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Outgoing freshman gives
gymnastics team big lift
RINGO from page 9
Hard work has enabled Ringo to
improve as a collegiate gymnast.
Last week against Iowa State, she
scored a career-best 9.875 on the
balance beam and a 9.65 on the
vault. Earlier in the year, she posted
a 9.725 on the floor exercise - her
favorite event.
She said her floor routine, per
formed to the George Thorogood
classic, “Bad to the Bone,” is the
same one she did on her club team
her senior year. She said she had
always performed to techno music
before, but hated it.
Now that she likes her music, it
helps with her presentation.
“I like to play with the crowd
and get them involved,” Ringo said.
Ringo said she is starting to feel
more comfortable and sensed that
her teammates are too.
“We are starting to put things
together and I know we are capable
of a big score.”
NCAA numbers game
adds to the excitment
(AP) - The number most associ
ated with the NCAA tournament is
64 because that’s how many teams
make the field.
But that’s far from the only num
ber connected with this year’s tourna
ment, which begins Thursday. Here
are some figures that could be inter
esting, might be surprising and will
change by this time next yean
0 - times all four No. 1 seeds have
advanced to the Final Four.
3 - bids for the Midwestern
Collegiate Conference, the most for
one of the nonpower conferences
since the Big West had three in 1990.
4 - teams making their first
NCAA Tournament appearance -
Illinois-Chicago, Northern Arizona,
Prairie View and Radford.
8 - schools from last year’s Sweet
Sixteen that did not even make this
year’s field.
8 - the lowest seeding of a nation
al champion (Villanova in 1985).
9 - No. 1 seeds that have gone on
to win the national championship
since 1979.
11 - lowest-seeded team to reach
the Final Four (LSU in 1986).
14 - teams with losing records
that have played in the NCAA
Tournament. Prairie View joins that
group this year.
38 - years since Miami last
played in die tournament.
40 - the number of wins Kansas
would have if it wins the national
championship.
52 - the number of wins by No. 1
seeds over No. 16 seeds in as many
meetings.
9,999 - the odds to 1 given for a
No. 16 seed to win the national cham
pionship.
NU men’s golf team leads
after 2 rounds in Louisiana
From Staff Reports
After the opening two rounds, the
Nebraska men’s golf team appears
headed toward its second consecu
tive victory.
The Cornhuskers own a nine
stroke lead at the Louisiana Classics
Tournament in Lafayette, La. NU put
together rounds of 303 and 287 to
take the lead with 590 strokes.
Arkansas is second with 599,
Tulsa ranks third with 601, Kansas
ranks fourth with 605 and Texas
A&M rounds out the top five at 609.
Husker junior Jamie Rogers
ranks fourth individually with
rounds of 75 and 70 for a total of 145.
NU junior Steve Friesen is tied for
fifth after shooting rounds of 75 and
72 for a 147. Casey Brown of
Arkansas ranks first after shooting
rounds of 71 and 71 for a 142.
“The guys have really played well
under some cold and windy condi
tions,” NU Coach Larry Romjue
said. “If we can get the job done ...
this will be a huge win for us.”
NU’s Josh Madden also ranks
among the top 10 individual leaders
after putting rounds of 75 and 73
together for a 148.
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The Kansas men’s basket
ball team is no stranger to the
NCAA Tournament, and the
Jayhawks will be a heavy
favorite to make a trip to the
Final Four after picking up No.
1 seed in the Midwest regional
for the tourney.
The Jayhawks (34-3) will
be playing Prairie View A&M
(13-16) in the first round
Friday in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Other teams from the Big
12 include Oklahoma (22-10),
which picked up a No. 10 seed
in the East region and will play
Indiana (19-11) in the first
round Thursday in Washington,
D.C.
Oklahoma State (21-6) is a
No. 8 seed and will play
George Washington (24-8) in
the first round.
Nebraska plays Arkansas
Thursday in Boise, Idaho.
■
In addition to Nebraska,
three other teams from the Big
12 Conference earned a berth
in the Women’s NCAA
Tournament Texas Tech picked
up a No. 1 seed in the Midwest
regional and will play
Grambling in the first round in
Lubbock, Texas.
Iowa State is the No. 4 seed
in the Mideast regional and
will play Kent in the first round
in Knoxville, Tenn.
Kansas is the No. 5 seed in
the West regional and will play
Tulane in Palo Alto, Calif.
NU plays New Mexico in
Norfolk, Va. Thursday as the
No. 9 seed.
■
NU senior Jeramie Welder
and sophomore Paul Gomez
were among six Big 12
wrestlers who received wild
card berths to the NCAA
Championships in Cleveland
March 19 to 21.
The other Big 12 wrestlers
who received wild cards
included Zack Thompson and
Matt Mulvihill of Iowa State,
Jason Moore of Missouri and
John Henry Ward of
Oklahoma.
Five other NU wrestlers -
Brad Vering, Ryan Tobin, Brad
Canoyer, Temoer Terry and J.R.
Plienis - also qualified for the
meet.
■
The Oklahoma baseball
team jumped up one spot in the
collegiate baseball poll to No.
3.
The Sooners (13-1) defeat
ed Iowa State 8-4 Friday in
Norman, Okla. The two teams
were scheduled to meet
Saturday and Sunday, but both
games were canceled because
of weather.
OU was led Friday by
senior right fielder Brian
Shackelford’s three RBIs.
Shackelford, who hit .384 last
season and spanked 16 home
runs, knocked his eighth dinger
of the year against the
Cyclones.
Sixteenth-ranked Texas
A&M (16-5) is the only other
Big 12 Conference team that is
ranked.
Stanford (No. 1) and sec
ond-ranked Miami currently
top the poll.
Big 12 Notebook com
piled by Senior Reporter
Sam McKewon.
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