Forty points shy of becoming the NCAA’s all-time leading scorer, Pete Maravich scored 53 in LSU’s win over Mississippi on Jan. 31, 1970.
scored 22 points in the Titans’ 71-66 loss to Youngstown State in the Horizon League tournament quarterfinals Thursday night, leaving him three points shy of tying Pete Maravich’s Division I scoring record. Here’s a look back at the night Maravich set the mark, which has stood for 53 years.Louisiana State University guard Pete Maravich entered the Tigers’ home game against Mississippi on Jan. 31, 1970, needing 40 points to break Oscar Robertson’s major college basketball scoring record.
Maravich tied Robertson’s mark with eight minutes remaining in the second half. As the overflow crowd at the John M. Parker Agricultural Coliseum, which was affectionately known as the “Cow Palace,” chanted “One more! One more! One more!” Maravich proceeded to miss his next five shots. He finally broke the record with a one-handed jumper from the right wing with 4:41 to play.“I wasn’t really conscious of it, but I may have been,” Maravich told reporters afterward, when asked if he was pressing.
“I really don’t think I can express it in words,” Maravich said afterward. “Right now I’m a little shook. It’s the greatest honor to come to me, breaking the record of someone of Oscar Robertson’s stature. I think he’s probably the greatest basketball player ever and I think I’m fortunate to break it.”
Maravich scored 40 of his 53 points in the second half of LSU’s 80-70 win over St. John’s at the Rainbow Classic in late December.
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