Evening star., 1960-12-22
BiIIkens Try
New Defense
Against Rupp.
St. Louis Sh0des
California to Coin
Kentucky FinuIs
- the Associated rsssS

muia tneyH peeu TO beat Ken
lucky tonight for the title in
the Wildcats own tourney.
The Bills 54-5S overtime
victory last night over Cali
fornia. one of the best defen-
sive outfits In college basket
ball. must have driven home
the point to Coach Adolph
Rupp's team. which won over
Illinois, S3-78. in the other
game Of the two-night Ken
lucky Invitational ut Lexington.
The victory was st. Louis
sixth In seven starts. during
which the Bills have allowed an
average Of only 40 points q
game. This compares with
Kentucky's scoring average of
SO for q 4-2 mark. Oifensively,
the Bills, whose only loss was
to top-ranked Ohio State, have
averaged "a points. Kentucky's
defense average is 50 points.
Heyman Leads Duke
Dukes Blue Devils, ranked
seventh In the Associated Press
poll. got another fine perform
ance from Soph Art Heyman
and breezed past Florida, 1864.
North Carolina State (No. 1O)
held on LaSalle's late rush for
'a Tics victory, after which
Temple handed Penn its first
loss. 72-5S, in Q Penn Palestra
ouble-header.
Louisville. unbeaten in nine
starts, won over Louisiana
State. 1888. and Vanderbilt.
also undefeated, beat New
Mexico 66-59. Kansas State
won its fifth in o row, 1856
over Colorado State u, while
Colorado lost its first in eight
starts, 64-54, to Wichita. Day.
ton handed Seton Hall its first
defeat, 66-45.
st. Louis warmed UP to last
nights task with q 1926 VIC
tory over San Jose State Mon
day night. using . tenacious
man-to-man defense. The
Bills best job against q touted
opponent was Q 57-4O vitcory
over Cincinnati. though the
Bearcats' high scoring center,
Paul Hogue. was suffering from
the flu at the time. They al
lowed the Davis Branch Of
the University Of California
only "a points and Iowa only
IS. They ran into Ohio State
when the Buckeyes were hav-
ing their best shooting night
Of the year and took an 01-66
drubbing.
Bears Pull Even
st. Louis defense almost
didn't make It for Q while last
night as California erased q
1920 halftime deficit and tied
the score, 40-40. at the end of
regulation time. But three
straight points by Tom Kiefer
put the Bills in front for good.
Bob Nordmann led st. Louis
with 10 points. while Dave
Stafford and Bill McClintock
each had II for the Bears.
Roger Newman scored "a for
Kentucky. and the Wildcats
got 21 more from Larry Pursi-
full. Jim McDonald's three
point play in the final AZ Sec
onds killed on any Illini hopes.
Dave Downey scored % for nli-
nois, which meets California
for consolation honors tonight.
Heyman tipped in "a points
to pace @ sharp shooting Blue
Devil team that broke Florida's
zone defense and held high
scoring Bobby Shiver to only
four points.
N. c. State (6-D had a 62-54
lead with six and q half left
but didn't breathe easily until
Ken Rohloff's foul shot pro-
vided the Anal margin with
five seconds to play. Anton
Muehlbauer led the Wolfpack
with 10 points.
John Turner's "A points and
16 rebounds paced Louisville.
while Bobby Bland got 10 for
Vanderbilt (7-O), which took
advantage Of cold shooting by
New Mexico in the second half.
Kansas State beat back o late
surge by Colorado State and
got 15-point performances from
Larry Comely and Ced Price.
Brawl Breaks Out
A 2hs-minute brawl between
players Of both teams inter-
rupted Wichita's victory over
Colorado. Dayton surged from
q 46-42 lead with Seton Hall
(4-D in the second period,
going 1870 when the Pirates
couldn't score for nine minutes.
In other games Cornell Green
scored % points as Utah State
broke open Kent States ball.
control tactics for an $500
victory. Arkansas beat Ala
bama, 1915, and Texas Chris
tian won over Tennessee, 77-72.
as the Southwest conference
swept the Southeast Confer
ence in the first Aluminium
Bowl at Little Rock, Ark. The
teams switch partners tonight.
Denver knocked oG Michi-
gan, $3.50; Washington State
handed Stanford its second
one-point loss in as many
nights, 5l-50; Loyola Of Chi
cago downed Loyola Of New
Orleans, 1886; Nebraska trim
med Arizona, 1856; Army de-
feated Depsuw. 1853: Creigh-
ton bounced Grinnell, 1888,
and Rutgers conquered Boston
u, 1877.