Frazier
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back in the same leg.”
Treatment to dissolve the blood clot
began, and within48 hours, 90 percent
of the clot was gone.
During the treatment, Frazier de
veloped two blood clots in his shoul
der, both of which required minor sur
gery.
Gangahar said two major factors
may have led to the formation of the
blood clots. Frazier had been suffering
from a severe sinus infection, and he
had been in a sitting position for long
periods oft ime while traveling around
the nation before and after leading
Nebraska to the national title Jan. 2.
Frazier’s agent, Gregory Samms,
said eight NFL teams had contacted
him to inquire about Frazier’s medical
condition. Samms, an attorney in Mi
ami, has been Frazier’s agent for a
little more than two months.
“When the NFL drafts quarterbacks,
they draft with a view toward the fu
ture,” Samms said. “They are drafted
in hopes that in two to three years they
can fill in at the starting position. With
that in mind, we are hoping that this
will not hurt his draft position.”
A career in the NFL was not on his
mind, said Priscilla Frazier, Tommie’s
mother.
“He hasn’t talked about anything
but getting better,” she said. “We’re
not that far ahead in our thinking yet.”
ISU
Continued from Page 7
rather play a team that we’ve beat
twice before than one we’ve lost to
twice before,” Floyd said.
Floyd, who is 4-0 against Nebraska,
has a losing record against only two
conference teams, Kansas (2-3) and
Oklahoma State (1-4).
Nebraska coach Danny Nee said
Floyd — the Big Eight coach of the
year — had done a'great job after his
team lost all Five starters from last
year’s NCAA Tournament team.
“Iowa State has played as well as
anyone and got as much out of their
talent,” Nee said. “He’s done a tre
mendous job of coaching.”
Nebraska was shorthanded in both
of its losses to Iowa State this season.
Jaron Boone was suspended and
missed the Feb. 3 game in Lincoln, and
Venson Hamilton sat out the Feb. 10
contest in Ames after missing a prac
tice. Hamilton scored 19 points on a 9
of-9 shooting performance in the first
game against the Cyclones.
For the first time in more than a
month, Nee said, his team was com
pletely healthy. That worries Floyd.
“With Nebraska at full strength, it
will be a very difficult bal lgame,” Floyd
said.
Playing a complete game will solve
Nebraska’s problems, Nee said.
Strickland agreed.
“It’s always important,” he said,
“especially this game because Iowa
State doesn ’ t make any mistakes. They
don’t beat themselves, so we have to
play all out.”
NCAA
Continued from Page 7
The Huskers have done the neces
sary things to qualify for the tourna
ment, Beck said. To complement their
standing in the Big Eight, the Huskers
also have 19 solid wins, Beck said.
She admitted that the Huskers were
probably sitting on the bubble to make
the NCAA Tournament, but said it
didn ’t matter what she thought. At this
point, it’s all up to the selection com
mittee.
“A lot of the kids don’t want to
finish their season,” Beck said. “I re
ally believe that we can play with any
team in the country.”
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look to
take Big 8
By Antone Oseka
Staff Reporter
It’s time for the Nebraska
wrestling team to decide which
wrestlers will goto Minneapolis
for the NCAA
Champion
ships and
which wres
tlers will go
Ihome for
I spring break.
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| Cornhuskers
Neumann will roll into
Stillwater, Okla. for the last Big
Eight championships. Nebraska
will face off against Oklahoma,
Oklahoma State, Missouri and
Iowa State for the crown. The
meet, which will begin Saturday
at noon, will be held at Gallagher
Iba Arena.
The Huskers have defeated
the Tigers and the Cyclones in
dual competition, but dropped
duals to the Sooners and the
Cowboys.
The Huskers originally beat
the Sooners, but Mike Eiermann,
Nebraska’s 142-poundcr at that
lime, was later ruled ineligible
by the Big Eight and the match
had to be forfeited.
On Feb. 4, Oklahoma State
beat the Huskers 28-10. Ne
braska and Oklahoma State tied
on Jan. 13 at the Reno Chal
lenge.
Nebraska assistant coach
Mark Cody said the title could
go to any team. But No. 3
Nebraska’s main competition
should come fr&m second
ranked Oklahoma State.
Husker coach Tim Neumann
said he knew the Cowboys were
the team to beat. And wrestling
at Gallagher-Iba Arena," the
Huskers were at a disadvantage.
The referees tend to lend toward
the home crowd, he said.
“To win a one-point match,”
Neumann said, “you have to win
by three.”
Neumann said he was hoping
to field a healthy Husker squad.
The Huskers will be wrestling
with an injury-free team for the
first time this season. With 158
pounder Temoer Terry and 126
poundcr Jeramie Welder both
healthy, Neumann said, Ne
braska should perform well.
“Depth is the key,” Neumann
said. “Everybody going down
has to score.”
NU gymnasts expect
test from Minnesota
Weekend
Preview^.
The Nebraska women’s and men’s
gymnastics teams will travel to Min
nesota on Saturday for a 7 p.m. dual
with the Golden Gophers.
Men’s coach Francis Allen and
women’s coach Dan Kendig said they
both expected tough competition.
Kendig said he was expecting an
other strong performance from his No.
8 Comhuskers.
The Huskers again will look for
leadership from senior all-aroundcr
Joy Taylor, who received the February
Big Eight gymnast-of-the-month award
this week.
The New Palestine, Ind., native has
been a consistent force for the Husk
ers, Kendig said. Against Iowa State
last Sunday, Taylor tied for first place
in the vault (9.825) with the Cyclones’
Heidi Kirt and finished fifth in the all
around with a 38.125.
At the Masters Classic against
fourth-ranked Michigan, Taylor posted
a career-high 39.025 to win the all
around.
Freshman Courtney Brown again
will lead off for Nebraska in the beam
and bars. Kendig said he was pleased
with the poise and consistency that
Brown had shown this season.
“She likes to go first,” Kendig said,
“and she’s pretty consistent. We like
her being there.”
But Kendig said freshmen Amie
Dillman, Misty Oxford, Jess Swift and
Laurie McLaughlin all had emerged as
quality performers.
Oxford, the only freshman who
competes in the all-around, had a ca
reer-high 38.7against Iowa State,earn
ing second place behind junior Shelly
Bartlett. Bartlett’s 39.175 against the
Cyclones gave the Spokane, Wash.,
native her fourth all-around title of the
season.
For the men’s team, ranked No. 4 in
the country, freshman Marshall Nelson
once again wi 11 be in the start ing lineup
on the pommel horse, horizontal bar
and parallel bars.
Continued from Page 7
On the women’s side, senior Kathy
Travis Miiller will challenge the
nation’s top runners in the 55- and
200-meter dashes. Angee Henry will
be one of the busiest athletes in India
napolis.
The sophomore from Omaha is
scheduled to compete in four events.
We re looking torward to a great
meet,” Allen said. “But it won’t be
easy. If you go to an away meet, you
better brace yourself because every
one wants to beat Nebraska.”
Nelson, who scored a 9.55 on the
pommel horse at Oklahoma on Feb.
11, was slowed by injury in the last
three Husker meets. He did not com
pete last week against Oklahoma.
“He’s done as much as anybody
else this week on those events,” Allen
said. “He just had two great high bar
routines (Thursday).”
“We need to make sure we’re hit
ting those routines that we need to
count on,” he said.
Allen said he thought senior Jason
Christie, who has battled a sinus infec
tion for the last three weeks, was back
to 100 percent and capable of having
his best night of the season.
Minnesota, ranked eighth in the
country, will provide a good test for
the Huskers, Allen said.
“There isn’t a big name on their
squad,” he said, “but I think they can
score a 225 at home. They’re going to
push us. We can’t go up there and lie
down.”
— Gregg Madsen
Tennis
The Nebraska men’s tennis team
takes its act to the road this weekend.
The Comhuskers will compete in the
HEB Tournament in Corpus Christi,
Texas.
Nebraska, 2-4, will meet Harvard
in the first round today. The Huskers
are coming off a 7-0 rout of Creighton
last Sunday at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
— Vince D’Adamo
Golf
The: Nebraska iftcfi*§ hiid wbVhen’s
golf teams travel to Fripp Island, Fla.,
for the three-round, 23-team Ben
Hogan Intercollegiate Classic this
weekend.
The 40th-ranked Comhuskers arc
one of five top 40 teams, joining No.
14 Florida, No. 18 South Carolina,.
No. 26 Kentucky and No. 31 Georgia.
— Vince D’Adamo
Henry is the top-ranked longjumper in
the nation and also will compete in the
55-meter dash, the triple jump and the
4 x 400-meter relay with Charmaine
Plummer, Jill Myatt,and Tisha Croom.
The women are projected to finish
second at the meet behind Louisiana
State, but Pepin said this could be the
year.
“It would be an upset if we beat
LSU,” Pepin said. “But this isbur best
group of athletes since the early ’80s.”
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