Salt Lake Telegram | 1946-12-27 | Page 16 | Creighton Plays Denver Tonight

Creighton Plays Denver Tonight ' DES MOINES, Dee. 27 (INS) Coach Eddie Hlckey's Creighton Bluejsys will meet an unknown qusntlty tonight in ths first round of Draks university's Invitational tournament. The Jays are slated to tangle with Denver university, while Drake will match points with the University of South Dakota. Tha Bluea are tentatively tenta-tively scheduled to take tha floor at :18 p.m., CST. "we hoped to draw South Dakota In the first round," said ths Jay mentor, "but I know the boys wlU be primed for Denver, too." Creighton rambled paat the 8. D. Coyotes In their first meeting, 61-39, without trouble. Off the record, the Jaya will run Into eome stiff opposition In their opening game. Denver suffered a 51-82 eetback at the handa of a strong Texas Wesleyan team early In the season. They bounced back to conquer Colorado State by a one-point one-point margin, 61-80, and the University Univer-sity of Ban Francisco, 64-43. The Denverites also copped sn even break in a two-gams series with Lowry field. Plnala of tha tourney will be held Saturday night, with the first game winners tangling for the title, and losers meeting In tha consolations.