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shored by an 87-76
juest of previously-
veaten Vanderbilt in
its pre-tournament dress
rehearsal, Iowa State is!
poised to shoot for its:
first Big Seven post-
Christmas crown _ this
week when the tenth an-
nual dribble derby opens
a 4-day run in Municipal

Auditorium. —

The Cyclones, playing their
second season under Bill Stran-
nigan, will come into the big
arena with the best record
among tournament teams at 5-1.
Furthermore, they own a 13.0-
point-per-game spread, _ five-
tenths wider than that of Mis-
souri’s. defending tournament
champions.

Vanderbilt had won six straight
before it invaded Ames Friday,
was ranked eighth in the latest
A. P. poll and nineteenth on
U.P. Tulsa also was undefeated
until running afoul of the Cy-
clones December 10, 50-62 after
four victories. Only three points,
a 62-65 loss to Denver at Den-
ver, Wednesday, separates the

 

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in last year’s opening round and
is far closer in personnel to the!
Buffaloes this time. Colorado
hasn’t been the same since it
absorbed a 2-night 48-point
shelling from B. Y. U. two
weeks ago in Provo. It lost fts
pre-meet finale, 58-60, to Colo-|
rado A. and M. Friday. All this
after a 60-57 victory over Iowa’s
defending Big Ten kings, tenth-
ranked in the latest Associated
Press poll. Four starters are
gone from last year’s N.C. A. A.
third-place outfit.

For the second time in three
years, pivotmen, long the domi-
hant scoring figures in this
meet, may be shut out of the
individual point championship.
All three 20-point pre-tourna-
ment scorers are guards. Mis-
souri’s big captain, Norm Stew-

 

 

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