The Bears, who
State in the fi
game Tuesday mMight—the tour-
ney opens Monday—could go all
the way to thé finals. Chances
are they will Be obliged to whip
both the Kangas schools, if they
do, a feat
complished
turned the trick in the meet in-
augural in 1946. K. U. will be
favored over Iowa State in the
remaining lower bracket con-}:
test Tuesday.

The plain truth is that Cal has
enough power to sideline both
Sunflower fives. In Bob McKeen,
a 6-7, 220-pound, 3-lettered
senior, it will present a center)
in a class with the loop’s two}
big men of the moment, Bob)
Reiter, of Missouri, and Colo-|
rado’s Burdette Haldorson. Mc-|
Keen outscored Haldorson,,
theugh inconclusively, 33-29, in|
their 2-night duel last week end]
at Berkeley. He is only three-|
tenths of a point behind Reiter]
at 15.7 on the tournament-per-|
sonnel scoring lists through
games of December 18. |

As a sophomore, McKeen was}
a second-string all-American
choice. He has been all-Southern
division twice. He will go into
the 1955 conference season only}.
sixty-nine points removed from
Hank Luisetti’s all-time P. C. Gi
career record of 612 points. His}:
sophomore seasonal average of
17.6 is a Cal record. And his 457
points that year was a record-
equaller for a Bear player.

His frontline mates are bob
Blake, 6-2, 180-pound junior, and
Larry Friend, 6-4%, 185-pound
sophomore southpaw. © The lat-
ter is averaging 15.2 points...
good enough for thirteenth on
the present all-tournament scor-
ing list ... Blake 10.1. Friend
was an All-Southern California
JC selection two years ago.
Blake was an all-leaguer at
Long Beach City college the
“game season.