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be the enigmatic team
of Big Seven pre-season
baskétball tournament
olay as it approaches the meet’s
tenth annual edition which opens
uesday night in’ Municipal

Auditorium.

Despite those week end shell-
ings by Brigham Yourg, in
which the Cougars manhandled

_C. U, by an aggrégate spread of
48 ponts, this year’s Buffaloes
will tote a more impressive rec-
ord into tourney action than
either of the last two editions,
They number~ tw fe oerace
conference champio Oregon
State and Iowa, améne their
victims and figure to beat Colo:
rado A. and M. pede d for a

4-2 level,

seven, rhea five.

team was 3:3 at tournament
time and the schedule was no
rougher than this séason’s De-
cémber slate, And the 1954 con-
ference co-champs lost all five
of their pre-méet starts.

Carrying the paradox further.

néither Herd edition of the last
two seasons could finish in thé
tournament’s first division, The:
were fifth last year and seventh
the year previous,

Fact is, the Buffs outrank
only Nebraska in the meét’s all-
time composite standings and
have landed among the first four
oly ofice in eight years. C. U.’s
cuttey high is a fourth in 1949.
It has been last twice.

‘ If Colorado is to continue this

strange pattern this year’s club
shotild at least equal the school’s
all-time tourney high. The Buffs

are capable of such estate, de-
spite the most murderous erad-
iation losses among conference
teams,

These Were Standouts._ :

Gone are Center Burdette
Haldorson, 2-time Big. Seven
scoring’ champion; Bob Jean-
gerard, possibly the loop’s all-

round best through the 1955 sea-|

son, and those two e¢anny!

guards, Charles Mock and Tom|:

Harrold.

_ Only holdovers | are Mel Coff-
man, 6-3 ‘@x-marine, and Jim
Ranglos, the high: leaping Greek,
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shared a regular forward berth
opposite Jeangerard last season
as the Mountaineers bagged
their first undisputed league
cage title since departing the old
aia) SXYline conféderacy.
Totrnament fans. will see a
ijclub a few ctts below the
champions of the past two yéars.

; But no ofie need shed tears over

Beébe Lée’s gang. It carries ade-
quate sizé, balance, ard depth.
Quite likely it will present the
tourney’s best ball-control. Ex-
perience is not as absent as it
might seem éither.

Although ‘Ranglos and Coff-
man nécessarily are the corner-
stones, the key man is Géorge
Hanfah, 6:7, 205-pound cénter
who has earhed two letters if
relief for Haldorson,

The big Senior is avéraging
9.2 through C. U.’s first five
games and tipped in the winning!
goal in the 60-57 conquest of
Iowa. Ranglos ranked ninth on
pre-tournament scoring tables
(through games of last Satur-
day) at 14.8. Up to the dual dis-
aster at Ptpwo, Coffman had as-

ngerard’s shoes by

+ his personal foes to a|
mgé@ger five points through the|
st three games. A 1-point|
policing job of Iowa’s Carl Cain|

fi |featured.

One Starter injured. °

Bill Peterson, 6-0 lettered
senior, who playéd well in the
N. C. A. A.. tournament last
year, and Dave Mowbtfay, 6-1
lettered junior, have taken over
for Mock and Harrold «in the

Records of Big Seven
‘Basketball Teams.

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