Evening star., 1953-12-08
Indiana Five Shows
lis Power in Rolling
Over Kansas State
ey the Associated Press

NEW YOhh, Lee. 0.-1nQlaId,
last years NCAA champion. is
due for a rough basketball sea-
son, but the team had an easy
time last night.
The Hoosiers, who had their
troubles licking Cincinnati only
three days ago. came back and
coasted to a 92-66 victory over
Kansas State, one of the three
teams to beat them a year ago.
Only today. the Nations sports
writers and sportscasters voted
Indiana the No. l team in the
annual Associated Press pre-
season college basketball poll.
Maybe the score against Gin
cinnati was what the Hoosiers
needed because they stepped on
the court in Bloomington and
ran up an 11-2 count in just
3 minutes. Coach Branch Nc
Cracken, who had the woes
before the game. stopped worry
ing.
First Team Taken Out.
Don Schlundt hit for 16 points
In the first quarter and after
that Kanssa State never was in
the game. Schlundt wound up
with 25 points, although, like
most of the first team, he played
only about a half
DuqueSne and Oklahoma
A&M, rated Nos. 3 and 4, re-
spectively, in the AP poll, both
won But the Aggies had their
troubles with Texas and it
wasn't until the final 20 seconds
that Tom Fuller connected with
a push shot to put his team in
front, $3.50. Bob Mattick, who
led the scorers with 81 points.
found the range for 16 of them
in the second half just when
they were needed.
DuqueSne coaSted to an 1888
victory over St. Francis College
of Loretto, Pa. The Iron Dukes
were ahead all the way and in
the final quarter Coach Dudley
Moore cleared his bench when
the score began to mount.
Minnesota, which is figured to
give Indiana and Illinois a run
for the Big Ten championship,
also had it's difficulties, fritter-
ing away a 17-point first half
lead against Tulsa. But the
Gophers came back to exc out a
$3.50 victory when Chuck Men
eel dunked 20-foot, e-hander
with 20 seconds to play.
Irish Beat Northwestern.
Northwestern spoiled the Big
Tens perfect winning record,
bowling to Notre Dame, 1866. |
The Wildcats thus became the
first conference team to lose a
basketball game this season.
Wisconsin overpowered Loyola
of Chicago, 1854, as Ron Weis-
ner scored 20 points, Paul Nor
row, 10, and Dick Gable, IA. 1t
was Loyola's first loss in four |
starts.
Three Big Ten teams play to-
night. Valparaiso at Michigan,
Ohio State at St. Louis and Pur-
due at Bradley. Butler is at |
Illinois tomorrow night.
A fellow can't hold his records |
for any time at all these days. |
Saturday night, Kentucky's ALL
America of two seasons back,
Cliff Hagan, poured 81 points
through the hoop against Tenn
ple-an all-time high for a
Southeastern Conference player.
LSU Player Scores go.
Last night, Paul Petty of
Louisiana State went into action
against Louisiana College and |
hit for so points as his team
scored 1914 victory.
In a major upset, Vanderbilt's |
young team outscored Duke, one
of the powers of the Atlantic !
Coast Conference, 71-66. Duke
ran up more than 100 points in
each of its first two games, but |
Vanderbilt apparently was un-
aWed. Dan Finch was the leader !
of the uprising with % points.
Missouri opened with 75-43
triumph over Drake; Marquette
came on fast in the second half
to stop Creighton, 92-73; George
town won its third straight, 93-
83. at the expense of Mount st.
Mary'S; Niagara licked Toledo, |
1852, and DePaul turned back
st. Norbert, GOAT, in other
major games.