Scoring Marks
May Topple In
Big 7 Tourney

By DON PIERCE

(Daily Oklahoman Special Correspondent)
_ Free throw records will be in
most peril when Big Seven tourna-
ment basketball teams hit the
planks of Kansas City’s Municipal
auditorium in their ninth annual
post-Christmas extravaganza which.
begins a four-day run Monday.

This ‘is a logical consequence of

the new bonus rule which gives the
offended player a second free throw
chance if he sinks his first charity
off a one-shot foul.

Under direct fire will be the sin-
gle tournament mark of 28 gift flips

 

Tourney Bracket

- MONDAY
p. m. Colorado vs. Oklahoma.
45 p. m. Nebraska vs. Missouri.
TUE pene :
p. m. Kansas vs. Iowa State.
9:45 By “m. Kansas State vs. Gi California.

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established by Iowa State’s 6-8 cen-
\ter, Delmar Diercks, in 1952; the
“career record of 47, erected by an-
other pivot, Bill Johnson, of Ne-
braska over the past three years,
and the single game team ceiling
of 36 wrought by Kansas against
Oklahoma in last year’s finals.
Lane Nears Records
Oklahoma’s senior sharpshooter,
Lester Lane, is certain to press
both individual marks. Through the
Sooners’ four pre-meet games he is
averaging an even nine charities
per start, having flipped through
36 of 53 tries. He needs only to lift
this mean a fraction to overhaul
Diercks’ tournament mark.
since he already has ea

of players who will Aake part in
their fourth t .#. he can aver-
age considera ess than 9-per-
game and still topple Johnson’s ca-
reer figure.