Coach Sparky Stalcup’s Team Is| Rated Favorite in Annual Big | & . Seven Pre-Season Tourney. M. U. WILL DEFEND GROWN Colorado University Also Has| Been Highly Successful in | Early Cage Contests. Big Seven Tournament Scoreboard, . » (Through Genes, oh - a.) LS Pe of Towa State ....00 . 3 01,000 220 Kansas 3 L .750 282 ne 750 296 ViagoAaa aho . 2 3. .400 339 - 322 ‘CORES AND PRE-TOURNAMENT SCHEDULES. IOWA STATE, KANSAS. 91 Northwestern 52] 56 Wichita ~ . 62 Tulsa 50| 74 Wisconsin Dec. 21 Denver at os 8. Denver, \ Dec. re Vanderbilt| at Ames. »-° CO 63 Oregon State 83 Buffalo _ %3|68 Oregon 82 Colgate 76| 60 Iowa 59 Harvard _ 81/53 B. Y. U. 72 Brown 65|53 B. Y. U. 84 Dec, 23 Washington| Dec. 22 Colorado A. at St. Louis, & M. at Ft. Collins, ' KANSAS STATE, MISSODHI, 89 Texas Tech, 70|'71 South Dakota. 46 72 Indiana 96|58 Purdue - 62 64 Drake 70/92 Texas Tech 60 92 Loyola of L.A, 66) 74 Mlinois 12 74 Washington 69 ana 31 Dec. 21 Houston at at | Columbia. | a 5 4 ce 62 | S| ee 77| 69 Vanderbilt 73 | 6 Wichi 89 Ohio State 68 | 1U. C. L. A. 69 Arkansas 9 | Dec, 20 Okla. A, & 3 M, at Norman, | Dec, 21 Vander-|Dec. 23 Illinois at bilt at Lincoln Urbana, ‘With a week remaining| before Big Seven teams. tip-off their. tenth an-| nual tournament Tues- day night in Municipal auditorium, Missouri has, moved into the status of) meet favorite. | . The Tigers’ 3-2 record on the; above scoreboard is misleading.| Only seven points separate them from a perfect 5-0 level. And the defeats were to Big Ten powers, Purdue and Indiana. The Boiler- makers scored a 62-58 victory in Lafayette; the Hoosiers an) 81-78 conquest.Saturday night in} Columbia, The Bengals edged} another ranking Western con-| ference club, Illinois, 74-73, De-| cember 10 in Columbia. Their other victims included South Dakota (71-46), and. Texas Tech, | (92-60). |