Oregon and will come into the
meet with more game experi-
ence ,.. eight starts:. . . than
any other competitor.

Lone loss was 77-84 defeat
at the hands of College of Pacific
in double-overtime.

Haldorson Held Down.

The victorles over C. U. both

were 13-pointers. The Bears

naileé# them chiefly through re-|

stricting Burdette Haldorson, the
Buffaloes’ 6-9 conference scor-
ing champion, to a 14.5 average
in the series. They also slipped

the cuffs on Ohio State’s Robin]

Freeman, the nation’s leading
pointsmith, in halting the Buck-
eyes, 74-63, in their first meet-
ing. Freeman got 23; a long fall
from his 40-point average. He
rung 34 the next night, but Cal

covered his mates so well they
could put together put sixteen
points in the 50-54 defeat.

Cal will mount a prolific front-
line headed by Bob McKeen, 6-7,
220-pound center, the greatest)
scorer in Bear history. He ranks}

tenth on the pre-meet scoring
tables on a 15.0 average. Larry
Friend, 6-4% forward, is ninth
at 15.1. His stablemate, 6-2
Bob Blake, is moving at 10.6.
The fact that Colorado was
able to right itself in playing

tough U. C. L. A to a 3-point

defeat, 62-65, after the California
series shows the prognosticators
were not far off the mark in rat-
ing the Herd highly before the
season. A gang of veterans, such
as Bebe Lee is coaching, often
lapses deeper into the ruck after