[McDunkin]

Move over, Kobe.

 

Grinnell’s Griffin Lentsch scored 89 points in the Pioneers’ 145-97 win over Principia.

CAPTION

Grinnell athletics file photo

Bryant’s 81 points in one NBA game in 2006 were impressive … but they would have been more impressive if they were 89.

 

That’d be more like Grinnell’s Griffin Lentsch, who scored 89 points in the Pioneers’ 145-97 win over Principia.

Lentsch set the NCAA Division III record for single-game scoring with the performance. He broke the mark set by another Grinnell player, Jeff Clement, who scored 77 on Feb. 18, 1998.

Lentsch shot 27-for-55 from the floor, including 15-for-33 from 3-point range. He was 20-for-22 from the foul line. He played 36 minutes.

The 89 points is the third-most in NCAA men’s basketball history.

"It’s still setting in," Lentsch told Grinnell’s official athletics website after the game. "I didn’t think I would ever score that many points."

http://content.usatoday.com/communities/campusrivalry/post/2011/11/grinells-lentsch-scores-89-points-best-in-d-iii-history/1

[JaeEvolutionParticipant]

 33 3PA’s? DAMN that’s a lot mayne.

[Anton123Participant]

 55 attempts in 36 minutes? And that is not counting the at 10+ times he was fouled, well, that’s quite a lot

[sameolGParticipant]

I don’t care how many shots you take if you score 89 points in 36 minutes

[marcusfizer21Participant]

Let me see him do that to a Division I school…

[JunkYardDogParticipant]

I don’t know the level of play in ncaa div 2 or 3…. differences between div 1 and the others are athletic or strategic or technical ?

maybe you could answer me if I ask : could he play in nba, europe ?

[LeroyJenkinsParticipant]

I hit 69 with the honeydips on the reg

[OllstarParticipant]

Kobe dropped 81 on the raptors who are the d3 team of the league. I remember when we won the atlantic title we still sucked.

[JunkYardDogParticipant]

 devean george was a member of aufsburg in ncaa Div 2 before winning some rings as a laker… but do you have some other exemples of nba players coming from div 2 or even 3 ?

[ChewyParticipant]

was just a ploy by the writer to try and make the article more exciting and eyecatching. You can’t compare and HOF NBA player and a D3 player. That being said both acomplishments are amazing and deserve respect in their own different rights.

Also, I have to agree sameolG. If you score 89 pts and your team wins I could care less how many FGA you had.

[ChewyParticipant]

Ben Wallace- Virgina Union

Charles Oakley- Virgina Union

Deaven George- Augsburg College

Flip Murry- Shaw University

Manute Bol- Bridgeport

Dennis Rodman- Southeastern Oklahoma State

Maurice Cheeks- West Texas A and M

Jack Sikma- Illinois Weslyan

[JunkYardDogParticipant]

Thanks Chewy…

but after a quick research Griffin Lentsch has a poor shoot selection 36.8 % last year 37.2 % this year from the fields, wwith more than 10 3pts shoots /game . 19pts/game 0.5ass

….no nba but maybe in europe.

[TallmanNYCParticipant]

I mentioned earlier that a couple of times a team that I was on tried to run up the score and break 100 points in a 48 minute running clock game. You have to be playing very fast and scoring a lot to do that. That is kind of what that guy must have been doing. Those percentages really aren’t anything to write home about, so really all he was going for was a lot of points. Since his team won 145 to 97, presumably victory was never really in doubt. He was just gunning to get shots up. And yes if you team lets you gun so that you can get up 55 shots, then you are probably going to score a lot of points.

I do note that he didn’t play the entire game, so his coach must have decided to put the breaks on the kid. That was the right thing to do because it wasn’t really a basketball game at that point. Kobe scored his point in a meaningful game that the Lakers were losing in for a good chunk. So you really can’t compare the two feats.

 

[Jlv2011]

just moved up to the top of my mock draft.

[LeroyJenkinsParticipant]

Wowwwww his name isnt even Grinell you fuh-reakng jerk so not only is your joke garbage but it was false.

Its like the freakin Titantic not only was it built wrong but it crashed anyway

[Dale WorthingtonParticipant]

Grinnell is actually an excellent liberal arts school in Iowa. Dead serious.

[Author]

Posts