Hockey vs. Miami Tomorrow, 7 p.m. Yost Ice Arena Si Women's Swimming at Big Ten Championships Today, all day Indianapolis .Wolverines dunk Hawkeyes,89-76 Rose has best effort of season, FO REST leads Blue to seventh win in a row r-orrest Fires eMichi an will win NCAAs *this time can picture it now. Jalen Rose and Juwan Howard embrace on theCharlotte Coliseum floor. They are consumed by a horde of teammates, coaches and fans. Flashbulbs explode as thousands of partisan voices reach a crescendo. You see, this is the year Michigan finally does it. Yes, you read thatright. The Michigan men's basketball team will win the 1994 NCAA title. The Wolverines have just about everything a team needs to make it through the grueling three-week tour- nament - and come home toting the winner's plaque. 'All-important experience In this regard, Michigan's starting five is the envy of every coach south of Toronto and northofTijuana. Between *Howard, Rose, Jimmy King, Ray Jack- son and Dugan Fife, the rotation has played in acombined nine Final Fours and 54NCAA tournament games. They have a record of 45-9 in those games. 'The ability to overcome inaus- picious circumstances This season Michigan has seen two starters stricken with the chicken pox, a key reserve break his hand and two more starters suspended for a team policy transgression. Not to mention that at the outset of the season there were absolutely no experienced players coming off the bench, the starting point guard had never canned a basket in his college career and four of the team's first six Big Ten games were on the road. When a team has a tiny bench, it proves to be extremely painful to losea starter for a road game. Michigan lost two. Howard and King came down with the chicken pox after a loss at Indiana, and the Wolverines' season looked all but doomed. They fell to Minnesota Jan. 20, but with Howard back, beatIllinois-again on the road. They have not lost since. The team was without two starters again, Feb. 5. Jackson and King were *suspended for violating team policy, but Michigan cameouton top atMichi- gan State. Often the first man off the bench, freshman Bobby Crawford fractured his handJan. 26 and missed five games. Still, Michigan marched on unbowed. *Players stepping up Another freshman, Olivier Saint- Jean has erased the question mark that gresided near his name. The Frenchman has "come into his own as aplayer," as coach Steve Fisher is likely to say these days. Then there's MakhtarNdiaye, who is certainly rough around the edges. But he, Howard and Leon Derricks haveprovided solid depth inside-an important quality that was nonexistent in the early going. Still, the biggest factor is Fife. He has shown himself to be the key component in Michigan's long-term potential for success. The sophomore is a cool head in the oftentimes mael- strom of pandemonium that is a Big Ten basketball game., Michigan has been known to make the dumb play from time to time, and this year is no exception. However, with Fife in the starting lineup, the errors are less frequent and not as costly as last season. 'Winning the close ones... away from Crisler too What is the NCAA tournament's biggest draw? Close finishes. Half of Michigan's Big Ten wins have been by a margin of four points or less. By RACHEL BACHMAN DAILY BASKETBALL WRITER The numbers were very kind to Jalen Rose last night. Or, more accu- rately, Rose's numbers were kind to Michigan as his near triple double lifted his team over Iowa, 89-76. Rose scored 19, had 11 assists and eight rebounds to go along with six steals and a pair of blocks as the Wol- verines (10-2 Big Ten, 18-4 overall) won their seventh consecutive game. "I said earlier in the week that this is his team," Iowa's Kenyon Murray said. "He proved (it) tonight." "He can hurt you so many ways," said Iowa coach Tom Davis, whose club is now just 3-8 in the conference, 9-11 overall. "Inside, outside, with the ball, without the ball, offensively and defensively." Rose said it was his best overall performance of the season. "If Rose doesn't hurt you, (Juwan) Howard does," Davis added. The junior center joined Rose on the offensiveend, scoring a game-high 24 points, including 16 in the first half as he hit eight of 11 field-goal attempts. The game's first 10 minutes were marked by the crowd's audible dissat- isfaction with the officiating. Iowacom- mitted no fouls until Jess Settles' foul at the 8:14 mark in the first stanza. The Wolverines had seven in the same stretch of time. The Hawkeyes finished the game with 13 fouls to Michigan's 22. On the topic of the game's ques- tionable calls, RayJackson responded, "You've just got to play well regard- less." Despite the lopsided foul tally, how- ever, the Wolverines led most of the first half. They pulled out to their big- gest lead of the opening 20 minutes after Jackson's layup made the score 12-3 with 15:05 to go. Iowa then went on a 13-5, and IOWA (76) FG FrE MINMH-A H-A O-T A F PTS Murray 31 5-10 2-3 0-5 4 2 12 Settles 30 712 0-0 2-51214 Winters 33 4-8 7-9 1-4 7 1 16 Glasper 26 1-7 1-2 1-2 2 2 4 Bartels 29 4- 3-4 3- I 1 12 Skillett 13 0-2 0-0 1-1 3 2 0 Millard 17 4-7 3-4 041 0 1 11 Kingsbury 21 3-6 0-0 0-4 2 2 7 Totas 200 28-8 16.22 1"1 2113 76 FG% .483. FT%:.727. Threellpolat goals:4-13, .308 (Winters 1-1, Bartels 1-3, Glasper 1-3, Kingsbury 1-, Millard 0-1, Settles 0-1, Skillett 0- 1). Blocks: 1 (Winters). Turnovers: 21 (Winters 5, Glasper 3, Kingsbury 3, Murray 3, Settles 3, Millard 2, Skillett 2). Steals: 7 (Glasper 3, Kingsbury 1, Murray, Settles, Winters). Technical Fouls: none. then an 8-2 run, pulling within one of Michigan with 10:10 to go. It wasn't until the 2:44 mark, when Winters sank both his foul shots, that the Hawkeyes took their first lead, 34-33. "They never give up," Howard said of Iowa's play. "They like to fight." The Wolverines regained momen- tum, and Dugan Fife's driving layin bumped and bobbled around the rim, then fell to give Michigan a44-37 edge going into the lockerroom. After a shaky start to begin the second half, Michigan smoothed its rough edges. See BASKETBALL, Page 8 MICHIGAN (89) re Fr m Jackson 31 7-13 34 1-8 1 3 17 King 31 6-13 0-0 3-4 1 2 14 Howard 37 11-18 2-2 4-9 6 3 24 Fife 33 1-3 0.0 0-2 6 3 2 Rose 40 7-15 0-0 1-811 3 19 Nd"ay 8 0-2 0-0 0-1 04 0 Saint-Jean 13 3-3 1-2 0-0 0 3 8 Crawford 3 1-2 0-0 1-1 1 1 3 Derricks 4 1-2 0-0 0-0 1 0 2 Totals 200 37-71 68 2-35 2722 89 FQ%: .521. FT%- .750. Three-Wont goals: 9.20, .450 (Rose 5.9, King 2-6, Saint-Jean 1-1, Crawford 1-2, Fife 0-2). Blocks: 5 (Rose 2, Howard, King, Ndiaye). Turnovers: 15 (Fife 3, Jackson 3, Crawford 2, King 2, Derricks, Howard. Ndiaye, Rose, Saint-Jean). Steals: 13 (Rose 6, Fife 3, King 3, Jackson). Technical Fouls: none. JONATHAN LURIEDaity Jimmy King slams home two of his 14 points in last night's Michigan win over Iowa, The Wolverines swept the season series from the Hawkeyes. Iowa........37 39 - 76 Michigan....r.;:,44 45 - 89 At: Crisler Arena; A: 13,394 Women's swimming begins quest for eighth consecutive Big Ten title By DARREN EVERSON DAILY SPORTS WRITER The seven seniors on the Michigan women's swimming squad have expe- rienced nothing but success during their careers in Ann Arbor. After winning the Big Ten championship each year throughout their time with the Wolver- ines, they would be heartbroken by anything less than a victory at this weekend's conference championship meet in Indianapolis. Leading the Wolverines in their quest for their eighth straight Big Ten title is the quartet of Alecia Humphrey, Tara Higgins, Lara Hooiveld and Anne Kampfe. Higgins is a senior co-captain and one of the team's top individual medley (IM)swimmers. Humphrey, last season's Big Ten swimmer of the year, is Michigan's best backstroker. Australian-native Hooiveld is especially strong in the breaststroke, while freshman Kampfe has been effective in theIM'sand in the 200-yard backstroke. Unlike other intercollegiate varsity sports, not all of the Big Ten teams faced each other this season. Michigan is a perfect 6-04in conference competi- tion and 8-0 overall. The Wolverines will, however, face strong competi- tion, particularly from standouts Jocelyn Jay of Ohio State and Garland O'Keefe of Indiana. O'Keefe is the Hoosiers' star swim- mer, a senior and a former national finalist. She's an individual medley (IM) specialist with herstrongestevent being the 400-meter IM. 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