Basket Comes
With3 Seconds
-Leftin Overtime

By JAY SIMON
(Daily Oklahoman Sports Writer)

KANSAS CITY, Dec. 27—In an
overtime: contest dripping with-
drama, Oklahoma squeezed past

| heavily favored Colorado, 73-71. At

the Big Seven tournament Monday

' night when litth Jimmy Peck

whisked through a field goal with

_only three seconds of the extra
| period remaining.

Before a crowd of 8,000 at Mu-

_ nicipal auditorium, Missouri de-
: feated Nebraska, 15- 58, in the sec-
' ond game to roll into the semi-
_ finals opposite the Sooners.

Oklahoma will be idle _ until
Wednesday when it faces Mizzou
at 8 p. m. First round play in the
ninth annual conference tourney
will be completed “uesday night
when unbeaten Kansas takes on
Iowa State and guest team Cali-
fornia collides with Kansas State.

Lane Also Stars —

Coach Bruce Drake’s Norman
Nubbins were the toast of the open-
ing night card as they flashed a
spirited brand of play to register
their first victory in five games
this season.

Sharing the hero’s mantle with
Peck was Lester Lane, the other ~
member of OU’s sizzling backcourt
duo, who racked up 31 points to
ead all scorers in the two. Mon-
day night matches.

Lane, playing in his fourth Big
Seven .tournament, kept the Soon-_
ers in contention through the last
half with a brilliant exhibition of
jump-shooting from aroynd the top
of the circle, but it fel¥ to Peck to
fork home the winning =