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CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY OKLAHOMA AGRICULTURAL AND MECHANICAL COLLEGE
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Drake UNIVERSITY St. Louis University
UNIVERSITY OF TULSA

MISSOURI VALLEY CONFERENCE NEWS

FROM
THE CONFERENCE NEWS BUREAU
DES MOINES, IOWA

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of a game was in 1932, when Creighton took eight straight. Nebraska, in 1916,
with 8 and 0; Kansas State in 1919, with 9 and 0; Kansas in 1923, with 16 and
O; Oklahoma in 1928, with 18 and 0, and Washington in 1929, with 7 and 0, were
the other teams to turn the trick.

Only two of the Oklahoma Aggiest conference games were close. At Des
Moines, Drake was even with the champions with only a few minutes of play re-
maining but fell, 56 to 28, before a late flurry of goals. The eight-point
margin, however, was the closest any Valley team came to the flying Cowboys
all seasons At Omaha, Neb», Creighton led the Oklahomans at the half, but
loss of Center Asa Kelley on fouls set the Bluejays back and the Ags won by
oe G0 ST.

The 1940 championship was the third won undisputedly by Oklahoma A. & Me
and the sixth the Punchers either have shared or won outright. It was the
fifth consecutive year Oklahoma A. & Me has out in on the title pie since
Henry Iba came to Stillwater in 1934-35 to take over the basketball coaching.
Only in his first year did Hank fail to put his team in the championship
bracket.

The [ba-men roamed far and wide seeking more basketball worlds to
conquer, Winning 14 of 17 conference games. Two of their three defeats were
at the hands of the University of Kansas, runnerup to the University of
Indiana for the national intercollegiate championship. The other loss was
to Duquesne in the first round of Ned Irish's national invitational tourna-
ment in Madison Square garden. The Aggies, just as they did in 1938, won
consolation honors in the New York event.

The Oklahoma Aggies! opener of the season was a defoat, 34 to 30, at
the hands of Kansas, but from then until the Duquesne post-season defoat they
were unbeatablo. After Imocking over Pittsburg, Kans, Teachers, 50 to 27,
they headed east for an all-victorious five-game trip, beating City College
of New York, $6 to 24; LaSalle, 33 to 16; Duke, 51 to 41; George Washington,
58 to @3, and Loyola of Chicago, 29 to 24,

Back home, the Cowboys entered the Oklahoma City, Okla., All-college
Tournament and for the third time in four years won the championship. On
the way to the title they disposed of Texas Christian, 38 to 21; Southeastern
Oklahoma, 535 to 16; Arkansas, 32 to 26, and Texas Tech, 37 to 24. Then,
during the regular season, they took time off from conference play long
enough to defeat Big Six opponents threc times, whipping the University of
Oklahoma twice, 26 to 19 and 37 to 25, and avenging the earlier Kansas set-
back, 22 to 20,

Duquesne University finally stopped tho Cowboys, 34 to 30, in the Garden
tournament, but they came back the following night to nose out DePaul of

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