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University of Nebraska-Lincoln
entennial Concert
Honoring Graduate Education
& Creative Activity
Thursday, January 27
8 PM, Kimball Hall
Free Admission
Featuring performances by Alumni:
Richard Drews, tenor (top right); Lawrence
Gwozdz, saxophonist (lower right);
NU Faculty: George Ritchie, organ; Moran
Quintet; and Graduate Students: Milvia
Rodriguez, (D.M.A.), piano; Charles Saenz,
(D.M.A.), trumpet.
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Ffriend does it all in NU win
FFRIEND from page 20 _
was just a matter of time before I broke
out,” Ffriend said. “Well, now my con
fidence is getting better, I’m not feel
ing the jitters any more and I’m just
playing basketball. I’m doing a pretty
good job right now.”
Both Coach Danny Nee and team
mate Cary Cochran said Ffriend’s
playing was growing by leaps and
bounds.
Cochran, who dished out a career
high eight assists, many of them to
Ffriend, said the center’s physical abili
ty was amazing to him.
“Kimani’s athleticism, on the
Richter scale, is off of it,” Cochran
said. “He has so much athleticism out
there that it’s almost scary.”
Nee praised his center’s improved
maturity but cautioned against
unbounded optimism.
“A lot of it for Kimani is mental
makeup. If he can come with his ‘A’
game and stay focused, the talent and
potential is there.
“It’s going to be a process, though,
three steps forward and one step back.
But he does have the potential and abil
ity to be a dominating player in this
league.”
By the end of the Huskers 14-point
win in front of 8,644 fans at the Bob
Devaney Sports Center, the only thing
in doubt was if Ffriend would reach the
unusual 20-point, 20-rebound plateau,
one he missed by only a single board.
But Baylor was able to remain
•within striking distance of Nebraska
(9-7 overall and 2-3 in the Big 12
Conference) for most of the contest,
because of the long-range bombing of
Jamie Kendrick and Tevis Stukes.
Kendrick, who did not score in the
first half, but had 16 points in the sec
ond, single-handedly kept BU (9-7 and
0-5) in die game for much of the sec
ond. His 3-pointer drew Baylor to
within five, 43-38, with 13 minutes
remaining.
The Bears were still down only five
with eight minutes to play, but the
Huskers, sparked by a block and alley
oop lay-up by Ffriend, went on an 11-2
run to put the game away.
For the game, Baylor put up 34 3
pointers, while shooting only 24 times
from inside the arc. Stukes hit five 3
pointers in the opening half before
cooling off after halftime.
Nebraska took a different approach
in getting its second consecutive con
ference win - hit the offensive glass
with a vengeance. The Huskers had
more offensive rebounds (21) than the
Bears had defensive rebounds (18)
while outrebounding the Bears 50-27
overall.
Ffriend was the only Husker to fin
ish in double figures in rebounds. But
the NU star said the game was won on
the boards and was a total team victory.
He claimed that his own improvement
was matched by the improvement of
the team.
“It seems like die team is so much
better now,” Ffriend said. “We’re com
ing together, talking to each other more
on the court. The chemistry has gotten
a lot better. We’re hitting the boards
hard and finding the hot hand, and I
hope we can continue this-winning
streak.”
1 itans, Rams move onto to Super Bowl
SUPER BOWL from page 20
NFC championship.
“It didn’t matter who did it,” the
quarterback said.
“As long as he was wearing a Rams
jersey, it didn’t matter.
“But when it comes down to mak
ing a play, we’ve made plays all year
long. Ricky came through today.”
Proehl had six catches for 100
yards. None of those - or the 33 recep
tions he made this season, or the 467 of
his entire 10-year career - meant any
thing close to his leaping grab over
backup comerback Brian Kelly. It will
be the second Super Bowl appearance
for the Rams -the first came in 1979,
when the team lost to the Pittsburgh
Steelers 31-19.
This was the third step in a long,
strange trip to the Super Bowl for
Tennessee.
The Titans won their first playoff
game on the most improbable of plays
-a lateral by Wycheck on a kickoff
return that Kevin Dyson took 75 yards
for the winning touchdown against
Buffalo with three seconds left.
Last week, Tennessee shut down
Peyton Manning and the high-powered
Colts and won 19-16 in Indianapolis.
And this week it continued its mas
tery over the Jags, who had the NFDs
best regular-season record at 14-2 and
crushed Miami 62-7 in its first playoff
game last week.
Tennessee won Sunday as it has all
season: a little offense, a lot of defense
and a big contribution from special
teams. All of it turned during the 16
point spurt in 4 minutes, 28 seconds in
the third quarter.
It began with a six-play, 76-yard
drive that ended with the go-ahead
touchdown on a sneak by McNair.
Forty-three of the yards came on
penalties - 15 on a roughing-the-pass
er call when McNair somehow ducked
out of a 10-yard sack by Kevin Hardy,
rolled left and completed a 15-yard
pass to Eddie George.
“You can’t play sloppy in a game
like this and win,” said Jacksonville
tight end Kyle Brady, who caught a
touchdown pass but fhmbled twice.
Brady’s first fumble came on the
next sequence. Jason Fisk recovered at
the Jaguars’ 35, then Wycheck
returned the favor by fumbling back to
the Jaguars.
Two plays later, Fisk and Josh
Evans sacked Mark Brunell in the end
zone for a safety, and the score was 19
14. It was the sixth safety this season
for Tennessee and second in the play
offs, an NFL record.
It also set up seven more points:
On the ensuing free kick, Derrick
Mason, who earlier set up a score with
a 44-yard kickoff return, went 80
yards for a TD to make it 26-14.
Tennessee’s trip to the Super Bowl
follows three straight 8-8 seasons, one
in Houston, one in Memphis and the
third at Vanderbilt Stadium in
Nashville. This year, in its new home
at Adelphia Coliseum, it went 13-3
and qualified as a wild card, a game
behind Jacksonville in the AFC
Central even though it beat the Jaguars
twice.
The Titans’ success is especially
remarkable considering how close
they c;ame to losing in the» wild-card
game against Buffalo.
“I never thought that it would hap
pen - reaching the Super Bowl,” said
Bruce Matthews, the 17-year veteran
who has played his entire career with
the Oilers-Titans and holds the record
for most games played by an offensive
lineman (264).
Celebrating
100 Years of
Graduate
Education,
Research and
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Inaugural Symposium
Reflecting on the Contributions of Graduate
Education, Research and Creative Activity
Thursday, January 27,2000
2-5 p.m. * Kimball HaH
Speakers: Robert Knoll, NU professor emeritus of English; Karen
Kune, NU professor of art; James Olson, historian and president
emeritus of die University of Missouri; Kennedy Reed, NU graduate
and an atomic physicist at the Lawrence Livermore National Labora
tory; and Clayton Yeutter, NU graduate, former president of the
Chicago Mercantile Exchange and U.S. Secretary of Apiculture,
1989-91.
All Events Free and Open to the Public
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