Nebraska’s 54-15 win over
Texas A&M represents the largest
margin of victory over two ranked
teams this season at 39. Second is
UCLA’s 34-poftit victory over
Washington: NU also has a anoth
er victory in the top five - 30
points in the 56-26 win over
Kansas State. The worst loss that
a ranked team suffered is the 63
point loss Texas had against
UCLA.
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• NU junior I-back Ahman
Greeri finished with 1,877 yards
this season, second best in Husker
history. In 1983, Mike Rozier
won the Heisman Trophy with
3448 yaij^ pyei; 12 games, which
stands as Ihe best smgle-^eason
rushing total in NU history.
■
Senior quarterback Scott
Frost fell 1 yard short of
Nebraska’s.sipgle-season total
yardage record by accumulating
2.332 yards - 1,095 of it rushing, '
1,237 passing. Jerry Tagge had
2.333 yards in 1971, with 2,019
passing yards, and 314 rushing
yards.
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Nebraska currently has%e
second longest streak of consecu
tive Big'8/Big 12 regular-season
v conference victories with 39,
^ which started in 1992 after a 19
’ lO.TossJtQ Iowa $t^te andjs still
going. The Iongtest Is Oklahoma
with 44 from 1952 to 1959. The
streak was broken by Nebraska in
1959 with a 25-20 victory over
the Sooners.
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Basketball season is already
in full swing in the Big 12, but
only one team is currently ranked
in the top 25. Perennial power
ir; KapsstSis currently ranked third
in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches
Poll, hut will probably drop after a
86-83 loss to Maryland on
Sunday. .
■
NU senior outside hitter Lisa
r Reitsma and .senior setter Fiona
Nepo w&Sliimed tb'tfte/first
team All-Big 12 volleyball team
on Dec. 3. Reitsma was a unani
mous selection. Freshman Angie
Oxley and frfshman Katie Jahnke -
were named Freshman 'gad
Newcomer of the Year, respec
tiVely. Texas outside hitter
Dqmetria Sance was named
Player of the Year in the Big 12.
•T \n •- .
■ While Nebraska is going to
the Orange Bowl, four other Big
12 teams will also be making trips
to bowl games. Kansas State
received an Alliance Bowl bid and
will face Syracuse in the Fiesta
Bowl, While Texas A&M will
travel to the Cotton Bowl to play
. «PCI*A. Missouri plays Colorado
* Staterinrthe holiday Bowl, and
, Oklahoma State plays Purdue in
the Alamo Bowl.
Big 12 notebook compiled
by staff reporter« Sam
MtKnwui. . -v '
wnba ALL-STAft Michelle Timms said NU senior Anna DeForge Is the type of player the WNBA is leokiugfor
Although DeForge will not make a decision until after the season, she said she would probably net pass up a#
opportunity to play at the next level.
Pros consider DeForge
By Ted Taylor
Senior Reporter
TUSCON, Ariz. - Female basket
ball players are enjoying an era of
prosperity and excitement that has
never before been part of the sport.
Just ask Michelle Timms, who, as
the energetic and flamboyant point
guard for die Phoenix Mercury last
season, helped what some called an
experiment turn into a hugely popu
lar women’s professional league.
The creation and - more impor
tantly - the success of the Women’s
National Basketball Association and
the American Basketball League has
given women, especially younger
girls, something more to strive for
than just a college scholarship and
four years of Division I competition.
It’s also giving women’s college
basketball players a little extra incen
tive to keep their butts down on
defense and their turnover ratios low.
“I’d be very excited if I was a
senior player at the moment,” Timms
said Friday while watching the
Husker’s 71-69 win over Wichita
State during the semifinals of the
Insight Women’s Classic.
“For those seniors, their last year
has a lot more importance now than it
ever did before.”
One of those seniors Timms was
talking about was Nebraska senior
Anna DeForge.
NU Assistant Coach Dee Gibson
said agents from both the ABL and
WNBA have contacted Nebraska
Coach Paul Sanderford about the 5
foot-11 senior from Niagara, Wis.
Timms said DeForge is the type
of well-rounded player the WNBA is
looking for, and she wasn’t talking
entirely about her skills on the court.
“She stands out not only on the
court, but also academically. She’s a
great role model for these younger
girls,” she said pointing up to a group
of teen-aged girls waiting for an auto
graph.
But DeForge said she was more
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By Jay Saunders
Assignment Reporter
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The Nebraska men’s basketball
; team followed up a three-game stretch
of {foor shooting performances witlr
some of its best shooting of the season
at the Ameritas Classic.
The Cornhuskers (7-1) shot 72
percent from the field against North
Carolina-Wilmington in the fi^st
round of the 11th annual classic. In the
championship against Grambling
State, the Huskers followed their sec
ond-best shooting performance in
school history by shooting 51 percent
against the Tigers.
NU scored 85 points against both
UNCW and Grambling, which is the
Husker’s highest point total since the
second game of the season, when the
team put 86 points on the board against
Western Illinois. —
% “These are as
high as npphers ;
as! have seen,”
NU Coach Danny
wee saia. inis
shows we have a
little pride.”
NU’s pride,
and shooting,
were both low Lm
after a three-game
stretch against Colorado State, Texas
San Antonio and Tulsa. The Huskers
shot no higher than 39 percent from
the field in any of those three games.
In NU’s 85-68 loss to Tulsa, NU
shot 20 percent in the second half and
33 percent for the game.
In two wins against the University
of Texas-San
Antonio and
Cplof^lo Sta|g, . |
the HusRers shot
-y percent ana j /
ercent, respec
vely.
Nee said in
tie Ameritas
Classic, unlike
te previous three
antes, the
icore in whatever
it up against.
Wilmington and
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Disease
hits NU
athlete
From Staff Reports
Amanda Cleveland, a highly
touted freshman recruit on the No.
11 Nebraska women’s basketball
team, has been diagnosed with
Aplastic Anemia, a condition that
keeps bone marrow from produc
ing new cells.
“This is a serious condition,”
Dr. Lonnie Albers, Nebraska
Director of Athletic Medicine
said. “She feels fine right now, but
this is a condition that could rapid
ly cause her to be very ill.
“The treatments for this dis
ease are medication and or a bone
marrow transplant. It is a rare dis
order, one that affects only about
2,000 people per year in the
United States.”
Cleveland, who is from
Lancaster, Texas, is being treated
in nearby Dallas, where she flew
on Friday after the diagnosis was
confirmed.
The 6-foot-2,184-pound, Nike
All-American had been averaging
1.0 points and 2.7 rebounds per
game and had appeared in the
Huskers first six games. She did
n’t play against Bradley on Dec. 3
and then didn’t make NU’s trig to
A0t^Gve%the weejgnd
where the Huskers fbst the cim
pionship game to No. 12 Arizona
in the Insight Women’s Classic.
“My main concern is for
Amanda Cleveland and her fami
ly,” said NU Coach Paul
Sanderford. “This is a blow for our
basketball team because of the
high expectations we had for A.C.
“Our players and staff are
shocked and concerned about this
situation. We will do anything we
can to assist Amanda in her recov
ery. This (situation) is a part of real
life, but it’s very tough to deal
with.”
Kansas
City game
confirmed
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From Staff Reports
A press conference has been
scheduled for Friday at Arrowhead
Stadium in Kansas City, Mo., to
announce the first ever NCAA
Division 1-A football game to be
played at Arrowhead.
The release said two top 20
Big 12 Conference opponentswill
play in the stadium that is us»lly
the home to the Kansas City
Chiefs of the National Football
League.
Sources said Nebraska and
Oklahoma State will be the two
Big 12 teams to participate in the
game.
The Cornhuskers and the
Cowboys are scheduled to play on
Oct. 3, 1998, at Lewis Field in
Stillwater, Okla. However, Lewis
Field only seats 50,614 fans while 1
Arrowhead seats 79,101 fans.
