NU sets sights on Texas
Huskers prepare for Big 12 Championships
ByLjsaVonnahme
Staff Reporter
Texas always seems to be the team
to beat for the Nebraska men’s swim
ming and diving team.
NU will travel to College Station,
Texas, to face die Longhorns and the
other five conference schools in the
Big 12 Championships Thursday
through Saturday. Last year, the
Comhuskers placed a distant second
to the Longhorns in die inaugural Big
12 meet
“They’ve got a great tradition at
Texas,” Nebraska Coach Cal Bentz
said. “There’s no question about that
Everyone has to deal with that I think
it’s more how we set our attitude
rather than who they are or how they
set their attitude.”
The 15th-ranked Huskers will
focus on their strokes and sprinters
and prepare a tough mental attitude
for their strategy against the second
ranked Longhorns.
“There are several places where
we have an opportunity to do very
well,” Bentz said. “We cover the
a
I think its more how we set our attitude
rather than who they are or how they set
their attitude.
Cal Bentz
Nebraska coach
strokes well, both short and long, and
we’ve got a good set of sprinters.”
One of the sprinters the Huskers
will depend on in their quest to beat
UT is sophomore Adam Pine of
Balina, Australia. Pine is ranked sec
ond nationally in the 100-yard butter
fly with a time of 47.06 seconds. Last
year, Pine won the 100-yard fly at the
Big 12 meet and finished second at
the NCAA Championship meet
NU’s diving attack, led by junior
All-American Danny Bergman, also
will be a key to the Huskers’ success
in the Big 12 meet, Bentz said. This
season, Bergman has wOn 16 of 19
dual competitions, three invitational
titles and the 1- and 3-meter seven
times.
“He does a really good job,” Bentz
said. “1 think you’ll see him step up.
Texas has very strong diving as welL”
Nebraska, which alters the cham
pionships 7-3 overall and 3-1 in the
Big 12 Conference, will face strong
competition from all of the Big 12
schools. Five of die six schools are
ranked in die Top 25.
“From top to bottom on the men’s
side we probably have a stronger con
ference,” Bentz said. “I think you’ll
find every one of the teams are going
to have kids who are highly competi
tive. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if in
some year soon you’ll see all six of the
teams score well and in the top 25 at
the NCAA Championships.”
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NU triumphs at tournament
From Staff Reports
Led by junior Jamie Rogers, the
Nebraska men’s golf team won the
Texas-San Antonio Invitational
Tournament Tuesday.
The Cornhuskers finished two
under par with a 574.
Coach Larry Romjue said. “Basically
it pleased me that we shot good num
bers.”
Rogers, who is ranked among the
nation’s top 10, shot a 68 Monday and
a 73 Tuesday, finishing with a tourna
ment-best 141 - three under par.
Husker junior Scott Gutschewski
finished second in the tournament
shooting a 73 and a 71 for an even par
144.
NU junior Josh Madden shot a
147, junior Ryan Nietfeldt shot
rounds of 73 and 74 for a 147 and
junior Steve Friesen shot two 74s for
a 148.
“This will hopefully give us a
spring board for our next tourna
ment,” Romjue said. “It was a good
tuneup for us. We just have to keep it
going.”
The Huskers travel to Lafayette,
La., March 9-10 for the Louisiana
Classics Intercollegiate Tournament.
The Nebraska women’s golf
teams’ play was canceled Tuesday
because of rain at the Pioneer
Electrics Bruin Classic at Menifee
Lakes Country Club in Menifee,
Calif.
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won by Nebraska.
Red Raiders’ Coach James
Dickey said he is well aware of NU’s
defensive prowess. He said the
Huskers’ ability to switch defenses
was among their biggest strengths.
“They can mix up their defens
es,” Dickey said. “They went to
Oklahoma State and won and played
primarily a zone, and they’re good
playing man-to-man”
The prevailing offense or
defense will be important for two
teams fighting for fourth place in the
Big 12. Nebraska has the spot now at
17-10 overall and 8-6 in Big 12,
while TTU is one game behind at 13
11 and 7-7.
If NU wins, it is assured a win
ning conference record ami a bye in
the first round of the Big 12
Tournament in Kansas City, Mo.
Husker point guard Tjronn Lue
said a bye would be a welcome gift
“We’ll get a day to relax and get
a feel for Kansas City and the tour
nament and what it’s all about” said
Lue, who leads Nebraska with 21.3
points per game. “It's hard to play
four straight games.”
Tournament seed at stake
as NU takes on Texas Tech
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Nebraska (21-7 overall and 104 in
the Big 12 Conference) has a chance to
finish second in the conference and
receive a bye m the first round in the con
ference tournament On the flip side, the
Huskers can end up in fifth place and not
get a bye.
To stake claim on one of the four
first-round byes, NU will have to beat
the fifth-ranked Red Raiders. It is also
senior night for Tech, which Sanderford
said adds to the mountain Nebraska has
to climb
“They are going to have a full house,
and we might have four or five fans,”
Sanderford said. “If we can’t handle that
now, though, we will never be able to
handle it”
The Red Raiders have four players
who are averaging in double figures in
scoring, but Sanderford said the bulk of
die attention will have to go to Alicia
Thompson, who is averaging 22.9 points
per game.
“We will put some pressure on their
guards because they are not super quick
at the perimeter,” Sanderford said. “We
either have to concede (Thompson) 30
(points) or double her and make some
one else beat us.”
NU has been short in the post with
the absence of sophomore Charlie
Rogers, who has missed the last four
games because of an injured left foot
Doctors said Tuesday Rogers would not
play tonight
But the Huskers have done well
without Rogers in the post Sanderford
said he has been pleased with the way
other players have stepped up in Rogers’
absence.
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now,” Sanderford said “hi the past we
were hoping to make a play. Now, we
know we can make a play.”
If NU can make enough plays to
break down the Red Raider attack, it will
be the Huskers’ 11th conference win,
which would tie a school record.
“Going into Tech is going to be a
huge game,” sophomore Brook
Schwartz said “They’re No. 5, and it’s
their senior night That just gives us more
incentive to want to go down there and
beat diem.”
Note:
NU guard Nicole Kubik was named
the Big 12 Player of the Week. The
sophomore scored 34 points against
Missouri Feb. 17.
Championship party announced
* From Staff Reports
Nebraska football fans and play
ers will find themselves in a familiar
situation as they celebrate the
Comhusker’s third national champi
onship in the past four years.
School officials announced that a
“A National Championship
Celebration and Farewell to Coach
Osborne” will be held at Memorial
Stadium April 24.
The event will include the presen
tation of rings to die players, the ded
ication of the field as Tom Osborne
Field and the rededication of
Memorial Stadium.
Tickets for the event will be sold
for $6 and also will be good for
admittance to the spring scrimmage
the following day. Tickets go on sale
March 16.
The Huskers split the national
championship with Michigan after
beating Tennessee 42-17 in the
Orange Bowl - Coach Tom Osborne’s
last game. Nebraska finished the sea
son without a loss and got the top spot
in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches’
Poll, while the Wolverines were No. 1
in The Associated Press Poll.
Racial report released
BOSTON (AP) - The grades are in
for minority hiring in college sports -
and they’re lousy.
A new study released Tuesday by
Northeastern University’s Cento- for die
Study of Sport in Society found that
while the record for minority hiring in
pro basketball, football and baseball is
poor, it’s even worse at die college level.
The ‘Racial Report Card” covering
die 1995-96 academic year showed that
college sports have the worst record for
hiring women and minorities, the per
centage of black players decreased in
college and pro sports, and that majority
ownership in sports for minorities does
not exist
“There has been very little progress
in the patterns of hiring people of color
and women in pro and college sport,”
said Richard Lapchick, author of the
report and director of the center
The center conducts an annual study
of the racial composition of players,
coaches and front office employees in
pro basketball, football and baseball.
This year, it wipaed its focus to include
colleges.
“Despite well-intentioned efforts,
white males still control most of our
teams, front offices and athletic depart
ments,” Lapchick said.
The center found that in 1996,71.4
percent of the NCAA& top executives
were white and about 21 percent were
Wack. About 92.1 percent ofthe organiza
tion^ chief aides were white, 5.3 percept
were black and 2.6 percent woe Latin.
More than 80 percent of the NCAA^
office managers were white, 9.4 percent
were black and 1.9 percent were Latin.
In pro sports, die NBA was given the
highest grade in opportunities for
minorities for the ninth straight year The
NFL was next, and major league base
ball was given a conditional grade
because it did not provide data for the
second straight year
Coaching jobs for blacks in NCAA
Division I football, basketball and base
ball rank behind their pro counterparts in
the NFL, NBA and major league base
ball. Only three of 30 NFL coaches were
minorities, followed by three of 28 in
baseball and seven of 29 in the NBA.
At the college ranks, 8L5 percent of
Division I basketball coaches were
white, along With 92.8 percent of
Division I-A football coaches and 97.6
percent ofbaseball coaches.
“When you’re talking tennis, golf,
swimming and other sports where there
are poor percentages of minority partici- -
pation, that’s a reflection ofdie fact that in
our society we don’t provide a lot of good
programs at the secondary level, so we
don't see high participation rates for
those sports,” said NCAA Executive
Director Cedric Dempsey.
“But it’s inexcusable in sports like
baseball, basketball and track where we
have high participation numbers of
minorities not to have more minority
coaches,”