Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-03-09
LaSa|Ie, Dons
Impressive in
NCAA Openers
Defending Champions
Rout West Virginia;
ViIIunovo Edges Duke
BY the Assoeia.ed Press

LaSalle, the defending cham.
pion, and San Francisco, the No.
l team in the Associated Press
poll, are off winging in the Ma.
tional Collegiate basketball tour
nament.
Both won decisively over West
Virginia and West Texas. re-
spectively. in first-round NCAA
games last night.
They were joined in the second
round by Canisius. Villanova,
Marquette, Penn State, Bradley
and Seattle. which in turn elm
mated Williams, Duke, Miami Of
Ohio. Memphis State, Oklahoma
City and Idaho State.
The eight winning teams along
with eight others, which received
first-round byes, play next in
Philadelphia. Evanston, Ill: Man.
haitian, Kans.. and Corvallis.
Oreg.-the sites of the second
round games Friday. The win
ners come to grips Saturday to
determine the four teams for the
semifinals and finals in Kansas
City March 18 and 10.
LaSalle Meets Ivy Team.
Here's how Fridays second
round shapes up:
At Philadelphia-Ivy League
champion princeton d2-10 or
Columbia Q7-7 VS.. LaSalle
(23-4, and Canisius (17-6) VS..
Villanova l7-9).
At Observation-Disclosures (22-
p, Southeastern Conference
champion, VS. Marquette (23-0
and Iowa Q7-4), Big Ten cham
pion, VS.. Penn State 1873.
At Manhattan - Southern
Methodist 16-D, Southwest
Conference champion, VS.. Brad
ley (8-l9 and Colorado $3.50.
Big Seven champion, VS.. Tulsa
(20-6), selected to represent the
Missouri Valley after finishing in
a tie for first place with st.
Louis.
At Corvallis-Oregon State
(2l-D. Pacific Coast Conference
champion, VS.. Seattle (22-5) and
Utah $3.50, Skyline Conference
champion, VS.. San Francisco
(24-D.
Ivy Playoff Tonight.
The. Ivy League title, which
wound up in a three-way dead
lock, will be determined tonight
when Columbia faces Princeton
at the Rutgers gym in New
Brunswick, N. j. Columbia
eliminated Penn from the play
offs Monday night, 1871.
LaSalle's Explorers eliminated
; West Virginia, the Southern
Conference champions, 1851. il
last nights windup of a Madison
Square Garden triple-header in
New York. Earlier, Canisius
downed Williams, 1850, and Viii
lanova outlasted Duke, the At
lantic Coast Conference repre-
sentative, 74-73.
With Tom Cola providing the
impetus, LaSalle set NCAA
tournament scoring record of IS
points in a single game. The
Explorers held the previous
mark of 90, which they set in
last years final against Bradley.
Cola, limited to one field
goal in the first half, clicked fos
18 points after intermission and
finished with "a. His rebound
ing strength and defensive play
also was instrumental in the
Explorers victory.
Zone Bothers Hundley.
West Virginia's Hot Rod
Hundley kept the Mountaineers
in contention during the first
half as he scored 16 points. Bus
the highly regarded sophomore
was troubled by LaSalle's zone
defense in the second half and
scored only one point the rest
of the way.
Coacn Ken Leoffler of LaSalle
said Hundley is a darn good ball
player and that it was the first
time his LaSalle team had gone
into a zone defense just to stop
one man.
Hundley's first-half antics in
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