Evening star., 1951-03-18
Brigham Young
Routs Dayton on
.Last-Ha|f Surge
Roland Minson Sturs
For Utah Five; $4,000
Witness NIT Finals
BY the Associuied Press

/ BY the Assoeioted Press
NEW YORK, Mar. 17.-Brig-
ham Young's classy basketball
team, getting an All-America per-
formance from Roland Minson,
staged a terrific drive in the
second half tonight and routed
Dayton, 62-43, to win the Ma
tional Invitation Tournament
The new champions were only
two points ahead at halftimc,
1926.
The 6-foot Minson, a midget
| in this day of hardwood giants,
thrilled a packed Madison Square
Garden crowd of 1879 with a
fantastic exhibition of rebound
ing, stealing and shooting. He
couldn't be contained.
The energetic youngster with
the crew haircut shot Dayton
Dizzy, hitting with either and
both hands and from all parts
of the floor to rack up 26 points.
With a 20-point lead, 61-41,
and 2l2 minutes to play, Coach
Stanley Watts pulled out his reg
Iular team-Minson with it-amid
a deafening roar from the crowd.
Meineke Held to Points.
Minson's 6-foot-5 teammate,
Mel Hutchins, nullified Dayton's
potent scoring threat, Long Don
Meineke, limiting the 6-foot-7
pivot star to seven point, including
NCAA Tournament Gets Under Way in
Three Cities This Week. Po9e B-4
only one field goal. Meineke was
the tournaments leading scorer
with a total of II points for his
first three games.
With Meineke handcuffed. Day
tons popular little round man,
I230-pound Leland Norris, took the
Flyers offensive burden on his
own shoulders and put on quite
Ia show himself.
If 1t hadn't been for Norris. a
football guard in basketball cloth
ing, Brigham Young would have
made it an even more one sided
runaway. He got 20 points, in
cluding seven field goals.
Brigham Young. champion of
the Skyline Six Conference, moves
to Kansas City to try for bas-
ketball grand slam by winning the
NCAA tournament.
The boys from the West who
don't have a home gym and who
have to play all home games at
Salt Lake City, 40 miles from
Provo, Utah-meet San Jose State
in the first round of the Western
eliminations Wednesday.
Scrapping like a bunch OF
aroused bulldogs. Dayton, un-
seeded conqueror of fourth seeded
Arizona and top-seeded st. Johns,
took an early lead and held the
upper hand for most of the first
half. But Brigham Young pulled
even, 1926, two minutes before
the half and went to intermission
with a tWo-point advantage on
free throws by Russ Hillman,
substitute.
With Minson popping in goals
with either hand, Brigham Young
moved away quickly in the final
half.
st. Johns Wins Thriller.
In the st. john Seton Hall
consolation game to decide third
place in the tournament, Ronnie
McGilvray's tWo-handed jump
shot in the final second Of a dou-
BILE overtime gave st. Johns a
70-68 victory.
McGilvray took the ball from
Jack Mcmahon on an out-of-
bounds with seven seconds remain
ing and dribbled the length of
the floor before scoring with a
corner side shot, one of the most
difficult in the game.
Twice, freezing, clock watching
STRATEGY that st. Johns had used
to beat st. Bonaventure earlier
in the tournament failed as Seton
Hall rose to stop attempts at
IlaSt-gasp triumph with the score
62-62 in regulation time and 66-66
in the first extra session.
Both Teams Lose Aces.
The Windup was made doubly
exciting by the fact that the two
teams great pivot stars-Bob
ZaWoluk of st. Johns and 7-foot
Walt Dukes of Seton Hall-both
went out within a minute of each
other on five fouls in the first
Iovertime.
Dukes had 10 points when the
whistle caught him at two min
Iutes and 20 seconds of the first
extra period. zawoluk had Is
when he was taken out.
. The score was tied 1888 with
/ exactly a minute remaining and
the ball in Seton Halls possess
sion when the New Jerseyites
sought to pull the game out with
the same strategy that had failed
st. Johns twice previously.
| After time out for instructions
from Coach Honey Russell, Seton
Hall passed crisply for so second
before Roy Belliveau tried shot
that missed. The New Jerseyites
grabbed the ball again but Bobby
Hurt threw wildly into the crowd.
| Here st. Johns took over and
McGilvray slammed his spectacu-
lar up-court drive and clinching