Evening star., 1950-12-30
Overtime Win, 43-42,
Puts Bi|Iiken Team
In Sugar Bowl Final
BY the Associated Press

NEW YORK, Dec. 30.-St. Louis
University stepped in and upset
tonight's anticipated basketball
battle between Kentucky and
Bradley, the country's top-rank-
ing fives.
The Billikens. 11-point under
dogs. stung the Kentuckians, 43-
AZ, in an overtime thriller last
night in the Sugar Bowl tourna-
ment at New Orleans. Earlier,
Bradley had completed it's mis-
sion with a hard-earned 1854
victory over Syracuse.
The first Kentucky defeat over
shadowed Oklahoma A. and MS
18th straight victory and Mime
sofas 62-51 upset of Kansas.
So tonight it'll be Bradley
(11-0D against st. Louis (9-D
for the Sugar Bowl title. Ken
tucky (6-D and Syracuse (6-3)
will meet in the consolation game.
Sends Game Into Overtime.
st. Louis. after overcoming a
nine-point deficit. sent the. game
into overtime on Ed SCOTS field
goal with II seconds left. Ray
Sonnenberg's 15-footer in the
extra period gave the Billikens
the upset of the year.
Coach Adolph Rupp saw his
team blow it's third Sugar Bowl
title chance in five years.
In the opener, Bradley had it's
hands full for 80 minutes with
Syracuse. Then. paced by Aaron
Preece, Fred Schlictman and
Charles Grover. the Braves pulled
away 10 win by a comfortable mar
gin.
The st. Louis-Kentucky game
was nerve-wracking practically
from the first shot. The score at
the half was 1922 and at the end
of the regulation game it was
41-41. During the five minutes of
overtime big Walt Hirsch, usually
one of Coach Rupp's most depend
able players. missed two consecu-
tive free throws.
One would have tied and two
would have won.
Recalls 1948 Tourney.
The victory recalled the 1948
Sugar Bowl tournament when st.
Louis upset Kentucky's great team
42-40 and won the championship.
Last nights victory was Coach Ed
fourth over Rupp's Ken
tuckians. Kentucky has won twice
from st. Louis.
Seven-footer Bill Spivey. Ken
lucky center, failed to play the
way the crowd expected. He was
high scorer in the game with
Is points. but st. Louis Centers
Scott and Bob Koch controlled
rebound shots and often stole the
ball.
Oklahoma A. g. M. won it's
ninth all-college tourney by whip
ping Arkansas, SAL. at Okla
homa City. Alabama won third
place in the tournament by stop
ping Texas, SAL.
Minnesota Beats Kansas.
Meyer Skoog's brilliant ball
handling paced Minnesota to it's
victory over Kansas, which had
been favored to take the Big
Seven tourney at Kansas City.
Kansas State, 1888 winner over
Nebraska, plays Minnesota tonight
for the title.
The Dixie Classic at Raleigh,
N. c., will match North Carolina
State and Colgate for the title
tonight.
North Carolina State pounded
Wake Forest. 1886. Colgate
handed Navy its first loss, $3.50.
In the Skyline Six Tourney at
Denver. Utah and Wyoming
reached the finals. Utah just got
past Denver. 45-43, while unbeaten
blasted Utah State, So
40.
There was plenty of non-tour-
nament action.
Penn Defeats Stanford.
In the East, Pennsylvania
shaded Stanford, 1888. Villanova
rang up its eighth straight without
a setback by dumping Tennessee,
91-72. Dartmouth fell before
Tampa, $3.50, but Yale whipped
1852, in Ivy League visits
to Florida. Il
Princeton, another Ivy team,
racked up it's sixth straight VIC
(See BASKETBALL, Page A-10.)
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