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TIGER SCOREBOARD.

Record to date—71 South Dakota 46;
58: Purdue -62; 92. :Texas Tech 60;
74 Illinois 73; 78 Indiana 81; 81 Idaho
57. Won four lost two. :

Returni. lettermen—(7) . Eddie _Rich-
ards, guard; Norm Stewart, guard; Lionel
Smith, ard;; Chuck Denny, center; Bill
Ross, forward; Red Reichert, forward;
Eddie Ronsick, forward. pes

1955 Big Seven finish—Second, 9-3;
all games: 16-5. ; :

Previous tournam

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ent finishes—1946, sev-

 

enth; ©1947, sixth 48, sixth; 1949,
first! 1950,’seventh; 1951; second; 1952,
third; 1953 third; 1954, ‘first. Won sev-

enteen, lost ten, .630.
Remaining’ pre-tournament games—None.
First round opponent — Nebraska, 7:30

o'clock Wednesday,  —-—s— s

‘A BIG, blond scoring demon
named Norm Stewart
has made Missouri the

Big Seven belleow as

the Tigers head into defense of
their Big Seven tournament
championship next Wednesday
night at Municipal Auditorium.
With Stewart rocketing along
at a 26.2 average through M.
U.’s first six games, Sparky

Stalcup’s gang has been more}.

impressive than any tournament
team. Its. record won't gift an
eyebrows at, 4-2, but id
these facts. . . . (1) Only’s
points separate Missouri from
a perfect 6-0 figure, and (2) Its
average margin of victory, 12:5,
would have ranked as high as
tenth among the nation’s college
teams last year.

Lose to Big 10 Teams,
Lone losses have been to In-
diana, eighteenth ranked in the
latest Associated Press poll,
78-81, in Columbia, and to Pur-
due, 58-62, in Lafayette. Between

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‘times, the Tigers have run over|4. & M

‘South Dakota, Texas Tech, Illi-
‘nois, and Idaho. M. U. disposed
of the latter, 81-57, Monday in
its tournament dress rehearsal
and thus left more than a week
to prepare for its opener against
Nebraska.

This willbe the leadoff game
of the second night of first-
roung warring. Kansas and Cor-
nell play for the other lower
bracket semifinal spot in_ the
nightcap. Colorado and Okla-
homa lead off Tuesday’s show
with Iowa State and Kansas

play will fill Thursday and Fri-

pionship bracket moving to a
climax Saturday night, follow-

losers.

has led a general increase of
Tiger averages at almost every
point. Center Chuck Denny is
11.2 against a 3.1 figure last)
season, Eddie Ronsick and Bill
Ross also are up. Stewart’s
backline mate; Lionel Smith, is
close with 9.6 compared to a
seasonal level. of 10.2 last year.
So is Forward Redford Reichert
at 6.0 against a 7.8 mean last
season. Team offense is at 75.6,
an increase of 4.1 points a game}

 

 

State matched in the second).
upper bracket tiff. Consolation)-

day afternoons with the cham-|'
ing a third-place play-off be-|
tween Friday night’s semifinal).

Stewart’s terrific early firing}

dications, however, it appears
that Denny, always a_ willing
workhorse who puts out 100 per
cent and Stephens, will patch
that gap even better than ex-,
pected. Denny, foul-prone'
through his first two years,
hasnt’ drawn five in a game yet.|
The backline with Stewart and):
the versatile Smith is the league’s:
best. Ross, after scoring only
eleven points in sixteen games
last year, has advanced to the
point where Stalcup is mounting
three capable forwards. Ronsick
and Reichert are the other two.
Engelhoff may be a fourth solid
hand before the season is far
advanced.

 

Hurt M. U. ©
two items can hurt the
-.. (1) Defensing a good
man of 6-8 or taller, and
ack of enough scoring sup-
rt around Stewart, especially
hen he runs into ‘those  in-
evitable cold nights.

Missouri is facing ‘a tourna-
ment hoodoo that says no cham-
pion repeats, But the Tigers are
in the best position to defend
since Kansas State’s 1951 edi-
tion dropped a 90-88 overtime
semifinal to Kansas in quest of
its second straight.

BIG SEVEN TOURNAMENT DEFENSIVE
RECORDS.

 
   
 
   
  
 
   
      
 

Fewest
homa A,
Fewest points yielded tournament—129
by Oklahoma A. & M., 1947.

Fewest career points yielded—1521, Mis-

ouri.

Fewest field goals yielded game—11 by
Kansas vs. Iowa State, 1946; by Oklahoma
‘ . vs. Iowa. State, 1947; by Missouri
es Cee nee eats sided

ewest field goals yielded, tournament—
43, by Oklahoma A. & M., ’43.

Fewest career field goals yielded—528,
Missouri,

Fewest free throws yielded, game—3 by
Iowa State vs. Kansas, 1950; by Minne-
sota vs. Kansas, 1950.

Fewest free throws yielded, tournament—
25. Michigan, 1949. :

Fewest free throws
career—452, Nebraska,
Fewest. fouls, game—9 by Michigan vs.
Colorado, 1949, i
Fewest fouls, tournament—30, by Michi-

an,
Fewest. fouls, career—548, by Missouri.

points yielded, game—33 by Okla-
& M. vs. Iowa State, 1947

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