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It doesn't show up in the box score, but Bob Barnett was the big difference as the Crimson basketball team closed out its home season with a 79-66 victory over Brown.
By winning, the varsity moved into a tie for seventh place in the Ivy League with the Bruins.
Before the game, coach Floyd Wilson gave Barnett the toughest assignment on the court--guarding Joe Tebo, the sensational Bruin sophomore, who has already set an all-time Brown one-year scoring record with 489 points in 23 games.
From the opening tap-off, Barnett followed Tebo like a hawk. Not until the thirteen-minute mark did Tebo score his first basket of the game, and that on a 30-foot set shot.
By that time, the Crimson's pre-game thesis--that if you stopped Tebo, you stopped Brown--had been proven. For when Tebo dropped in that first basket, the varsity held a commanding 34-18 lead, and led 45-31 at the half.
Three lay-ups, two by Dick Hurley, the Crimson's high scorer, and one by Ike Canty, gave the varsity a 54-33 lead soon after the second half opened.
Tebo emerged as the game's high scorer with 23 points, including 18 in the final 24 minutes of play. More than half his total--13 points--came on foul shots.
The Crimson box score:
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