The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-11
|WlNDUP JOURNEYS
SLATED TONIGHT
Postseason Playoffs Open
In Kansas City, Berk-
ley, Bethlehem
BY TED MEIER

ley, Bethlehem
| BY TED MEIER
NEW YORK, March 1o.-REThe
annual postseason tournaments in
college basketball start this week
as the windup of hectic season.
Monday 16 of The 80 teams in
vited to the National Inter-Colle gil
ate Association tourney at Kansas
City play their first round games.
In the afternoon Washburn plays
Augsburg; Houston (Tex) Univer-
sity meets High Point; Indiana
State battles St. Cloud mimi
Teachers and Wichita tangles with
Culver-Stockton. At night the de-
Tending champions, New Orleans
Loyola meets Hastings (Neb) col
lege; Warrensburg Mo- Teachers
plays Carbonate Gid Teachers;
Dakota Wesleyan meets New Mexi-
CO Mines and Peuuerdine, runner
up year ago, engages Conway
(Ark) Teachers.
Monday night, also, Idaho and
California battle in the third and
final game of their playoff at
Berkeley, Calf, for the Pacific
Coast Conference Championship
and the right to represent district
seven in the Western NCAA tour
ney at Kansas City March 1928.
California won the first game Fri
day night, but Idaho, winner Of the
Northern division title for the first
time in % years, evened the series
by winning last night, 1928.
The first Middle-Atlantic Confer
ence tourney will be held at Bethle-
hem, Pa, Monday and Tuesday.
In Mondays games Muhlenberg
and Lafayette, tied for first in the
Northern division, meet while Ur-
sinus, winner of the Southern divi-
sion, is paired against Rutgers, the
two winners meet for the cham
pionship on Tuesday.
On Thursday the National In
-vitation tourney opens at Madison
Square Garden. The draw for the
eight teams invited, Kentucky,
Muhlenberg. Bowling Green, St.
Johns of Brooklyn, West Virginia,
Syracuse, Arizona and Rhode Is
land State, will be announced Mon
day. The four teams who do not
play on Thursday will play on
Saturday night.
Virtually all teams not involved
in tourney competition finished
their season last week. The Okla
homa Aggies, NCAA champions,
tangle with Oklahoma on Wednes-
day prior to their playoff game
on March 10 with Kansas for the
right to represent District Five in
the Western NCAA. On Tuesday
Harvard, beaten only once, meets
Chelsea Naval Hospital in a final
contest before engaging in the
Eastern NCAA eliminations at
Madison Square Garden on March
21-23.
Depaul and Wyoming, two teams
regarded early in the season as
sure to be invited to the post sea-
son classics, concluded their sea-
sons last night ignored by tourna-
ment committees. Depaul, wallop-
ed Beloit, 65-40, for 1875 season
mark while Wyoming, champions
of the Big Seven, defeated the
Colorado Aggies, SAL, for a final
mark of 22-4. The cowboys won
the league title by trimming Color
ado, 50-46. Colorado previously had
been named to represent District
Seven in the Western NCAA tour
ney.
The biggest upset Of the week
and, perhaps of the season. came
last week when CCNY, behind by
POT early in the game, rallied to
beat New York university, 1914.
NYU previously had been named
as District Two representative IN
the Eastern NCAA against Har-;
ward, Ohio State and North Caro-
lima, which lost to Wake Forest
in the Southern Conference tour
ney, but was named over Duke,
conference champion.
Kentucky and West Virginia. two
of the garden tourney teams, I'm
ished their regular seasons with
decisive victories Saturday night.
Kentucky, Southeastern conference
titleholders, defeated Temple s.
43 in a return game at Louisville
avenge an early season loss to the
Owls at Philadelphia. West Vlr-
ginia swamped Carnegie, 81-4l.
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