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SportsTuesday Huskers hit road to battle Buffs ■ If Nebraska wants to win, Coach Nee says, NU must stop Jaquay Walls. By Joshua Camenzind Staff writer Nebraska Coach Danny Nee said the 82-78 loss to Missouri on Saturday left his men’s basketball team with a “lot of ifs, should-haves and could haves.” It also left the Comhuskers with a must-win game on the road against a surging Colorado team on Tuesday at 8 p.m. It’s a game that might be crucial to NU’s hopes for a postseason appear ance. CU, at 12-9 overall and 3-6 in the Big 12 Conference, provides a formi dable challenge after coming off a win against Kansas State, and is creeping up on Nebraska (10-11 and 3-5) in the Big 12 rankings. Colorado is a team ready to explode,” Nee said. While the Huskers have had success in Boulder, winning the last two meet ings, they have wee not experienced walking off the floor on the winning side in a visiting arena this year. The Huskers have, however, have won one game in neu tral arena during the Hoop and Quill Classic. Nee said Nebraska typically has put together a solid effort in Boulder against the Buffaloes, usually one of the league’s doormats. “We have played well every time against Colorado,” Nee said. “We have just been fortunate to put together good games out there.” As far as the importance of the game, Nee has an opinion. “At home, on the road - it doesn’t make a difference,” Nee said. “They are all big now.” For the Huskers to even their record to .500 overall and head into. Saturday’s matchup with conference leader Iowa State with momentum, they must first stop CU guard Jaquay Walls. Walls is coming off a 19-point per formance against the Wildcats and H At home, on the wad - it doesn’t make a difference. They are all big now.” Danny Nee Nebraska basketball coach scored a Big 12 season-high 32 points earlier this year against KSU. The senior is averaging 16.7 points for the season. “I love Walls,” Nee said. “Danny Walker is familiar with him because he went to Compton (a Los Angeles based junior college) as well. He is just a great player.” Nee said that he will go with a new lineup to start the game against CU. Cary Cochran will start in place of Matt Davison, who has started the past two games for defensive purposes. He said he likes what Davison can bring to the team off the bench in this game. Davison will be needed to combat Colorado’s bench, which features three players who average eight points or better. Nee is proud of his football player pick-up. “He comes in and fills a role,” said Nee of Davison, who had six points against Mizzou. “I never imagined that Matt Davison would come in and start and play 20 minutes.” * Lydia S. Gonzales/DN FRESHMAN KARIN LARKA practices In Bob Devanoy Sports Center on Monday for the Nebraska swim team. NU women gear up for Big 12 tilt By Brian Christopherson Staff writer Mention the “T-word” around the Nebraska swimming pool in the next two weeks, and grins turn to frowns, especially on the faces of NU women swimmers and divers. That delicate word is Texas, of course, a seemingly natural rival of the Comhusker swimming and diving team. Texas also just happens to be the team that lurks on Nebraska’s path to winning the Big 12 Championship this season. Right now, the focus is a little stronger for the women, who will be competing at the con ference championships two weeks before the men on Feb. 17-19 in College Station, Texas. “We didn’t win the Big 12 last season, so we’re going into this meet thinking that we have everything to win and nothing to lose,” Please see SWIM on 15 NU’s Ingram nabs personal best at KSU ■ Senior jumps 20 feet, 10 inches in the long jump for NCAA-qualifying mark. From Staff Reports Senior Dalhia Ingram had one of the best meets of her career on Saturday, leaping an automatic NCAA qualifying long jump for the meet at Kansas State in Manhattan, Kan. There were three other teams on the women’s side - Arkansas, Abilene Christian and Kansas State - none of which finished ahead of the Comhuskers. NU got a solid chunk of its points from Ingram, whose 20-foot, 10-inch leap in the long jump is an indoor per sonal best. Ingram also won the triple jump, marking the fourth time this sea son she’s won both everts. “That was a very nice long jump,” Nebraska Coach Gary Pepin said “She kind of dominated the field - so she was kind of jumping against herself. But that’s what I expect from her.” The 4-by-400-meter team also per formed well on the women’s side. Cheryl Harmon, Lesley Owusu, Stella iuassen ana new comer Jelena Stanisavljevic ticked off a provi sional qualifying I time of three min utes, 39.47 sec onds. Other Husker ™ Innrani women garnering **ram provisional quali fying marks for the NCAA meet included freshman shot-putters Melissa Price and Leann Boerema, high-jumpers Jessica Thompson and Carrie Braness, weight thrower Erin Wibbels and 400-meter dash runner Klassen. On the men’s side, Sheldon Hutchinson was a provisional qualifier in the triple jump with a mark of 51-6 3/4. Nebraska will next be in action on Friday and Saturday at the 26th annual Frank Sevigne Invitational, one of die largest track meets in America. — SPORTS OPINION— I went to Devaney and saw a movie Brandon Schulte It is an experience that has been duplicated in few theaters around the country. It is not one theater but two, with 15-foot high and 26-foot wide screens and natural surround sound. And the indoor facility can seat more than 13,500 paying customers. But this theater is different. And not just because isn’t owned by the Douglas Theatre Company. Itte owned by the state of Nebraska. More specifically, the University ofNebraska-Lineoln. It doesn’t receive any hot new Hollywood pictures. It’s open only a scant few dates per year. But it offered a matinee Saturday. And I had to go to see this cine matic experience called HuskerVision in action. I arrived at the Bob Devaney Sports Center. I grabbed some pop corn and soda before finding my seat. Just before 12:45 p.m., the scheduled starting time, the lights dimmed. The crowd started to mur mur before the screen began showing basketball highlights full of men in red and white dunking basketballs and hitting jump shots with explo sions all over the screen. Smoke and lights filled the screened there was a live shot of basketball players running onto a stage. After several minutes of shoot ing, other characters in black and gold uniforms appeared and met with the red and white characters at a center circle. The experience of watching the entire Nebraska and Missouri bas ketball game on HuskerVision from the C section of the Sports Center on Saturday wasn’t unlike watching a game on television at a bar or at home. Upon this realization two ques •?. j . - .' ;.. , tions popped into my head: Did I really need to go to the game to see it? And if I’m already there, is HuskerVision really necessary? The jumbo screens became inter esting at the 16-minute mark time out. As the screen panned around the arena I saw fellow fans either waving at me, acting oblivious or hiding from the camera. Then an insurance company brought us the Nebraska “Women of Distinction” portion of the program, which featured Maurtice Ivy as one of Nebraska’s 25 greatest female ath letes. The game continued with occa sional commercial advertisements. The ads were packaged around a highlight during a stoppage of play. And the highlight wasn’t always a good one. Many times die replay was of a foul call or the ball drib bling harmlessly out of bounds, not exactly the kinds of slow-motion action seen during most televised games. Then again, how often do you get to see Runza Rex on a big screen. Please see MOVIE on 14