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Cavaliers Favored Over VMI TonightU1tttrnwhRICHMOND, Va. (^—Virginia’s bid to move to within half a game of the Big Six lead and Richmond’s effort to boost its ranking as the nation’s 17th ranked team share the spotlight tonight in Virginia college basketball circles.The Cavaliers go to Lexington to take on Virginia Military Institute. A victory will raise Virginia’s Big Six mark to 3-0, second only to the 4-0 record of league-leading Richmond.Virginia will be favored by virtue of an easy 106-84 triumph when the two teams met earlier this month at Charlottesville.The Spiders, like most teams returning to action after a layoff for examinations, are anxious to improve their 12-3 record by beating Wake Forest tonight and West Virginia Monday in a campaign for national honors.Virginia Tech winds up a southern tour tonight at Columbia, S. C„ against South Carolina of the Atlantic Coast Conference.In tonight's other game involving a state team. Emory and Henry entertains King College seeking to duplicate an earlier victory' over King,VPI’s tour started off on the wrong foot last night as the Gobblers absorbed a 125-87 drubbing from Furman, the nation’s top scoring quintet, in a Southern Conference contest Darrell Floyd, the Furman ace who leads the country in point-making. paced the Furman attack with 46 points. Dave Kuhn was high for Tech with 24.13r-oifie,otsi-:eihjr!ed,in
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Danville Bee

Danville, Virginia, US

Sat, Jan 29, 1955

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