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Top 20 Teams with the Most Points Scored in an NCAA Tournament Game
Jeff Fryer (21), Bo Kimble (30) and the Loyola Maymount Lions Scored the Most Points in an NCAA Tournament Game (149 in 1990)
How’s your bracket doing, or bracketS should I say? Hopefully well.
If not, you can still enjoy the tournament. Pick a team and stick with it. Brag about guessing the Final Four. Or just take in all the performances and surely some nailbiters and maybe even a classic to come.
You can also check out the NCAA Basketball Lists at Sports List of the Day and see how the 2013 Tournament is comparing. Will records fall? Will some school or schools crack any of our rankings?
We’re sticking with the NCAA Tournament theme through the weekend and mostly through the week.
Today – the top 20 most points scored by a team in a single NCAA Tournament game, led by the 11th-seeded 1989-90 Loyola Marymount Lions who scored a relatively stratospheric 149 points in upsetting third-seeded Michigan.
The Wolverines scored 115 themselves in that game and also make the list below (as do opponents noted with an asterisk).
The Lions make the list twice, as do the Arkansas Razorbacks, but it’s the North Carolina Tar Heels with most (three) of the highest scoring outputs.
The most offensive period in tournament history seems to be the late 1980s and early 1990s, when between 1987 and 1991, 11 of the 20 highest point totals were posted.
If you’re wondering why some schools do not have seeding, that’s because teams were not officially seeded until the 1979 tournament.
Follow @VinGetz| TEAM | PTS | OPPONENT | PTS | OT | DATE | REGION | ROUND | |
| 1. | Loyola Marymount (11) | 149 | Michigan (3)* | 115 | Mar. 18, 1990 | West | Second Round | |
| 2. | UNLV (1) | 131 | Loyola Marymount (11) | 101 | Mar. 25, 1990 | West | Regional Final | |
| 3. | Saint Joseph’s | 127 | Utah* | 120 | 4OT | Mar. 25, 1961 | National | National Third Place |
| 4. | Oklahoma (1) | 124 | Louisiana Tech (9) | 81 | Mar. 18, 1989 | Southeast | Second Round | |
| 5. | North Carolina (2) | 123 | Loyola Marymount (10) | 97 | Mar. 19, 1988 | West | Second Round | |
| 6. | UNLV | 121 | San Francisco | 95 | Mar. 12, 1977 | West | First Round | |
| 6. | Iowa | 121 | Notre Dame | 106 | Mar. 14, 1970 | Mideast | Regional Third Place | |
| 6. | Tennessee (5) | 121 | Long Beach State (12) | 86 | Mar. 16, 2007 | South | First Round | |
| 9. | Arkansas (5) | 120 | Loyola Marymount (12) | 101 | Mar. 16, 1989 | Midwest | First Round | |
| 9. | Utah | 120 | Saint Joseph’s* | 127 | 4OT | Mar. 25, 1961 | National | National Third Place |
| 11. | Loyola Marymount (10) | 119 | Wyoming (7)* | 115 | Mar. 17, 1988 | West | First Round | |
| 11. | Houston | 119 | Notre Dame | 106 | Mar. 20, 1971 | Midwest | Regional Third Place | |
| 13. | Notre Dame | 118 | Vanderbilt | 88 | Mar. 16, 1974 | Mideast | Regional Third Place | |
| 13. | Princeton | 118 | Wichita State | 82 | Mar. 20, 1965 | National | National Third Place | |
| 15. | Arkansas (1) | 117 | Georgia State (16) | 76 | Mar. 15, 1991 | Southeast | First Round | |
| 16. | Michigan (3) | 115 | Loyola Marymount (11)* | 149 | Mar. 18, 1990 | West | Second Round | |
| 16. | Wyoming (7) | 115 | Loyola Marymount (10)* | 119 | Mar. 17, 1988 | West | First Round | |
| 18. | North Carolina State (6) | 114 | Southern Mississippi (11) | 85 | Mar. 14, 1991 | East | First Round | |
| 18. | Arizona | 114 | Nevada-Las Vegas | 109 | OT | Mar. 18, 1976 | West | Regional Semifinal |
| 20. | North Carolina (1) | 113 | Pennsylvania (16) | 82 | Mar. 12, 1987 | East | First Round | |
| 20. | North Carolina (1) | 113 | Mount St. Mary’s (16) | 74 | Mar. 21, 2008 | East | First Round | |
| 20. | Kentucky (1) | 113 | Mount St. Mary’s (16) | 67 | Mar. 16, 1995 | Southeast | First Round |
Thanks to sports-reference.com‘s play index where this query ranks every team in NCAA Tournament history by points scored in a game.
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NCAA Basketball: Top 10 Longest Winning Streaks in College Basketball History (Division I)
Bill Walton, John Wooden and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) Won a Lot of Games in a Row at UCLA
Here are the top 10 longest winning streaks in men’s college basketball history.
John Wooden‘s UCLA Bruins of the late 1960s and early 1970s dominate. They appear three times and hold the all-time, and probably unbreakable, record – 88 games won in a row! No one even comes close to that today.
The most recent chartbusting streak was put on by Jerry Tarkanian‘s Runnin’ Rebels back over 20 years ago, in 1990-91.
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Follow @VinGetz| SCHOOL | STREAK | YEARS | COACH | |
| 1. | UCLA | 88 | 1971-74 | John Wooden |
| 2. | San Francisco | 60 | 1955-57 | Phil Woolpert |
| 3. | UCLA | 47 | 1966-68 | John Wooden |
| 4. | UNLV | 45 | 1990-91 | Jerry Tarkanian |
| 5. | Texas | 44 | 1913-17 | Theo Bellmont, Roy Henderson, Eugene Van Gent |
| 6. | LIU Brooklyn | 43 | 1935-37 | Clair Bee |
| 6. | Seton Hall | 43 | 1939-41 | Honey Russell |
| 8. | UCLA | 41 | 1968-69 | John Wooden |
| 9. | Marquette | 39 | 1970-71 | Al McGuire |
| 10. | North Carolina | 37 | 1957-58 | Frank McGuire |
| 10. | Cincinnati | 37 | 1962-63 | Ed Jucker |
Source data courtesy NCAA.org.
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NCAA Football: Most BCS National Championship Game Appearances and School Records
The Oklahoma Sooners Have Appeared in the BCS Championship Game Four Times
Notre Dame is set for its first BCS Championship Game. The Fighting Irish are awaiting their opponent, who will be the winner of today’s Alabama-Georgia contest.
If Georgia wins, they will earn their first BCS Title berth, as well. Alabama, the reigning NCAA champion, is looking to make its third BCS Championship appearance.
The BCS (Bowl Championship Series), the current system that determines all Bowl opponents and the final two title contenders, began with the 1998 season.
There have been 14 BCS Championship Games. Fourteen different schools have participated, with the Oklahoma Sooners appearing the most: four times.
Need more NCAA Football Championship knowledge? Check out:
Chronological List of BCS Champions
Schools with the Most Championships of All Time (BCS and pre-BCS)
Follow @VinGetz| SCHOOL | BCS CHAMP. APP. | REC. | YEAR | RESULT | OPPONENT | |
| 1. | Oklahoma | 4 | 1-3 | 2000 | W | Florida State |
| 2003 | L | LSU | ||||
| 2004 | L | USC | ||||
| 2008 | L | Florida | ||||
| 2. | Florida State | 3 | 1-2 | 1999 | W | Virginia Tech |
| 1998 | L | Tennessee | ||||
| 2000 | L | Oklahoma | ||||
| 2. | LSU | 3 | 2-1 | 2003 | W | Oklahoma |
| 2007 | W | Ohio State | ||||
| 2011 | L | Alabama | ||||
| 2. | Ohio State | 3 | 1-2 | 2002 | W | Miami (FL) |
| 2006 | L | Florida | ||||
| 2007 | L | LSU | ||||
| 5. | Alabama | 2 | 2-0 | 2009 | W | Texas |
| 2011 | W | LSU | ||||
| 5. | Florida | 2 | 2-0 | 2008 | W | Oklahoma |
| 2006 | W | Ohio State | ||||
| 5. | Miami (FL) | 2 | 1-1 | 2001 | W | Nebraska |
| 2002 | L | Ohio State | ||||
| 5. | Texas | 2 | 1-1 | 2005 | W | USC |
| 2009 | L | Alabama | ||||
| 5. | USC | 2 | 1-1 | 2004 | W | Oklahoma |
| 2005 | L | Texas | ||||
| 10. | Auburn | 1 | 1-0 | 2010 | W | Oregon |
| 10. | Nebraska | 1 | 0-1 | 2001 | L | Miami (FL) |
| 10. | Oregon | 1 | 0-1 | 2010 | L | Auburn |
| 10. | Tennessee | 1 | 1-0 | 1998 | W | Florida State |
| 10. | Virginia Tech | 1 | 0-1 | 1999 | L | Florida State |
* Year noted is the year of the season. Since the BCS Championship Game is in January, at the end of the college football season, add a year to get the year of the actual game.
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