Regardless of record or physique, other conference
teams have learned to be wary of OU's tournament thrustse They wrought
one of tl biggest in meet annals in 1951 by dumping xz Stanford's faste
breaking Indians, 77-71, in a first roudn game which saw Forward Sherman
Norton notch a single -game record of 359 points. Bruce Dreke s band
cut the Cardinals to ribbons that night for 13 layups off their famed
Simffle. |

In 1949 they clipped favored Kansas State, 55-50, in
the second round, and the f-l owing year , when the Wildcats had their
NCA ruaner-up club, they scored a near miss in tle first round before
vim Iverson’slate basket pulled out a 5553 verdicte

Drake will prtng athex symak Westvx floor the smallest
team in the tournamente Tallest man on the roster is LeRoy Bacher, 6-5
zentvayx sophomore center , who will not be elighble until the second
semester. Fred Muller, 6-3 converted forward, and Eq Abbey, 6-4 sophomore,
will hmdle most of the post playe
| One happy item in this lack os size - that poxtx
tall pivot play is not essential in the Shuffle sime ou. s — often
operate from high in the keyhole. But it is a wicked ned icap on the boards e

Koaxtxdamgervunsx If this tean owned firebrand speed
oes Which its doesn't o... it would maxx closely resemble the famed Boy
Scats of the late thirties, finest fast-break squad the league ever has
habored e

It will mount one dangerous sharp-shooter, tho, in
Lester ~ _ane, the prolific little guard from Purcell, Oklas This 5-10
senior won tle tourney indi viduel scoring championship last » .cember on
64 vilute, snap ping seven straight years of dominance by towering centers.
Thru his first three ganes, bane was continuing the same tatooe He leads

all tournament personnel with a 23.0 averages