On this day in 1951, Bill Mlkvy set an NCAA basketball record, scoring 73 points in a single game. He was the “Owl without a Vowel” and his talons were mighty. The Temple Owls beat the Wilkes College Colonels 96-69 (nice), but the story of the night was young Mlkvy. He would outscore the entire Colonels team by himself, 73-69. There was a stretch in the game where Mlkvy scored 54 straight points, a record that still stands today. Not only did he score 54 straight points, he was the only person to score during his 54-point run. Mlkvy’s 73-point record still stands in NCAA Division I basketball.
Although Mlkvy’s Division I record still stands, the NCAA record for most points in a single game was broken by Jack Taylor, of the Grinnell College Squirrels in 2012. Taylor would score 138 points. Jack Taylor scored 138 points in a basketball game. Grinnell College is a Division III college, but the record is still insane. Taylor was a flying squirrel that day. The all-time NBA single-game scoring record is 100 points, by Wilt Chamberlain. The craziest part about all of this is that Jack Taylor scored 109 points the very next year (2013). He is definitely the only player to score 100 points in a single game on multiple occasions.
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