Kansas dropped to sixth in
the latest ratings after its loss to
Iowa State last Monday. The
Cyclones jumped into the top 10
for the first time this season at
ninth. Oklahoma is 14th after
two wins last week. Texas is the
only other Big 12 school receiv
ing votes.
***
Winning on the road in the
Big 12 is supposed to be difficult
Colorado, however, is 3-2 on the
road in the conference. That
record would put most teams in
the conference title race but the
Buffaloes are only 2-4 at home,
making them the only Big 12
team to have a better record on
the road than at home.
***
Texas A&M is doing its best
to get out of the Big 12 cellar. The
Aggies, 0-9 going into last week,
won two straight over Baylor and
Texas Tech. A&M plays host to
Missouri on Saturday.
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Oklahoma snapped Texas’s
25-game home winning streak
on Saturday night with a 75-54
win over the Longhorns. OU has
won seven in a row.
***
Iowa State recently lost the
services of Nebraska natives
Zach Fortune and Omar Bynum.
Fortune, a Bellevue West gradu
ate who was Mr. Basketball in
2000, tore his ACL and is out for
the remainder of the season.
Bynum, a sophomore from
Omaha North, left the team for
undisclosed reasons. Coach
Larry Eustachy expects him
back soon.
***
With the loss of Kareem Rush
and Clarence Gilbert, Missouri
lost 38.9 points per game. The
Tigers are being forced to get
production from other sources.
Brian Grawer has stepped up,
hitting 14 3-pointers in last
week’s two games.
***
Oklahoma’s Nolan Johnson
is the Big 12 player of the week.
The OU senior scored 23 points
in the win over Texas.
Texas A&M freshman Nick
Anderson is the rookie of the
week. Anderson averaged 16
points in the Aggies’ two wins
last week.
Compiled by Dirk
Chatelain.
Ffriend readies for KSU
low-post double teams
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However, it might not come
easily for the Huskers, a team
coming off a 69-58 loss at Baylor
on Saturday and that has had
trouble putting opponents away
at home. NU’s last four home
games, two wins and two losses,
have been decided by a total of
13 points.
In NU’s last home game, the
Huskers were defeated by three
points by middle-of-the-confer
ence-road Colorado before
bouncing back to defeat
Oklahoma State by three in
overtime a few days later.
“There is very much a con
cern about our mental tough
ness," Ffriend said. “We get 12
to 14- point leads and then let
down. We need to play consis
tently the whole game.”
In the last meeting against
KSU, Nebraska squandered an
eight-point second-half lead
before rallying in the waning
moments to win the nail-biter.
“We get playing well, and
then we sometimes get on
cruise control,” senior guard
Cookie Belcher said. “If I was to
play hard all game and not just
turn it up at the end like I did
(against Kansas State), we
wouldn’t have won by so little in
that game.”
Ffriend expects Kansas State
to be as challenging this time
around. The NU center also
expects to be personally chal
lenged - the Cats will have a
game plan that makes things
difficult for him inside, he said.
Ffriend posted a double-double
in the last meeting, scoring 13
points with 14 rebounds.
“I expect them to double
team a lot,” Ffriend said. “I look
for them to take it inside and try
to create contact and get me out
of the game.”
It's a game of necessity for
the Husker, who still have aspi
rations of playing in a post-sea
son tournament
“We can’t look down the
road right now,” Belcher said.
“We need to start things off
against Kansas State and protect
our home court”
NU's Cosgrove
not having any
problems in pool
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jockeying between school and
swimming.
“It’s just so much easier over
here," Cosgrove said, “because
back home I was driving two or
three hours a day going to the
pool and my school, which
weren’t in the same place. It is
so much easier to combine
them.”
Despite the saved time,
Cosgrove still has few idle
moments. In fact, the quick
pace hasn’t provided much
time to think about home.
“I’ve been so busy I haven’t
had time to get homesick, but I
am sure I will,” Cosgrove said. “I
e-mail home, though, all the
time and keep in touch with all
my friends and family.”
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Grizzlies to move
from Vancouver
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
VANCOUVER, British
Columbia—After six years of los
ing hundreds of games on the
court and millions of dollars at die
bank, the Grizzlies look ready to
leave Vancouver, possibly as early
as next season.
NBA commissioner David
Stern met with team owner
Michael Heisley in Washington on
Monday and agreed that, consid
ering the money die team is los
ing, it’s time for the Grizzlies to
find a new home.
“We’ve agreed to assist Mr.
Heisley in exploring what other
North American cities might be
appropriate for the Grizzlies to
relocate to,” Stem said.
It didn't take long for potential
U.S. homes to begin wooing the
Grizzlies.
New Orleans, which once lost
the Jazz to Salt Lake City, was first
to show interest Doug Thornton,
general manager of the New
Orleans Arena, said officials plan
to contact Heisley.
“Sources tell us that he is
interested in relocating the fran
chise, rather than selling it,”
Thornton said. “That’s the chal
lenge of a professional sports
franchise, securing ownership.”
Other cities mentioned as
potential destinations include St
Louis, Las Vegas and Nashville,
Ttenn.
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already received interest from
Louisville, Ky. The Arrowhead
Arena in Anaheim, Calif., also is a
possible site for relocation.
"We're paying very close
attention to this. We continue to
believe this is the No. 1 choice for
an NBA franchise with a desire to
relocate,” arena general manager
Tim Ryan told the Los Angeles
Times.
“We continue to believe there
are tremendous financial oppor
tunities for any team that wants to
relocate to Anaheim.”
The Times also named San
Diego as a potential site, although
die Southern California city-like
Las Vegas and Louisville - doesn't
have a new arena.
The NHL Anaheim Mighty
Ducks lease forces any NBA team
moving into the arena to split its
revenue with the Ducks’ team
owner, Walt Disney Co.
NBA deputy commissioner
Russ Granik has called Anaheim
“potentially a very successful
market for us,” the Times said.
Grizzlies players were cau
tious after practice Monday night
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Bryant Reeves, Vancouver’s
first-ever draft pick, said it would
“definitely be sad” to see die team
leave.
“I like it here,” said Reeves,
the longest serving member of
the Grizzlies. "I have no com
plaints.”
Shareef Abdur- Rahim, the
Grizzlies’ only legitimate star,
said Vancouver had been good to
him, but he understood the situ
ation.
“It's Mr. Heisley's business to
run,” said Abdur-Rahim, who
wants to be traded to a con
tender. “If he’s losing the kind of
money that is being said, he’s a
businessman. He’s not in the
business of losing money. I think
everybody would have to admit
this is a tou$h market to sell bas
ketball.”
One sport not enough
for some Comhuskers
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ules are completely different,"
said Boyd Epley, NU’s director of
athletic performance, who over
sees NU’s football winter condi
tioning. “It's impossible for
Wilson to do football activities
(during basketball season)
because his games are on differ
ent days of the week."
Epley said the track team’s
schedule was more predictable,
allowing athletes involved in
both football and track and field
to work out for both teams.
This arrangement serves the
NU Blackshirts well. Two mem
bers of the Husker secondary
and tracksters, cornerback
Keyuo Craver and safety Willie
Amos, are able to condition for
football for part of the week.
Craver, a triple jumper, and
Amos, a sprinter, condition for
football on Monday and
Tuesday before resuming their
track workouts.
Playing two vastly different
sports can have an adverse
effect on the body, but Thomas
is able to put the injury risk in
perspective.
“You can get injured any
time, whether lifting weights or
playing a pickup game,” he said.
“The main thing is to keep com
peting.”
Despite the year-round
stress of playing two sports at
the Division I level, players say
that the challenge keeps them
motivated.
“I'm going to do two so I can
say that I did two sports at the
best university there is in the
nation,” Manstedt said. “A lot of
people say that you aren’t going
to excel at two sports. (Football
and wrestling) are going to com
pliment each other. It's going to
be great.”
Misery continues for NU
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and managed only one field goal
the rest of the half after Went's
basket
Missouri took advantage of
the Huskers’ scoring drought as
they scored 15 unanswered
points to extend its lead to 45-21
at halftime.
Sanderfoid said the problems
that caused the drought were
nothing new.
“Again it’s turnovers, our point
guard play was really erratic, our
ball handling was erratic,” he said.
^ NU lost Shannon Howell at
point guard for a majority of the
second half after she fell on her
elbow hard and lost feeling in it
Once again the Huskers had
difficulty making field goals
against MU.
After shooting 29 percent
against Missouri three weeks ago,
they shot 27 percent from the
field in the first half.
The Tigers stretched their lead
to as much as 32 late in the second
half, but NU put enough offense
together to go on a late ll-2runto
avoid an even worse defeat
Went led the Huskers with 13
points, though she committed
seven turnovers. Center Casey
Leonhardt recorded her fifth dou
ble-double of the season with 10
points and 10 rebounds.
MU’s Amanda Lassiter lit up
the Huskers on the offensive end
with 25 points. The forward
scored 52 total points in the
teams' two meetings. Lassiter also
bothered NU on the defensive
end with six steals and two
blocked shots.
In the end it was the Huskers’
offense and defense, or lack
thereof, that had their coach apol
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