Show The Champs Are re Home Brigham Young university's championship championship championship cham cham- basketball team came home Monday morning to the cheers of the B Y U student body and of Provo and Utah supporters Although there m may y have been some disappointment that this hard-fighting hard team failed to win top honors in the National Collegiate Athletic association meet their smashing victory in the National Invitational tourney at Madison Square Garden against a tough field is cause enough for rejoicing and acclaim As a matter of fact B Y U might well have won the coveted grand slam basketball basketball basketball bas bas- crown by taking the N C A A title too had it not been for the leg injury which hampered the university's great Mel Hutchins They came mighty close even with this handicap to beating Kansas State Slate last Friday night After that loss the game Saturday with the University of Washington for third place was anticlimactic Basketball ll fans and people throughout through through- out Utah are proud of Brigham Youngs Young's championship team They have brought honor to Utah proving once again that this state and its colleges must always be reckoned with in national hoop competition i 1 |