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Wednesday, March 7, 1951 THE BATTALION Page 3 Kentucky Shades Oklahoma ’Pokes For No. 1 Position New York, March 6—(^P)—-The University of Kentucky Wildcats won the No. 1 rating today as the nation’s best college basketball team for 11)51 in the final W’eekly Associated Press Poll. Put, it was only by the skin of their teeth—a bare 26-point mar gin over Oklahoma A&M. It was the second No. 1 ranking for Kentucky in the three years of the AP basketball poll of sports- writers and sportscasters. Ken tucky, the top team of 1949, rated third a year ag^) when Bradley captured the lofty honor. Ags—More 1st Votes However, Oklahoma A&M, which suffered a stunning setback last night at the hands of Detroit, 62-52, actually received 10 more first place votes than Kentucky. This upset matched the Ken tucky debacle of Saturday, when underdog Vanderbilt clipped the Wildcats, 61-57, in the Southeast ern Conference tournament finals. Voting in the poll was completed yesterday before the Oklahoma A&M-Detroit game. Kentucky, which has clinched a berth in the NCAA tournament, has been voted the nation’s top team for the last seven weeks. Oklahoma A&M must beat Houston tomorrow to clinch the Missouri Valley title and a NCAA berth. One to Go The Aggies (26-3) end the regu lar season against Kansas in a non-conference tilt Saturday. Ken tucky (27-2) has ended its regular season. With 185 ballots cast in this 12th and last poll, Kentucky got 45 for first place, compared with 55 for the Oklahoma Aggies. Ken tucky edged home first, however, because of receiving a heavier vote for the No. 2 spot. Slight Change The poll showed only a slight change from .last week. Two teams traded places, all the others re mained pat. Bradley, (28-4) in the No. 5 spot last week, dropped to No. 6. Illinois, (19-3) which clinched the big ten title last night by beating Michigan State, 49-43, moved up to fifth. The other teams held firm, with Columbia, the nation’s only un beaten major outfit (21-0) in third, Kansas State (21-3), big seven champs, No. 4 Indiana (19-3), No. 7; North Carolina State (28-4), Southern Conference kingpin, No. 8; St. John’s of Brooklyn (22-3), No. 9; and St. Louis (21-7), No. 10. One Contest For ’Cats Kentucky has declined to play in the National Invitation tournament at Madison Square Garden begin ning Saturday. The Wildcats will meet an “at large” team not yet selected in the NCAA first round at Raleigh, N. C., March 20. If victorious there, Kentucky will travel to New York for the Eastern semi-finals and finals March 22 and 24. Oklahoma A&M can have the one open place left in the 12-team NIT tournament if it desires. The de cision is expected soon. Ags to Austin For Final SWC Swim Contest The Aggie Swimming team will go to Austin Wednesday afternoon to meet the Long horns in A&M’s last South west Conference meet of the season. Holding a 2-2 record for seasonal competition, the Aggie tankers can boast victories over North western Louisiana State and Bay lor. They lost to SMU and Okla homa. Swimming on the freestyle team for Coach Art Adamson are high- scorers Ralph Ellis, Tommy Butler, John Parnell and Van Adamson. Adamson holds the pool record at SMU in the 220 freestyle. Relayers Gain Points Besides the members of the free style team, the relay swimmers can be depended upon to pile up a large percentage of the Aggie scor ing. Swimming for the relay team are Jimmy Flowers, Don Blundell —who is also a backstroker—James Baker and Adamson. Bill Sargent and Tommy Com stock fill in the rest of team places in the backstroke and breaststroke respectively. Texas has been thus far favor ed to win the Conference swim title. Last week they beat a strong SMU aggregation who had pre viously won over Oklahoma. Overstreet Grabs Two Places In NM Rodeo Las Cruces, N. 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TCU Leads Reynolds, McLeod, Harvey Fromme and James Knox led the Frog attack for the first ten min utes and Knox’s field goal midway in the first half put TCU out in front 17-10, their longest lead of the game. The remainder of the first half was a nip and tuck battle with Mc Dowell, Davis, Woody Walker and John DeWitt pacing the Cadets as they consumed the Frog margin with 11 points, while holding the challengers to four. Ags Lead With two minutes remaining in the opening period, the Aggies showed a 25-22 lead, but Knox, Fromme, and Bryan Kilpatrick closed the gap and went ahead to be out in front at the. half 29-27. The first half had been lacking the previously prominent ball con trol, but had been a match of speed and field goal accuracy. A&M’s John DeWitt was a stand out in that period as he stole the roundball on numerous occasions when the Frogs had gone deep in to their scoring grounds. What Floyd told his charges during the intermission remains a mystery to all those witnessing the game, for it was here that the Ca dets took charge of the tip off and charged ‘ down to score on Davis’ tipin. McDowell added four points from the field and Miksch did the same on two push shots that were made possible by the Aggies methodical maneuvering. Marvin Martin add ed two more points for the Aggies and the Frogs went without a field goal in the first six minutes of the second half before Dick Allen scor ed for the Christians to find the Farmers out in front 39 to 33. Tied Once More The Aggies had a lead now and they were not find themselves trailing again, but their position as the leader got a wee bit pre carious when McLeod racked the nets three times in short order and Reynolds added one more to tie the game at 41 all with nine minutes left to play. A&M shot only seven times from the free throw line arid two of these coming in the final period, for the possible two points and in evitable possession of the ball meant more to the Cadets than did the charities. Ball Control Again Davis counted on a charity and then took the second one out to put the Aggies back in the lead 42-41 and then teamed with Miksch to add a couple more goals from the field. The old “ball control” reared its beautiful head in the last nine min utes and TCU found themselves in a scoring drought, yet trying desperately—but vainly—to keep their team in the game. On a long pass from McDowell that covered the length of the court, Don Heft scored easily to set the Aggies in the lead 48-44. Da vis added the last counters for the evening on a quick opening play that found TCU too busy with their attempts to gain possession to notice the big Aggie center standing alone under the basket. (BOX SCORE on Page 4) SPECIAL! 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