Evening star., 1940-12-30
Sugar Bowl Tilt
Tonight Among
Head|iners
Temple, ViIlonovo,
IL. N.Y.U., St. John S
Leading in East
BY JUDSON BAILEY,


big week of basket ball barn-stoIm-
ing Is ahead for the country's col
legiate leaders before they settle
down to the slow process Of par
ceiling out sectional honors.
The widespread intersectional
skirmishing already has punctured
the hopes of several of the Nations
topnotch teams and some of the
spectacles on tap in the next few
days ought to go further toward
showing up the real strength of
the various regions.
For instance, Indiana'S N. G. A. A.
champions will tangle with Ken
tucky's Southeastern champs to-
night in the Sugar Bowl at New
Orleans. The HoosierS won six
straight games before finally fall
ing, 41-39, to Southern California at
Los Angeles Saturday night. On
top of this the Indiana squad flew
to New Orleans and right away five
of the players had to be put TO bed
because of air sickness.
Long Island u, undefeated in
seven games, will collide with the
Rice Institute Owls, Southwest Con-
ference leaders and winners of
seven out of eight games, in the
feature of double header at Madi-
son Square Garden tonight. The
other half of the bill matches un-
beaten st. Johns against Colorado,
Big Seven champ and winner of a
tot OF h0
Garden last spring.
Quality of Games High.
Although the weeks program Isn't
heavy, games like these make up
for any absence Of quantity. There
are other standout attractions, too.
Tonight unbeaten Temple, which
edged past Illinois, 42-41, Saturday
night, will battle Kansas, which was
toppled for the first time by Ford
ham, 53-42, and Santa Clara will
face once-beaten La Sale in a
double-header at Philadelphia.
Another bargain bill at Columbus,
Ohio, will bring together Pitt and
Ohio State and Princeton and Mich
igan. Seton Hall will defend It's
3O-game winning streak against
Kansas State and Minnesota clashes
with George Washington.
Unbeaten Creighton starts four
game swing that calls for two games
with Michigan State tonight and to-
morrow night and then with Ohio
State and Xavier.
Tomorrow nights card also has
Princeton and Wisconsin and Illinois
and Marquette matched in a double
header at Milwaukee; Notre Dame
against Northwestern, Santa Clara
at Duquesne, South Carolina at
Georgia Tech and unbeaten Iowa
State swinging back into action
against Drake.
Except for a slight letdown
Wednesday, this pace will be kept up
throughout the week.
On the records to date, the out
standing sectional developments
have been:
East-Temple and Villanova and
the New York powers, Long Island,
New York U. and st. Johns, have
established themselves as the king
pins among the independents. Vii
lanova has the most victories. eight,
but Temples victims, including
Illinois. Oklahoma and Oregon, are
the most prominent. Dartmouth
and Harvard have shown the way to
their Ivy League rivals in advance
skirmishing.
South-Lack of competition has
prevented any one getting good
line on the boys, Richmond remain
ing in front of the Southern Con-
ference and Florida at the top of the
Southeastern during the holiday
lull.
Midwest-Indiana, in spite of its
loss to Southern California, and
Purdue's defending champions still
are the teams to beat in the Big
Ten, although Iowa is the only un-
defeated member of the conference.
Sixteen games involving all the Big
Ten teams this week should shed
more light on the situation. De Paul,
winner of six games and only victor
over Purdue, and Toledo, triumphant
in seven, are head and shoulders
above the other independents.
Creighton is out in front in the
Missouri Valley and Iowa State is
the hot number of the Big Six.
Rice Off to Strong Start.
Southwest-Rice has head start,
but Texas, which will play Pitts
burg Kans) Teachers tonight in
the finals of the Oklahoma City in
vitation tourney, is hopeful.
Rocky Northumberland suf-
fered its first defeat, 4945, by st.
Joseph's at Philadelphia, and Utah
was toppled for the first time by
st. Mary's, 36-31, leaving honors in
doubt until a later date.
Pacific Coast-Southern California,
after an uncertain start, appeared
ripe in beating Utah State and In
diana on successive nights and STAN
ford again is strong. In the Northern
division the race apparently is be-
tween Oregon State, beaten only by
Colorado in seven games, and WASH
ington State, winner of seven out of
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