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...West, Denver--last year's NCAA champion--leads the pack with an impressive 13-1 record as of last week. There is no question that Denver will play in the tourney again this year, despite the fact that the Western teams, unlike the Eastern, will meet in a four-college playoff before the tournament...
Denver's Western partner in the tourney, to be held March 16-18, could be Michigan (11-5); Michigan Tech (11-7); or Minnesota (8-6). The order given is also the order of the Western standings this week...
...first time in the 14 year history of the NCAA tourney, the East will play the East in the first round, thus guaranteeing a final game between the East and the West. An Eastern team last won the tournament in 1954, when RPI surprised Minnesota in the final game. Since then, the East has never beaten the West--12 straight losses...
Eastern teams have won the tourney only two times--RPI in '54 and B.C. in '49. Harvard has participated in the tourney three times--in '56, '57, and '58, and won only one game: against St. Lawrence, 6 to 3, for the consolation title...
...will go to the tourney for sure, but not with a pure and innocent roster