Evening star., 1960-01-09
Big Four Basketball Teams
Favored in Games Toniqht
All Are Seekinu
Their 18th Win
OF Season
BY the Associated Press

BY the Associated Press
Cincinnati, California, West
Virginia and Utah-the four
wlnningeSt major college bas-
.ketban teams in the country
all go after their 18th victory
tonight and none appears to
be in any great danger.
Cincinnati, with Oscar Rob-
ertson, plays Tulsa in a Mis-
souri Valley game in Tulsa. As
If worrying about Robertson's
shooting prowess isn't trouble
enough, the Hurricanes have
discovered they now must
watch Robertson's mates, too,
In the Bearcats' last game
Thursday against Wichita,
Robertson set up more points
than he scored. The Hurri-
canes won't know which way to
look.
California, beaten only a
week ago after running up IS
victories in a row, will try to
run its newest skein to a
modest three in a date with
Stanford at Palo Alto.
Win in Conference
The Golden Bears. NCAA
champions and rated No. 2
right behind Cincinnati in the
current Associated Press poll.
polished of UCLA last night
in a Big Five game, 59-47,
Southern California, No. 10 in
the ranking and the team that
snapped Calls streak, nipped
Washington, $3.50. They were
the only two of the TOD 10
teams that played last night.
West Virginia, ranked No. 3.
plays Penn State in the lair of
the Nittany Lions, while Utah
meets Utah State in a Skyline
Conference engagement. Utah
defeated Utah State twice last
season en- route to the crown.
Cincinnati is the only one of
the big boys that hasn't been
defeated. California, West Vir-
ginia and Utah all have gone
down for the count once. Brad
ley, No. 4, is at Wichita in
another Missouri Valley con-
test.
Important games also are on
tap in the Big Ten. Southeast
ern, Atlantic Coast and South
west Conferences.
Ohio State (8-2) and ranked
No. Z in the A. P. poll, has a fine
opportunity to knock Indiana
right out of the running for the
Big Ten title.
HOOsiers in Danger
The HooSiers were one of the
hotshot favorites for the crown
before the season got under
way, but they fell before both
Purdue and Northwestern in
their first two conference starts.
One more defeat and it's cur
tainS.
Another important league
game sends Illinois (7-2)
against Minnesota. The nlini.
ninth-ranked in the A. P. poll,
has lost their only league start.
They were figured to give Ohio
State a battle with the demise
Of Indiana.
Georgia Tech Old, sixth
in the country, goes up against
Mississippi State in the top
Southeastern Conference game,
Wake Forest (8-2), No. 8 ma
tionally, has a date with North
Carolina in Greensboro in the
feature Atlantic Coast Confer
ence engagement. ACC Com
missioner Jim Weaver sched-
uled the game at a neutral site
hoping to avoid mayhem. Orig
inally, it was scheduled for
Wake Forest. but Weaver re-
membered that last years
game on the Winston-Salem
campus wound up in a free
for-all.
Ivy League Busy
Wake Forest already has
beaten North Carolina in the
final of the Dixie Classic. Un-
beaten Texas A&M goes after
its 10th straight in a SWC
game with Texas Christian.
Only the Ivy League and the
West Coast Athletic Conference
played full schedules last night.
Dartmouth opened defense
of its Ivy crown by defeating
Cornell, 77-59, with Gary VAN
deweghe and Chuck Kaufman
each scoring 10 points. Brown
turned back Penn, 63-62;
Princeton halted Yale, 1880,
and Columbia whipped Har-
ward, $3.50.
In the WCAC, College of the
Pacific vanquished San Jose,
66-55; Pepperdine toppled
Santa Clara, 59-48, and Loyola
of Los Angeles crushed San
Francisco, 58-44.
Maryland clobbered South
Carolina, 1852, in the only
ACC game. and Oklahoma eked
out a 1852 victory over Colo
rado in two overtimes in the
only Big Eight game on the
card.
In Skyline Conference action,
Wyoming drubbed New Mexico,
1857, and Colorado State
University outshot Denver,
1910. In other games WASH
ington State beat Montana,
87-73;' Oregon took Idaho,
52-48, and Portland defeated
Seattle, 1858.