Evening star., 1946-02-11
Races Are Wide Open
las Nations Basket
Loops Hit Stretch
By the Associated Press.

Loops Hit Stretch
BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, Feb. 11.-With one
or two exceptions, tho Nations
major conference races still are
unsettled today, as the college bas-
bet ball season enters the stretch
of the hectic campaign.
Only in the Southern division Of
the Pacific Coast loop where Cali
fornia needs only q victory over
weak Stanford to annex the
crown, and in the Eastern Inter-
collegiate League where Dartmouth
has only to win from Columbia Sat-
urday to gain the title, are the
championship races virtually over.
Elsewhere at least two teams
stand good chance to run on with
the laurels and in some sections as
in the Rocky Mountain division
and the Western Conference four
teams still are in the running.
Here's how the various major con-
ference races shape up:
Southern Duke DID, North
Carolina d0-D and Virginia Tech
(5-D are punched at the top. Tech
invades North Carolina Thursday
and the Tar Heels journey to Duke
Saturday.
Tie in Southeast Loop.
Southeast-Kentucky and Louisi-
ana State are tied for first with
SO records. Kentucky meets Ten
nessee and Louisiana State engages
Alabama Saturday.
Southwest - Baylor squeezed by
Texas, 43-42, to take over first place
at 81. Arkansas, upset by Texas
Christian. dropped to second at 81.
Baylor plays Texas Aggies Thurs
day and T. c. U. Saturday, while
the Arkansas Razorbacks engage the
Oklahoma Aggies in two non-league
games.
Big Ten-Iowa, striving for its Sec
ond straight title, leads with I'll,
but is hard pressed by Ohio State
at To. Indiana and Northwestern,
tied for third at 6-3, and Minnesota,
fifth with So, still have a look-in.
Among Iowa's four remaining games
is one with Indiana, which handed
the Hawkeyes their only setback this
season. The second place Buckeyes
have three games left, two with win
less Chicago and one with North
western.
Big Six-First place Kansas 60
and runnerup Oklahoma (4-D were
idle last week. Oklahoma has an op-
portunity to gain on the Jayhawks,
playing two games this week to one
for Kansas. The Sooners meet Ne
braske Monday and Kansas State
Tuesday while the Jayhawks play
Nebraska Friday. The championship
is not expected to be settled until
the two conteRders meet FebruaS-
%.
Scramble in Big Seven.
Big Seven-Utah's one-sided VIC
tory over Brigham Young placed the
two teams into a four-way tie with
Wyoming and Colorado for first
place, each team having a So rec
ord. Colorado plays two league con-
tests this week with games against
Utah Friday and Brigham Young
Saturday.
Missouri Valley-Oklahoma Aggies
(5-0) are far out in front with only
Wichita $50 and Washington at
st. Louis (3-2) threatening.
Eastern-Cornell, toppled by Dart
mouth, 56-53, lost an opportunity
to win its first title in % years. The
victory gave Dartmouth GID a half
game edge on the Ithacans, who
wound up their league play with
So. A win over Columbia will give
the Indians their eighth champion
ship in nine years.
Pacific Coast (north) Oregon
and Idaho are tied for the lead at
IA. Oregon still is in the running
with 5-4.
Pacific Coast (south)-California
is all alone at 81.
Headed by New York University's
62-58 victory over Notre Dame,
Bowling Green's 1887 upset of the
Oklahoma Aggies and Canisius'
1914 win over Syracuse, the past
week furnished its share of sur
prises. New York's triumph over
the highly rated Irishmen placed
the Violets on or close to the top in
the national ranking.
Other Mild Upsets.
Other mild upsets included North
Cardinals STAG victory over Navy
and Muskingum's 52-47 triumph
over Otterbein. Navy and Otter
bein were the last of the Nations
teams to be spilled from the un-
beaten ranks. Navy had won eight
straight and Otterbein 10.
Twelve other quintets are in the
once-beaten class, with West Vir-
ginia, 1911; Muhlenberg, 1911; Kan
sas, ISL; Yale, 14-1; N. Y. u, 14-1;
Iowa, 12-1; Rhode Island State,
12-1; Louisiana State, 12-1; Har-
ward and Hartwick, 1o-1, and Amer
ican University, 81.