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Only one veteran, Missouri's gliding guard, Norman Stewart, is
within easy range of the charmed circle of Big Seven tournament elite
as conference teams head down the stretch toward their tenth anmal
conclave in Kansas City's Municipal auditorium. |

As @ twoeyear regular, the 68, 199-pound blond has scored 98
tournament points, He collected only 35 as a sophomore, but fired
63 last December, a total exceeded only by Iowa State's brawny
center, Chuck Dunean, and Oklahoma Guard Lester Lanes |

All this means he is only 22 points away from the lower rung of the
meetts Top Ten career scorers, One of last year's Stewart teammates,
Med Park, now holds that position on 120 points, The way Stewart has
been shooting he will surpass that ceiling in the opening game against
Nebraska which rings up the curtain on the second set of first-round
games Wednesday night. For his average through the Tigers! first six
games i8 2602+

His 157*point total has been garnished by salvos of 36, 31 and 30,
the former figure a new Bengal single-game mark, If the nifty senior
can maintain his mean through the three tournament games he not only will
rocket all the way to second place on the all-time lists of 177 points,
put will endanger Clyde Lovellette's one-tournament record of 82, woich th

old Kensas Leviathan established in 1950.

Simple arithmatic shows Stewart could score 78.6 points in tourney
play by matching his current average, An increase of 1.2 points per
game on his present mean would allow hin to displace Lovellette's
five-year-old ceiling. with 98 points in two previous meets, Stewart

to unseat Lane as the all-time runners-up by three points if he can

mateh his pre-tournanent firing figure. And Lane, like Burdette