Tuesday. Feb. 20,1940. Leaders Get Rough Treatment As N. CA. A. Play Continues By Pucke: Carroll, Cards were shuffled and a new deal declared last week in four of elght districts. of the National} College Athletic Association . as basketball teams— continued the elimination that reaches a climax ‘March 30 in the Municipal Audi- torium, when a national cham- pionship will be: at stake. Three new leaders appear on the list today and two other proud squads were beaten, al-| though not displaced, as if to prove that the tumult and the shouting has just started. It Started in December Application of the old law of survival.of the fittest started in December as each of these dis- tricts was called upon to choose its ee team: Ver- Island, : t.-Maine, New. Hampshire, mont, Massachusetts, Tone Connecticut: 2. New York, New Jersey, Pennsyl-. vania, Delaware, West Virginia. =: 3. District of Columbia.’ Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Caro-— lina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, ° Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama, Florida. 4. Tilinois, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota. 5. Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Ok- lahoma. 6. Texas, Arizona. Arkansas. 7. Wyoming, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah, Montana. 8. California, Idaho, “Nevada. A team from each of the first four districts plays in the East- ern Sectional Tournament March 22 and 23 in Philadelphia. At the same time the Western Sectional Tournament will be held here, with winners remaining for the grand finale. N.Y.U. Marches Along Leaders last week were bowled over in districts 3, 4, 5, 6 and 8. Dartmouth: and Rhode Island State retained their high rank- ing in the. first district. York U. remained a power in district 2 by stopping Gettys- burg, Penn State and Fordham Oregon, Washington, New kk ‘How They Stand Eastern Section District 1 : WwW: L) Wea ky *Dartmouth 6 1'R.T. State Aer 8g Dartmouth leads Eastern Intercollegiate. District 2 N20 es District 3 Ww. suke\ veo *NC.U 9 Duke leads Southern Conference. Tennessee leads Southeastern eexcnne: District 4 L.\ Ww. L. *Purdue 7 1|*Indiana jis Purdue leads Big Ten. oe Ww. L. 15 0|*Princeton GF 57 hi We te 1\*Tennessee Sat 2 Western Section District 5 BWV ds. | 35 *Okla. A.-M. 9. 0!*Kansas — *Missouri -.% 1|*Oklahoma Ai-M. leads Missouri Valley, Missouri leads Big Six. District 6 f . Wieesacbe= 3? “Rice. 2)*Texas Rice leads Southwest. District 7 . RW Tat : *Colorado ~ 8 {/*Utah State Colorado leads Big Seven. District 8 *U.3.C, U.S.C. Coast. ‘Oregon State leads Northern division, Pacific Coast. ' *Only conference games. Ww. - WW. L. 1| *Oregon Get ce leads Southern division, Pacific to run its string of successive victories to 15. The Violets face St.. John’s Wednesday and Rutgers Satur- day. They are picked to win both and move within two games of an all-victorious campaign. . Duke maintained the pace as one of the.top teams in district 3 by holding the Southern Con- ference lead. However, the Dukes dropped a nonconference assign- ment to Georgia Tech and~saw North Carolina move to. within a half game of the southern lead by crushing North Carolina State, 60 to 36. Kentucky Makes Drive Tennessee held to a slight lead in the Southern Conference while .| time. Kentucky. started a drive toward the top.. Kentucky slapped Mis- sissippi State out of second place, 45 to 37. . . Rough treatment for leading teams was extended to’ district 4, the’ Big Ten, where Indiana ‘lost to Northwestern and_ for- feited the lead to Purdue. Oklahoma A.-M.’s steady prog- ress and Missouri’s victory over Oklahoma to take command: in the Big Six featured competition in district 5. Colorado is in sight of the Big Seven championship which will ‘|qualify it from the seventh dis- trict. Brigham Young aided the | Buffs last week by handing. Utah State its second defeat, 49-43. However, everything should be settled Friday night in Boulder;| 2 when second place Utah State faces Colorado for the second ‘State captured the first one, 31-28. Rice Replaces. Texas ~§.M.U, introduced. the surprise ‘element to district 6 by upset- ting Texas, Southwest Confer- ence leader and defending cham- pion, 45-42. Texas came back ‘Saturday to hand T.C.U. its 21st straight loss and trails Rice in the league standings by less than a game. U.S.C., red-hot favorite of the West Coast, got no better than an even break with California, but retained first place in the southern division of the confer- ence by a safe margin. In the North, Oregon State whipped second place Oregon to viryaayy cinch that half. Oregon State needs only one |; victory in three remaining games while U.S.C. needs one in four.| Division ‘champions play a two out of three series for the cham- pionship and the right to repre- sent district 8.