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SOONER ee anes
Record to date: W 2 L 65 Baylor 55;
47 Rice 62; 69 Y anderbilt 78; 68 Ohio
State 89; 69 Arkansas 59.

‘Returning lettermen—(4)—Ed Abbey,

Boe Bacher, c; Bob Burr, g; Jimm

gZ.

1955 Jig Seven finish—7th, 1-11; all
games: 3-18.

Previous give finishes— 1946-—5th;
1947—5th; 1948—1st; 1949—2nd; 1950—
3rd; 1951-e4th; 1952—sth; 1953—2nd;
1955—4t Dia ae ert, 556.

Remain a ore So anaient games—Dec, 20
Oklahoma A. & hea at Norman; Dec. 23

Illinois at Urban
First round Menaonent—Colorado, 7:30

p. m. December 27.
- KLAHOMA,, the _ tradi-
tional upset team of Big
Seven tournament his-
tory, again is poised in
a prime position to bring off a
form reversal when the tenth
annual affair opens a 4-day run
‘next Tuesday in the. ‘Municipal
Auditorium.
| The Sooners, re-grouping under
Doyle Parrack, an intense young
coach who. played for arch-riva
Oklahoma A. and M., are pair

 

 

against Colorado in the mee
tipoff game at sy
day.

 
 
 

Remember Las
Colorado is the team Okla-
homa ambushed, 73-71,

overtime first-rounder last year.|3

The significance of this conquest
can be best understood by this

win the conference while Okla-
homa was dead last at. 1-11. The
upset of the Herd was one of
only three games the Sooners
won last year in their final sea-
son under Bruce Drake.

In 1949 O. U. toppled Kansas
State, an everttual conference

p. m. ‘Tues-

in an|Qk.,

two-edged fact. C. U. went on to ae

and jump-shooters as a sopho-
more last year.
He’ll Get Good Mileage.

The 33-year-old Parrack can
be counted upon to wring the
most from a squad which rep-
resents the first step in a hoped-
for Sooner rise back to confer-
ence contention, As expected
from ‘a Hank Iba disciple, Par-
rack has installed slow-down bas-
ketball, Drake could put to-
gether unsurpassed ball-control
when he wished, but Parrack is
likely to go with it all the way.
The Sooners have put an average
of only 56 shots per game. The
defense was good enough to limit
Temple ' icker, Rice’s heralded
6-10 more, to his season’s
low of ten points December 8,
althy gh Oklahoma lost, 47-62.
e Sooners tackle their sec-
ond Big Ten opponent Friday in
Tilinois. Ohio State flogged them,

  
 
 
 

¢’s|89-68, December 12.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The all-time composite tour-
nament standings:
: T: W. L.. Pet. Pts. OPP. Capt;
So,. Meth ... 23 01.000 151 135
Kansas St.. 920 7 .741 1,828 1,648 3
Kansas .... 918 9 .6671,7371,596 2
CACM. Lis 2 bi. 668 134 0/0
jehigan \.. 2° 2°'1 2.667 162° 159 = (0
innesota... 1 2 1 .667 198 189 0
anford .. 1 2 1 1667. 249 0
Missouri .. 91710 .6301,5851,521 2
Oklahoma... 91512 ,5561,7111,673 1
Arkansas .. 1 1 2 .833 150 55: 6
Hee eh ted Lobe 226853) 18 190% 0
California... 1 1 2 .333 200 19° 0
Iowa State. 9 918 .3331;6111,770 0
olorado .. 8 816 .3331,4701,456 0
Nebraska .. 9 720 .2591,5791,782 . 0
Harvard .. 1 0 3 .000 156 193 0
Washington. 1 0 3 000. 212 249 0O

 

tricchampion in the league eo
son following. This top was
first-round affair. Only a fast
second goal by the Wildcats’ Jim
Iverson saved State the next
year, 55-53. And that was the
‘Purple’ s best alltime team,
‘going all the way to the N. C-
‘A, A, finals: In ’51 Drake's
Shufflers skidded Stanford into
the discard in the opening round.
The Indians had come into the
‘meet undefeated.

Colorado and O. U. are much
more closely-matched this win-
ter than last, on paper, at least.
Still, the Buffaloes will rank as
solid favorites, barring tremen-
dous upheavals in the two clubs’
few remaining engagements be-
fore tournament time.