Huskers want solid play against Baylor
By Christopher Heine
Staff writer
The well of confidence the
Nebraska women’s basketball team
built up with blow-out, home-court
victories in December sprung a leak in
January.
Coach Paul Sanderford’s
Comhuskers lost four straight road
games last month, which left the team
needing to prove that they are a crew of
warriors and not just a group of paper
tigers coddled by their home crowd.
The failure to win on the road has
taken its toll on NU’s confidence.
Sanderford said following
Sunday’s victory over Iowa State that
his team’s January road trouble “was a
big drain.”
However, the Comhuskers will be
able to forget about last month’s inse
curities if they have a stronger showing
in February.
NU has six regular-season games
left to get its self-belief back and posi
tion itself for an entry into the NCAA
tournament. />_
what the Huskers learned Sunday
against the Cyclones. The thrill of the
down-to-the-buzzer victory has got the
Huskers off their heels, she said.
“I just feel like after Sunday’s game
there isn’t any pressure onus,” Gilmore
_ said. “We’re
This crucial
stretch begins
tonight as the
Comhuskers play
host to Baylor
(12-10 overall, 4
6 in the Big 12
Conference) in
the 7:05 contest.
It can’t win on the
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We re no longer the
hunted but the hunter
Naciska Gilmore
NU forward
no longer the
hunted but die
hunter. Now
we’re just
going to go out
and try to win
the last six.”
Senior for
ward Cori
McDill con
road tonight, but NU can definitely
help its cause with strong play and a
victory.
Nebraska forward Naciska
Gilmore said the game should show
trasted Gilmore’s statements about the
pressure of winning in February, and
more specifically, the contest vs. BU.
“We know if we don’t win this
game, the other games down the road
won’t mean as much,” McDill said.
NU is currently 16-7 and is tied for
fifth place with Kansas State in the Big
12 conference with a 5-5 record.
The Huskers are considered to be
on the NCAA tournament “bubble.”
However, NU has sturdy credentials
over other such “bubble” teams. The
Big 12 is perceived as one of the
nation’s toughest leagues this year and
Nebraska has an impressive RPI,
standing at No. 24 in the land.
All that stated, the Huskers would
feel more confident about their post
season chances if they extend their 27
game home winning streak tonight
McDill said it is a must-win game.
“Things are starting to dwindle
down to whffre these games mean
more than the ones earlier this year,”
McDill said. “It’s time to lay it all on the
line.”
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NU throwers
follow legacy
of success
STONES from page 7
Wibbels, who finished fifth in the
20-pound weight throw at the Sevigne,
has “nothing to lose” in the shot put.
And occasionally, she has a lot to win,
like when she beat Beachler a few
weeks ago.
“That’s motivated me more she
knows,” Beachler said. “After she gave
me a bitter pill of defeat, I had to assess
what I was doing and why I wasn’t
throwing as far.”
“Oh, I knew about it bothering her,”
Wibbels said of beating Beachler. “I
just chose not to tell her. But I knew it
bothered her. It’s like me in the hammer.
When you’ve got an event that’s your
event, you’re gomg to want to do well in
it.
“But we don’t get mad each other—
we don’t get mad at all—if one of us
beats somebody else. It’s like ‘You beat
me? Oh cool, now I can come back and
beat you.’ It’s completely positive.”
Colligan sees both Beachler and
Wibbels as having the potential to make
big runs toward conference and nation
al titles in the future. MaybeTiot this
year, although he expects them to do
well.
What Colligan appreciates most,
though, is the ability to have a strong
program year in and year out.
“Expectations get raised for myself
and the program. I remember starting
here and dreaming about my first 50
foot thrower as a coach. That’s still a
magical mark for me. I feel like I’ve got
great throwers every year.”
And Wibbels hopes that she can add
a few numbers to those record boards
that sit at the south end of the track.
Does she study those numbers?
Wibbels put her hand up to her face and
smiles. Yes, she knows them. By heart
The records are memorized.
“I read the numbers every day,”
Wibbels said. “All I think to myself is
‘OK, I’m going to get that maik; OK,
this what I have to throw.’ I do that every
day.
“It’s not about ‘Oh, can I throw
that?’ It’s ‘When am I going to throw
it?”’
Faehn-Tetreault
good influence
ASSISTANT from page 7
power for Nebraska gymnasts.
“Learning from the way my coach
es coached and taking that with me
makes me the coach I am,” Faehn
Tetreault said.
And according to her associates,
she’s a pretty dam good one.
“She’s been such a great addition to
our staff,” said Head Coach Dan
Kendig, who worked with Faehn
Tetreault in the summer. “I brought her
in and am so confident m her because of
the experience she has brought here.”
“She tells it like it is, and when she
sees something she doesn’t like, she
steps up and says so,” junior All
American Heather Brink said.
This is probably a trait Faehn
Tetreault picked up from her coaches.
She said they all had different methods
of motivation that she uses now.
“I don’t beat around the bush, and I
think that’s the way to go. When they
know what’s right or what’s wrong now,
they’ll get better quicker.”
And right now her beam team con
tinues to do just that. With seniors
Nicole Wilkinson and Courtney Brown
hitting 9.80s and higher in meets, it
seems as though Faehn-Tetreault
knows what she’s doing.
The coach looked at McLaughlin
on die beam, tired, struggling, and saw
herself. As Kendig watched, Faehn
Tetreault assured her everything was
fine. The three looked at each other,
nodded their heads, and smiled, know
ing they were on the same page.
When you’re an experienced coach,
you can handle the rough days.
