Peck’s Heave Wins, 73-71;
Tigers Rip Huskers, 75-58

“BY DICK SNIDER
Daily Capital Sports Editor

KANSAS CITY, MO.—Oklahoma’s sawed-off Sooners.

pulled one of the prize upsets of Big Seven tournament
history here Monday night when they stunned Colorado,
73-71, on Jimmy Peck’s jump shot three seconds before
the end of the first overtime period.

j Missouri gave the favorites an even break for the night when
-{t rolled past Nebraska, 75-58, in the second game of the opening
doubleheader of the ninth annual classic before only ,about 7,000
fans in Municipal Auditorium.

Plenty of patience, plenty of Peck, and an ev
little Lester Lane rang the bell for Oklahoma, w
game after four defeats.

Even then the patience, in the form of a deey and lengthy stall,
almost spoiled the brilliant Sooner bid.

The Sooners, who had kept it close a th
points back to tie the game at 68-68 \wi
regulation time. It still was tied when the
3:23 to
out.

OU Coach Bruce Drake’s strat-
egy called for a stall, and the
Sooners really put it on. They
held the ball for three full min-

Tourney Scoreboard

GAMES TODAY
8 p.'m,—Kansas vs. Iowa State.
9:45 p, m.—Kansas State vs. Cali-

fornia,
RESULTS MONDAY
Ph aoa 73, Colorado %1 (over-

Missouri 15, Nebraska, 58.
jutes, using only two passes in the
process. At one point, Peck stood
near the center of the court and
bounced the ball for a full min-
ute.

With 23 seconds left, OU called

time out again, and then came
back to continue the stall. With
less ‘than 15 seconds to go, the
Sooners moved toward the bas-
ket finally, only to see their bid
foiled, Lane was driving toward
the bueket' when the buzzer
sounded ending the regulation
game.
' In the five-minute overtime,
Lane hit.a long jump with 3:46
left to move Oklahoma in front,
70-68. Nick Mansfield trimmed
that gap to one point with a free
toss with 3:25 to go, but Peck
got that one back with 45 sec-
onds remaining,

Bob Jeangerard tied it for the
last time with 30 seconds to go
with a long jump shot, but that
set ethe stage for the crashing
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