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September 3, 2010

Ken Pryor dies

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NORMAN — Former University of Oklahoma basketball player Ken Pryor has died. He was 85. School spokesman Mike Houck said Thursday that Pryor died Tuesday.

Pryor’s bank shot with 10 seconds remaining in a 1947 NCAA semifinal game gave OU a 55-54 win over Texas and sent the Sooners into the finals against Holy Cross. Holy Cross beat Oklahoma, 58-47.

Pryor played for the amateur Phillips 66ers for three years after college, then worked for the oil company before opening an insurance agency in Norman in 1963. He retired in 1990.

— Associated Press

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