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...Kenmore cabal scored in the fourth inning, after Dwight Evans walked and Deron Johnson broke up a no-hitter with a looper to right. Rick Burleson plated Evans with a smash single off the wall, to make it 4-1. In the top half of the frame, Powell's home run had given the Birds a 4-0 bulge...
Seattle, which acquired the third pick from Cleveland in a deal that sent veteran guard Dick Snyder to the Cavaliers, chose N.C. State's 7 ft. 4 in. Tom Burleson. Burleson was the leading rebounder on the squad last season...
McGuire's floating-triangle defense, designed to collapse on Burleson and shut down Thompson and guard Monte Towe man-on-man, soon joined the Warrior control-offense schemes as just so much chalk on the dressing-room blackboard...
...course, is Thompson, the player who inspired one pro scout to say that he was "one of the ten best basketball players in America-college or pro." His supporting cast includes one of the tallest and one of the shortest men playing collegiate ball. The tallest is Tom Burleson, a better than adequate, if not great, 7 ft., 4 in. center and the shortest is a ball-hawking guard in Monty Towe, all of 5 ft., 51/2 in. With Thompson as the middle man around this odd couple, State has won all but one game in two years, a better...
...minutes left the game was tied. The only reason U.C.L.A. was still in contention was that Keith ("Silk") Wilkes was artfully unraveling the Wolfpack's defense with his smooth shooting. Then Walton returned. Though he scored only a few points, his presence seemed to rattle N.C. State. Burleson in particular seemed to lose his bearings and U.C.L.A. reeled off nine straight points. They were never challenged again...