Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1960-02-17
Upsets Throw
Cage Races
Info Scramble
BY the Associated Press

| If you've been thinking how
strange it'll be to see the likes
of Kentucky, Connecticut,
Southern Methodist and those
other perennials on the side
lines when they hold the Ma
tional Collegiate basketball
tournament next month, just
wait a minute.
Just like that they're back in
the running after a night of
basketball flip lops among con-
ference leaders that'll make
February l6 stand for Black
Tuesday to many.
Georgia Tech, sailing along
toward its first Southeastern
Conference championship in %
years, suddenly is In a three
way dogight with Kentucky
and Auburn after losing to
Tennessee in a 57-56 upset at
Knoxville last night.
Connecticut, supposedly out
Of the Yankee Conference race
it dominates year after year,
is right back in there with a
So record after knocking of
front-running Massachusetts,,
7l-49.
Three-Way Deadlock
Texas AIM, racing along
atop the Southwest Conference,
is down to a three-team tie for
first with SMU and Texas after
losing to Texas. 1852, while
SMU was smacking Rice, 1858.
Just to make it complete,
Eastern Kentucky-the season
long leader in the Ohio Valley
conference was Smacked
down to third behind co-lead-
erS Tennessee Tech and West
ern Kentucky after FORGETTING
its game to Western Kentucky.
Trailing, 1920, Coach Paul
McBrayer pulled his club off
the court and refused to return
after a squabble triggered by a
foul called on Ralph Richard
son. The score at the time went
into the books as the final.
st. Marys. the Western Col
legiate Athletic Conference
leader, escaped the run of
shockers-whipping College of
the Pacific, 1856, to build a
6-l league record and a game
lead over Santa Clara and
Pepperdine, both So.
Holly Cross Rolls On
While the conference clubs
were having their squabbles,
four Of the eight teams already
signed and sealed for the Ma
tional Invitation Tournament
were having a ball.
Holy Cross, which joined the
NIT field yesterday along with
defending champion st. Johns,
.reeled off its 18th straight for
"a 1872 record, mailing Boston
u, 1876, as Soph Jackie Foley
scored 90 points. Detroit Q7-4
got % points and "a rebounds
from Soph Dave DebusSchere
in a 1851 waltz over Baldwin
Wallace. Providence Q5-4
thumped Rhode Island, 1850,
as Jimmy Hadnot had % points
and l6 rebounds, and Memphis
State l4-4) whipped Loyola of
New Orleans, 54-38, with
George Prices II points the
top shooting performance.
Glen Campbell's jump shot
at the buzzer enabled Tennessee
to upset sixth-ranked Georgia
Tech, and Kentucky was quick
to take advantage, getting dou-
ble-figure scoring from all five
starters in a $3.50 victory over
Vanderbilt. Now Kentucky.
dubbed my poorest team ever"
by Coach Adolph Rupp, is tied
at go with idle Auburn and
Georgia Tech, each with three
league games remaining.
NOtre Dame Wins
Texas, which got Is points
from Jay Annette in its whop-
ping victory over Texas AIM,
triggered the Southwest Con-
ference scramble into a To
tie with the Aggies and SMU
with each having five confer
ence games to play.
Eastern Kentucky, as a result
Of its forfeit loss, now is 8-3
with one Ohio Valley game left
compared to 6-2 for Tennessee
Tech and Western Kentucky,
each with four league games re-
naming.
Connecticut still trails Massa-
chuSetts (4-2), but has a 60
Yankee record with both it's re-
manning league games at home
against Vermont and Rhode
Island.
Notre Dame, in line for an at
large bid to the NCAA, ran its
record to lat with 1852 de-
cision over Butler, and Virginia
Tech and William & Mary
scored Southern Conference vic
tories.
VPI, beating Richmond, 85-
SO, has a 10-1 Southern Con-
ference record to 81 for West
Virginia, but the Mountaineers
can get even tonight against
George Washington. William &
Mary, only team to beat West