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Typical of this situation is the Temple team that beat Harvard in the first round of the Quaker City Tournament last December. In that tourney-winning Owl squad, there wasn't a single player who hadn't come up through the ranks of Philadelphia's city basketball factories...
...Five can and has placed three teams in the tourney in the last three years. The winner from the Middle Atlantic Conference (almost always LaSalle, St. Josephs or Temple), the Ivy League Champ (Penn, of course), and the one eastern independent selection, (usually Villanova) go into the post season action...
...finals of the Beanpot tourney, Boston University squealed by Boston College in overtime, 95-94, snapping Harvard's two-year hegemony in the event. The Terriers' Neil Burns won the tournament's Most Valuable Player award...
...that's right, the IAB. The Beanpot, that showcase of local college hoop talent modeled on the ever-popular Beanpot hockey tourney, has retreated from Boston Garden due to lack of interest. The Crimson host B.U. in Cambridge, Boston College travels tonight to Northeastern, and tomorrow night's consolation and finals take center stage at B.C.'s Roberts Center...
...cagers will place that streak and their 3-4 record on the line December 26 when they meet Temple in an opening round game of the Quaker City Tournament. The tourney, a three-day affair in Philadelphia, features some strong teams: Penn, Cincinnati, St. Bonaventure, California, Fordham and Penn State...