Evening star., 1956-12-28
Tar Heels Meet
Duke After Easy
Win Over Utah
Blue Devils Spoil
Mountuineer Record
Aggies Edge Navy
BY the Associated Press

me unbeaten North Carolina
ar Heels are playing basketball
Ike world-beaters. But they're
laking Coach Frank McGuire's
redictions look bad.
1t was MCGUIRE who labeled
Ttah the team to beat" in the
)ixie Classic. Now if he can put
pset-minded Duke in the same
ategory. the Tar Heels probably
ill win the tournament in a
"eeZe.
North Carolina didn't give
tah a chance last night. crush
1g the Skyline Conference team,
'7-76. as Lennie Rosenbluth
'ang up SO points to pace the
Tar Heels to their ninth straight
'ictory. North Carolina, ranked
econd nationally. will meet
Duke tonight. The Blue Devils
urprised fourth-rated and un-
eaten West Virginia, 1857, de-
oite Hot Rod Hundley's "a
ointS.
All four Atlantic Coast Con-
renee teams advanced to the
,mifinals as Wake Forest top
led DePaul, 74-68, and North
'arolina State beat Iowa, 84-70.
The Dixie was only one Of the
altitude of tournaments which
ached various stages last night.
One-POint Loss for Navy
In Houston, Southern Metho-
list, the Southwest tourney IA
vorite. looked the part in knock
ing of Texas Christian, 1866,
as Jim Krebs scored 36 points
Texas Ann edged Navy. 76-75,
as Dave Smalley of Navy just
missed a long desperation shot
in the final second. Arkansas
also moved past the first round
by betting Texas, 1916, as did
Rice by dropping Baylor, 71-55.
Texas A6sM, after losing its
star forward, George Mehaffey,
on fouls, lost an l8-point lead
over a Navy team that battled
furiously in the closing minutes.
The shot by Smalley, the Navy
captain from Albuquerque. N.
Mex, hit the rim Of the basket
and bounced away as the final
gun sounded.
Smalley and Mehaffey earlier
had been separated by game Of
ficials as tempers fiared during
a scramble for the ball. There
was a bit of showing but no
blows.
Spartans in Semifinals
In Kansas City, Colorado and
Michigan State entered tn e
semifinals of the Big Seven
tournament with the Spartans
trouncing Nebraska. 1866, and
Colorado downing Missouri, 64-
SIS. The winners will clash to-
night. Kansas. the top team in
this weeks Associated Press poll,
faces Oklahoma in the other
game.
Semifinalists also were deter
mined in the Richmond Invita-
tional with Penn, Washington
and Lee, Penn State and Lafay-
cite making the grade.
Lafayette defeated William
and Mary. 85-72. to take over
the favorite's role from Colum-
oia, which lost to Washington
and Lee, 1886. Tom Hancock.
a sophomore, scored eight points
in the final three minutes as
Penn State beat Richmond,
$3.50. while Penn defeated
Davidson, 1919, in the other
games.
Baylor stars for Seattle
Oklahoma City, the host team,
handed Idaho State its first loss
in nine starts. 1906, as the ALI
College tournament got under
way. In other games. Seattle
whipped Tulane. 94-76. and Mar
luette and Memphis State each
broke the old tournament scor-|
ing record of "a points. Mar
quette walloped Georgia Tech,
l02-T8, and it was Memphis
State by 99-77 over Texas Tech.
Elgin Baylor, former Washing
ton, D. c., schoolboy star, scored
81 points to pace the Seattle vic
tory.
The Orange Bowl competition
saw Western Kentucky down
LaSalle. 1916: Stanford defeat
Valparaiso. 68-51; Connecticut
See BASKETBALL, Page A-23
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