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By Jay Saunders
StaffReporter
The tail end of the college football
season usually brings big-time rival
ries.
This weekend is no exception.
Though it might not get the atten
tion of a Michigan-Ohio State game,
Saturday’s Kansas-Missouri matchup
at 1 p.m. in Columbia, Mo., has a long
history as well.
Missouri has won 48 games, lost 47
and tied Kansas nine times in the se
ries, which began in 1891. The two
teams have played every year since,
except 1918 and 1923.
“I have known about the KU-Mis
souri game for a long, long time,”
Jayhawk Coach Glen Mason said. “The
rivalry was made a long time ago, and
we are just charged for carrying it on.”
This will be the last game of the
season for each team, both of which
are 4-6 overall.
“This is a game where you throw
everything out the door on the rest of
the season,” Smith said.
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The Nebraska women’s basket
ball team is opening its season to
day in an unfamiliar place: on the
road.
The Comhuskers will play Illi
nois State at Redbird Arena in Nor
mal, 111., at 7 p.m. Nebraska is 10-0
in openers under Coach Angela
Beck, but all 10 of those games have
been at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
Beck was not around when the
Huskers last opened on the road in
1977, but she knows it’s a tough task
for a young team trying to build a
foundation.
“We don’t want to open the sea
son on the road,” Beck said. “I
would have to give the upper hand
to Illinois State. They are very tough
and competitive at home.”
The Redbirds won’t have to
worry about first-game jitters. Illi
nois State opened in the preseason
NIT with a 75-57 loss to No. 6 Iowa.
NU will lead offensively and de
fensively with Anna DeForge and
Tina McClain, the Huskers’ top two
scorers and rebounders from last
year.
“Defense will be the backbone
of our team,” McClain said. “De
fense wins ball games.”
The combo also has a talented
supporting cast, led by Emily Th
ompson and LaToya Dodge, who
will help shoulder the scoring load.
Beck also has the luxury of a tal
ented freshman class, which she ex
pects to make an immediate impact.
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fensive player.”
Along with Nicole Kubik, guard
Brooke Schwartz and forwards
Charlie Rogers and Cisco Gilmore
— all true freshmen — will see
playing time for the Huskers. What
they lack in experience, Beck said,
they make up for in talent.
“We feel all of those guys will
contribute this season,” Beck said.
The Huskers, who were 2-0 in
the exhibition season, finished last
season 19-10, losing to Colorado
State in the first round of die NCAA
Tournament. Illinois State was 19
13 a year ago.
“We are as ready as we can be,”
Beck said.
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both remain focused on the team’s
goals, they could not help but re
flect on their last four years at Ne
braska.
“It went by so fast I can’t even
comprehend it,” said Hedbeck, a de
fensive specialist from Sollentuna,
Sweden. “It will be nice to be a
regular student and do things I’ve
never been able to do, but I wouldn’t
change anything about these past
four years.”
Cmich, an outside hitter from
River Forest, III., said its difficult
to think about ending her career at
Nebraska.
“From the first time I stepped
onto the court,” Cmich said, “I
knew that this was one of the great
est things I’d ever do.
“These have been some of the
best times in my life. I’ll never ex
perience anything like this again.”
NU swimmers to play
host to a pair of meets
By Andrew Stbnad
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska swimming and div
ing teams have a full schedule this
weekend, entertaining some of the elite
teams in the nation, who will come to
Lincoln to compete in the Nike Sprint
Classic and the Husker ShootOut.
Top progpms from Auburn, South
ern Methodist, Florida State and Ari
zona State will converge at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center pool today,
beginning at 6:30 pjn.
Nebraska Coach Cal Bentz said
he’s excited to play host to some of the
best talent in the country.
“Without a doubt," Bentz said, “this
is going to be a fantastic weekend for
the fans. You’re going to see some great
swimming.”
The same teams will stay in Lin
coln for the Husker ShootOut, which
will be Saturday at 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.,
and Sunday at 11 ajn.
The format for the Husker
ShootOut is fairly complicated, with a
large number of events for both the
sprinters and distance swimmers.
Points are awarded to each swim
mer in every race, keeping the team
scoring close throughout the meet.
Nebraska, whose men rank No. 16
and women rank 11th, are limited to
13 swimmers on each team, However,
with the addition of several other heats,
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be involved this weekend.
“Right now, we’re thinking about
getting ready for the big meets at the
end of the year,” Bentz said, “particu
larly Texas. So winning the ShootOut
isn’t pur most important objective.”
But just because it isn’t a top ob
jective, Bentz said he’s not ruling out
a Nebraska victory.
“Due to the nature of the scoring
system,” he said, “we could easily be
right at the top when ail is said and
done.”
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The Nebraska men’s swimming and
diving team upset No. 7 Arizona State
Thursday night 139-102 in a dual meet
at the Bob Devaney Sports Center.
NU divers Danny Bergman, Kevin
Gregory, Eric Cook and Bert Locklin
led the Husker charge, sweeping the
diving competitions.
Other Nebraska winners included
Juan Benavides, Josh Mathias, Michael
Windisch, Adam Pine, Eric Rasser,
Conny Wennberg, Alex Shleifman and
Carlos Asarta.
“Anytime you can defeat a team
like Arizona State,” Husker Coach Cal
Bentz said, “it’s a good win for you.”
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Reggie Freeman, who averaged 22
points in Texas’ exhibition wins.
Last year, Freeman, a 6-foot-6 se
nior from Bronx, N.Y., scored 22.4
points per game fa- Texas, which went
21-10 and lost in the second round of
the NCAA Tournament to Wake For
est.
Texas might be without sophomore
point guard DeJuan Vazquez against
the Huskers. Vazquez has been battling
a groin injury and did not play in Texas’
second exhibition after starting 25
games last year.
Because of the Longhorns’ experi
ence, Nebraska Coach Danny Nee said
his team will be at a major disadvan
tage. Texas’s pressing offensive and
defensive style also create problems,
Nee said.
“As far as an opening game goes,
it’s as tough as it can be, because we
think Texas is a quality basketball
team,” Nee said. “They are very hard
to simulate and prepare for.”
In Penders’ eight seasons, UT is
averaging 89.4 points per game. Texas
averaged 24 3-point attempts and 81.8
points per game last season.
The Longhorns lost 85-69 to NU
in Lincoln last year. Texas turned the
ball over 24 times in that game and shot
only 28 percent—its lowest percent
age in Penders’ career at UT. The
Longhorns also were a dismal 2 of 17
from behind the 3-point arc.
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youngsters struggle like his team did
last year.
“Hopetully, they will be nervous as
hell,” Penders said. “Tyronn Lue,
Mikki Moore and Bernard Gamer, I
remember them well from last year’s
game. Those three are big players for
Nebraska.
“I also remember we set the game
of basketball back years with our per
formance.”
Two years ago, Texas routed No.
19 NU102-78 at the Erwin Center. The
Huskers have never won in Austin in
three tries.
Nee said his team has steadily im
proved through fall practice and the
exhibition season, in which the Husk
ers picked up wins over Pella Windows
and Marathon Oil.
“It’s harder than I’d like,” Nee said.
“It’s a big game, but I would have loved
to play them the third game and get one
or two under our belt before we went
down there.
“It has gotten us a little bit more
focused. They are ready to play, and
they are anxious to play Texas.”
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winning goal against Minnesota, said
she isn’t fooled by Duke’s record.
“They’ve had a tough sphedule,”
Uppinghouse said. “The regular sea
son doesn’t mean anything now. It’s
been a fight for them throughout the
season.”
Duke has lost to No. Cranked
North Carolina twice, Nebraska and
Texas A&M. The Devils have defeated
Virginia twice, Florida and Gemson.
Duke also tied Portland, the nation’s
No. 3 team which will play Vanderbilt
on Saturday for the right to face the
Duke-NU winner.
“Interestingly enough,” Walker
said, “Duke has had a role in us get
ting to where we’re at right now. We
really look at them as a program to look
up to. It’s ironic that we now face each
other again. They had the toughest
schedule in the country, bar none.”
The Huskers point to their early
season win ifi Durham as the victory
that set the tone for their perfect sea
son. At the time, Duke was ranked fifth
and Nebraska 25th.
“It boosted our confidence,” striker
Lindsay Eddleman said. “It made us
realize we have the potential to beat
the best teams. This weekend, they’re
going to come out hard as ever.”
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Becky Hogan, a sophomore
midfielder, said the Huskers are out to
prove that the win over Duke was not
a fluke.
“We’re going to have to focus cm
proving it wasn’t a fluke when we beat
them,” Hogan said. “You’re never go
ing to know how good you are unless
you take the hard road.”
Sunday’s game figures to be played
in front of another large crowd. The
Huskers drew a school-record 1,544
fans for the first-round win over the
Golden Gophers.
“I think the big crowd helped Us,”
striker Kristen Gay said. “It just makes
us want to go out and play harder.”
