the oklahomans also wore tle mselves slick in the

battle of the tsmwax backboards and continually fell victim to

cuts £& fast -break in the final half.

what killed tle sooners’ statistically was a 150
buffalo blast midway through the final stanza. cu overhauled
ou at 9 with only nine aheabne gone in last half , but
jimay peck and bacher collaborated in a rally that left the ~
_- redshirts only 57-61 in arrears with 10 minutes gone. through
: the next W225, howe ver» cu blazed into a 7-57 lead » this ules
‘tudes worked to 20 before the sooners. oat it ® to xGxak 19 at
the end. 3 |

= despite his 28 points, hannah had to yield sm ring
honors to bacher who cahned 326 this placed the massive eenter into
elite company. only ae men in the previous nine years of th
meets have Mxex reached 30 points. sherman norton, the old
sooner forward, holds the record at 39. ku's elyde lovellette
was twice over 30; maynard johnson, minnesota; dick knostman,
kansas sstate, and haldorsony, are the others.

oklahoms's first-round loss dropped it into the
thursday afternowun consolation bracket against kansas state, a 71-79
loser to iova state ig tuesday's secoml game. this meeting thus.
wil renew the tourney's most prolific rivalry, since the teas
have met six times previously. state is on the long end at 5-1
and hold a current win streak aveyrxthuxsavnemsxx of 11 over the summer
| socnerse ou has not won since it seored = keihin net over

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state's 1951 manny orth at norman.