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lane will be paired with his most threatening
pursuer for both the si ngle-tournament scoring mark md this year's
meet scoring crown, in the cyclones! sv¥Sveeavarxy chuck dumcan.e the
: hugkky 6=5 pivot comes tnt the final night trailing the flashy sooner
guard by a single point. his 34 in the 82-81 upset of kansas tuesday ,
is the tourney}s 1 faeries tiin high to date, and he added 23 more agavms t
wednesday as the cadinal and gold fel. before kansas state, 60-70,
following ou's narrow 87-95 loss to. missouri in the opening semifinal.

missouri guard norm stewart and burdette
naldoren, colorado's 6=7 center, are the closest to the top pair with
5S eache

the ioomanint never has seen as many good

little men. no tournauent in nine years has seen as many
good little men os the present one. yet lane, wd his sophonore stablem~
ate, jhaay peck , “ust be considered the best of these backline shorties.

consider this: oklahoma had scored 160 points
in £hsx its first two tourngey starts. of this total, lane and peck.
have accounted ‘or an even 100, or 62 percent of the redshirts' entire
offense. they collected 51 between chem as ou pressed brawny missouri
all the way and reaped 9 1S nex tuesday's 73-71 first-round overtime
upset of eclowaaes no other backline is.within whispering distance of
such a feate |

the sigervx.muissouri-kansas state scrap for 7

the flag will be the first tournament meeting between the two teams, state
never has been beaten in a king-row test, having one ait three previou s
trips to the finals. missouri is.1-1 at that tivel, having edged past

oklahoma, ij-4\2 , and bowed, 65-75 , to sansas, in 1951.