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| Gary Thompson, their clever little guard, exploded
othe heaviest one-game shot of any tournament entry in that one with
40 pointss
K-State has played in slightly rougher going to
“reach ak its 55 level. Its lost to Indiana's highly-ranked Rbondere,
72-96, to-Drake, 64-70... .. the Bulldegs lost only by three to Indiana
oes end te Houston, 79-86. The latter effort must be eonbtdeves a good
one since it was played in Houstone Both other x defeats also were on
the roade
| Some idea of why this 1s considered the beat firste
round match on the card can be found in the teams! comparative conquests
of Texas Teche The Wildcats beat the Raiders, 19 points ( 89-70) in
‘Menhattane The Cyclones clubbed them ‘s ie ( 19-52) at Ames.
second
Thompson £sxthex comes in thinderauked on the pree
tourney scor ing tables ak with a 23.2 averages He tfails only Missouri's
Norm Stewarte K-State will present the meet's highest -scoring sophomere
to date in Jack Parr, their 6-9 rookie center. He is — at 16.3,
fifth on the individual tabulationse ,
If The Wildcats can get by their operner they have
a better than even chance of —_—a finals against the Colorado]
Oy,lahoma winnere
: this year's guest reen: —
Cornell,is capable of upsetting Kansas in the final
game of the lower bracket Wednesday The Big Red will. present a 6=4, fiedt
6=5, 64 front line, hubbed by 220-pound center Ray Belek, and is starting
four seniorse “ike Iowa State, kheyxtx the liawx Tthacans wil’ present
an indovidued/ a etensit ve problem in Chuck Rolles, 5@6 guard , who is
averaging 23.0 through their ftmsk five pre-tournament games. He fired
a 37=point salvo in the i 82-63 demolition of Bpow last weeke LhavRig

Cornell stands 3=2 having lost , 50-55, to Washington in Ste Louis Fridaye