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Yet the Purple will need every gun in its arsenal
am every shred of tradition to clear even the first rounde Its foe is
Iowa State. This figures to be the tighest match of opening set of games .«
It is the nightcap of Tuesday's two-@mmmgp battle set , which leads off
with Colorado and Oklahoma in the other upper bracket affair. Missouri
vs. Nebraska and Kansas vs, Cornell follow Wednesday. c

Winter's starting rookies through the first yee
games have been Jack arr, the much-heralded 6-9 recruit from Richmond,

Vas; and Larry aor, 6<4 forward from Pratt. Parr tops every tourney
center Meee on pre-meet scoring tables at 16.9 MR, through his
first five gamese His 26 mgm in the 92-66 flogging of Loyola is the

most a ever harvested by a Wildcat sophomore@ vad ~s siwclef cre.

Fischer is averaging 8.2 witha high of 18 in the
opener against Texas Tech.

No tournament team will carry better combined height
and depth in the @= front line. In addition to Fischer, Winter is using two
seniors, Dick Stone, 6=5 Winfield seteshot artist, and Joe Powell, con=#
verted 67 center. Stone was the “ats! third-ranking pointsmith last
year at 9.6 per game at is avareging 1200 at this writinge Powell is
riding at 94. Both re Fowl ety

Also available at torwafrad are the veteran Gene
"The Jet " Wilson, who can dunk even at 5-114, and Wayne Hutchins,

66 Winfield sophémore, who is the néminal Ne 2 aqqgpipeee pivotman.
Powell also is available in the post if needed.

Pachin Vicens, the stubby ime Puerta Rican who is
considered by many the émemensuseedsinon: league’ s finest dribbler and play-=
maker, teams at guard with Fritz @ymeme Schneider, 6 -3 lettered junior,
who averaged 5-4 points while playing both front and back court in all 21

games last seasone