For National

 

Tuesday.

The tournament will be conducted
by the Metropolitan Basketball Writ-
ers’ association.

The two eastern representatives
will be selected March 9 when four
picked fives meet in the Garden for
the right to clash with two teams to
be selected fromeother sections of the
country. The finals will be played
March 14 and 16.

Everett Morris of the Herald-
Tribune and president of the writers’
association, said “one or two teams
will be selected from New York City
and the others from such outstanding
fives as Syracuse, Villanova, Pitts-
burgh, Notre Dame, Bradley Tech of
Illinois and the Big Ten seme te
if conference rules permit.” —

The writers plan to comb the re-
mainder of the country carefully
before selecting the other two teams.
Such prominent outfits as Wyoming,
Kansas, University of Oklahoma,
Oklahoma A. and M., Southwestern,
| (Kansas) and Washington and Lee.

“Then there are the champions in
| the Pacific Coast, Southwestern and
' Southern conferences to be consid-
| ered, ” said Morris.

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| MW’DERMOTT WOULD

| BE GLAD TO GO

| NORMAN, Fed. 1.—(4)—Hugh V.
McDermott, coach of the, University

| of Oklahu ma basketball team, said

 

New “York” Meet Will

Finest Teams in Country.

Sooners, Aggies Weighed

Tournament

Bring Together Four

NEW YORK, Feb. 1—()—A national intercollegiate invitation bas-
ketball tournament, bringing together four of the country’s outstanding
teams in a two-day competition at Madison Square Garden, was announced

 

 

Tuesday night he would be “very
glad” to take his team to New York
for an invitation tournament, “if we]
are invited and if the Big Six con-
ference will grant us permission.” —

The Sooners, only® undefeated team
in the Big Six confeerncr, and the
Oklahoma Aggies of Stillwater, lead-
ers of the Missouri Valley confeernce, | .
were mentioned as being considered |.
among other outstanding western |:
teams for a four-way tournament |.
with eastern quintets in Madison
Square Garden next month.

Coach Henry P. Iba of the Aggies
was en route to Omaha, Neb., with
his team for a game Wednesday night
with Creighton.

‘J hadn’t heard of the proposed
tournament,” McDermott said, “but
if we should be invited I would make |.
every effort to obtain the permission |
of the conference to participate.” {

Big Six rules prohibit participation | ;
of its member schools in athletic
contests on neutral territory without
special’ permission. The conference
denied Oklahoma permission to play
in an Oklahoma City tournament
during the Christmas holidays and
turned down a request by the
Nebraska cagers to participate in an
invitation affair at New Orleans, La.,
at the same im