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NU women look to
show up Wolverines
Wrestlers
travel to
Michigan
By Antone Oseka
Staff Reporter
Coming off an upset dual vic
tory over Iowa State, the Nebraska
wrestling team will try to keep its
winning streak alive this weekend.
The Comhuskers (11-4) travel
north to take on Michigan State
and Central Michigan Sunday at
East Lansing, Mich.
With its victory over seventh
ranked ISU, No. 10 Nebraska broke
into the top 10 for the first time.
NU starts off against the 13th
ranked Spartans at 1 p.m., and fol
low with the dual against Central
Michigan at 7 p.m. The last time
Nebraska saw Michigan State, the
Spartans placed fifth at the Cliff
Keen National Duals in Lincoln.
Nebraska Assistant Coach
Mark Cody said the Huskers don’t
match up well with the Spartans.
“Hopefully, we can pull another
upset like Iowa State,” Cody said.
NU also takes bn Central
Michigan, an unranked team that
could pose a problem for Nebraska,
Cody said.
CMU fields one ranked wres
tler, No. 7 Casey Cunningham at
142. Ironically, the 142 spot is the
only weight not set for Nebraska.
Allen Hankins and Dusty Morris,
last year’s 142-pounder and na
tional qualifier, will wrestle off to
night for the spot.
By Gregg Madsen
Staff Reporter
Nebraska gymnastics will be on the
road this weekend.
The women’s team competes
against Michigan
nd Illinois at
Arbor,
Sunday af
2, while
the NU men battle
New Mexico Sat
urday night at 7 in
Albuquerque,
N.M.
Nebraska
KMfllf Women’s Coach
Dan Kendig said the No. 6
Comhuskers will face their toughest
competition of the year in the seventh
ranked Wolverines.
Michigan edged NU 193.975 to
193.95 in the NCAA semifinals last
year for the final spot in die Super Six.
Nebraska has used that .025 loss as
motivation this season.
Kendig said the Huskers are ready
to avenge that loss.
“The number six team in the coun
try is ready to go up and show the num
ber seven team a thing or two,”
Kendig said.
The Huskers are leading the na
tion in the uneven bars, averaging a
49.005 team score in the event.
Senior all-arounder Shelly Bartlett
— January’s Big 12 Conference
women’s gymnast of the month —
leads the Huskers* attack.
Bartlett, a native of Spokane,
Wash., has won the all-around in three
of NU’s five meets this season.
Freshman Heather Brink won the
all-around in Nebraska’s other two
meets. Against Oklahoma last Satur
day, Brink set a new school record in
the all-around with a 39.4.
Kendig said sophomores Amie
Dillman and Courtney Brown would
be able to compete Sunday. Dillman
competed against Oklahoma despite
a thigh bruise, and a stress fracture
has kept Brown out of action this sea
son.
“I don!t know if you’d define them
as being 100 percent,” Kendig said.
“But they’re going to give a 100-per
cent effort.”
Men’s Coach Francis Allen said
his team — also ranked sixth — is
ready to improve following a 227.57
226.15 loss to Oklahoma last Satur
day.
The No. 11 Lobos lost to Nebraska,
226.65-219.075, at the Jan. 17 Rocky
Mountain Open in Colorado Springs.
“I’d say we’re going to improve on
our 226 and they’ll be about at a 226,”
Allen said. “I’d say it’s going to be a
good competition. They’re not going
to beat us, but it will be good.”
Junior Bill Mulholland and fresh
man Derek Leiter will look to improve
in the all-around. Mulholland has
placed second and first in the all
around in Nebraska’s two meets this
season.
He scored a 56.3 at the Rocky
Mountain Open and a 56.625 against
the Sooners. Leiter placed third at the
Rocky Mountain Open (54.5) and sec
ond against Oklahoma (56.325).
Red Raiders hold edge on NU
WOMEN from page 7 ~
NCAA Tournament in each of the past
five years, and in 1993 they won the
NCAA title.
Tech is also coming off one of its
most impressive wins of the year: a
96-73 trouncing of eighth-ranked
Texas.
“They are rolling on all cylinders
now,” Beck said. “Texas Tech is a
great, great basketball team even
though they have a few more losses
this year than normal. We have to
come out, compete and believe that we
can challenge.”
Against the Longhorns Wednes
day, junior All-American candidate
Alicia Thompson scored a career-high
47 points, 26 of which Came in the
first half as the Texas Tech built a 37
26 lead.
Thompson has been the Red Raid
ers’ leading scorer and rebounder in
14 of Tech’s 19 games this season.
Nebraska guard Jami Kubik said
the Huskers are going to have to im- -
prove their defense from Wednesday’s
loss at Colorado. The Buffaloes shot
49 percent from the flow against the
Huskers,
Kubik also said it’s going to take a
team effort to slow down Thompson,
who has scored double figures in ev
ery game this season.
“Our defense really let us down in
Colorado,” Kubik said.
Besides the Nebraska defense,
Beck said she is also looking for im
provement on the offensive end.
Junior Anna DeForge was the only
Husker to score in double figures
against the Buffaloes.
“We had a lot of people that were
nonexistent against Colorado,” Beck
said. “Obviously if we get a win
against Texas Tech all is forgotten. We
have to get back to some of the funda
mentals that made us 16-1. We just
have to have the mentality to show up
in a big game and have the type of
mentality it takes to win one of them.” -
Women's Basketball
Starters
Sunday, Noon
Devaney Canter
16-3(6-3)
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Huskers scare Tfexas Tfech coach
MEN from page 7
til last month. Colorado ended the
streak with an 80-78 win in Lubbock
on Jan. 11.
Before falling to Texas on Mon
day, Tech dropped consecutive league
games to No. 1 Kansas and sixth
ranked Iowa State, a three-game
stretch Dickey called “the toughest
he’s had as a coach.”
“We haven’t executed well at all,”
said Dickey, in his sixth season as
* - Tech’s top man, “but you’ve also got to
give credit to our opponents. Still,
you’ve got to win your league games,
and you have to win at home if you want
any chance to win your conference.”
Last season, Tech swept through
the Southwest Conference and ad
vanced to NCAA Tournament’s Sweet
16 before losing to Georgetown to fin
ish 30-2, the best season in Red Raider
history. -
Only one starter, 6-foot-11 center
Tony Battle, returns. This year, Battie
tops the Big 12 in rebounding, aver
aging 11.7 per game. Battie also scores
20.1 points per. game, and guard Cory
Carr leads the team with a 22.5 point
per-game average, forming the
league’s most productive duo.
Dickey said Nebraska’s Tyronn
Lue-Mikki Moore duo holds the po
tential to be just as strong as the Red
Raider combination. Lue averages
21.8 points in nine conference games,
and Moore ranks among the league’s
top seven in rebounding and blocked
shots.
NU played one of its best games of
the season on Wednesday, holding
Colorado to 40.7 percent shooting and
committing just 11 turnovers. The vic
tory, after a four-game losing streak,
provides the Huskers with the momen
tum necessary to play well in Lubbock,
NU Coach Danny Nee said.
“(The Nebraska players) don’t
have a panic button,” Nee said. “They
don’t lose their cool. They have a
calmness that’s nerve-racking to me.
But they’re starting to come together.” .
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