Freshman DeAngelo Evans, a native of Wichita, Kan., was not welcomed back to his home state Saturday. Every time Evans’ name was an nounced over the KSU Stadium When Evans Evans said. The prep superstar at Collegiate High School, who ran for more than 8,000 yards and 130 touchdowns in four years, chose NU over Notre Dame but was also heavily re cruited by KSU and Kansas. Evans, who rushed for 168 yards, went over die 100-yard mark for the first time in his short Comhusker career with 10 minutes remaining in the third quarter. After the game .Jared Tomich, 5^* * a Wildcat sc Sophomore Kris Brown kicked four field goals in a game for the first time. The sophomore from Southlake, Texas, had kicked three field goals in a game four times before his performance Saturday. The Comhuskers jumped two spots in each of die two major polls Sunday, ranking fourth in the USA Today/CNN Coaches’ Poll and fifth tes’ poll, NU ranks ahead ta State. Kansas State fell to No. 22 in The AP poll. The Nebraska defense kept streaks alive with two interceptions and three sacks. Interceptions by Michael Booker, Ralph Brown and Eric Warfield marked the 11th con secutive game in 'Which Nebraska intercepted a pass. Sacks by Terrell Farley, Jason Wiltz and Jon Hesse marked the 32nd straight game in which NU recorded a sack. Nebraska’s leading tackier was Jamel Williams, who had five tack les. Kansas State’s leading tackier was Mario Smith with 14. " The reason for the difference? Nebraska held the ball for 37 min utes, 47 seconds, and Kansas State held the ball for just 22:15. In other Big 12 action Saturday, Kansas romped Oklahoma 52-24, Texas Tech defeated Baylor45-24, Texas A&M beat Louisiana Tech J \l L fcjp ^ 1 I, 63-14, Texas routed Oklahoma State 71-14 and Missouri beat Southern Methodist 27-26. «?Iwr.!Pra ^®sUH®W^^80 ■ ' ‘ TEW ^O.' -J f •t* • *.«r *• • *»L * v* StrTKSp1 r Make that 28. NU looked much like it had in the previous 27 games, hammer ing KSU 39-3 in front of 43,519 fans — the thicdg hugest crowd iP KSU Stadium his tory. me ttus&ers n_ improved to 3-1, winning the first-ever Big 12 Confer ence game in school history. The Wild cats fell to 4-1 and 1-1 in the league. was that Ne to find of players lore credit than it deseryed? question by painfully and powerfully showing feat NU belongs among the nation’s top five teams. - “This is fee kind of thing that was supposed to happen all year. We 21 loss to Arizona now seems like a distant n “To c this to a entered the game second in the Big 12 in passing efficiency, was a dismal 3 of 14 for 16 yards after one half. Kavanagh finished 5 of 19 fbr 34 yards and two interceptions. That didn’t help a rushing game that totaled 24 attempts for 25 yards. “We came c*^ ~r they had zero sive tackle Jason real nice to see. Everybody-was all in tune, and we just had a hell of a day.” KSU finished with just $6 total yards on 52 plays, its lowest yardage total since picking up 16 yards in a 1992 loss to Colorado. The 86 yards were die fewest given up by Nebraska since a 1984-Win over Iowa State. Except for the one drive that be gan in Nebraska territory, the Wildcats did not move die ball across the 50 yard line until backup quarterback Jonathan Beasley ran 14 yards to reach the NU 42 with 5 minutes, 42 seconds remaining in the game. Not once did the Cats cross the Ne yard line. „ ygp saw, we’ve What we did, we punter, Wildcat 11 46-yard line and Nebraska was kind of In three plays, the Wildcats moved backward two yards before Rheem’s kick. “Obviously, our defense played one of the finest games they've ever played,” NU Coach Tom Osborne said. Finally, ~tfce 4 showed signs of ‘ moved 30 yards h 6:47 off the clock. play frodrthe 3, Nil’s first touc the drive, Ona with true a Wichita, ., native who ch to the dismay c ans, playing se of Damon styo-pomt ir lead to 12-3 with 4 yard drive rasha sas St Please see KSU on 11 r. * • i^, . • - i * • ( . >