<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">Courtesy of Mercury News (San Jose, California) at:</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22038416">http://www.mercurynews.com/top-stories/ci_22038416</a></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; ">-------------------------------------</div><div><p style="padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "></p><h1 id="articleTitle" class="articleTitle entry-title"><font size="3"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">College basketball: Player scores 138 points to shatter NCAA record</span></font></h1><p></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">It only took 108 shots for Taylor to make a mockery of the college basketball record books.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taylor scored 138 points to shatter the NCAA scoring record in Division III Grinnell's 179-104 victory over Faith Baptist Bible on Tuesday night in Grinnell, Iowa.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taylor, a 5-foot-10, 170-pound sophomore from Black River Falls, Wis., made 27 of 71 3-point attempts, was 52 of 108 overall from the field and added seven free throws on 10 attempts in 36 minutes.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"It felt like anything I tossed up was going in," Taylor told The Associated Press.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Rio Grande's Bevo Francis held the NCAA scoring record with 113 points against Hillsdale in 1954. In 1953, Francis had 116 against Ashland Junior College. Frank Selvy is the only other player to reach triple figures, scoring 100 points for Division I Furman against Newberry in 1954. The previous Grinnell record was 89 by Griffin Lentsch last Nov. 19 against Principia.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Under coach David Arseneault, the Pioneers press and shoot 3s like nobody else in the country in any level. They've led the nation in scoring for 17 of the past 19 seasons while ranking first nationally in 3-point shooting for the 15 of those past 19 years. But none of them have had a night quite like Taylor -- who never saw this coming.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taylor recently transferred to Grinnell, located about 50 miles </span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">east of Des Moines, after playing one season for Wisconsin-La Crosse. He struggled in his debut at the nearby Wartburg Tournament over the weekend by hitting only 11 of 41 shots -- including only 6 of 34 3-point attempts Still, he averaged 23.5 points a game.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But Taylor started Tuesday's night game off slow -- at least according to his standards. His coaches figured the best way to get him on track was for him to keep chucking, so that's what Taylor did.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Maybe my cold shooting from the weekend was affecting me," Taylor said. "But then they started to drop."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taylor had 58 points at halftime.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Then he got hot.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Taylor was 32 of 58 shooting -- including 18 3s -- in the final 20 minutes and averaged an astounding four points a minute in the second half.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I don't think reality has set in yet," Taylor said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Carmelo Anthony and the New York Knicks were amazed by the feat when they heard about it after their victory in New Orleans.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"I never heard of nothing like that. That's like a video game," Anthony said, an incredulous look on his face. "How can you shoot 100 times, though?"</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">He joked that from now on when someone asks if he's taking too many shots, he'll mention "that someone shot it 108 times."</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Raymond Felton also was astounded by the 108 shots.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"His elbow has got to be sore," Felton said.</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">---------------</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Video</span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19px; white-space: nowrap; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; "><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e6mv9o_S48">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e6mv9o_S48</a></span></p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; ">-------------------------------------</p><p style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; padding: 0px; margin: 15px 0px 0px; "> </p></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; "><div>Seeya round town, Moscow, because . . .</div><div><br></div><div>"Moscow Cares"</div><div><a href="http://www.MoscowCares.com">http://www.MoscowCares.com</a></div><div> </div><div><div>Tom Hansen</div><div>Moscow, Idaho</div><div> </div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>