Sport: Stop St. Louis!

If there was a better college basketball team anywhere than the Billikens of St. Louis University, the Billikens hadn't met it yet. In New Orleans last month, they unhorsed the University of Kentucky wonders.* Back home in St. Louis, ticket-sellers turned away 4,000 customers the night they beat Bradley University. In Buffalo, before another sellout house, they trounced Canisius. Last week, with nine straight victories under their belts, the Billikens moved into Madison Square Garden to play Long Island University—and pulled out the biggest crowd (18,486) of the season.

The question was how...

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