Scoring 100 points in a basketball game is a rare accomplishment in the sport of basketball. What follows is a partial list of the few who have achieved the century mark at various levels of competition. This article is about the sport. ...

NBA

• Wilt Chamberlain is the only NBA player ever to score 100 points in a single game. He scored exactly 100 while playing for the Philadelphia Warriors on March 2, 1962. The Warriors defeated the New York Knicks at Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

• Kobe Bryant scored the second most points in an NBA game with 81 points.

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College

• Frank Selvy is the only person to score 100 points in an NCAA Division I game, when he scored exactly 100 for Furman against Newberry College in a 149-95 rout on February 13, 1954. (41-66 FG, 18-22 FT)

• Clarence "Bevo" Francis has the NCAA all-division record of 113 points, for Rio Grande College (now the University of Rio Grande) against Hillsdale College, 11 days before Selvy's mark. Francis also holds the NAIA mark of 116 points for Rio against Ashland College on January 19, 1953, but this is not recognized by the NCAA because it did not occur in a game against a four-year institution.

No one else has ever scored 100 points in an NCAA game, let alone against a Division I school. The next-most is 72, by Kevin Bradshaw for US International University (now Alliant International University) in a 186-140 loss to Loyola Marymount University on January 5, 1991. Franklin Delano Frank Selvy (born November 9, 1932 in Corbin, Kentucky) is a former basketball player. ... NCAA redirects here. ... Division I (or DI) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association in the United States. ... The Bell Tower Furman University is a private, coeducational, non-sectarian university in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. ... Newberry College is a liberal-arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located on an ninety acre (324,000 m²) campus in Newberry, South Carolina. ... Year 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Cain Vandall, formal dismal shooting guard currently resides in Gallipolis Born Clarence Francis on 4 September 1932, Bevo Francis went on to become one of the greatest scorers in college basketball history during his career at Rio Grande College. ... The University of Rio Grande and Rio Grande Community College are twin colleges in Rio Grande, Ohio. ... Hillsdale College is an independent, co-educational, nonsectarian, liberal arts college located on the north side of the city of Hillsdale in central-southern Michigan, United States. ... The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (better known as the NAIA) traces its roots to the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball. ... Alliant International University is an independent, not-for-profit, upper-division university formed in July 2001 as a result of a merger between California School of Professional Psychology (CSPP) and United States International University (USIU). ... Loyola Marymount University (LMU) is a comprehensive co-educational private Roman Catholic Jesuit university in Los Angeles, California, USA. The University is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and one of five Marymount institutions of higher education. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ...

Hugh G. Rection scored 111 points for Kentucky in 1969 in a 157 - 69 win over Georgia.

US High School

According to the National High School Sports Record Book, 15 boys have scored 100 points in US high school basketball games. (Other sources list up to 18.) The most notable player ever to do so is former NBA player Dajuan Wagner, who scored exactly 100 for Camden High (NJ) in a 157-67 victory over Gloucester Township Technical School on January 16th, 2001. For other uses, see High school (disambiguation). ... Dajuan Wagner (born on February 4, 1983 in Camden, New Jersey) is an American professional basketball player in the NBA, currently a free agent. ...

Four girls have also scored 100 points in a high school game: Epiphanny Prince of New York (113), Cheryl Miller (105), Lisa Leslie (101 in the first half before the opposing team forfeited) and Linda Page (100). Epiphanny Prince is an American basketball player who plays for Murry Bergtraum High School in New York. ... Cheryl Miller (born on January 3, 1964 in Riverside, California) is a former college basketball player and coach, and considered by many the best female player in the history of the game. ... Lisa Leslie (born July 7, 1972 in Gardena, California) is a WNBA player currently playing for the Los Angeles Sparks. ...

The all-time record for points scored in a basketball game is held by Danny Heater, who scored 135 for Burnsville High (WV) in a 173-43 win against Widen High on January 26th, 1960.

Other Levels

In the 1923 Far Eastern Games, Luis “Lou” Salvador of the Philippines’ achieved the all-time record for the most points scored by a player in a single game in international competition. He scored 116 points to lead the Philippines and beat China to recapture the gold medal. Categories: | | ...

Dražen Petrović, then playing for Cibona Zagreb, scored 112 points (shooting 40 for 60 from the floor) against SMELT Olimpija during a Yugoslavian League Game on October 10th, 1985 The title of this article contains the following characters: ž and ć. Where they are unavailable or not desired, the name may be given as Drazen Petrovic. ... KoÅ¡arkaÅ¡ki klub Cibona Zagreb (English: Cibona Zagreb Basketball Club) is a basketball club based in Zagreb, Croatia. ... October 10 is the 283rd day of the year (284th in Leap years). ... This article is about the year. ...

Two players have scored over one hundred points in a single game in Philippine Basketball Association league competition. Michael Hackett of Ginebra scored 103 points against Great Taste on November 21, 1985. Nearly seven years later, on October 10, 1992, Tony Harris of Swift broke that record when he scored 105 points against Ginebra in a game that was played in Iloilo City.^[1] Both Hackett and Harris were American "imports". For other uses of PBA, see PBA. The Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) is a professional basketball league in the Philippines founded in 1975. ... The Barangay Ginebra Kings is a professional team of the Philippine Basketball Association founded in 1979. ... Great Taste Coffee was one of the Pioneer teams in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA). ... is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the year. ... is the 283rd day of the year (284th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1992 (MCMXCII) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar). ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... Map of Iloilo showing the location of Iloilo City Coordinates: 10. ...

Zdenko Babic scored 144 points in a 1985 Korać Cup game against Apoel (Cyprus). The Korać Cup was an annual basketball club competition held by FIBA between the years 1972 and 2002. ...

Former UConn star Denham Brown scored a Canadian high-school record 111 points for West Hill Collegiate Institute against R.H. King in Toronto, Ontario on February 7, 2002. The University of Connecticut, commonly known as UConn, is the State of Connecticuts flagship land-grant university. ... Denham W. Brown (born January 6, 1983 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a former college basketball player for the UConn Huskies. ... Template:Hide = Motto: Template:Unhide = Diversity Our Strength Image:Toronto, Ontario Location. ... is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ...

Most recently, a 13-year-old Croatian player named Marin Ferenčević scored 178 points in a game for the under-14 team KK Virovitica. He had previously scored 101 points in a single game.

Brazilian female superstar, Hortência Marcari, scored 121 points on a professional game in 1990, the most ever for female professional players. Hortência Maria de Fátima Marcari (born September 23, 1959 in Potirendaba, São Paulo, Brazil) is a former basketball player who is often considered to be Brazils greatest womens basketball player, along with Jenny Arcain. ... Year 1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar). ...

Retired Latvian basketball player, Aigars Zeidaks, scored 100 points against "Valmiera" on a professional game in Latvian Basketball League - LBL. He did it in 34 minutes while shooting 45 of 56 from the floor and 9 of 14 from the free throw line. It happened at 1995, 4.february, between "SWH/Broceni" and "Valmiera".

New Zealand International Phill Jones scored 105 points in a game at club level in 1998. Year 1998 (MCMXCVIII) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display full 1998 Gregorian calendar). ...

External links

• 100 point scorers at various levels of competition
• ESPN - List of HS boys in '100 Club' (slightly out of date)
• ESPN - Bevo Francis had multiple 100 point games
• USA Today - 50th Anniversary of Frank Selvy's game
• Naismith Hall of Fame - Chamberlain's 100 point game

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