Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1958-02-18
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scorer nationally, finished with
80 points. He scored 10 in the
first half to Oscars 20.
Robertson switched from for
ward to guard when Drake
damned the middle in the Sec
ond half but teamed with Clio
Connie Dierking to snare IS of
Cincinnati'S SIS rebounds.
Drake managed only 20.
Oscar now has scored 7O6
points in 81 games for a 1876
average and already holds the
conference scoring record for
one season. Last nights 43
points gave him 1868 points in
all conference games. The old
record of 367 was set last year
by Bill Ebben Of Detroit in IL
league games.
Baylor. idle until Thursdays
game with Montana State, has
654 points in 10 games for a
34.4 average. Chamberlain,
third in scoring, now has q 31.4
average with 534 points in IL
games.
Bob Smiths 81 points led
West Virginia as the Noun.
taineers continued their bal
anced attack in winning their
21st straight at home.
Kansas Has Trouble
Kansas. which must hope
somebody can upset Kansas
State and then whip the Wild
cats itself March 8 to gain ever
a tie for the Big Eight title
had trouble with Missouri's
stalling tactics for 10 minutes.
But it was 43-17 at the half.
The Jayhawks may have lost
Bob Billings, it's top playmaker
Tor the season. He aggravated
a back injury in the first half.
Bradley. using only five men,
checked Oklahoma State with
IA points in the second half
while reversing a 54-52 set
back at Saltwater, Okla.
San Francisco led by only
three at the half, but Gene
Brown broke it up with three
quick field goals after the in
PERMISSION and the Dons went
on for their 10th consecutive
victory. They hit so per cent
OF their shots.
Michigan State (l2th), Ken
lucky Q3th) and Mississippi
State d8th) were the only
other members of the top 20 to
play last night and all won.
Michigan State retained its
Big Ten Conference lead by
defeating Michigan 1863 on
the corner set shots of Bob
Anderegg, who scored 81 of his
Is points in the deciding Sec
ond half.
Howell Scores rs
Kentucky took charge in the
last six minutes for Q 65.6l
decision over Vanderbilt. Lou
isiana State upset Alabama
58-49 and Kentucky now
can clinch no worse than q tie
for the Southeastern title by
defeating Alabama Saturday
Bailey Howell, fourth in scoring
with a 1858 average, hit Is
as Mississippi State rocked
Georgia 92-77.
California retained its half
game edge over UCLA and idle
Oregon State for the Pacific
Coast Conference lead by de-
feating Stanford 67-59. UCLA
blew a l5-point margin, but
beat Washington 1882.
Art Musselman scored ~
points as The Citadel gained a
second-place tie with idle
George Washington in the
Southern Conference (behind
West Virginia) on an 1854 de-
cision over Virginia Military
Institute. william and Mary hit
SO per cent from the field and
walloped Furman S7-46.
The standings with points on
a l0-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-l basis
tfirst-place votes and won-lost
records through Saturday, Feb
ruary is In parentheses):
Kansas state 1881 arb - Csc
? Cincinnati l37) us-2D - g7l
=. West virginia t27 coli - s6i
4, Kansas 1b-O . 80 66t
8 San Francisco co. tl0.l) - 8Ss
y Temple t13b 1B-2) --.-- SO.
q. Duke 90 u4-b) 5it