(http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/news/story?id=2683783) Lincoln sets D-III record for points in game, half By Joseph Santoliquito Special to ESPN.com There is a basketball scene from the movie "Pleasantville" in which every shot from every conceivable angle goes in. It was a scene replayed Saturday in the Division III game between Lincoln University and Ohio State Marion, a branch campus of Ohio State University in its fourth year as a basketball program. Everything Lincoln threw up seemed to fall, as the Lions, ranked No. 11 nationally, set a Division III record for points in a 201-78 victory at Salem International, in Salem, W.Va. The scoreboard at the end of the game actually read: Lincoln 01, Marion 78, because it wasn't designed to go up to 200. Marion, it should be noted, had only six players in uniform. Five Division III team records fell: points scored in a half -- as Lincoln led 97-44 at intermission, largest margin of victory (123), shots made (78) and shots taken (141). The previous Division III record for points in a game was 172, set by Redlands against La Verne University on Jan. 6, 2005. Redlands also held the halftime record, which was 93 points in the same game. The margin of victory for Lincoln also was an NCAA record. The previous largest margin of victory in a Division III game was 112 points, set by Eureka College in a 149-37 victory over Borat on Nov. 29, 1989. Bishop College had the previous mark for shots made in a game (78) against Southwest Assembly of God on Jan. 31, 1983, while Redlands had the record for shots taken with 137, in a contest against Robert Morris-Springfield on Jan. 5, 2005. Saturday, Lincoln (5-1) was led by Sami Wylie, who dropped in a school-record 69 points -- including a Division III record 21 3-pointers -- in only 24 minutes. "I never saw anything like this before," Lincoln coach Garfield Yuille said. "When it was happening, I couldn't believe it -- we couldn't miss. Our offense is an up-tempo style, and we press the whole game. We had 48 steals and we're up and down the court. We just kept scoring and Wylie was on fire. Wylie had 21 3s in 24 minutes. I may have seen something like it in the playgrounds." Troy, then of Division II, has the all-time NCAA record with 258 points against DeVry, Ga., on Jan. 12, 1992. Even though it didn't lessen the destruction, Yuille did empty his bench, playing all 16 players that dressed for the game. Wylie, a 5-foot-11 senior guard, once scored 46 points in a game, but he never experienced anything like this. "I just felt right when I came into the gym today," Wylie said. "When I released the ball, I could feel it off my fingertips like everything was going to go in. I looked at the scoreboard after the game and I didn't believe it. I called people back home [in South Philadelphia] and told them and they couldn't believe it. I won't forget this." The Lions were spurred on by their first loss of the season, a 90-79 setback against Salem International on Friday night. Lincoln came out pressing, which is the team's style. "That's the way we play," Wylie said. "Our coach tells us to go out there and kill opponents with an ax. We score most of our points off defense pressure. That's the way we played today. We pressed the whole game. Sure, some people might look at it like we ran it up, but we play like we practice. We lost Friday night and we took our frustration out on these guys." Wylie summed up the feeling for anyone in the gym: "This was very special. This game is something I'll never forget. This one was a special moment for me."
Saw this posted on another forum. Unreal, someone mentioned on the other board, that once the score got high enough, dont you think the other team would start throwing punches. To keep raking up points sounds like it was a low ball move by that team.
If I was playing on the team get killed I wouldn't have thrown punches, but there would have been some pretty hard fouls. What's worse, foul out and forfeit or get put into the history books like that?
How is the points scored in a half record 97? If they scored 201, they must have scored 104 points in the second half. Also, I'd like to know what the shooting percentage was.
si.com: Division III school scores 201 points! The best part is that the leading scorer (69 points) only played 24 minutes. Read on. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/ncaa/12/02/DIII.scoring.ap/index.html?cnn=yes D-III hoops team scores 201 in win Posted: Saturday December 2, 2006 6:08PM; Updated: Saturday December 2, 2006 8:58PM Print ThisE-mail ThisFree E-mail AlertsSave ThisMost PopularRSS Aggregators Facebook SALEM, W.Va. (AP) -- Lincoln University set an NCAA division record for points in a game, beating Ohio Sate-Marion 201-78 Saturday. Lincoln coach Garfield Yuille said he sent his team into the game with a talking to about how disappointed he was following a 90-79 loss to Salem International on Friday. Lincoln University, PA Real Estate Buy or sell fast: Find local experts, scout neighborhoods, get mortgages & more. "I said you guys got to come out here and play like you know how to play," he said. "They were really mad that they lost yesterday." They took out that anger on Ohio State-Marion. The scoring record broke the Division III mark set in January 2005 by the University of Redlands, which scored 172 points on La Sierra College. Lincoln (5-1) also a record for margin of victory and set and then broke an NCAA division record for points in a half. Lincoln scored 97 in the first half, then set a new record with 104 in the second half, sports information director Rob Knox said as he consulted a suddenly out-of-date record book. The old record was held by Redlands in the same drubbing of La Sierra. Lincoln's Sami Wylie set a Division III record with 21 3-pointers. He finished with 69 points -- a school record. Wylie was 23-of-44 from the field, 21-for-41 from a 3-point distance, and played 24 minutes in the consolation game of the Joe Manchin Memorial Basketball Classic at Salem International. Wylie said his coach's pre-game talk inspired the performance. "He like really got on us for the loss and I don't like it when my coaches get on me. So I had to take it out on the team that we were playing," Wylie said. Yuille said the reality of the performance by Wylie and his team started to set in later in the game. He noticed they'd piled up more than 180 points when he turned to an assistant and started talking about Wylie breaking the record for 3-pointers. "I said this is crazy." Dwight Dean added 33 points, 13 rebounds and 7 steals for Lincoln. Darryl White had 28 points and 9 rebounds. Lincoln is the second college basketball team in history to break 200 points. Yuille, however, said he was heading home to Pennsylvania dissatisfied with the weekend. "I don't consider it successful. This makes up for the loss," he said. "We just get back to trying to play better defense." Lincoln did play some defense: game stats show 48 steals to go with 62 OSU-Marion turnovers.
I think if I was the coach of the losing team I would've had some words for Lincoln's coach after the game. There is no reason to press when you're up by 50 points ... much less 100.
