Evening star., 1961-12-29
BASKETBALLs BOUNCING EVERYWHERE
Six Tourney Titles at Stake Tonight
by the Associated Press

of kings who will have survived
college basketball's 1861 edition
Of holiday madness by late to-
morrow night.
It's Temple VS.. Miami (Fla.)
in the Hurricane Classic at
Miami; Houston VS.. giant
killer Bowling Green in the
College at Oklahoma City;
Florida VS.. Virginia Tech in
the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville.
Fla: Texas Western VS.. New
Mexico in the Sun Carnival at
El Paso. Tex; Santa Clara VS..
st. Mary's (Calif.) in the West
Coast Athletic Conference tour
ney at San Francisco; and The
Citadel VS.. little Westminster
IPaD in the Canton (Ohio)
Classic in tonight's title games.
Just to keep them company.
first-round play begins in the
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans,
Poinsettia Bowl at Greenville.
S. c., Motor City Classic at
Detroit, Richmond Invitational
and Evansville CIndD Holiday
tournament, and the semifinal
stages are reached in the Big
Eight at Kansas City. Far West
Classic at Portland. Greg,
Down East at Bangor, Maine.
and the Gulf South Classic at
Shreveport.
These and a bundle of others
who are taking a 24-hour break
today will bring the annual
cruSher tomorrow night. when
IA more Of the big 20 will fin
ish and everyone can concen-
trate on football again for a
few days Of armchair watching.
Some Of the Nations most
touted clubs will probably plop
in the easy chair with us
after the way they've been
manhandled so far.
A major college unbeaten
list that lowered at 10 only
four days ago has been chopped
to five-with only Ohio State,
Villanova, Mississippi State. De-
Paul and Seton Hall left. The
first four all are involved in
tough tournament action the
next 36 hours and by Sunday
Seton Hall, which didn't have
a tournament commitment,
could be the only one left.
Third-ranked Duquesne and
touted Dayton suffered their
first losses of the season last
night-the Dukes falling before
rugged Villanova by a whop-
ping 1853 in the semifinals Of
the Quaker City tournament at
Philadelphia as Hubie White
and Sophomore George Left
wich scored % and 81 points,
respectively. Dayton was
whipped by hustling Wisconsin,
1858. in a semifinal at New
York's Madison Square Garden.
Top-ranked Ohio State, the
only other unbeaten in action.
pushed its new winning streak
to nine-turning back UCLA.
1854, in the semifinals of the
Los Angeles Classic as Jerry
Lucas scored 80 points and
grabbed 80 rebounds. Southern
California's fourth ranked
Trojans will challenge the
mighty Bucks in the L. A. final
tomorrow night. The Troians
l9-D advanced with an impress
siye 1855 rout of Utah in the
other semifinal.
Mississippi State 7-0) risks
its record in the Sugar Bowl
tonight against Maryland IN a
double header also matching
Louisville and LSU. DePaul
t6-O goes against st. Bona
venture in part of a Motor City
double-header that also pits
Detroit against winless oyra-
cuSe.
In the Poinsetia, it's Arkan-
sas VS.. Clemson and Georgia
Tech VS.. Furman; in the Evans
vile Holiday. it's host Evans
vile against Yale and Pitt
against Tennessee; and in the
Richmond Invitational, host
Richmond against Georgetown
and VMI against George Wash
ington.
Glancing at last nights other
developments:
HOLIDAY FESTIVAL-Cin-
cinnati, the favorite, beat La
Sale, 64-56, and will play Wis
consin. upset winner over Day.
ton, in tomorrow's final.
GATOR BOWL Florida
edged Navy, 68-63. and Vir-
ginia Tech made up a 17-point
deficit for a 1918 upset of
Vanderbilt. Final tonight.
BIG EIGHT - Oklahoma
edged Kansas, 61-60, and Iowa
State downed Colorado, 62-52,
to join Wednesday winners
Kansas State and Missouri in
tonight's semifinals.
FAR WEST CLASSIC-Idaho
whipped Portland, 61-50, and
Oregon toppled Michigan State,
71-59; joining Wednesday VIM
ners Oregon State and Wash
ington State in semifinals.
ALL COLLEGE - Bowling
Green surprised Wichita. only
team to beat Cincinnati so far.
69-68, to reach tonight's final
against Houston. Houston beat
Utah State. 51-46.
GULF SOUTH CLASSIC -
Hamline beat Northwestern
Louisiana, 1866, and defending
champion South Carolina edged
Memphis State, 1918; joining
Mississippi Southern and cen
tenary in Semifinals.
SUN CARNTVAL-New Mex.
leo beat New Mexico State
80-76. in double overtime tc
reach tonight's final against
Texas Western, 70-46 conquerol
of Baylor.
QUEEN CITY AT BUFFALO
Defending champion Drake
1855 winner over st. Joseph''