Evening star., 1941-03-10
FIashy Baltimore u.
Fights Tough Field
In intercollegiate
Carolina Meets Major
Loop Foes in N. c. A. A.;
Select Lot in Gurden
BY HUGH s. FULLERTON, Jr.,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK, March 10.-Sixteen
first-round games in the National
intercollegiate Basket Ball Tourna-
ment at Kansas City are to be played
today and tomorrow. The Metro
politan Intercollegiate Basket Ball
Selection Committee meets today to
pick five teams to fill out the list
of eight for the Intercollegiate In
vitation Tourney at Madison Square
Garden March 18, 10, % and "a.
About two weeks from now the
annual National Collegiate A. A,
Sectional Tournaments will be play
ed at Kansas City and Madison, Wis.
From these three events, there
may emerge one generally recognized
national cage champion for the 1941
season. At any rate, the three
winners will come very close to being
the years top performers.
The N. c. A. A. Tourney takes in
the biggest name" teams, most of
them qualifying through winning
major conference titles. In the
Western Division, Arkansas, the
Southwest Conference champion, al
ready has qualified.
Tar Heels in Big Tourney.
The Pacific Coast Conferences
North-South championship series
between Stanford and Washington
State next week end, will bring out
another candidate while Creighton,
the Missouri Valley Conference
titlist, and Iowa State, Big Six CO.
champion, will play off at Kansas
City March 18 for the right to repre-
sent their district.
Wisconsin, Big Ten champion, and
North Carolina, which led the
Southern Conference through the
regular season, but lost out to Duke
in the title tournament, have been
chosen for the Eastern half. Both
sectional Journeys will be played
March 21-22 with the winners meet
ing at Kansas City week later.
In two of the seasons closest
conference races, Creighton clinched
the Missouri Valley title last Friday
by beating Washburn, while Kansas
lost sole leadership of the Big Six
by dropping its last two games to
Iowa State and Oklahoma. Iowa
State got the N. G. A. A. call on its
better season record in relation of
offense to defense.
Baltimore in Scrap.
The only major circuit, except the
Pacific Coast, which hasn't yet de-
termined its champion yet is the
venerable Eastern intercollegiate
League. There Dartmouth, still
one-game lead over
Columbia, has to beat the Lions on
their own court tonight to clinch
the crown.
The Kansas City tournament in
wolves big" teams from smaller
colleges. Notable among them are
Tarkio, last years winner; top
seeded West Texas State, San Diego
(CaIifD State. Baltimore, Pittsburg
CKansD Teachers and Murray CKy0
State.
The Madison Square Garden
tournament comes somewhere be-
tween the two. Already invited are
Seton Hall, high-scoring
Rhode Island State and Long Island
wyoming, winner of the
Big Seven Conference title. probably
qualified for an invitation last
Saturday when it performed the
unprecedented feat of beating
on its own court.
Other possibilities include Western
Kentucky Teachers. Southern Inter
collegiate A. A. champion: George
City College New
York., Duquesne and Westminster
in the East; Ohio University, Brad
ley Tech and Toledo from the Mid
west; Virginia and Texas Tech.