Evening star., 1961-12-23
Buckeyes Southern Cal
Face Tough Tests Tonight
Kentucky Plays
Kansas State in
Quincy Finals
BY the Associated Press

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California, two of the Nations
best, face a couple Of long
shots tonight In their last
games before the Los Angeles
Basketball Classic-one of the
country's top holiday invita-
.tionals.
Their matches, along with
the Kentucky Kansas State
clash for the title in the Ken
lucky Invitational, top a rela-
lively sparse schedule.
The Buckeyes, unbeaten in
six games and No. / in the
Nation, are at home to Penn
State (5-D while the sixth
ranked Trojans visit unbeaten
Utah State (7-0.
Trojans Win Sixth
Southern Cal, with all letter.
men back from a team that
ranked seventh in the Nation
in the final Associated Press
poll last season, stormed over
Wyoming, 1854, last night for
its sixth victory against a lone
defeat, a 66-56 upset at the
hands Of Oklahoma.
Utah State. while unbeaten,
hasn't played the schedule so
far encountered by the Trojans,
and hopes to find them look
ing ahead to next weeks tour
ney.
Penn State has come up with
the size and depth Coach John
Egli has been dreaming of for
years, but he admits, We're
not too fast" That could spell
the difference against the Jerry
Lucas-led Buckeyes. b
The games are the last
warmups for Southern Cal and
Ohio State before next weeks
Los Angeles Classic, which also
features such powers as Utah,
eighth-ranked Purdue, fifth
ranked West Virginia, WASH
ington, Army and UCLA.
Rudometkin Scores 20
John Rudometkin, who owns
the Southern Cal career scor-
ing record, tossed in % more
points and grabbed % rebounds
in the victory at Laramie, Wyo.
His efforts helped the Trojans
/ to a 22-11 lead midway through
the first half and Wyoming
wasn't close again.
Kentucky punished Tennes-
see. 96-69, and Kansas State
dropped Xavier (Ohio), 1857,
/ in first round games and
gained the finals Of the Ken
lucky Invitational at Lexing-
ton, KY, while Utah, paced by
Bill McGill, drubbed Arizona
State, 1929, at Salt Lake City
in last nights other top games.
McGill, a 6-foot-9 center who
owns the country's best COL
legiate scoring average, 81
points. popped in Al despite
two and sometimes three-man
defense thrown against him by
the slumping Sun Devils.
| Arizona State started the
week tied for 10th in the Ma
ton, but lost to Indiana and.
Minnesota before running into
Utah on its current tour. Utah's
only loss in eight games was
1916 to the same Arizona State
team earlier in the season.
PursifuI PAGES Kentucky
Mike Wroblewski was the. big
gun as fourth-ranked Kansas
State remained unbeaten in
seven games. He contributed 81
points. 81 in the last half, and
including eight straight as the
Wildcats pulled out of a 62-62
tie and put it out of reach.
Kentucky, angling for a spot
in the national ratings. got "a
points from Larry Pursiful in
its relatively easy triumph over
winless Tennessee. Pursiful hit
for "a in the first half as Ken
lucky established a 35-29 lead
at intermission and steadily
pulled away.
/ Among the other major re-
suits, Texas A&M clipped Au-
burn, $3.50, and Houston pun
ished UCLA, 91-65, in a double
header at Houston; Davidson
upset Alabama, 68-63, at Flor
ence, Ala; Lafayette's once
beaten team produced a 1884
victory over Columbia in New
York; Detroit humbled Regis,
81-58. in Detroit; Pitt nipped
host Fordham, 67-66. on a goal
by Cal Sheffield with 20 sec
onds left; Memphis State
routed Richmond, 96-77; Cali
fornia nipped Nebraska, 50-49.
at Berkeley when Tom Russell's
last-second shot for the Corn
huskers rolled off the rim;
Stanford took a 71-61 decision
over touring st. Louis; Idaho
State beat Portland. 67-54: Ore
gon outlasted Fresno State,
84-72, and Brigham Young
edged Pacific, 69-67.
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