Evening star., 1942-02-23
Southeast Loop Caps
Sizzling Program
With PIayoff
East, Missouri Valley,
Big Six, Southwest
At Torrid Stage
BY HAROLD CLAASSEN,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

NEW YORK. Feb. 23.-Looking
ahead to a week of basketball in
which the Southeast, Eastern, Inter-
collegiate, Big Ten, Big Six, South
west, Missouri Valley and Big Seven
Conference titles can be decided and
the two participants in the Pacific
Coast League playoffs determined:
Below the Mason-Dixon Line
After playing just for fun all season,
the II Southeast Conference teams
gather at Lexington, KY, Thursday
for three-day title tourney. Tennes-
see, beaten only by Kentucky in
conference play, top-seeded and
meets Georgia in first game. Ken
lucky, runnerup to Vols in 1941
meet, given No. 2 slot. Only reg
ularly scheduled contest left is Mis-
sissippi VS.. Mississippi State at Ok
ford tonight.
Seven teams, headed by title-de-
Tending Duke five, already have
earned berths in Southern Con-
ference title meet at Raleigh, N. c.,
next week Blue Devils only league
loss administered by George Wash
ington Saturday, SIS to So. This
weeks program ends season, except
for tourney. with Duke at Maryland
tonight, entertaining Virginia Tech
Tuesday and North Carolina Friday.
Big Six Battling Is Keen.
In Missouri Valley area-MiSsouri
Valley Conference at stake in game
between Creighton and Oklahoma
A. and M. at saltwater tonight.
Aggies won in first meeting, and
repeat triumph definitely would de-
throne the Omaha Bluejays.
Big Six laurels probably will go
to winner of Fridays meeting be-
tween Kansas and Oklahoma on
SoonerS' court. Oklahomans have
meeting with Iowa State tonight
and need victory to remain in lead.
In interleague rivalry, Kansas at
Oklahoma A. and M. Thursday.
Big Ten - Illinois spohomoreS
could clinch title by winning from
Wisconsin. defending champion. at
Champaign tonight and from
Northwestern in Chicago Stadium
Saturday. To tie, Indiana must
sweep four remaining games while
Illini lose two of last four
Pacific CoaSt-Washington State
and Stanford, winners of divisional
titles a year ago, continue setting
1912 pace. Washington State, N. G.
A. A. runnerup, host to University
of Oregon tonight. Then meets
speedy Washington in week end
twin bill to end season. Stanford
virtually in as southern half king,
although has two-game series with
Southern California at Los Angeles
this week end. Divisional cham
pions meet for league title which
Washington State annexed last sea-
son.
Eastern Leaders Collide.
East-Dartmouth, Eastern inter-
collegiate best without interruption
since 1888, clipped by Pennsylvania
and forced to share lead with
Cornell Two collide at Ithaca Satur-
day Game tops program of seven
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Canisius tonight in Brooklyn, Rhode
Island State, boasting two-points-
a-minute offense, plays at Maine
tonight and at New Hampshire
Tuesday. Both L. I. U. and R. I.
State loom as participants in New
York invitational tourney.
Rocky Mountain - Colorado. an
other possible entrant in the Gotham
tourney, could clinch third Big
Seven title in four years by defeating
Brigham Young at Boulder Satur-
day. Bluffs are unbeaten by COL
egiate five this season.
Southwest Arkansas and Rice
tied for top. May finish that way
with Razorbacks entertaining South
ern Methodist Friday and Saturday.
Rice meets Baylor at Houston Tues
day, and Texas, which surprised
Arkansas to make tie possible, at
Austin Friday. Rice and Arkansas
divided two-game series late in
January.
Independents and otherwise-West
Texas State, Gathering toward
border conference fiat with its
Giants, is possible New York invita-
tional five. Toledo, Notre Dame and
Bradley Tech strong in Midwest.
San Francisco and Santa Clara caus-
ing headaches along West Coast
West Virginia and Penn State, two
of best in mid-Atlantic area, meet
in Pennsylvania Wednesday.