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Salient: Victoria University Students' Paper. Vol. 29, No. 12. 1966.

Basketball

Basketball

For the duration of the tournament Victoria was struggling, Playing good basketball, often against superior teams, the team managed to pull through with its honour intact and two members destined for the NZU team.

Against Auckland, a relatively strong team. Victoria lost 52-39. The defeat was due to the inability of the team to settle down in the first half, as evidenced by the rapid narrowing of the gap between scores after half time.

On Tuesday Lincoln was easily defeated 121-41 in a fast game where Victoria was quite literally "king of the court". Massey proved tougher to beat, the final score being 61-48 to Victoria.

Otago and Canterbury, the reputed top teams of the competition, proved their ability in many aspects outclassing the Victoria team with speedy and constructive passing. The Otago game was the closest, Victoria being beaten by the narrow margin of 60-55.

Kevin Elliot and Hugh Mainwaring both made the New Zealand Universities team. Although no phenomenal results can be boasted about, the Victoria team as a unit showed promise especially in view of the fact some members are relatively young and will continue in the future to contribute towards Victoria basketball.