Evening star., 1951-01-23
|ReshuffIe Of First Ten
Puts Wildcats in Front
Third Time This Year
BY the Associated Press

lundefeatec Long Island Unlver-
lsity in the sixth Associated Press
poll. |
The Wildcats from Lexington.
Ky, succeeded Oklahoma A. and
NJ. which fell to third after hav-
ing its 16-game winning streak
snapped, 44-40, by Oklahoma
Saturday night.
1t is the third time out front
this season for Adolph Rupp's
towering athletes, who led the
poll the first two weeks before
they were bumped by st. Louis In
the Sugar Bowl.
The 222 sports writer's and
broadcasters, who participated in
the latest ballot, failed to shake
anybody out of the first 10, al
though the order of the top quin-
oughly scrambled.
Columbia Still Seventh.
Columbia, which shares with
LIU the only perfect major record
in the country, held fast to sew
enth. All other teams moved up
Or back a notch or two.
After Kentucky, LIU and Okla
thoma A. and M. came this order:
Bradley, Indiana, st. Johns, CO.
lumbia, North Carolina State,
Kansas State and st. Louis.
Arizona, LaSalle, Oklahoma
and Brigham crashed into the Sec
ond 10, showing out Toledo, Wash
ington. st. Bonaventure and Du-
queSne.
/ Kentucky. which has bounded
back since its overtime 43-42 loss
to st. Louis December 90, drew
81 flrst-place votes and a total of
1,786 points. Points are awarded
on the basis of 10 for a first
place vote, nine for second, etc.
Kentucky plastered an 82-61 de-
feat on Georgia Tech last night
in a Southeastern Conference
game at Atlanta. It gave the
Wildcats SO league record and
set the stage for Saturdays show
down with Vanderbilt, also un-
beaten in league play.
LIU, with Is straight victories, |
gave the Kentuckians a good run
for it. polling 81 first-place votes
and 1,643 points-only 143 less
than the leaders.
LIU to Get Tough Test.
The Long Islanders get their
severest test of the year in the
next two weeks on an ambitious
Western swing. They play San
Francisco Friday and California
Saturday in San Francisco, then
meet Arizona. Kansas State and
st. Louis next week on the way
back. |
LIU warmed up for its long
Western trip by toying last night
with Fairleigh Dickinson, 97-48.
Sherman White, as usual, was
the ringleader In LIU's high |
geared offense. The sensational
Negro forward scored 80 points,
setting a new Metropolitan scoring
record for three years of play.
White now has 1884 points. OF
these, 422 have come this season.
by far Whites best.
Bradley Beats Pitt.
The second and third place
teams-Oklahoma A. and M. and
Bradley-tangle Friday night at
Peoria, III. The Aggies received
1,434 points in the latest poll and
Bradley, twice beaten, collected
1924.
Bradley last night defeated
Pittsburgh, $3.50. The Braves.
puzzled in the opening minutes /
by a strong Pittsburgh zone de-
fense, methodically pulled away
from the firing Panthers in the
second half.
Indiana, riding herd on the Big
Ten with a perfect league mark,
trounced Purdue Saturday night,
77-56, and last night took the
measure of Ohio State, defending
champion, $3.50. The Hoosiers,
beaten only by Bradley. were the
only other team to get more than
1000 points. They play Min
nesota Saturday.
st. Johns to Play st. Joseph's.
st. Johns, with a 12-1 record
after beating Brooklyn College,
63-37, will play st. Joseph's OF
Philadelphia in Philadelphia's
Convention Hall next Saturday
night.
Columbia strengthened its Ivy
League title bid with a 76-49 tri-
umph over Dartmouth Saturday.
The Lions are idle now until Feb
ruary 6. They have university
lrecord 21-game winning streak
going, with IL of the victories
this season.
Kansas State G2-2) gets Colo
rado Saturday. st. Louis, cling
ing to the first 10 despite four
losses. plays Drake on the same
evening.
st. Louis Receivers.
The st. Louis Billikens dropped
a 55-44 decision to the Oklahoma
Aggies last Wednesday but recov-
cred to whip Tulsa Friday, 69-49.
The changes from last week in
the top 10: Kentucky moved from
second to first and LIU from
fourth to second as the Aggies i
dropped two notches. Bradley fell
a peg to fourth. Indiana and st.
Johns changed places. st. Louis
| dropped from eighth to tenth asi
N. c. State moved UP from ninth. |
Kansas State jumped from tenth
to ninth.
Here are the leading teams with
f1rst-place votes and season rec
ords in parenthesis tpoint totals
figured on the basis of 10 for a i
f1rst-place vote. for second, etc. /:
The First Ten.
Kentucky t643 l3-14A 1,7s6
LONG Island U. (69) d5-O5 = 1,643
, 3-Oklahoma A & M. t2W u6-D 1,434
bradley a. 1S-2) 6--L- 1,124 |
, 5-Indiana t14) U2-n 1,026 /.
6-St Johns (1Rl f12-2l 2Rd !