height of Oregon's senior team which prevailed, 56-to 37. Oregon then went on ~
te Chicago and trounced Ohio State's Big Ten champions by almost as large a soore
to win the first National Collegiate championship. Jinmy Mollatt and Herb Scheffler
of the Sooners wore need with three giant Oregenfans on the All~Festern regional
team at San Francisede

SCORING SICAEAEEoTaee we Ore scoring in the Big Six conference this.”
ecnsen than ever beferes. In 1987 the scoring average wes 34.8 points per games ore
With elimination of the sonter ju

 

RD, At olinbed to 40.3 points por game in 1938.
This yoar the league average wos 4149 points, the increase being due principally
to elimination of the three-sirole rule on held balls, the addition of two feet
of playing space to the length of the court, and hee eee

THE 1989 BIG CHAMPIONSHIP RACE

 

In @ season made singular by the insbility of eny club to win consistantly

on the road, Missouri and Oklahoma, with teams composed chiefly of juniors who
will be back next campaign, thea for the Big Six conference championship of 1959+ .

“Unique in the ole yoor ola history of the league was the road hoodoo
of 19395 In 20 of the first 21 Big Sxi championship ganes the hone team always won,
3 Four <f the Gin teams, Misosurly Miaenan, Kanses and Iows State ended the 1959. pei
‘season all~vietorious: in mee “play on their home courte, In only five of the
50 aontests that comprised the year's conference totel wes the host quintet defeated. _

g fist shied of the championship race cew Iowa State and issourly

playing largely on their hone flders, cut in fr ast~tray
eressed each others pethe carly, uiscourt drubbing the Cyelener 66 0 35 at
Colunbis January 9 only to have Towa State drive fiercely to win Sl-i5 at Anos.
thpee wooks later, a 27-point inconsistency that was typical of the cockeyed motif
3 Then in the tenth Doctor Allen's

 

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

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