Show Title A I Hopes Hit Peak By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK Feb 23 t P t P Looking ahead a week of basketball basketball basketball bas bas- in whicH the Southeast Eastern Intercollegiate Big Ten Big Six Southwest Missouri Valley Valley Val Val- ley Icy and Big Seven conference titles can be decided and the two participants participants participants pants in the Pacific Coast league playoffs determined Below the Mason-Dixon Mason Line After playing j just st for fun all season the 12 Southeast conference conference conference confer confer- ence teams te ms gather at Lexington Ky Thursday for three-day three title tourney Tennessee beaten only by Kentucky in conference play top seeded and meets Georgia in first game Kentucky run- run to Vols in 1941 meet given No 2 slot Only regularly scheduled scheduled scheduled sched sched- contest left is Mississippi vs Mississippi State at Oxford to to- to night Seven teams headed by the title-defending title Duke five already have earned berths in Southern conference title meet at Raleigh N. N C. C next week Blue Devils' Devils only league loss administered by George Washington Saturday 55 to 53 This weeks week's program ends season except for tourney with Duke at Maryland tonight entertaining Virginia Tech Tuesday Tuesday Tuesday Tues Tues- day and North Carolina Friday In Missouri Valley Area Missouri Valley conference at stake in game between Creighton and Oklahoma A M 11 at Stillwater Stillwater Stillwater Still- Still water tonight won in first meeting ana and repeat triumph triumph tri tri- definitely would dethrone the Omaha Big Six laurels probably will go goto goto goto to winner of Fridays Friday's meeting between between between be be- tween Kansas ansas and Oklahoma on court Oklahomans have meeting with Iowa State tonight tonight tonight to to- night and need victory to remain in lead In rivalry Kansas at Oklahoma A M Thursday Bi Big ig Ten Illinois' Illinois sophomores could clinch title by winning rinning from Wisconsin defending champion at Champaign Champaign Champaign Cham Cham- tonight and from Northwestern Northwestern Northwestern North North- western in Chicago stadium Saturday Saturday Saturday Sat Sat- To tie Indiana must sweep four remaining games while lose two of last four Pacific Coast Washington State and Stanford winners of divisional titles a year ago continue setting 1942 pace Washington State N C A A host to University of Oregon tonight Then meets speedy Washington in week-end week twin twirL bill to end season Stanford Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford virtually in as Southern half king ting although has two two game game series with Southern California at Los Angeles this week end Divisional champions meet for league title which Washington State annexed last season E East t Dartmouth Eastern Intercollegiate Intercollegiate Intercollegiate Intercol Intercol- best without interruption since 1938 clipped by Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Pennsyl Pennsyl- vania and forced to share lead with Cornell Two collide at Ithaca Saturday Game tops program program program pro pro- gram of seven contests Long Island tangles with Canisius to tonight tonight tonight to- to night in Brooklyn Rhode Island State boasting two-points- two minute a-minute offense plays at Maine tonight and at New Hampshire Tuesday Both L LIU I U and R-I R State loom as participants in New NewYork NewYork NewYork York invitational tourney Rocky Mountain Colorado another possible entrant entrant entrant en en- trant in the Gotham tourney could coul I clinch third Big Seven title in four years by defeating Brigham Young at Boulder Saturday Buffs are unbeaten by collegiate five this season Southwest Arkansas and Rice tied for top May finish that way Razorbacks entertaining Southern Methodist Friday and Saturday Rice meets Baylor at Houston Tuesday and Texas which surprised surprised surprised sur sur- to make tie possible possible possible pos pos- sible at Austin Friday Rice and Arkansas divided two-game two series late in January |