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NU to sign marquee class
1 football Commitments
V The following is a list of players who have vefbaHy milli
< committed to play football at Nebraska next fall.
Name Ht WL Position Hometown
Jon Bowling 6-4 210 TE Lincoln Southeast
Josh Brown-1:;'::,-: 8f1 180 K Rj&OWatf
Jon Clanton 6-2 278 DT Peoria,Ariz.
WesCody 84 265 L Fremont Bergan
KeyuoCraver 50 190 ATH Harieton, Texas
kBchaWDemps 5-11 185 ATH Fort Worth, Texas
Dahrran Diedrick 6-1 210 IB Scarborough, Ontario
Aaron Goiday 8-5 280 T8> Ybrfc : •
DeAntae Grixby 5-9 190 CB/IB Omaha Central
DeJuan Groce 5-10 180 DB Lakewood, Ohio
Chris Kelsay 64 235 DE Auburn
NateKofterman $4 310 L Seward
Jason Lohr 6-2 275 DL Jenks, Okla.
Shawn McGann 84 187 IB Mishawaka, IntL,
Jeremy Slechta 6-5 260 DT PapiNion-LaVista
JusinSmtot 64 240 DE Sherman,Texas
Randy Stella 6-1 195 LB Omaha Benson
Frank Strong 8-2 180 18 Stockton,Caifc
Wilson Thomas 64 195 WR/DE Omaha North
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RECRUITS from page 7
One of NU’s most highly touted
recruits is defensive back DeJuan
Groce from Lakewood, Ohio. The 5
foot-10, 180 pound Parade All
American runs the 100-meter dash in
10.7 seconds.
Groce, who chose NU over Syracuse
and Ohio State, said he hoped to see
immediate playing time returning kicks.
He returned seven kicks for touchdowns
in his high school career and averaged 30
yards per kickoff return.
“I enjoy returning kicks a lot,”
Groce said. “I’d like to play in the sec
ondary as well, but I’ll do what they ask
me to do.”
NU also signed kicker Josh Brown
out of Foyil, Okla. Brown, who chose
Nebraska over Florida and Miami, is
the No. 2 kicker in the nation, according
to The National Recruiting Advisor.
One noticeable absence from the
Huskers’ recruiting list is a quarterback.
The Huskers will return three scholar
ship quarterbacks next season to fill the
shoes of the departed Scott Frost
Home courts prove big in Big 12
By Andrew Strnad
StaffReporter
On the road again.
It’s not the favorite place to be if
you are a Big 12 basketball coach.
| Through Tuesday, the Big 12 had
a 16-32 overall road record, and a 5
13 conference road record.
Oklahoma, Kansas and
Oklahoma State are the only Big 12
men’s teams with a winning confer
ence record on the road. The Sooners
are 3-1 outside of Norman, the
Jayhawks are 2-1 on the road, and the
Cowboys are 2-0.
Nebraska posts a 2-4 record on
► the road with wins at Minnesota and
Oklahoma State. The Huskers road
losses came at Tulsa, Creighton,
> Hawaii and Kansas.
Whether it’s the pressure of a hos
| tile crowd or unusual surroundings,
coaches offer a variety of reasons for
. the road struggles.
' During the weekly Big 12 coach
I
es’ teleconference Monday,
Oklahoma State Coach Eddie Sutton
said the home crowd plays a bigger
role in basketball than in any other
sport
“Most coaches try to play a little
bit different when they go on the
road.” Sutton said. “(You) play more
conservative, handle the ball a little
bit longer than you would if you were
playing at home. One way you can
control a basketball game is to put the
home team on defense, and many
times that will put the crowd back in
their seats.”
Oklahoma Coach Kelvin
Sampson said part of the problem of
playing oh the road lies with the atti
tude of the team. Sampson believes
teams go into road games with the
idea that they are not supposed to
win, and they really don’t feel any
sense of urgency on the road.
“Everyone harps on the impor
tance to win at home, and then turns
around and says, ‘Let’s just get a split
on the road and win our games at
home,’” Sampson said.
NU Coach Danny Nee said long
road trips can also take a toll on a
team. The Huskers returned home
Sunday for the first time since Dec. 6.
“It’s no excuse for how we play,
but a month away from home was
very difficult,” Nee said. “It’s just
tough to play a lot of tough teams in a
row. Then add some problems with
flight connections and things like
that. It just made it a long haul.”
Iowa State Coach Tim Floyd said
certain players simply perform better
on the road, but it’s difficult to figure
out the chemistry for a solid road
team. *•
“I keep home stats and road stats,
so we can figure out which personnel
works with each other best,” Floyd
said.
Missouri Coach Norm Stewart
would love to find a winning road
formula. The Tigers have lost 16
straight road games, dating back to
Feb. 13, 1996.
Huskers struggle
to limit turnovers
SLOPPY from page 7
guard Tyronn Lue, owns a poor
1.05 to 1 assist-to-turnover
ratio this season, with 74
assists and 70 turnovers.
Nee said one of difficult things
with the turnover situation is the variety
- of mistakes the Huskers have made.
“There hasn’t been a pat
tern to it,” Nee said. “Some
times it’s dribbling, and some
times it’s bad passing.
“We got three or four guys
on this team that do different
things wrong and take turns.”
Junior forward Andy
> Markowski said Nebraska’s
turnovers result largely from a
breakdown in fundamentals -
not from the other team’s pres
i sure.
“We just have to slow down
i and make the easy play,”
| Markowski said. “We get
ahead of ourselves in trying to
make too flashy of a play. In
-the first half (against
Colorado), we had a lot of
\ unforced errors.”
Despite the turnovers,
Markowski said, it was encour
aging to see the Huskers find a
way to win against the
Buffaloes.
“We won by (15) points and
u
We got three or
four guys on this
team that do
different things
wrong and take
turns!*
Danny Nee
NU basketball coach
we still played sloppy,”
Markowski said. “But we have
just got to take care of the ball,
because we just can’t turn it
over and expect to win a lot of
times in this conference.”
With Nebraska playing four
games in a 10-day stretch
starting Sunday, a solution has
to come quickly for the sloppy
Huskers, Nee said.
“We’ll show them film, so
they can know what they’re
doing wrong,” Nee said. “We’ll
try and talk to them about the
fact that we can’t have them
making the kind of mistakes
they’re making out there.”
-:
seniors can t
top Buffs, KU
SWEPT from page 7
(Charlie Rogers, Naciska Gilmore) and
Nicole (Kubik) don’t want that to happen’ ’
Schwartz said the Huskers must
get over the hump of believing they
can’t win at Colorado or Kansas. NU
can start working on that this season
with upcoming road games at Baylor
and Texas Tech.
“We couldn’t get over that hump, and
I don’t know what that was,” Schwartz
said. “Ith like vre’re getting revenge for our
seniors.
“We play Tech there this year. Maybe
we can start that feeling there when we
play at Tech and beat diem there. Maybe
that will help us when we go to CU and
KU next year.”
Note:
Nebraska Coach Paul Sanderford
said Renee Saunders will redshirt
this season. Saunders, who also
played on the NU volleyball team,
broke her foot in October and had a
pin inserted in it
Assistant Trainer Cindy Benda
said Saunders was going to have
surgery on both ankles to “tighten
them up.” Benda said Saunders has
been showing arthritic symptoms in
both ankles.
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