Tournament Time Nigh For College Quintets NEW YORK With the three-month process of the regular season almost college basketball turned its attention today to the important part of the year the Most of the conference champions have been giving an idea of the field in the national collegiate A. A. and the leading independents were modestly firmly pointing to their records in hopes of a bid the national meet at Madison Square Texas became the logical team from its area when it won the Southwestern conference championship with two week-end over 49 to 44 and GO to The Longhorns have won 23 of losing only to Oklahoma A and M. Series Slated The far western team will be decided in a best of three starting Friday between Southern Pacific Coast conference UCLA and Northern Oregon State UCLA won its title by defeating Southern Cal twice during the and St. Louis U and Oklahoma are planning a play-off game to determine the district St. champion of the Missouri Valley also is hoping for an invitational bid and would prefer that to an Oklahoma is two games ahead in the Big Six and seems to have the crown after defeating Missouri last Kentucky Favored Kentucky romped through the Southeastern conference defeating Georgia Tech and and will be heavy favorite to retain its invitational To Bring His Cats Here Saturday Floyd Millet BYU basketball who will bring his up-and-down Cougars to Salt Lake Saturday for a tiff with the Utes in the IJ It will be the last game of schedule for West Virginia beat Pitt on 72 to and Navy which may get an invitational trounced Notre Dame another nipped and Connecticut upset Rhode Island 83 to to scramble the invitational picture in that Another upset saV defeat 50 to The Rhodies have won 15 of 17 and Syracuse has a Holy Cross won its in a row last Minnesota defeated leading 58 to and Indiana stopped second-place 48 to in the Big and now Indiana can share the title with the Dodgers and by beating Purdue if Purdue later defeats Wisconsin was expected to be the tournament choice from the Bradley kept alive its invitational by defeating Kansas for a season record of The Southern conference tournament starts this and from that may come another only undefeated had a battle with but 55 to for its The Dukes played Georgetown Tuesday night in a dangerous