TIME Magazine, Monday, Apr. 07, 1952

Coaches call him "the monster"; sport-writers call him "the beast." In politer sport circles, he is called the "Kansas Skyscraper." The man with all the nicknames is huge (6 ft. 9 in., 250 Ibs.) Clyde Lovellette, who last week galloped up & down basketball courts in the N.C.A.A. tournament with all the intensity, if not the ferocity, of a rampaging bear. In four games against some of the U.S.'s best teams (Texas Christian, St. Louis, Santa Clara and St. John's), Lovellette, using an apparently unstoppable hook shot, demolished every major N.C.A.A. scoring record by swishing 141 points through enemy baskets.*

This week Lovellette & Co. were hot on the trail of another honor: the right to be the U.S. collegiate representatives in this summer's Olympics. The team blocking the path of Kansas' N.C.A.A. winners was, fittingly enough, Philadelphia's La Salle, winner of the recent National Invitation Tournament. In contrast to Kansas' one-man gang, La Salle is a five-man team of deft ball handlers and sharpshooters, though none of them matches Lovellette's scoring potential.

In this week's collegiate final at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, it was Lovellette v. La Salle. Lovellette, scoring 40 points, won 70-65.

The other half of the 14-man Olympic squad, taken from the top A.A.U. team in the U.S., was decided when the Peoria (Lll.) Caterpillar Diesels beat the Denver (Colo.) Phillips Oilers, 64-50.

^{*Bringing his three-season total to 1,888, topping the N.C.A.A. record of 1,886 set by Duke's Dick}