Evening star., 1949-02-27
6. W., Terps Looking
To Durham;C u. Host
To Mason-Dixon
By MerreII WhittIesey

sS s@~h ~ass~ss
By MerrelI Whittlesey
Pairings will be made today in
Durham, N. c., and Baltimore for
the Southern Conference and
Mason Dixon Conference basket
ball championships scheduled this
week. the Southern in Durham
Thursday through Saturday and
the Mason-Dixo at Catholic Uni
versity Tuesday through Thurs
day.
The Southern uses a numerical
draw system for pairing it's eight
teams. but in the Mason Dixon
the top four teams in the regular
season standings will be seeded
and their opponents drawn from
o hat.
George Washington is hoping
for a break in drawing the oppo-
site bracket from that Of North
Carolina State, champion the. last
two years and the regular season
pennant winner. The Colonials
are in third place in the standings.
Maryland is in seventh and will
draw one of the top teams In the
first round.
The State of North Carolina
again. dominates the Southern
Conference tournament with N. c..
State. North Carolina, Wake For
est and Davidson among the quail
f1ers, but with Duke, host school.
five time champion and f1nalist
eight of the past nine years, con-
spicuous as nonqualif1er. The
Blue Devils tied for ninth in the
16-team league. The other quail
f1ers are South Carolina and Will
liam and Mary
Terps Barely Make 1t.
Both George Washington and
Maryland lost in the first round
last year, the Colonials to Duke
after running up an early lead and
Maryland to Davidson. G. w. was
virtually certain qualif1er all the
way this year but Maryland had
to stage nice comeback to get in
With Duke an absentee, the de-
mand for tickets has not been as
great as for the last few years, but
the 5000 seats in the Duke field
house probably will be filled for
most of the performances. Two
flrst-round games will be played
Thursday afternoon, two at night.
semiflnals Friday night and the
final Saturday night.
The first round games in the
Mason-Dixon Conference cham
at Catholic U. Tuesday
night will be jammed into big
evening of basket ball. The ap-
game times on the
le-header will be S, $50. 8
and $50. The semifinals will be
played Wednesday night and the
final Thursday night. preceded by
a game between junior varsity
teams from Loyola and Roanoke
for the jayvee title.
Hampden Sydney. Loyola Of
Baltimore, American University
and Bridgewater are seeded in
that order Roanoke and Mount
st. Mary's safely we're in the fold
while last nights games we're to
decide the last two places with
Catholic u. Western Maryland
and Washington, College in the
Loyola Wins Twice in Row.
Loyola has won the tournament
title for the last two years. It's
only loss this year in the regular
season play was to American U.
Hampden-Sydney went through
undefeated but Big Jim Lacy and
his Loyola teammates are the
tournament favorites.
Each competing school has been
allotted 100 tickets. Seats in the
c. U. gym will not be reserved
but one side will be for students
and the other for the general
public.
The Mason-DiXon tournament
winner will represent this district
in the NAIB tournament next
week in Kansas City. The South
ern Conference winner probably
will compete in the NCAA cham
pionship in New York, particu-
larly If N. C. State holds to its
favorite'S role.
Four other games are scheduled
this week. V. M. I. will be at
Maryland Monday night and will
Meet George Washington at East
ern High School on Tuesday in
games that originally were sched-
uled for guration week.
Georgetown plays at Penn State
on Saturday and Saturday night
in Annapolis Navy concludes its
season against Army. The last
game of the season involving a
local school will be Georgetown
at Villanova a week from tomor-