The Spring Arbor University men's basketball team was up against a pretty tall task on Saturday afternoon. The task; on the road in Marion, IN against a tough 16^th ranked Indiana Wesleyan University. Spring Arbor (11-9, 3-3) was playing well, and expected to be able to walk into Luckey Arena on the campus of Indiana Wesleyan University and give the Wildcats (16-3, 5-0) all they could handle.

For the most part they did. For 32 ? minutes of the ball game, Spring Arbor hung right with IWU, shot for shot, point for point, rebound for rebound. The problem is that college basketball is a 40 minute game.

The Cougars started the game strong, scoring the first 5 points and with 7:35 to go in the first half, the game was tied at 19 points apiece. But the Wildcats of IWU tore off a 22-3 run before the half to leave Spring Arbor in the dust down 41-22 at the break.

The second half was played pretty evenly as Spring Arbor outscored IWU 37-35 and at one point in the half narrowed the Wildcat's lead to 12 points.

Senior forward, Willie Pickvet once again turned in an outstanding performance knocking down 22 points hitting 9 of 20 shots from the field. Pickvet also grabbed 6 rebounds in the game. DJ Baisden scored 11 points and for the first time this year, DJ never got to the free throw line where he is ranked 3^rd in the nation in FT percentage.

The men return home for two games in a row on Tuesday the 11^th and Saturday the 15^th. Tuesday's game is against Grace College at 7:00 pm and Huntington College comes to town on Saturday for a 3:00 tilt.