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By Kristi Rieken
Tkxas Tech University Daily
LUBBOCK, Texas—Texas Tech opened
with a trio of 3-point goals and never looked
back Saturday, defeating the Nebraska bas
ketball team 87-74 at Lubbock Municipal
Coliseum.
“The two early 3s by Stan (Bonewitz) and
slams by Tony (Battie) were the key to the
game,” NU point guard Tyronn Lue said.
Bonewitz hit his first 3-pointer 1:06 into
the game and added his second one minute
later. Then at the 17:02 mark, Rayford
Young, in his first college start, chipped in
another 3, setting the tone for the day.
The Red Raiders (14-6 overall and 6-4
in the Big 12 Conference) won for the fir§t
time in four games, sending the Comhuskers
(12^10 and 4^-6) to their fourth loss in five
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Tech sank 11 of 24 3-pointers and shot
58 percent in the first half, jumping to a 48
36 lead. A two-handed slam-dunk by Battie
excited the 8,174 fans and started an 11-3
Red Raider run, leaving NU in a 24-14 hole
10 minutes into the first half.
The Huskers stayed with the Red Raid
ers for a few minutes, but Tech came back
with 12 straight points to lead 39-21 with
3:31 remaining in the first half.
Cory Carr led Texas Tech with 33 points,
Battie scored 11 with 17 rebounds and
Bonewitz added 16 points for Tech.
“It was all over in the first half,” NU
Coach Danny Nee said. “Texas Tech was
ready to play.”
Mikki Moore scored 20 points for Ne
braska, Lue had 19 and Cookie Belcher con
tributed 13 points.
“We just came out with a lack of enthu
siasm,” Moore said. “We were not playing
good transition defense. We should have
stopped them from getting those easy layups
and dunks.”
In the first four minutes of the second
half, Moore and Belcher sparked Nebraska
with dunks and Lue hit a 3-pointer. But
Texas Tech’s hot shooting prevented Ne
braska from cutting into the lead.
“Early in the second half,” Lue said, “I
thought we would come back when we cut
the lead to about 10.”
NU equaled Tech’s 52 percent from the
field, but the Huskers hit only three 3-point
ers to the Red Raiders’ 11.
After the game, the Huskers flew directly
to Manhattan, Kan., where they will play
Kansas State tonight at 8 at Bramlage Coli
seum. The game will be televised by ESPN2.
The Wildcats (8-12 and 1-9) defeated Okla
homa 67-63 Saturday in Manhattan, Kan
sas State’s first victory since Dec. 23.
Men's Basketball
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Swimmers
rolltowin
over Kansas
By Jay Saunders
Staff Reporter
The Nebraska men’s and women’s
swimming and diving teams accom
plished more than just a victory over
, Kansas, Saturdayv.
By defeat
ing the Jayhawks,
both the 16th
ranked
Cornhusker men
and No. 13
women completed
the conference
season undefeated
(4-0) for the first
Bentz time since 1993
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“It is always nice to beat Kansas,”
NU Coach Cal Bentz said. “We saw a
lot of things we wanted to see. We were
pleased down the line.”
The men’s team (9-2 overall) won
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victory over KU. It was Nebraska’s
first dual win over the Jayhawks in
four years. The women (6-2) defeated
No. 20 Kansas 183.5-97.5.
Helping the Husker men’s convinc
ing win were three different 1 -2-3 fin
ishes. Sophomore Danny Bergman,
who won both the one- and three
meter diving events, was followed by
freshman Bert Locklin and senior
Kevin Gregory as NU swept the three
meter competition. Bergman has won
21 of the 23 diving competitions he
has been in this season.
The Huskers also captured the top
three spots in the 100-yard freestyle
and the 200-yard individual medley.
Winning the 200-yard IM was junior
Brian Hein, whose time of 1:53.07 was i
a career best. Mark Bennett won the
100-yard freestyle with a time of
46.90.
The women’s team also ran away
with the meet with solid individual
performances. Senior Julia Russell
notched wins in the 100-yard breast
stroke and 100-yard butterfly.
Russell’s career-best time of 1:01.65
in the breaststroke was a Devaney
Center pool record.
Like Bergman cm the men’s side,
sophomore T.D. Rowe swept the one
and three-meter diving competition’s.
Rowe has won both diving events in
the last three Husker duals.
But more important than the vic
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LaTOYA DOAGE defends Texas Tech's Cara Gibbs Sunday. Doage had four points and four assists in Ml's win
over the No. 13 Red Raiders.
Huskers outlast lMi
Nu makes 7 of 8 free
throws down stretch
to ice Red Raiders.
ByMikeKluck
Senior Reporter
While reviewing videotape of
Texas Tech, Nebraska Women’s
Basketball Coach Angela Beck
knew her team would face a prob
lem defending Red Raider forward
Alicia Thompson on Sunday.
Beck thought about using Jami
Kubik to defend Thompson, a 6
foot-1 All-America candidate, who
was coming off a career-best 47
point effort Wednesday against
Texas. In that scenario, NU lost
Kubik’s help-side defensive ability
that would be greatly needed
against Thompson.
Finally, Beck turned to senior
Tina McClain. McClain, a 5-foot
10 forward from Montrose, Mo.,
had averaged only four points in
the last two Comhusker games —
bdth Nebraska losses. This came
after a time earlier in the week
when Beck gave McClain an ulti
matum to change her attitude or be
benched.
Beck went with her instincts
and McClain played with her new
attitude, scoring a season-best 21
points as the Comhuskers upset
13th-ranked Texas Tech 62-57
Sunday in front of a season-high
crowd of 8,637 fans at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
NU pleased what is believed to
be the largest crowd to ever attend
a Nebraska women’s basketball
home game improving its record to
17-3 overall and 7-3 in the Big 12
Conference.
Nebraska is fourth in the con
ference, one game behind leaders
Texas, Colorado and Kansas. The
Red Raiders fell to 14-6 and 6-4 in
the conference.
I think, putting (McClain) on
the block, because we run a four
out one-inside offense, was the dif
ference maker,” Beck said. “She got
comfortable early and I don’t think
they respected our post game.”
Texas Tech Coach Marsha
Sharp said the Red Raiders’ goal
was to eliminate the Huskers’ pe
rimeter game. Tech succeeded as
Nebraska was 0 of 7 from 3-point
range.
Sharp said she was surprised at
McClain’s performance and
Nebraska’s success inside.
“She did a great job,” Sharp
said. “They took it inside and tried
to attack us.”
McClain’s impact was felt in
the opening minutes of the second
half. Thompson made a 3-pointer
with two seconds left before the half
to tie the score at 30.
In the first three minutes of the
second half, McClain was involved
in eight of NU’s 10 points of a 10
1 that put the Huskers in front 40
31. McClain had two baskets, made
two free throws and had an assist
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Records M;
NU shines
at Invite
Huskers Lavy, Wright
and Fish win invite
titles.
By Andrew Strnad
Staff Reporter
Every year track and field athletes
point to the Frank Sevigne Husker
Invitational as their ticket to the
NCAA indoor
Championships.
And this time
was no different
from the previous
22 invites as a
meet-record 119
NCAA qualifying
marks — 29 of
those automatic
— were set at the
Bob Devaney
Sports Center
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“We had just a tremendous meet,
not just for Nebraska, but for track and
field as a whole,” NU Coach Gary
Pepin said. “It’s just great to bring the
best athletes in the nation to a meet
during the season and watch them
compete against one another.”
Among the records set at the
Husker Invite, the two set by
Pittsburgh’s Trecia Smith stood out the
most.
Smith set two Devaney Center
track records. The first in the long
jump and the other in the triple jump.
Friday night, Smith’s jump of 21
feet, 9 inches broke the week-old
record set by Nebraska’s Angee Henry
of 21-8.
Smith bettered her first feat on
Saturday by jumping 45-3 Zi feet in the
triple jump, earning the women ’s most
valuable performer for the meet.
On the men’s side, taking MVP
honors was UTEP’s Obadele Thomp
son. Thompson won the 60-meter dash
for the third straight invite with a blaz
ing time of 6.60 seconds.
For the Husker men, sophomore
Shane Lavy — last year’s Husker In
vite MVP—won the high jump with
a leap of 7-414. It was the fourth con
secutive year that a Husker has won
the high jump at the meet.
“I didn’t even think about it,” Lavy
said. “I just wanted to out-jump ev
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