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WOMEN ' S BASKETBALL Opposite page: Warren bullets a pass in- Rasmussen consults floor general side . Top left: Ensign finds room inside Allard. Bottom: Rudisill goes for the tip as Warren looks for help. Top right: against North Dakota State. We had four starters not only coming off injuries, but playing hurt, Rasmussen said. And there ' s a difference when someone ' s not entirely healed and playing hurt from when they ' re coming off an in- jury. And that was reflected in some early losses. Yet when they were fresh, they beat some awfully good teams. The bigger wins for the Lady Jays included triumphs over Missouri (84-71), Kansas (85-67 after dropping a 79-54 decision earlier in the year), Marquette (75-56 and 84-53), Loyola- Chicago (117-108 in four overtimes) and Nebraska (76-58 after losing 86-77). Creighton also played close on the road against Louisiana Tech, dropp- ing a 66-61 decision. Tech was rank- ed third nationally at the time. Oklahoma, Iowa and Northwestern Louisiana were all ranked at the time they defeated Creighton, as were Missouri and Kansas when they met the Lady Jays. We had a schedule where we played some highly rated teams, Rasmussen said. It was a difficult schedule, and playing many of those games on the road made it even more difficult. The Lady Jays got off to a 5-2 start (the losses coming against Oklahoma and Iowa) before hitting a snag in their season. The women dropped decisions to Nebraska and Kansas, then defeated Wichita State before heading to Texas for three games - losses to Texas-San Antonio and Texas A M sandwiched around a win over Baylor. 153
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CONlSflE YORI A REMARKABLE CAREER By Mike Larsen When it comes time to talk about Connie Yori, the records speak for themselves. Not the 2,010 points in four years, the most ever by a Nebraska women ' s basketball player and the most by a Creighton basketball player regardless of gender. And not the team records for career assists, career steals, career rebounds, single-season points and single-season rebounds. No, when it comes to talking about Yori, the following records are the ones that matter: In 1981-82, the Lady Jays were 6-21. During Yori ' s four year, the women went 17-11 in 1982-83, 18-10 in 1983-84, 21-6 in 1984-85 and 2 ' 0-8 in 1985-86. Each year we ' ve improved as a team, Yori said. It was fun to be a part of that. My biggest goal was to come and help a program, and I think I ' ve done that. Yori joined the team for the 1982-83 season after an outstanding high school career in Ankeny, Iowa. She began her Lady Jays ' career with a bang, starting all 28 gam es and scoring 589 points (a 21-point average). She followed that up with 27 starts in a 28-game sophomore season that saw her score 569 points (20.3 per contest). Then, midway through her junior season, problems struck. In the 15th game of the season, Yori injured her knee and missed the rest of the year. Before undergoing surgery, she managed 280 points (18.7 per con- test). Yori bounced back from the surgery for a fine senior season, starting all 28 games and scoring 572 points (20.4 a game). Along the way, the team records fell career points (2,010), career assists (399), career steals (292), career rebounds (746), single-season points (589 in 1982-83) and single- season rebounds. Where Yori didn ' t set records, she came close. She ranks second on the team charts in career field goal percentage (54.2 on 797 of 1,471 shooting) and career free throw percentage (77.5 on 416-of-537 shooting), and third in single-season assists (128 in 1985-86), single-season field goal percentage (55 on 238-of-433 shooting in 1982-83) and games played (99). It ' s difficult to talk about Connie, Coach Bruce Rasmussen said. When you attempt to ver- balize, it doesn ' t come close to describing what she has meant to the team. Yori is equal in her praise for Rasmussen. I think that Coach Rasmussen has been the major force behind our success, she said. In the last four years, he has done a great job recruiting the type of player that fits into our program. We have a very well-rounded team. I felt that he taught me a tremen- dous amount about the game of basketball. I appreciate the time he spent with me. He was patient. That patience was tested when Yori suffered the knee injury in her junior year. The surgery that follow- ed gave no guarantee she would be able to return for her senior season. Connie had two major injuries to deal with this past season, Rasmussen said. She had complete reconstruction of her knee, then reinjured the knee. As recently as late September, we didn ' t think she ' d play at all this season. Then, she ' s also had real bad arch problems. Each one of the in- juries could have kept her out by themselves. Despite the struggles with the in- juries, Yori said, her senior season went OK. I ' m pretty happy with the way things turned out, she said. As late as October, I still was not prac- ticing full out. I wore my brace until Christmas. I struggled pretty much at the beginning of the year. I was getting a lot of minutes, but not the quality of minutes I wanted. Asked to look back on her career for a highlight, Yori cited the im- provement of the program. When Rasmussen was asked the same question, his answer was even more broad. Her four-year career has been one big highlight for me, Rasmussen said. Not just on the court, but dealing with her as a per- son and as an athlete. It makes it easy when your best player is also your hardest worker. It ' s difficult to know her exact impact on our pro- gram, but look at us before she came and look at us now. Now we have reached the point where we can be successful without a Connie Yori-type player. But for a few years, she carried our team. She had as much to do with us becoming respected as anybody.
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