SAS CITY STAR, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1954.

 

SOONERS WN FOAM

|Upset Tradition Is Maintained
‘as Oklahoma Upends Colo-
rado Basketeers.

A FINE SLATE TONIGHT

Kansas Plays Iowa State and
Kansas State Takes On the
Guest Team, California.

TOURNAMENT STANDINGS.
Wi a et. tees. ODD:

1.000 75 58

1.000 73 71

Kansas State .

Kansas
Iowa State
California . Ses
Golorado: ssgerdsse dopa: -000 71 73
Nebraska .............0 -000 58 75

By Ep GarIcH,
(A Member of The Star’s Sports Staff.)

| You needn’t be surprised that
|Oklahoma, rated well down by
jone and all before last night,
jshould up and dump a highly
rated team such as Colorado ji

the Big Seven pre-season basket?
ball tournament,

Fact is, the Sooners have
made pretty much a habit of
upsetting the odds in the nine
tourneys So far.

In 1949: Oklahoma dusted the
highly rated Kansas State Wild-
cats in the second round, a dis-
tinct upset. —

Then, in 19514, Oklahoma
‘knocked .out a Stanford team
which came into the tourna-

 

ment with top credentials. That
was in the first round.

Only the last year the Sooners
surprised the guessperts with a
finals) appearance, defeating
Washington and Nebraska to get
there.

So this is just another in the
upset pattern the Sooners have
established. in nearly half the
Big Seven pre-season meets held
so far.

Sunflower State Night.

Tonight is the big night so far
as the general area inierest
is concerned. Kansas meets
Iowa State and Kansas State
takes on a man-sized chore in
playing guest California. The
games ‘are at 8 o'clock and 9:45,
respectively.

Now that Colorado is in the
matinee bill, Missouri, Califor-
nia and the4wo Kansas schools
will share’ the spotlight until an-

sas must be accorded the

most chance of getting through
the basis of the record so far.

K. U. is undefeated in four

clones haven’t knocked off any
giants.

They’ve Drilled on Zone.
Despite Missouri’s trouble with

‘|Nebraska’s zone defense in the|

first half of the second game,|
Sparky Stalcup, Missouri coach,|
says the Tigers have practiced
against the zone defense.

“They weren’t moving the bal!)
enough,’’ Stalcup says of his}
team. ‘‘We’ve worked against
the zone. Matter of fact, Wis-
consin used the zone against us.’’

Coincidence: Norm Stewart,
Missouri high-point man against
Nebraska last night with twenty-
six, also got twenty-six against
Wisconsin’s zone.

Lane Moves Up on List.

Oklahoma’s Les Lane has
moved up to be No. 2 scorer
over his collegiate career in the
Big Seven tourney.

night to boost his total to 138. |
Top man in the list is Kansas’s|
Clyde Lovellette, who roped 222
points in three tourneys. This
is Lane’s third.

Standing sixth in the list is
Colorado’s Burdette Haldorson,
whose twenty last night made
his total 128.

 

games, K-State has a 3-2 record
to date, although the Wildcats
have met a better class of oppo-
sition that has the Lawrence
team.

California has_ lodt only once,
in eight outings, a ‘double over-|
time affair with College of the
Pacific. Iowa State has a 4-1!

record although again the Cy-