The Wilmington morning star., 1946-03-18
SECTIONAL GAMES
FEATURE SCHEDULE
Season, Noted For Upsets,
Virtually Closes This
Weekend

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With the exception of the March
20 playof for the N. c. A. A. cham
plonship, the 1S4e college basket
oau season, noted for it's many
upsets, bows out this week with
the holding of the eastern and
western NCAA eliminating and the
final OF the National Invitation
tourney at Madison Square Gar
den.
This is what is on tap:
tomorrow night at Kansas City
the playoff between the Okla.
homa Aggies, defending NCAA
champions and champions o. the
Missouri Valley conference. and
Kansas, champions of the Big Six
conference, for the right to repre-.
sent District five in the western
NCAA Examinations Friday and
Saturday.
Tomorrow night in New York
Rhode Island State VS.. Mullen.
berg and Kentucky VS.. West Vir-
ginia in the senni-finals of the
Garden National Invitation tour.
|ney.
Wednesday in New York-Cham-
pionship final between the win
ners Of tomorrow's semi-final
games and a consolation between
tomorrow's two losers.
Thursday In New York-First
round Of the eastern NCAA elimina
tons: Harvard VS. Ohio State, and
two losers.
Friday in Kansas City-First
round of the western NCAA elm
nations; California VS. Colorado
university, and Baylor VS. the win
ner of the Oklahoma Aggies-
Kansas game tomorrow.
Saturday-Eastern NCAA final
and consolation in New York;
western NCAA final and consola'
ton in Kansas City.
A record Madison Square Gar
den turnout of 10, 483 last night saw
Muhlenberg and Kentucky sweep
aside Syracuse and Arizona to
complete the first round OF the
Garden tourney. Top-seeded Ken
lucky had no trouble with Arizona,
l77-53. but the Underdog Mules had
more difficult time against the
Orange, 47-41. Earlier in the week
West Virginia had trounced St.
Johns 1888, and Rhode Island put
on a sensational finish to eliminate
second-seeded Bowling Green, g.
70 in an overtime struggle.
Southern Illinois (Carbondale)
teachers finished the week-long
Nab tourney at Kansas City by
beating Indiana State, 40 to 40,
in the final last night. In the con-
ISOLATION Pepperdine walloped New
Orleans Loyola, last years win
ner, 82-55.
A recapitulation shows these
l946 champions and runner-up
(where available) In the various
conferences:
The following is a list Of the
conferences with winners and run
ners-up for the 1855 season:
Eastern Intercollegiate, Dartmouth,
Pacific Coast tsouthern), California,
U. S. c.
Pacific Coast (Northern), Idaho, Oregon
State
Pacific Coast (PlayofD. California,
Idado.
Southwest, Baylor, Arkansas.
Big Ten, Ohio State, Indiana.
Big Six, Kansas, Oklahoma.
big Seven, Wyoming, Colorado.
Southern Irregular season., North Caro-
lima, Duke.
Southern ttitle tourney, Duke, Wake
Forest.
Missouri Valley. Okla. Asgie, Wichita.
| Southeastern Irregular season. Loui-
siana State, Kentucky.
| Southeastern title tourney, Kentucky
Louisiana State.
Mason-Dixon Irregular season.. Amer
lean Univ, Baltimore, Loyola.
Mason-Dixon title tourney, American
| Univ, Western Maryland.
Rocky Mountain, Colorado State, Mon
tana State.
Mid-Atlantic (Northern), Muhlenbere
and Lafayette tied.
Mid-Atlantic (southern). Ursinus.
Swarthmore.
Rutgers.
| Midwest Athletic, Beloit, Coe.
Ohio Conference, Akron and Wittenbers
tied.
Kentucky Conference, Eastern KY, Louis
Vile
Southern Border, Arizona, West Texas
State.
Vermont Conference, Vermont, St.
Michaels.
Naib Tourney. Carbonate OILY
Tchrs, Indiana State,
New Mexico Conference, New Mexico
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Central Kansas Conference Wasburn
Leading Independents: Harvard 2O-1'
Yale AL, West Virginia 23-2, Rhode Is,
land 2o-2, Syracuse 23-4, Navy 1913
Notre Dame YEA DePaul 1913 Neuada 90