Evening star., 1955-02-15
San Francisco Keeps
Rolling in Win Streak
And Poll; CIV Fifth
BY the Associated Press


The college basketball teams
voted the Nations 10 best in the
Associated Press 10th weekly
poll lost little time justifying
their positions on the honor
roll.
Six of them, including San
Francisco's No. ranked Dons,
were in action last night and all
came through with victories.
And the members of the second
10 did almost as well with five
winning. Two teams. Cincinnati
mo. 12l and Vanderbilt (No. 20),
lost.
The defense-minded DonS, who
raised their seasons mark to 1871
last night against Santa Clara,
easily topped the. poll of sports
writer's and broadcaSters. They
received more than 300 points
more than Kentucky although
polling fewer first-place votes
than they did last week when
they replaced the Kentuckians
at the top of the heap.
Kentucky and LaSalle, in third
place, also scored higher than
last week in points even though
the first-place ballots were more
widely scattered. The Dons re-
ceived 81. Kentucky IL, La
Sale 6.
Marquette Moves Up.
Duquesne, again in fourth
place, didn't receive vote for
first place but George Washing
ton, which rose a notch to fifth,
was No. / on 10 ballots. Mar
quette's Warriors, who moved up
from ninth to sixth, were put on
top by nine voters.
The remaining first-place bal
lots were widely scattered as
North Carolina State, Mime
sofa, UCLA and Utah filled out
the rest of the top 10. Minne-
sofa. the only newcomer, jumped
from the 18th to eighth by beat
ing Illinios. which fell from the
select group to 14th. Maryland
continued to hold down the No.
II spot.
Marquette, already selected
for an NCAA tournament berth,
stretched their skein to 10
straight victories-longest among
major schools-as they over
powered Detroit, 100-81, last
night.
Meanwhile, San Francisco
extended it's winning streak to
II games with a 66-52 victory
over Santa Clara. San Francisco
has agreed to play in the NCAA
tourney as an at-large repre-
sentative providing the Dons go
on and win the title in the
California Basketball Associa-
ton. Their conference record
Is 80.
DOnS Rally to Win.
Bill Russell, 6-foot-l0 center,
paced a second-half San Fran
cisco surge after the Dons
trailed. 1925. at the half. Rus
sell scored 81 of his 81 points
in the final half and also set an
all-time career scoring record by
San Francisco player Of $40
points. The old mark of 1923
was held by Don Lofgran.
Minnesota maintained its
half-game advantage in the Big
Ten race with an 1910 victory
over Indiana, while runnerup
Iowa kept pace by downing Ohio
State, 1868. The Gophers'
league record is 81, while Iowa
stands at To. Dick Garmaker's
% points paced Minnesota to its
first success over the Hoosiers
on the Indiana court since 1916.
The title hungry Gophers
have not won a Big Ten cham
pionship since 1887, when they
shared the crown with Illinois.
Before then the last time they
had finished first was 1919.
In other Big Ten encounters
last night, third-place Illinois
overcame an eight-point half
time deficit to whip Michigan
State, 90-72, and remain in
championship contention; last
place Purdue upset Wisconsin,
1858, and Ron Kramer's layup
with three seconds left gave
Michigan a 72-70 victory over
Northwestern.
wilkinson Tops Petcavich.
George Washington trounced
Virginia Tech, 82-57, as Joe Pet
cavich collected A points to set
q new individual scoring record
for the Colonials. But Buzz Will
kinson did him one better as he
scored As points in leading Vir-
ginia to a 106-68 lacing of Glenn
son.
Cslly two other members of the
top 10 played last night and both
came through as expected. Ken
lucky, hitting consistently on set
shots, bowled over Xavier of Gin
cinnati, 66-55. ST Green's 33
points spanked Duquesne to an
8l-67 victory over Cincinnati in
a game between two National
Invitation Tournaments o un d
teams.
Oregon State, No. Is, clinched
at least a tie for the Northern
Division Pacific Coast Conference
championship by defeating
Idaho, 1906. as 7-foot-3 Swede
Halbrook scored 81 points.
In other leading games West
Virginia throttled William and
Mary, 95-8l; Missouri handed
Nebraska a 1918 defeat, Kansas
beat Oklahoma A. and NJ, 50-42,
and Alabama remained in con-
tention for Southeastern Confer
ence honors with an 1890 victory
over Florida.
The poll standings with first
place votes and seasons record
through Saturdays games points
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