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The Nebraska womens basket bail team jumped back into tire Associated Press poll Mondav NT:. which fell out of the poll last week, downed Oklahoma State 77 -P Saturday at the Bob Devaney Sport Center improving its record to 16-6. The 25th-ranked Cornhuskers return to action Wednesday against Missouri at 7:05 p.m in the Devaney Center ■ It's reunion time for Kansas men's basketball team. The Jayhawks. who are in the midst of celebrating their 100-year anniver sary. will have their legends game on Saturday, in which many of KU's for mer players are expected to play. Sunday, the Javhawks will play host to Missouri at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence. Kan. The Tigers are the only team to have defeated Kansas in conference play this season. But ML Coach Norm Stewart I isn't loo excited about taking part in Kansas' reunion weekend. ' 1 don't think there's anybodv that wants to be there on that particu lar dav as the guest or guest team." Stewart >aid m Texas A&M Coach Tony Barone must be feeling like he's cursed this season. The Aggies hav e vet ?o win a conference game, starting the season 0-9 and losing Monday night x 1 -SO to Texas. Before the season started, the \ggres lost senior center Dario Quesada. v.ho has a huimng disc in his hack Then, m AMM > first con ference game against Oklahoma State. ( alx in Dav is developed a her niated diss in ills hack. Dav is was the Aggies top scorei and reh .under last y ear f maily. n Satin dav against ()klahoma. freshman 7 j Brown tore the anterior cruciate ligament in his knee and w ill miss the rest of the sea son. '1 ve been going to church on a regular basis and 1 don't think the big guy up abov e is looking dow n on us." Barone said "But there must he j some basketball god looking on us unfavorably.! think i need to go hack to C reighton and get the Je tints to sav ; some rosaries for me." Barone coached at (reighton for six seasons before taking the ACM job in 1991. m in C. or\ Carr > lour seasons at Texas Tech, the senior Iron kangiand Ark., lias had some memo rable games. But moo he not as mem orable as his two games last week Against Missouri Jan 2> < arr had 21 point.' while helping the Red Raiders to a SO t>0 win. V. BaJor Sat!H\;a\. v arr I’mlsited v. I;o ’• point' mJudin. do n ’h-o sec >no Big i2 Notebook compiled h\ staff reporter Mike kluck. Huskers lose recruit to USC By Sam McKewon Senior Reporter There's a saying that home is where the heart is, and C'ornhusker recruit Frank Strong decided that's where he belongs. Strong, who committed to Nebraska in December to play foot ball as a running back, decided to change that decision and go to Southern California, which is closer to his home in Stockton. Calif. "It was closer to my family and my friends." Strong said High school athletes can sign let ters of intent beginning Wednesday. As a senior at Franklin High School in Stockton, Strong rushed for 1.460 yards and 14 touchdowns. Strong said he initially made the choice to Nebraska because of its national prominence and fan support. Then came the calls from his rela tives "They were all calling me up and talking about how much they'd miss me." Strong said. "I started to realize that... 1 wanted to be close to my fam ily rather than far away” Strong's mother, Patricia, said it was the bond between them that weighed heavily on the decision. “I've always been there for him," she said. Nebraska coaches were not noti fied of Strong's decision until last Friday, but Strong said he had begun to change his mind as early as Jan. 14. “They were pretty disappointed." Strong said. “The Nebraska coaches said they really wanted me to come." Still committed to Nebraska in early January. Strong said a peculiar incident started to change his mind about going to NU. Strong said he saw his name on a Husker Web site that listed him as a linebacker recruit rather than a run ning back. “I said to myself, 'I'm not going to go out there to play linebacker.'” Strong said. “It wasn't a big deal or anything, but it made me think about what I was doing.” In other recruiting news. Tony Bedford, a 6-foot-4, 265-pound defensive lineman from Denver has yet to decide between Nebraska and Florida State. Thomas Jefferson High School Coach Tim Cross said Monday. Jason Thomas, a 6-4, 230-pound quarterback from Compton, Calif., will not announce where he will NU kicks off winter program By Sam McKewon Senior Reporter The winter program for the Nebraska football team could proba ble pass muster as a NASA training regimen. -1 Headed be the Nebraska Per forma nee Team, the pro gram which started Mondav is ail about e n h a n c t n g speed, agilitv and lean bodv mass K exact, scientific means. " I he w inter program is based on scientific principles more than anv tinng else." said Bovd hplev. director ot athletic performance. “We've spent years trv mg to find the best wav to enhance performance' (Mien misconstrued as w inter con ditioning. the wintei program concen trates on putting strain on the bodv in trder to make it bigger, stronger and faster. Hplev said The program consists of various lifts and drills that eliminate bodv tat and enhance performance. The per formance team will add a running reg imen to its program Feb. 16. Hplev said the most important aspect of the winter program is the addition of lean bodv mass "There is direct correlation between an increase of lean bodv mass and an increase in perfor m-rnsp “ Fnlpr .-..0 ~T1,,.- , nrima time of the season to get that done.” Sophomore rush end k\ le Vanden Boseii. who finished second m the pre-program fitness testing for N! . said the program enhances all parts of the ’ iusker-.' athietie prowess, "! think e\er\hod\ comes out oi (the v. inter program; stronger and ttt'te: than the\ were before it \ aiuie ; Bosch, said Another aspect m the progiam is prop-. ■ food iiH.il c •; .iordmator ol l’e: • n nice Sunni m S'avc tbits sam : ; , a. . " . , ’■ ;nree ohiecti. _• . iblis .at,; Matt MillerDN NU GYMNASTICS COACH Dan Kendig checks to make sure gymnast Nicole Wilkinson is all right after she land ed short and stung her ankle in a dual against Missouri Saturday night. Gutsv efforts lift Huskers ms B> I) UtkKN\w >-.u. -'..tnu ,p.!^ kill atu ! u )tl\ iiU iiiLl ik* » .4_n-• ;et her - a warm-up. Ovard iis v.' • •.■red he' traeture.l littie •• i^; ' a ."■) ’i.i'j"1! V !!V ar Hi • *' ■ a,id .! Uk .... U;n_ ' ■ u; k:: - a ha\ - to give it voir a! e\en it vau are hurting." O'.tord ana teammate Heather i-srmk tied for the di-around title, hie •vrsona1 ‘vs;> r.n.i itn;>M\ement ir -r • o; ‘s h \ r ; !•>*! .,! J , : V; / ;.ivi 'HIT .;,;: i Please see GYM (»n S