Who’s Scored Most College Points?

On November twentieth, twenty twelve, the Grigel Pioneers were facing off against Faith Baptist Bible College in a Division three matchup, and little did either team know this would be a historic moment in a moment where Division III basketball got put on the map when Jack Taylor of Grenell College set the record for the most points in an NCAA game by a single player with one hundred and thirty eight, putting himself and his school on the map as many have never heard of either, making national news that we're going talked about him today on Daily Sports History. Welcome to Daily Sports History. I'm Ethan Reese, your guide as you daily learn about more sports history, increasing your sports knowledge. As today we learn about high scoring affairs in college basketball, and today's trivic question the listen out for is what was the previous record for the most points in an NCUBLEA basketball game. Now, we've talked about previous high scores, as we talked about BiVO Francis, who scored one hundred and thirteen points in a single game. We also talked about Austin Carr, who scored over sixty points in n a C double a March Madness Game, and we even covered Wilt Chamberlain's one hundred point game in the NBA. And today we're going to talk about the most points scored in the NC Double A game. Now, normally when we say NC Double A, everyone thinks about Division one. Now, the most points scored in a Division one game was Kevin Bradshaw, who did so with US International against Loyola Mayormount in nineteen ninety one, where he scored seventy two. And there have been four players to score over one hundred points in college basketball. We've already talked about. We already talked about Bo Francis. There's also Frank Selvie who led Forum to a victory, who scored one hundred point for Forum in nineteen fifty four, and JJ Cover of Wayland Baptist University scored one hundred points in twenty nineteen. But today we're here to talk about another man who made this list twice in Jack Taylor of Granoll College. Now, if you think that NCAA Division II basketball is kind of a joke, you might be mistaken. Now, there are some great players at this level, and we've seen some great NBA players come from small schools such as Dennis Rahman, Ben Wallace, and Scottie Pippen all played for schools that were not Division one, and even Duncan Robinson, whose places for the Miami Heat today came from a Division III school and having worked with Division three basketball coaches, there are some great teams and great play being done. I've watched plenty of it, and I'm amazed. Most Division three basketball players can play any regular person out of the gym. So don't think that these players are just coming to play because they have no other options. These are great levels. So let's start with who is Jack Taylor. Well, he grew up loving basketball, and he grew up in the Kobe Bryant era, so he tried to model his game after Kobe Bryant. And though he attended basketball camps at places like Duke and Stanford and would go on to play high school basketball in Wisconsin and letter four straight years, he only grew to be about five to ten, which makes it incredibly hard in basketball wise to get a whole lot of looks. His senior year in high school, he averaged over twenty points and almost five assists, hitting over forty percent from three point range, and was named his conference Player of the Year and was named All State. Although he got some interest from Division one school like Columbia and some Division two schools, he didn't get any athletic scholarship, so he decided to tend the mercer Berg Academy, which is a postgraduate school where they helped players get in a more positive light athletically, although he struggled as within nine games there he tore his acl and his meniscus, which means he missed the rest of the season, and he decided later to go to Wisconsin Lacrosse. Now he was still kind of recovering, so he came in as a reserve role and he only averaged seven points his first season at least Wisconsin Lacrosse, and he actually says this is when he really started to get frustrated with basketball, as he was struggling to recover from his knee surgery and struggling just with playing time. So he went to He tided to transfer to a new school, which was Granall University, who had been recruiting him since he was out of high school and even when he was at the mercer Berg Academy, but he always went somewhere else. He finally gave in and went to the Granall University now Granel College was started in eighteen forty six and was formerly known as Iowa College and is what and they follow an open curriculum, which means there's not a prescribed class list and students are able to guide their education for themselves. They they started playing basketball in nineteen hundred, but they didn't win their first conference title till nineteen forty one. But what really made Jack want to go to Granol is they were running something called the Granol system, which was a new kind of offense that sometimes referred as just the system. It's a fast paced offense that the coach at Grannel College had instituted, David Arsenal, and it's a variation of the run and gun offense which was made popular by Leola Merimount in the nineteen eighties. And it focused on three point shooting and full court press and allowed frequent substitutions. So Jack loved that opportunity to score a lot and shoot as many three pointers as he could. And Garnell showed that this system really worked, as they had led the NCUBLEA in all levels of scoring for seventeen of the past nineteen seasons and in two thousand and three two thousand and four season, they ranked second in NC DOUBLEA history, averaging one hundred and twenty six point two points a game. He actually led the team in scoring with averaging twenty three point five points after just thirteen point five minutes a game in just the first two games he played there, But the Grnell's coach wanted to get him some more playing time and decided to do that on November twentieth, twenty twelve. This was a home game for Grannell and they came in with a three to zero record and Faith Baptists had not won a game that season, and Grnell's coach decided to make Jack Taylor the focus of this game as he was the only player on the team to play more than fifteen minutes, as he played thirty six minutes and they started out fast and they did not look back as Jack scored fifty eight points in the first half and giving them the lead eighty five to forty six. But he wasn't done. He came back the second half and did even better, scoring eighty points, making eighteen to three pointers in the second half, including seven consecutively during a two minute stretch. During one stretch of the game, he scored twenty eight consecutive points, all by himself, a Division III record. He also set the record for the most three pointers and this all led to him scoring a total of one hundred and thirty eight points, hitting a total of twenty seven three pointers the entire game, and he set NCAA records for the most three field goals in a game, the most three point attempts in a game, the most field goals, the most field goal attempts, and his eighty points and a half was also a record, and before this, his highest score in high school was forty eight points. He went above and beyond and broke Bibo France's record set in nineteen fifty four of one hundred and thirteen points, leading them to a victory one seventy nine to one oh four. Now Faith Baptist College tried to keep up and had David Larson, who scored seventy points in this game, all without a three point shot, as they were trying to keep up the best they could. Now this game got national news as his hero Kobe Bryant Lebron James All posted on social media about this topic. He got to talk to ESPN and got to appear on Good Morning America Jimmy Kimball Live. He received over three hundred email requests for interviews from all over the world and Pizza Hutt actually did a promotion where they you could buy a pizza for one dollar and thirty eight cents and the following game they faced off against William Penn and ESPN and multiple other media outlets came to watch this game where he only scored twenty one points in a losing effort, and unfortunately, another injury took the rest of the season from him as he broke his radius bone in your forearm, and he would have to wait till next season where he's coming back to try to lead the nation in scoring. In the season opening game, he scored seventy one points, and then the following game against Crosswold College, he passed the one hundred point mark again, scoring one hundred and nine points, and he would go on to finish the season as the nation's leading scorer, averaging twenty eight point eight points, making five to three point shots a game and be named to the All Midwest Conference second team, and his following senior year, he would also lead the Nations, scoring twenty eight point four points and be named first team All Conference. And upon graduating, he did enter the NBA Draft, although he did go undrafted, but he did put on a showcase at Las Vegas that featured many international and Europepean leagues. But by two thousand and six he was no longer interested in basketball. He would go on to get married and have kids, and he owns a video production company and is a local TV personality in Wisconsin and has gone on to live a life outside the limelight. And I'm willing to bet if you walked past Jack Taylor on the street, you wouldn't realize he was one of the greatest scorers in Division three and TAA history. And if you want to learn more about small college basketball, check out the Small College Basketball Podcast, where Chris takes you through Division two, Division three, NAIA, USCAA, and NCCAA levels, highlighting the major moments in milestones that often go forgotten at these smaller schools where there's great basketball being played all beyond just Division one basketball. We'll put a link in the description below for you to check that out. And if you enjoyed today's episode, please leave us a like review wherever you're listening. That really helps us and when someone finds our podcast to know that it is a great show for them to check out and come back tomorrow for more daily sports history. And did you catch the answer to today's Tribe question what was the previous record for the most points in an NCAA basketball game? And the answer was Bbo Francis with Rio College scoring one hundred and thirteen points in nineteen fifty four. The then and the Wastent, Stupid,