Word: tourneys
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News Item: Beanpot Basketball Tournament cancelled. The Basketball counterpart of college hockey's Beanpot tourney has died a quiet death. Harvard nabbed the tourney crown last season after beating B.C., but the four-team event was never a crowd pleaser or a winning proposition financially...
...tournament final, Central Connecticut State walked away with the number one spot in the four-team weekend tourney as it trounced Worcester...
After downing the favored Bonnies 59-55 in the final, leading scorer Frank Sowinski was named the tourney MVP. Bob Slaughter, averaging 12.9 a game and 6 ft. 8 in. Bob Roma were also tapped for the all-tournament team...
Georgetown, rated "Best in the East" by The Sporting News, also spent the holiday down South, trampling the Crimson hoopsters 60-40 in the Carolina Classic. The Hoyas moved north as the pre-tourney favorites at Madison Square Garden, but the Purdue Boilermakers made it two wins in a row for the Big Ten in the Holiday Fest...
While Harvard's cagers were faring poorly in Columbia, S.C., the Columbia Lions were also down South playing at nearby Greenville in the Poinsetta Classic. The Lions are for real this year. They beat The Citadel and Furman to take the tourney. Columbia's last victory in a tournament game came on December 30, 1972. Their last tournament championship was the 1967 Holiday Festival, when the current batch of four sophomore starters were in fourth grade and Tom Penders was a high school coach in Connecticut...