Men's Basketball vs. Iowa Tonight, 8 p.m. (Ch. 20 WXON) Crisler Arena S TS Wrestling vs. Michigan State Tonight, 7:30 p.m. East Lansing 'M' looks to turn around season against Hawkeyes SIMMING NOTEBOOK Lower weight classes key in battle with State By PAUL BARGER Daily Basketball Writer For the Michigan men's basket- ball team, tonight's game against the Iowa Hawkeyes is much more than an early season Big Ten contest. The team has struggled badly through- out the season and is in dangerofdropping its overall record below .500. "It is a very big game," senior Ray Jackson said. "We want to stay on top of the race and regain our confidence. We don't want to lose at home." The Wolverines (1-1 Big Ten, 7-6 overall) have already lost sophomore Olivier Saint-Jean by way of transfer and rumors are circulating about two other prominant members of the team. Both Jerod Ward and Willie Mitchell have denied any possibilities of their leaving Ann Arbor in the near future. "I ain't going nowhere," Ward said. "I'm looking forward to staying here as long as I need to be here. I'm happy with my decision." Michigan teams have tradition- ally displayed a great amount of emo- tion for the duration of a game.This year's squad has been plagued by an uncharacteristic lack of intensity. Unfortunately for coach Steve Fisher, the Wolverines will be trying to regain its winning attitude against a solid Iowa squad. "We're going to try to turn it around (tonight)," freshman Maurice Taylor said. "If we can beat them at home it will give us a lot of confidence for the way we play the rest of the season." The Hawkeyes (1-1, 11-2) have been impressive in early conference competition, beating Indiana by 19 and losing by one point in a heart- breaker at Michigan State. The Hawkeyes are led by Jess Settles, last year's Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Settles is averaging more than 20 points and six rebounds per game. He won Big Ten Player of the Week after the Hawkeyes came in second to highly- rated Arkansas in the Rainbow Classic. The 6-foot-7 forward tallied 28 points in a 81-71 victory over Duke. Taylor will likely be matched-up against Settles to begin the game. Jackson is expected to defend Michi- gan native Kenyon Murray. The biggest surprise for the Hawkeyes has been sophomore Chris Kingsbury. Kingsbury has hit nine 3- pointers in one game twice this sea- son. He leads the Big Ten in total 3- point field goals. Iowa's strength this season is its relent- less press. The Wolverines have had turn- over problems all year and will have their hands full with the Hawkeyes' defense. "You always have to worry about their press," Jackson said. "We just have to be smart and attack it well." Urbanchek displays sympathy against'Cocks By DAN McKENZIE Daily Sports Writer Imagine if the Michigan football team was so dominant that it didn't count Tyrone Wheatley's touchdowns in order to avoid embarrassing the op- position. As far fetched as that sounds, the Michigan men's swimming team is in a comparable position. The No. 1=ranked Wolverines exhibitioned many of their top swim- mers in their meet Saturday against South Carolina. When a swimmer is exhibitioned, it means that his perfor- mancedoes notcount towards his team's score. Michigan head coach Jon Urbanchek decided to exercise this option after the Wolverines took the top spot in the first five of the eleven events on their schedule. "It lets the swimmers swim but they don't count for the score," Urbanchek said. "Otherwise, the score would be very lopsided." SENIOR CITIZENS: The South Caro- lina meet marked the last time that Michigan's seniors would represent the school atCanham Natatorium. Included in this group were Gustavo Borges, world record holder in the 400-meter free relay and owner of three top-20 world rankings, Steve Westwho holds two top-50 world rankings in the 200- meter breast stroke, and Marcel Wouda, who holds four top-50 world rankings, each in separate events. Also included in the outgoing class are All- American ScottDill and All-American honorable mention Thomas Blake. "It was special at the beginning of the meet when they announced all of the seniors and we lined up at the edge of the pool being recognized," Blake said. ATTRACTING A CROwD: Among the fans were some of the most influential people in Michigan swimming history. Frank Barnard, captain of the 1936 team, Gus Stager, who coached Urbanchek among others during his 28 year career as Michigan head coach and Dr. Bill Parkinson, a former Michigan physics professor who invented the tim- ing system that is used for most swim- ming events around the world. Parkinson gave the royalty on his in- vention to the University and never made money on it. By TIM SMITH Daily Sports Writer The Michigan wrestling team will face Michigan State today to try and bounce back from a Sunday loss to No. 17 Lehigh. To do that, though, the No. 20 Wolverines (0-1 Big Ten, 2-2 over- all) will have to defeat a Spartan squad ranked sixth in the country and more importantly, first in the state. "They're ranked sixth in the coun- try and they're a good team," Michigan coach Dale Bahr said. "They've got a team that's primarily a junior and se- nior team, while we have a lot of young guys. It should be an excellent match." The Spartans (1-0, 3-0) have six wrestlers ranked in the top 20 compared to five for the Wolverines. Some key matchups will be No. 8 Jehad Hamdan of Michigan verse No.2 Emilio Collins of Michigan State at 190lbs.and No. I1 Jesse Rawls Jr. of Michigan against No. 8 Eric Harvey at 177 lbs. The lower weight classes could prove to be more crucial in deter- mining the success of the Wolver- ines. In what has become a trend for Michigan this season, the lower weight classes fell behind 15-0 against Lehigh leaving it to the up- per weights to fight back before losing 18-13. "We need to win a couple of the first four matches. If we can win a couple of those first four, we can beat anybody," Bahr said. "The meet is really going to be won or lost in those first four." The poor start by the lower weights put much of the load once again on freshman heavyweight Airron Richardson, who's loss was the de- ciding factor in the match. "Airron played football at Morehouse last season. He's 18-9 this season, so considering he didn't even wrestle last year, he's doing really well," Bahr said," "Matches aren't won or lost in one match. They're won earlyso we have to win some early matches." Richardson and his teammates will be facing some of the Spartans for the second and third times this season with both teams having competed in the Eastern Michigan Open in Octo- ber and the Midlands tournament in December. Bahr feels the past meet- ings will be a help. "It's nice to be able to see them a couple of times," Bahr said. "This is the last time we'll see them before the Big Ten's. Right now nine teams in the Big Ten are rated in the top 20. "We have to win these matches in order to be seeded in the Big Ten tournament." 0 0 .L: ~r.'. r