■ The Cornhuskers face
their first opponents of the
season, including Iowa, in
Saturday’s open meet.
By Lisa Vonnahme
Staff writer
After 2Vi months of dieting, run
ning and going through wrestling
drills, the Nebraska wrestling team
will finally get a shot at real competi
tion this weekend.
And they will be doing it against
some of the best in the country, start
ing with last season’s national champi
ons - Iowa.
The Cornhuskers will face the
Hawkeyes when they head to Omaha
Saturday for the Omaha Open.
Because the tournament is “open” and
not part of the Huskers official sched
ule, NU’s grapplers will be wrestling
through the tournament as individuals,
not as a team.
The key to the Omaha Open, NU
Coach Tim Neumann said, is that it
will be used as a way to determine if
the wrestlers are ready for their season
openers Dec. 4 and 5 at Lock Haven
(Pa.) and Penn State.
“We wanted to get one meet in
prior to going to Pennsylvania, so we
can fix some mistakes,” Neumann
said. “It will be interesting to see how
we fare with Iowa’s crew.”
Along with the Hawkeyes, NU
will go up against wrestlers from
Iowa’s other in-state competitors, Iowa
State and Northern Iowa. Neumann is
expecting about 30-35 wrestlers in
each of the 10 weight classes.
And the idea of facing an oppo
nent other than an NU teammate has
the Huskers eager to compete in the
meet.
“We’ve been training so long that
I’m at the point where I can’t wait to
compete,” redshirt freshman Bryan
Snyder said. “It’s going to be good for
us to see some good guys early on. It’s
definitely a plus that Iowa’s going to
be there.”
With the tough competition, the
NU coaches are anxious to see how
their team does at the tournament. The
open will serve as a way for Neumann
and his assistant coaches, Mark Cody
and Jason Kelber, to determine their
starting lineup.
“We’re going to be able to see what
wrinkles we have to iron out before we
get to bigger meets,” Kelber said.
“Omaha Open is important so we can
see how we’re doing and what we need
to address. They’re feeling the pres
sure already.”
In other wrestling news:
The Nebraska wrestling team
signed the No. 1 recruit in the nation at
103 pounds on Nov. 11.
Jason Powell of Choctaw, Okla.,
passed up an offer from wrestling
powerhouse Oklahoma State to com
pete for the Huskers. Powell, who was
among the top five overall recruits in
the country, also was recruited by
Oklahoma, Northern Iowa and Iowa
State.
“It came down to us and
Oklahoma State,” Kelber said. “It was
a big choice for him, because it’s hard
for Oklahoma kids to go out of state.
They put so much pressure on the kids
to stay in-state.
“It was a huge step for him to pick
us over them. They’re really shocked
down in Oklahoma right now.”
Powell won both the freestyle and
Greco-Roman titles at Junior
Nationals last summer and in 1997. If
he wins both competitions again next
simuner, Powell will have a chance to
become just the second wrestler in his
tory to become a six-time Junior
National champion.
Powell is also a two-time state high
school champion and the defending
champion at 103 pounds.
“He’s a stud,” Kelber said. “He
really believed he could be a champi
on here. We’re lucky he made that
choice, and we’re real excited about
it.”
LBSU coach: Politics play role in regional site
By Andrew Strnad
Staff writer
Like college football, college vol
leyball is winding down the regular
season with the three top teams all
undefeated: Penn State, Nebraska and
Long Beach State.
Unlike football, volleyball can’t
end the season with more than one
undefeated team.
“That’s what’s so ridiculous about
football,” Penn State Coach Russ Rose
said. “You can have more than one
undefeated team, and then the presi
dents end up deciding who the champi
on is. That won’t happen here.”
What will occur is a newly expand
ed tournament of 64 teams from 48,
with thechampion to be crowned in
Madison, Wis., at this year’s Final
Four.
And with just VA weeks until the
NCAA Tournament, the three giants -
No. 1 Long Beach State (26-0), No. 2
Penn State (26-0) and No. 3 Nebraska
(25-0) - have put themselves into posi
tion to play host to NCAA regionals.
In volleyball, not only are the first
and second round matches played at a
host university’s court, but the region
als are as well.
But how the host universities are
selected isn’t that simple.
“You’re asking the wrong guy,”
Nebraska Coach Terry Pettit said. “I
don’t know or pretend to know where
those discussions will go”
In years past, it hasn’t always been
the top four teams in the nation.
Attendance, end-of-season perfor
mance and strength of schedule often
are factors used by the NCAA volley
ball committee in determining who
gets to play host to a regional. Also, if
top teams lose in the first two rounds,
they couldn’t play host to a regional.
Long Beach State Coach Brian
Gimmillaro thinks politics is another
variable weighed by the committee,
which isn’t fair to other teams.
“It’s a joke,” Gimmillaro said.
Gimmillaro was referring to the
brackets of the 1997 tournament,
which pitted No. 1 LBSU against No.
3 Stanford, while No. 2 Penn State met
No. 8 Florida in the Final Four.
LBSU finished the regular season
No. 1 by 48 points over Penn State, but
the Nittany Lions still received the top
seed.
“I don’t think that’s by accident,”
Gimmillaro said. “(The NCAA) want
ed Penn State in the Finals.”
Gimmillaro also cited the 1994
season when a No. 4 Ohio State team
was passed over for a regional by No. 5
Penn State, even after being defeated
by the Buckeyes at the end of the year.
“Penn State is courted and support
ed, and you can’t do any more for
them,” Gimmillaro said.
Pettit would like the regionals to
be awarded not after the regular sea
son, but before the season starts.
“That would be the fairest vfay to
do it,” Pettit said. “I think we need4o go
in that direction in order to help the
sport grow.”
In the meantime, the committee
will select four teams after the season
as fairness and objectivity will be left
to the eye of the beholder.
“It’s better now, but I think people
should be very humble with the oppor
tunities they’ve been presented to
them. We’ve all been lucky,”
Gimmillaro said.
The four lucky teams this year
have yet to be determined, but with top !
three teams putting a stranglehold on
the top, there’s a wide-open race for die i
fourth remaining regional. !
Rose thinks a West Coast team has 1
the inside track to playing host to a 1
regional. No. 4 Stanford, at 23-2 over
all, is the two-time defending national i
champion and hasn’t lost a match since <
ISA TODAY/AVGACcacitt pell
Week 11 po«-Nov. 16,1998
RK School (First-Place Votes) *96 Record
1 Long Beach SI (34) 26-0
2 Penn St. (24) 26-0
3 Nebraska (2) 25-0
4 Stanford 23-2
5 Florida 26-2
6 BYU 24-2
7 Hawaii 24-2
8 Wisconsin 23-4
9 Pacific 22-5
10 UC Santa Barbara 24-5
11 USC 19-4
12 Texas 21-3
13 Arkansas 24-3
14 Michigan St. 21-4
15 Colorado 20-4
16 UCLA 13-10
17 Kansas St. 17-8
18 San Diego 21-4
19 Arizona 19-6
20 Illinois 17-9
21 Loyola Marymount 18-7
22 Texas A&M 16-8
23 Louisville 22-4
24 Texas Tech 19-10
25 Northern Iowa 23-2
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sept. 4 against Nebraska.
“Experience and certainly setting
s critical,” Rose said. “That’s why
Stanford is always there. Something
tas to be said for the confidence of
hose players at Stanford.”
The brackets won’t be announced
intil Nov. 29th with first-round match
;s beginning on Dec. 3.
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Crouch helps
NU through
rough season
CROUCH from page 9
start at Nebraska was a high point.
Beyond that, Crouch had to think a
little bit.
The Huskers fell to KSU for the
first time since 1968 Saturday, but
after staring at a wall full of Husker
history in the tunnel below South
Stadium, Crouch came up with one
more high point
“Look what happened last week,”
Crouch said. “That was a high point -
playing a big game like that - show
ing that we can compete with the No.
1 team in the country. Right there’s a
high point for me.
“All year long, we’ve been doubt
ed as being the same football team
that we have been. I just think that we f
went out and we showed a lot of peo
ple that we can still play football
here.”
At first, moving the ball against
the Wildcats was easy, Crouch said.
In their first possession, the Huskers
pushed the ball 80 yards on eight
plays for a touchdown.
From then on, however, it wasn’t
that easy. But Crouch just chalks it up
as experience.
“All of a sudden, we got into a
dogfight, and things started getting
tougher,” Crouch said. “But those are
all things you can learn from.”
And v$k> knows what would have
happened if a flag would have been
thrown on that fourth-quarter play
Saturday?
“I don’t think they would have
been able to stop us,” Crouch said.
“But if you’re not given the opportu
nity to do it, it’s hard to do.
“It’s over now, and we’re not
going to dwell on it”
Crouch also said he won’t dwell
on what will happen when a healthy
Newcombe returns to battle for the
starting spot jj
For now, Crouch is focused on
improving his confidence and leader
ship skills j|
“It keeps on getting better for me
as the weeks go by and more games
are played,” Crouch said. “The more
times I get to work with seniors that
are big leaders already - you learn a
lot from the older players. That’s why
we’ve been successful for so many
years.”
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