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...Villanova: a 71-57 victory over No. 4-ranked Providence, winner of 19 straight and, before the game, basketball's only unbeaten major team; at Philadelphia. No. 1-ranked Michigan whipped Minnesota 91-78, and No. 2-ranked U.C.L.A. romped past Stanford 83-67. West Virginia (season's record: 12-14) pulled the upset of the week with a 74-72 victory over Davidson, which had won 23 in a row since losing its second game of the season...
Bill McCurdy has the coach's habit of crying "Wolf!" before the big ones. So last winter, when he said his unbeaten runners would be fighting for their skins against Navy in the Heptagonals, everyone figured it was so much baloney. It wasn't. The Crimson just squeezed by the Middies...
...indomitable Crimson runners, also unbeaten on the season, will destroy the Bulldog and Bengal squads in New Haven this afternoon and chalk up their fourth straight indoor Big Three title. Their inferior rivals have the individual stars to give scattered excitement to this afternoon's contest, but Bill McCurdy's charges have a balance unmatched anywhere else in the Ivy League...
...last week the Friars were ranked No. 4-and even that seemed like an insult. With all five starters scoring in double figures, they spotted Duquesne a 12-point lead in the first half, roared back to win their 18th straight game 83 to 75-thereby remaining the only unbeaten major college team...
Last year Walker and Westbrook led Providence's freshman team to its first unbeaten season in seven years. This year they are the most precocious pair of sophomores in college ball. Walker, a 6-ft. 3-in. guard, is the team's top scorer at 20.7 points a game; Westbrook, a 6-ft. 7-in. center, averages eleven rebounds per game, is the key man in the Friars' pro-type pivot offense. And Junior Blair, whose mother started the whole thing, is no less a whiz: he is averaging 14.2 points a game, and against Iowa (which...