The scoring total set by Clyde Lovellette in the 1952 NCAA Tournament remains astonishing to this day.
So imagine how sports writers marveled back then at the 141 points Lovellette netted in four tournament games while leading the Jayhawks to the national title.
“Records were strewn in the path of Lovellette, who worked with the tireless energy of a bulldozer but planted buckets with the finesse of a concert pianist,’’ wrote Bob Hurt of the Topeka Daily Capital.
After the Jayhawks captured the championship behind 33 points and 17 rebounds from Lovellette in an 80-63 blowout of St.