. 9, against Texas
A&M and Southern Alabama in Col
lege Station, Texas.
Tigers
Continued from Page 7
Strickland said the Huskers wanted
to stay focused in the second half.
“We weren’t going to relinquish
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anything and just tried our best not to
let them come back,” Strickland said.
“I don’t think that we ever thought we
were going to lose the game.”
The Tigers scored the first four
points of the second half, cutting
Nebraska’s lead to eight points, but the
Huskers responded with an eight-point
run to push the lead to 16 points.
“We could have been better off in
the ballgame, but they made a run,”
Missouri coach Norm Stewart said.
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