Evening star., 1941-01-06
Hot Scraps Due
In All Sectors
This Week
Ivy League, Big Ten.
Other Loops Have
Full Schedules
BY JUDSON BAILEY,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

Associated Press Sports Writer.
NEW YORK, Jan. 6.-The college
basket ball clans of the country
get down to their sectional feuding
in full force this week.
Except for a few stragglers stop
ping off on their way home, all of
the touring teams have completed
their transforming business, leaving
interSectional honorS, for the most
part, in dispute.
A handful of outstanding Combi-
nations stood up through the holi-
day dueling with unscathed records
and must be considered the Nations
leaders at this time.
In the East this group includes
Villanova with 10 victories, New
York University with 7, Temple with
and Duquesne with 5. In the Mid
west Iowa alone of the Big Ten is
unbeaten. with 6 successes. and To-
ledo tops the independents with 8.
Iowa State has stepped out in
front of the Big Six with 7 straight
conquests. Richmond
is leading the Southern Conference
hopefuls with 5. But in the South
west. the Rocky Mountains and on
the Pacific Coast there isn't a major
combination that hasn't been beaten.
Others With High Standing.
In addition to this select society,
Long Island, Indiana, Purdue De
Paul, North Carolina, Florida. Ten
nessee, Colorado State, Arkansas.
Stanford and Oregon State are top
notch teams that have been beaten
onlv once.
This weeks packed program will
have tempestuous opening tonight
with Temple facing Michigan State,
the combination that ended Long
Islands string of nine consecutive
victories Saturday night with
1926 upset.
Rice and Texas, two top contend
ers for the Southwest Conference
championship. will collide tomorrow
night while Dartmouth and Har-
ward couple of the biggest noises
in the Eastern IvyD League will
meet for the first time Friday.
These are only nominal high spots
in the Juicy goings on, however.
Here is survey by sections:
East-The Ivy League has three
games involving FIVE of its seven
members on tap for the week end.
Dartmouth's defending champs have
high-Scoring Gus Broberg back and
have won five out of seven games
to date, but the race looks wide open.
Independents Are Strong.
More action will be needed to weed
out the independents. Several small
schools have strong teams, notably
Seton Hall with a string of 80
straight, 8 this season: Washington
and jefferson. riding crest of 5 and
Baltimore with 8 wins. Panzer was
bumped by John Marshall. 43-4O.
Saturday night for its first loss since
December, 1887.
South-Championships of both the
Southern and Southeastern Confer
enceS are determined in tourna-
mentS at the close of the season
North Carolina. although beaten bv
Fordham, 42-41, Saturday night. is
threat to retain its Southern Con-
ference crown. No less than u
games are on the card in this circuit
during the week and they should
give a better line. Until then, un-
defeated Richmond is the standout.
Kentucky, the Southeastern
champ, has been running into
trouble, and Tennessee. the No. l
challenger, was beaten by Virginia,
4l-3O Saturday. Florida is a posi-
b1l1ty. Almost all the teams will be
Dusy this week, but Alabama has
the toughest roW-meeting Louis
lana State, Tulane twice and Ten
nessee.
Big Ten Starts Tonight.
MidWeSt-The Big Ten Conference
campaign will open tonight with
three games, but Iowa will be idle
Illinois, facing Purdue tonight and
lnQland saturday night, has an Op-
portunity to take an early hand in
settling the seasons honors.
The Big Six has four conference
contests on order. Unbeaten Iowa
State has another warmup tonight
against Montana State and then will
set out for the championship
Saturday against Missouri.
Six games are on the program for
the Missouri Valley Conference with
Creighton and the Oklahoma Aggies
co-favorites as the race starts. The
Aggies have won seven and lost two,
Creighton six and two.
Pacific Coast-Stanford and South
ern California in the Southern divi-
sion and Oregon State, Oregon and
Washington in the North are the
standouts. Seven games are billed
for the week, but none brings to-
gether contenders.