KU cruises; Williams cites defense
NU women fall again
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BY BRIAN CHRETOPHTOON
LAWRENCE, Kan. -The sign
that hangs in the famed Allen
Fieldhouse gym reads, "Pay
heed, all who enter.”
On Wednesday, Kansas
showed NU exactly why visitors
should follow such advice as it
ground to a halt any NU hopes
of stealing a Big-12 win in the
Jawhawks’ house. They did so
by guarding the home court
with a stingy defense that held
Nebraska to only 20 first-half
points in a 84-62 KU victory.
Throw in slashing senior
guard Kenny Gregory's game
high 20 points, the 33 from the
inside combination of sopho
more forwards Drew Gooden
and Nick Collison with a tough
defense, and KU showed the rest
of the Big 12 conference exactly
why they are tops in the stand
ings and No. 5 in the national
polls.
“Nobody else in the Big 12 is
at the level we're at,” Gooden
said. "Everyone wants to beat us
and we feel like we have some
thing to protect and we did that
tonight”
Kansas Coach Roy Williams
credited the win to his team's
defense in the first half, which
held the Comhuskers to only 20
points and gave the ‘Hawks an
18 point half-time cushion.
“We played very good
defense in the first half and got
some easy baskets off of it,”
Williams said. “I wouldn’t go so
far as to say we played that well
in the second half. I think
Nebraska actually outplayed us
for large portions in the second
half.”
The first-half hole that
Nebraska left itself was way too
deep to dig themselves out,
though.
KU used three big runs in
the first 20 minutes to put NU in
check. The dagger was a 10-0
run that Kansas ran off following
“We played very good defense in the first half
and got some easy baskets off of it. I wouldn't
go so far as to say we played that well in the
second half. I think Nebraska actually
outplayed us for large portions in the second
half."
Roy Williams
Kansas basketball coach
junior guard Jeff Boschee’s tech
nical foul.
After NU junior guard Cary
Cochran converted the techni
cal foul shots and brought the
score to 26-18, KU exploded
with five straight baskets.
Williams said he didn’t think
the technical inspired his team
or at least he hoped not.
“It didn’t spark me, that’s for
sure,” Williams said. "The team
will run for his technical foul
tomorrow.”
The boys in blue will be run
ning with smiles on their faces
though, sure to climb in the
rankings after the win, coupled
with No. 4 Tennessee's Tuesday
night loss to Kentucky.
Williams said his team can’t
rest on its 14-1, and 3-0 confer
ence-leading record now. He
said things are just getting start
ed.
“We're 3-0, he said. “We got
13 left. That means we could end
up 3-13.”
Brands preaches high intensity to Huskers
school steal record (309) by
grabbing seven of the Raiders’
19 takeaways. Sophomore for
ward Plenette Pierrson led all
scorers with 16 points while
grabbing eight rebounds.
For the second straight
game, no Husker scored in dou
ble figures. Greichaly Cepero
and Stephanie Jones both had
largest lead was 24 - shot 19
more field goals and 13 more
free throws and grabbed nine
more offensive boards than NU.
There's no mercy in the near
future for the Huskers. Next up
are road games at No. 17 Texas
and third-place Colorado.
"I’d like to pull my hair out,”
Sanderford said. “But all I can do
is go to work tomorrow.”
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Brands said the key to
becoming a successful coach is
building a bridge of trust
between mentor and subject.
If s a task that is a lot harder than
it sounds, he said.
“Any punk can talk,” Brands
said. “I can come in here and
talk a good talk. But why should
they believe us? There’s so many
examples where people give
their word and say things and
they don't follow through with
it”
But it is clear why Husker
wrestlers should do a little more
than just lend an ear when
Brands begins to talk. His record
speaks for itself and it speaks
volumes.
After graduating from Iowa
in 1992, Brands had accumulat
ed numbers that are just stag
gering. He was a three-time All
American and won as many Big
Ten titles.
As a two-time national
champion, he won 137 matches
and lost only seven in four years
as a Hawkeye. He also won a
bronze medal in this year’s
Olympics in Sydney, Australia,
and has claimed two titles each
in the World Cup and World
Freestyle Championships.
It’s no secret, Manning said,
how Brands achieved heights
that astonishing. And it’s no
secret how he’s going to try to get
his wrestlers to attain similar
accomplishments: its through
hard work and intensity. High
intensity.
It’s the first trait that
Manning noticed when he first
met Brands in 1993.
“They’re honest and
upright,” Manning said about
Brands, as well as his twin
brother Tom, an assistant coach
at Iowa and equally dominant
wrestler. “What you see is what
you get.”
With his numbers, knowl
edge and attitude, Brands stuck
out to Manning as a clear cut
favorite to be one of his right
hand men.
Now as Brands is going
through the second leg of his life
with wrestling, he said he came
to NU to open doors to other
opportunities, namely running
his own program.
He won’t, however, put a
timeline on his coaching career
that will cap off his relationship
with wrestling that started in a
body shop in his hometown of
Sheldon, Iowa. ,
Young Terry and Tom were
approachedby their father’s co
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HOUSTON Bob Stoops, the
Oklahoma coach who led the
Sooners to the national champi
onship in only his second sea
son at the school, received the
Bear Bryant Award on
Wednesday night as the top col
lege football coach.
Stoops was selected from a
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"We need to do it again or
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neat what our program was able
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"We are no different from
anyone else. We'll put it to rest
shortly and get back to work.”
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and beat Florida State 13-2 in
the Orange Bowl for the school's
first national title since 1985.
Oklahoma started the season
ranked No. 19 and made a
steady rise to No. 1, defeating
No. 11 Texas, No. 2 Kansas State
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worker who immediately told
them wrestling would be their
sport.
“I remember his exact
words,” Brands said. "You’re
going to be too small to play bas
ketball. Here’s a cradle and this
is a cross face. We’ll see you next
week.”
And so began a wrestling
career. The rest, as they say, is
history. And it's still being writ
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