Basketball

Harvard's hardcourt heroes, sporting a dismal 4-9 record (1-2 in the Ivies), hope to repeat last year's post-exam performance in which the squad came back to play 7-3 ball in the second half of the season.

Fortunately for Tom Sanders and his squad, the steel of the schedule, which featured the likes of Boston College (twice), Oral Roberts, Tennessee and Cincinnati, is behind them. On the horizon are such squads as Columbia (3-11) and Cornell (4-7), teams that gave Sanders four victories last season.

The Crimson cagers take on the Big Red of Cornell this Friday night in Ithaca, N.Y., then travel south to the Big Apple to Sander's home town for a contest against the Lions of Columbia.

Cornell, under new coach Ben Bluitt, broke a string of 11 league defeats, with a victory over Yale, 72-70.

Columbia, 1-3 in the league, also boasts a first year coach, Tom Penders, and a scorer among the top five in the Ivies--Mark Hardaway, who has 78 points and a 19.5 average.

Wrestling

The Crimson wrestlers, undefeated in the Ivy League after defeating Dartmouth January 11, take on a pair of Ivy opponents this weekend, starting with Princeton Friday afternoon and Penn on Saturday

Coach John Lee is optimistic for his squads chances for a run at the Ivy crown after a convincing 33-9 drubbing of the Big Green and a 35-11 pinning of MIT before exam period. Captain Carl Biello, will be out for the rest of the season, but Mike Dee is expected to return this weekend.

Track

Bill McCurdy sends his once-beaten track squad up into the woods of Maine for the first time ever this Saturday for a meet against the University of Maine at Orano.

The thinclads edged a tough North-eastern squad on January 11 in Briggs cage, 63-55, thanks to the relay team of Gary Schmidt, John Maggio, Sam Butler and Joel Peters.

Harvard's only loss of the season came against the Cadets of Army 58-60

Radcliffe Basketball

The Radcliffe basketball squad journeys down the street to MIT Friday night to take part in the MIT Invitational tournament. The Radcliffe cagers will take on the host squad Friday night in the opening round.

Rounding out the tournament, Brown and the University of Chicago have been invited to the event.

In the last tourney Radcliffe competed, it lost all five games including a 37-39 overtime loss to Brown.