npr collect, sports desk, the times, okla. city,okla.

, kansas cL ty ptioe, deCe nee leroy bacher,
a 220-peune center with a sore left foot, i ytd to erect a new
big seven tournanent scoring record friday as he led oklahoma into
a battle which will decide nothing but last place «
the sooners battle cornell,this year's guest

team, in the leadoff game of a four-game day“night card which will
@lose this tenth annual festival. bacher now stands at 56 points,
_ Bax a 16=lehgth lead over the field, and only 26 digits removed from
~Syde lovellette's all-time single-meet high of 82 autabiisherivitivx
which the old kansag mastadon established five years agos

| all bacher needs to do is mateh his tournament
average of 28 in two games. lovellette averaged 27.3 in erecting the
nuiting ust existing coiling. :
| e the massive sooner center will have no such ?
height advantage as he did thursday against kansas state's 6-9 jack
parre he did well to gollest 2h points to add to tuesday's opening |
salvo of 32 since parr blocked five of his shots and kept his arms
up to discourage bacher's favorite hook, ths leroy got seven of his nine
goals by driving by for layups as ou absorbed its second frightful
lacing, 6);<36, in a first-round eosolation matehe

: - -. against eornell bacher will face men of

Ais own size in milt kogan and ray zelek, both of who are his height,
6=5¢ however, the ithacans have been in a zone most of the time
through their first two games, which means the wide sooner post-mans —
will tackle a new tests 2