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By David Diehl
Staff writer
Sour attitudes were more than
plentiful from the Nebraska
wrestling team as the No. 5 Cowboys
showed just how much distance there
was between them and the seventh
ranked Comhuskers.
The Cowboys won eight of 10
matches Sunday, tallying a 30-7 vic
tory in front of 1,143 atahe Bob
Devaney Sports Center.
The win was die Cowboys’ sev
enth-straight victory over the
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COWBOYS 90
HUSKERS 7
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Huskers.
“We’ve got to get better,” Coach
Tim Neumann said. “We only won
six of 20 matches this weekend, and
that really concerns me.”
Nebraska fell to Oklahoma 27-12
Friday night, winning four matches
vs. the Sooners.
Neumann said the Huskers have a
long way to go before the Big 12
meet March 4.
“We have guys that question
themselves,” he said. “We got some
guys that are going to have to regroup
after tough losses todays <; o* iv. >
The toughest loss for NU came in
the 197-pound matchup pitting No. 2
< Brad Vering against the Cowboys ’
third-ranked Marie Munoz, who was
the only person to beat Vering this
year.
Vering took control of the match
in the first period, notching a quick
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BRAD VERING IS TAKEN DOWN by OSU’s Mark Munoz, during the meet on Sunday at the Devanay Center. Vering, who lost to Munoz In December, tailed to
bealNe. S-ranked Munoz. The Huskers lest to OSU 30-7.
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Coming off a 20-14 loss to No.l
Iowa, the No. 5 Oklahoma State
Cowboys rebounded Sunday after
noon by routing No.7 Nebraska 30-7.
Cowboys’ Coach John Smith was
relieved to leave Lincoln with a victo
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“It was good to come back,”
Smith said. “Friday night we wrestled
Iowa and had a hard loss there. It was
good to come out and make some
things happen for ourselves.”
Smith acknowledged the
Comhuskers’ extremely tough week
end, which started Friday night
against No. 4 Oklahoma.
“Nebraska’s a tough team,” Smith
said. “They had a tough weekend.
The weekend that they had, we have
to treat ourselves like we just had it,
going into next week. We can’t sit on
the good match we had today. We
have to come out Monday and
Tuesday and get ready to go. We have
a tough weekend ahead of us.”
The Cowboys started to pull away
from NU after the fifth match of the
afternoon.
With OSU leading 9-7 going into
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UMAM FFRIEMD FIGHTS with Missouri to nato a basket Saturday
in the Devaney Center. TheHuskers last to the Tlfws 82-78.
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Buskers fail to find Ffriend in closing minutes
By Matthew Hansen
Staff writer
A depressed Kimani Ffriend sat in
front of die microphone, eyes downcast,
mouth agape.
TIGERS 82
HUSKERS 78
A question was asked about his level
of disappointment following the
Husker’s 84-78 loss at the hands of the
visiting Missouri Tigers. ,
Ffriend didn’t really have to answer
His expression spoke volumes. But he
did anyway.
“This is a worse loss than even the
Texas game,” the NU center said. “We
keep putting out our all in practice, and
we came in and everything was going
right for us... ”
Then Ffriend’s voice trailed off,
barely audible.
“Then I think we just gave them the
game,” he whispered.
The Comhuskers had led by 11, 37
26, at halftime. With eight minutes to
play, the margin was eight.
But Mizzou, despite foul trouble, an
off-shooting day from leading scorer
Clarence Gilbert and an opening 10
minutes in which they scored only six
points, somehow managed to win.
And, according to Husker guard
Matt Davison, Nebraska somehow man
aged to lose.
“We should’ve won this game,” he
said. “The lull we had late in the second
half, you can’t do that against a good
team. In the late minutes, we needed
somebody to step up and deliver, and it
just didn’t happen.”
; ~ That late Husker lull actually began
with seven minutes left and NU leading
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Freshman, coach play it cool, come out on top
By Joshua Camenzind
Staff writer '«■
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Missouri Coach Quin Snyder and
guard Kareem Rush stood in the hallway
answering questions in a calm and col
lected manner - no different than how
they had played against Nebraska.
In a game where most would have
panicked and lost their cool, the two
rookies kept theirs and found a way to
win in comeback fashion against the
Huskers, 82-78.
With Tiger leading scorers Keyon
Dooling and Clarence Gilbert strug
gling to find their shots early in the
game, Rush entered die game and made
sure Mizzou stayed within distance ol
the Huskers, all the while playing in a
fashion that would have suggested the
Tigers were up 12 instead of die oppo
site.
“Kareem is a steadying influence,”
said Snyder, who has guided his team tc
a 7-1 start in the Big 12 Conference in
his first year at Mizzou. “He plays at a
nice tempo, and he has that gift. He
makes me relaxed.”
Snyder coached the game much like
Rush played it. The former Duke assis
tant watched as die season-high home
crowd cranked up the volume, and his
players missed shot after shot.
Meanwhile, Nebraska had built a 21-8
fold halfway through the first half. -
But you could not tell from looking
at the coach. There was no panic from
the sidelines.
: “We knew they were going to come
out aggressively,” Snyder said. “The
wheels didn’t come off, and we hung in
long enough to have a chance in die sec
ond half.”
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