The Nebraska women’s basket
ball team fell out of the Associated
Press Poll Monday. The
Comhuskers, who dropped to 23rd
in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’
poll, lost to Baylor 76-71 in Waco,
Texas, Wednesday.
NU will look to bounce back
Wednesday at 7:05 p.m. against
Texas at the Bob Devaney Sports
Center.
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The Kansas men’s basketball
team’s 88-49 win against Texas
Tech Saturday marked another
milestone in the 100-year history of
Jayhawk basketball. KU’s 56th
straight win at Allen Fieldhouse set
a school record for consecutive
home victories. “It was a special
day for Kansas basketball,” senior
Raef LaFrentz said. “We were
going after the record, and that is
definitely special to be a part of.”
LaFrentz scored 31 points and
had 15 rebounds against Texas Tech
and was named the Big 12
Conference player of the week on
Monday. The game was LaFrentz’s
first since injuring his right hand a
month ago in practice. “I couldn’t
have written a better script for how I
wanted to come back.”
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With a 94-62 win Saturday over
Texas A&M, Oklahoma State
Coach Eddie Sutton became the
20th coach in NCAA history to win
600 games.
Sutton, who coached at
Creighton, Arkansas and Kentucky
before joining the Cowboys, has
compiled a 600-237 overall record.
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The Big 12 rookie of the week is
Texas’ Chris Mihm. The freshman
center averaged 27 points and 11.5
rebounds in two games last week. In
a 105-91 win against Nebraska on
Wednesday, Mihm scored 29 points
in a 12-for-16 shooting perfor
mance.
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Depite suffering its first confer
ence loss of the season, the Texas
Tech women’s basketball team
remained in first place in the Big
12. The Red Raiders lost to Iowa
State last Tuesday.
After the victory over Texas
Tech, die Cyclones looked to take
hold of the conference lead, but
were upset 59-57 by Missouri on
Saturday.
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Big 12 men’s basketball standings:
(through Monday)
Conference Overall
Kansas 6-1 22-3
Oklahoma 6-2 15-6
Baylor 5-2 10-7
Nebraska 4-2 13-6
Oklahoma State 4-3 14-3
Missouri 3-3 11-8
Kansas State 3-4 12-5
Colorado 2-4 8-8
Texas Tech 2-4 8-8
Iowa State 2-4 9-10
Texas 2-4 8-10
Texas A&M 0-6 6-10
Big 12 Notebook compiled by
assignment reporter Jay Saunders,
RYAN TOBIN, left, and Abe Boomer, right, work out at practice in the Nebraska wrestling room. The Huskers have had to rely on new tactics to cut
weight because of new NCAA rules passed two weeks ago.
NU wrestlers adjust
Huskers appreciate extra 7 pounds
ByMikeKluck
Senior Reporter
Nebraska wrestlers like the new NCAA rules
implemented two weeks ago.
Bid before NU Coach Tim Neumann declares the
changes a success, he is waiting until next year.
“It worked because we were down to weight
already, and then (the NCAA) said here’s 7 more
pounds,” Neumann said. “Now, next year when these
guys know that they have 7 more pounds than what
they normally have, they are going to come back as big
as they came back this year, and they are going to wait
longer to get their weight down and that’s where I start
seeing problems.”
Neumann was referring to a new NCAA rule that
gave all wrestling weight classes an added 7-pound
weight allowance. Wrestlers already had a 1-pound
allowance at each weight.
So this season a wrestler competing at the 118
pound class can weigh up to 126 pounds until Feb. 1,
when the 1-pound allowance is dropped. The rule is
only effective for the rest of the season and will be
reviewed when the NCAA rules officials meet in
April.
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Tim Neumann
Nebraska wrestling coach
Other rules implemented earlier this month
include the prohibition of saunas and rubber suits for
weight loss. Diuretics can’t be used for any reason.
NCAA rules already bar laxatives, fluid restriction,
self-induced vomiting, hot rooms, hot boxes and
steam rooms for dehydration. The NCAA defined a
hot room as a room with a temperature, above 79 %
degrees. 4 ^ ‘ i
Neumann said the problem will exist next season
when wrestlers return to campus in the fall thinking
Please see NCAA on 7
As individual,
Terry provides
team power
By Sarah Dose
} Staff Reporter
wrestler Tfethbesl
with howwelf his
“It always sucks when the team doesn’t win,”
Terry said. “But it Is also an individual sport I can
only do what I can do. I try to win - if it helps the
team, great. If it doesn’t, I try to do better next
time”
The senior two-time All-American is ranked
fourth in the nation at 158 pounds. Terry and three
other seniors head the Cornhusker wrestling team,
but NU Coach Tim Neumann said Terry is truly an
individual.
? 5 “Hd likes to have his own ideas and beliefs,”
.Neumanh said. “He’s one of the most complicated
athletes in that he’s self-assured in most situations,
yet I think deep down he wants acceptance.
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NU adds test to p
By Sam McKewon
Senior Reporter
The new drill Mmsday at the
Nebraska football athletic-perfor
mance testing day resembled some
thing out of an elementary school phys
ical fitness exam.
Each player had to he on his stom
ach upon two pads and hold himself
above the turf for as long as possible.
One pad was below his shoulders and
the other was at his knees.
The new drill was designed to test
for signs of weakness in the pelvic
region. Groin injuries have sidelined
numerous Comhuskers in the past two
seasons, including I-back De Angelo
Evans.
“It sort of a gymnastic-type drill,”
NU Director of Athletic Performance
Boyd Epley said. “We’re working wife
fee medical team to evaluate any weak
nesses on the core area of strength.”
The test was part of the football
team’s; annual fitness testing before
winter conditioning drills, which begin
this week. Other tests Monday at Code
Pavilion included the 40-yard dash,
pro-agility drill, and the vertical jump.
The test arose because of Evans’
injury, Epley said. Evans injured his
groin and adductor muscles in,
December 1996 arid did nof play in the
1997 season. Defensive lineman Luis
Almanzar also missed the season with
a groin-related injury.
Epley said the injuries to those two
players dong with other complications
forced the team to measure balance and
endurance in die groin area.
“With Evans and Almanzar and
others, they’ve had problems with bal
ance in that area,” Epley said. “We
don’t have the answers right now, but
we’re working to find them.” t
All die players will be screened,
Epley said, and the ones who are found
to have pelvic weaknesses will be put
on a list to work on relieving the prob
lem.
“We’ll have six weeks to correct the
deficiency,” Epley said. “Hopefully,
that will be enough time to do it”
The drill wasn’t especially difficult,
freshman I-back Dahrran Diedrick
said, although it did test the strength of
the players.
“It didn’t hurt too much until you
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started laying there awhile,” Diedrick
said. “The pain started getting at your
stomach and your legs a little. It was a
naggy pain ”
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Note:
Sophomore quarterback/wingback
Bobby Newcombe ran a 4.47-second
40-yaid dash Monday and may have set
a position record for points in die per
formance index. Full results will be
known today. “Bobby looked really
good today,” Bpley said. ‘If anybody
did really well, it was him.”