Road no easier
for swim squad
■ While men face top
teams in Dallas, women
battle Southern Methodist.
By Brian Christopherson
Staff writer
The Nebraska men’s swimming and
diving team continues a grinding sched
ule this weekend in the two-day Dallas
Morning News Classic, which features
five ranked teams.
The highly regarded tournament
features top-ranked conference
brethren Texas, eighth-ranked
Minnesota, No. 15 Texas A&M and
22nd-ranked Florida State.
The Husker men are riding into the
meet as No. 17 and have gone 1-4 in
dual meets pending results from last
night’s meet against Southern
Methodist.
“It’s a meet that features some top
competition, and we know a little about
the Texas schools,” Nebraska Head
Coach Cal Bentz said. “It’s a long sea
son, but we need to continue to
improve.”
Main figures will be Adam Pine in
the 50-yard butterfly and Anthony
” It’s a meet that
features some top
competition ...”
Cal Bentz
NU head coach
Rogis in the 100-yard freestyle.
Both of the Australian natives have
been consistently strong throughout the
season. ,
NU also should be helped in the
points category by the emergence of
diver Erik Cook, who will be a factor in
only his second meet after an injury this
season.
The women won’t let the men steal
all the fun. They square off with the
ninth-ranked Mustangs of SMU on
Saturday.
Shandra Johnson has been the con
sistent force on the women’s side.
Johnson and the Huskers will face a dif
ficult task in improving their 1-5 dual
record against the Mustangs.
SMU brings back a solid team from
last year’s, which finished third at the
NCAA Championships.
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STEFFON BRADFORD and the Huskers head to Lawrence, Kan., for a Big 12 matchup with the Kansas Jayhawks on
Saturday.
Huskers battle No. 8 Kansas
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game with a lot of confidence.”
Chenowith is coming off a 22
point, 17-rebound performance in an
87-79 win over in-state rival Kansas
State. The preseason All-American has
been struggling as of late offensively
but is backed up on the front line by five
other Jayhawks who measure 6-foot-9
or taller.
The game will be another physical
matchup that the Huskers will try to
exploit down low with the 6-foot-11
Ffriend and Steffon Bradford against
Chenowith and the rest of the KU post
players.
“I feel like we got to take it to him
and get him into foul trouble early,” said
” I feel like we got to take it to
(Chenowith) and get him into foul
trouble early.”
Steffon Bradford
NU forward
Bradford, who scored quickly against
Iowa State with eight of NU’s first 10
points. “I am going to try and exploit
everything I can and score. You can’t be
soft. If you are, you are in for a long sea
son.
Fffiend said the difference of play
in the conference has to do with other
factors than just the players themselves.
“The Big 12 refs are just allowing
us to play,” Ffriend said. “That con
tributes to the physical play of the
league. That is why the conference is so
strong - because the refs allow you to
play.”
But Bradford disagreed with his
ffontcourt mate.
“It is all mental,” Bradford said.
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ence on Fox Sports as well.
“This will be our toughest chal
lenge so far,” NU senior guard Kubik
said. “We expect a big crowd when wei
play them, but we like that It’s energy!
for all of the players out there.
“We’re also excited because we
have a good rivalry going with them.”
The two teams have split their last
four games in the past two seasons,
each winning at home both times. In
their last meeting, the Huskers upset
the No. 15 Cyclones in a 68-67 win in
front of 13,135 at the Devaney Center,
the Big 12’s largest crowd ever.
But it was in Ames where
Sanderford said Nebraska learned a lot
about what has made ISU the power it
has been the last three years: Stacy
Frese.
The junior All-American guard hit
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will be a knee-knocker.”
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an NCAA record eight-of-eight 3
pointers and scored 29 points in a 79
58 Cyclone win.
“It was really frustrating,” Kubik
said. “The tough part about her is she
has unlimited range. Just when you felt
like you were guarding her, she’d step
back and keep knocking them down.
“When they hit 3s, the crowd gets
into it. We’ve got to limit their attempts
&nd keep the crowd out of it as much as
possible.”
Tlie Huskers should be at least
somewhat prepared for the difficult
circumstances surrounding them.
Nebraska proved it could beat a ranked
team on die road by upsetting No. 21
Kansas 81-69 Tuesday night and
avoiding an 0-2 Big 12 start.
But to roll with ISU, which blew
out then-No. 6 Texas Tech 62-37 on
Jan. 2, the Huskers will have to make
far fewer mistakes than they did at KU,
Sanderford said.
“If we play the best we can play, it
will be a knee-knocker,” Sanderford
said. “If we have a sub-par perfor
mance, we could get blown out.”
