Evening star., 1955-01-02
|CoIoniaIs Make Start
In Conference Play;
Terps, Hoyas Busy
By George Huber

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Conference basketball champions
also champions Of the Steel
Bowl and Richmond Inyitational
Tournaments played last month,
finally get around to playing q
conference game this week.
Already owners Of an az rec
ord. the Colonials have some
local business to take care Of. be-
fore hitting the conference cir
cult against Richmond Saturday.
There's Georgetown to be met
Wednesday night at GUS Nc.
Donough gym in GW's first OUT
ing in defense of its unofficial
Big Three title.
Other features on the basket-
bali program this week as the
teams come back from the holi-
day tournaments and pick up
with the regular season are three
Atlantic Coast Conference games
for Maryland, and Georgetown's
game with American U. Satur-
day at AU.
The Hoyas barely got past
American when they tangled last
month, and the Eagles are
hoping that this time in their
own gym they finally can beat
Georgetown.
Terps Play Two Here. &
Maryland has a To record,
having repeated as All-American
City Tournament champion last
week. and stands 80 in its con-
ference, Its family opposition
this week comes from South
Carolina Tuesday and Virginia
Thursday at College Park and
Clemson Saturday at Clemson.
AS for the big George WASH
ington G GEORGETOWN clash
Wednesday night. there's sure to
be a. lot of hoople from the GU
students for their home game,
but 1t will be a terrific upset If
the Colonials don't win In a
breeze. This has all the makings
of another big year for the
Colonials. It may be similar to
last season when they twice
topped the Hoyas and split with
Maryland for the Big Three
crown.
Two seasons back, though,
Georgetown did take George
Washington in the windup game,
1854. after CIV handily took the
first one, 81-65, so there's always
hope. This time. however. the
Colonials seem too strong, with
Corky Devlin and Joe Holup
scoring heavily and Joe Petca-
vich developing as a fine third
man. 70
| l9 sStraight Oyer Richmond.
The Coldniais safso~wih be
favored in their Southern Con-
ference start at Richmond Sat
urday night. They beat the
Spiders for the Richmond Inyi-
rational title last week, for the
Southern, Conference title last
March, and for l9 straight times
altogether. Richmond is bound
to catch up with CIV sometime,
but in view of GW's 1915 tri-
umph last week on the same
floor, this doesn't seem to be
the time.
Maryland, one of the three or
four best teams in the strong
Atlantic Coast Conference. could
win all three of its games this
week to boost its current 3-2
standing. The losses have been
to Duke, which the Terrapins
also beat, and to Wake Forest
/ in overtime. while other wins
were over Virginia and North
/ Carolina.
! Thursday nights repeat game
against Virginia at College Park
is Maryland's big one this week
and should attract a fine crowd.
Buzz wilkinson, Virginia's aero
batic high scorer, will be an at
traction and something for the
Terrapins to stop.
/ They didn't do that when
they met at Charlottesville last
month, although Buzz's 28-point
performance was not among his
higher productions this season.
Maryland won a close one on
that occasion, 72-69, by getting
fairish scoring from practically
every member of the starting
lineup.
Early Leaders Get Help.
In fact, Maryland has devel-
oped into a well-rcunded team.
Bob Kessler and Bob Everett,
who carried the early scoring
load, are getting help from Bob
O'Brien and Frank Fuqua now.
The last two seem to be getting
better every game. A strong
bench is another Maryland asset.
| Howard University, which did
not play in a holiday tournament
and which hasn't seen action
since December 10. comes back
this week with a Central Inter-
collegiate Athletic Conference
game against st. Paul Poly
| Thursday night at Howard. The
Bisons are 3-3 in. their league.
and 5-3 overall.
i This weeks schedule:
/ TOMORROW.
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