10 - The Michigan Daily - Tuesday, February 11, 2003 O'NEILL Continued from Page 8 I believe that selling your soul to Nike is not that bad, that Dockers are just as good as anything made by Abercrombie & Structure (or what- ever it's called) and that everyone should wear shorts in 10-degree weather at least once in their life - it's not that bad. I believe that Comerica Park is a bunch of crap surrounding a really good baseball field, that the Pistons are the greatest marketers of all time and that Curtis Joseph will beI a bigger waste of money than Dave Mlicki.! And most of all, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Oh my. - If you've got a mess for The Daily Janitor to clean up (preferably not spilled popcorn, he hates that), contactI him at kylero@umich.edu. Horton out to prove 'M' has Wright stuff By Chris Burke Daily Sports Editor If Tommy Amaker needs help form- ing a scouting report on Indiana's super freshman Bracey Wright for tomor- BASKETBALL row night's game Notebook between Michigan _ _ __ (7-2 Big Ten, 14-8 overall) and the Hoosiers, the Michigan coach needs to look no further than his own starting point guard. That's because freshman Daniel Hor- ton and Wright have an impressive his- tory of matchups during their final two years of high school basketball in Texas. Wright, along with Illinois freshman Deron Williams and Rhode Island fresh- man Bam Harmon, led The Colony High School over Horton's Cedar Hill High School in the 2001 state quarterfinals. Horton and Cedar Hill got revenge last year when they gave The Colony some payback in the 2002 playoffs. "He can shoot lights out, he rebounds - he's a great player," said Horton of Wright. "He's made a lot of improve- ments. He's always been able to shoot, but what impresses me now is he drives the ball to the basket and finishes." As if the game between the co-Big Ten leading Wolverines and Hoosiers (4-5, 14-8) doesn't have enough impor- tance, the head-to-head showdown between Horton and Wright could go a long way in determining the Big Ten Freshman of the Year. Wright is leading all Big Ten fresh- men in scoring at 17.4 points per game, and the Hoosier is also grabbing 5.2 rebounds a game. Horton, meanwhile, has scored at a clip of 15.7 points per game while dishing out 1.45 assists a game in taking the Wolverines to the top of the Big Ten. But the Freshman of the Year award is meaningless in the big picture according to Horton. "I really don't care (about the award), I just want the Big Ten championship," Horton said. "If you ask me who deserves the Big Ten championship, I think the way this team has worked and prepared and put in everything we have, I think we're very deserving of it." NOT-so-DEEP BLUE: Michigan wit- GUEVARA Continued from Page 8 preparing for Purdue and Penn State. Sunday's 29-point loss to Northwest- ern is the declaration that Guevara has lost this year's team as well. Northwest- ern was by far the worst team in the Big Ten and had lost 52 straight Big Ten games until it won earlier this season. For Michigan to score just 12 points in the first half should have been a signal to the coaching staff that the players have lost respect for their authority. With five freshmen on this year's team, Guevara needs to help them find their role in her lineup, as opposed to changing the lineup every game in hopes of providing a spark on the court. It seems that the Big Ten - by far the toughest conference in the nation right now - has evolved while her teams are standing still. She has shown she is very effective against non-Big Ten schools, but when the conference season rolls around, her peers have the savvy to keep changing gameplans while Guevara keeps using what has worked for her in the past. Too often this season her offense is dictated by opponents' defenses, when in the Big Ten it needs to be the other way around. Guevara can't be intimidated and should force other teams off their game rather than play into it. If Guevara wants to be suc- cessful in the Big Ten, she should take some chances and mix up the plays on offense. At this point in the season, there isn't too much to lose anyway. She is obviously a great recruiter, but has had problems keeping players in the program, including highly-touted fresh- man point guard Stephanie Douglas, who transferred to Temple before even playing a game for Michigan. Guevara needs to step up in the remaining weeks by teaching her play- ers, rather than "wiping the slate clean" or "returning to basics" to help her players justify losing. She needs to work on new gameplans rather than finding new cliches. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PLAT TE VILLE Study Abroad Programs *One of the "Top 25" in Te Student's Guide to the Best Study Abroad Programs RYN EINER/D ly Freshman Daniel Horton is a leading candidate for Big Ten Freshman of the Year. nessed first-hand the dangers of being a team lacking in depth on Saturday, when Iowa was able to dress just nine players for the Wolverines' 70-62 win. The absence of Hawkeyes' center Jared Reiner's 8.1 points and 8.8 rebounds a game certainly didn't help Iowa's upset attempt. Amaker has expressed concern over the Wolverines' own lack of depth. Cen- ter Chris Hunter has been the lone play- er to be relatively consistent off the Michigan bench, averaging 5.9 points and four rebounds on the year. The Wolverines' standard starting five of LaVell Blanchard, Bernard Robinson, Lester Abram, Graham Brown and Horton have put up 58.9 points per game on the year, more than 86 percent of Michigan's 68.3 points per game total. "When we come off the bench we try to bring a lot of intensity on defense and to the game," guard Sherrod Harrell said. But can the Wolverines continue to win with just six players scoring most of the team's points? "I believe so,' Harrell said. "We have a pretty solid team." 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