In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through field goals (two or three points) and free throws (one point).^[1] It is a rare achievement for an individual player to score 100 points in a single game. What follows is an incomplete list of all of the verified occurrences of players scoring 100 points or more. Each individual instance of the accomplishment may have been achieved under varying circumstances, such as game length, opponent skill level and the league in which it occurred.

Internationally, the highest single player total between national teams is 116 points, scored by the Philippines' Lou Salvador in May 1923 against China.^[2] It happened during the 1923 Far Eastern Games.^[2] The highest single game total in worldwide organized basketball history, irrespective of gender, age or competition level, is 272 points, scored by a 13-year-old boy named Mats Wermelin of Sweden.^[3][4] He recorded every single point in his team's 272–0 win on February 5, 1974, during a regional boys' tournament held in Stockholm.^[4] As an adult, Wermelin played as a guard for Hammarby IF,^[5] Järfälla and Stockholm Capitals.^[6] The highest total by a female basketball player worldwide is 136, scored by Anat Draigor of Israel.^[7] It happened on April 5, 2006, in a 158–41 win.^[7] Draigor was 46 years old playing in an Israel Division III League playoff game, which also makes her the oldest player in history to score 100 points.^[7] Only one player, other than the United States' Bevo Francis and Jack Taylor, has recorded multiple 100-point games in organized competition. Croatia's Marin Ferenčević scored 101 and 178 points in April and May 2006, respectively, during Under-14 Croatian League matches.^[8]

In the United States, 100-point games have occurred at least once at most levels of education. At the middle school level, 13-year-old 8th grader Bob Harrison scored all 139 of his team's points in a 139–8 win on February 3, 1941.^[9][3] In high school, there have been 24 verified occurrences, 19 by male players and 5 by female players.^[10][11] The first recorded instance was in 1913, when Herman Saygar of Culver High School (Indiana) scored 113 points against Winamac High School.^[11] The first female to score 100 points at the high school level was Denise Long of Union-Whitten High School (Iowa), who scored 111 points during a state playoff game in the spring of 1968 against Dows High School.^[12][13][14] That season, Long's senior year of 1967–68, she averaged a still-standing national record 68.2 points per game.^[14] Her single game total stood as the high school female record for 38 years until Epiphanny Prince scored 113 for Murry Bergtraum High School (New York) on February 2, 2006.^[15] The boys' high school record is 135 points, scored by Danny Heater on January 26, 1960.^[16] Playing for Burnsville High School (West Virginia) against Widen High School, Heater made 53 of 70 field goals and 29 of 41 free throws.^[16] His 135-point outburst is still the highest total for the high school level worldwide.^[16]

At the college level, there have been seven 100-point games, two of which were recorded by Clarence "Bevo" Francis of Rio Grande College and two by Jack Taylor of Grinnell College.^{[17][18][19][20]} Francis scored 116 points against Ashland College on January 9, 1953, but the opponent was not a four-year institution, so the total did not count as the official college record.^[17] One year later, on February 2, 1954, Francis scored 113 against Hillsdale College, which was the recognized highest total in United States college basketball history for 59 years; Grinnell's Taylor scored 138 points on November 20, 2012 to set the new all-time NCAA all-divisions mark.^[17][18][21] He again recorded 100+ points on November 17, 2013 when he scored 109 against Crossroads College.^[20] Frank Selvy of Furman University is the only player to score 100 points at the Division I level.^[22][23] Selvy recorded exactly 100 points on February 13, 1954—less than two weeks after Francis scored 113—against Newberry College.^[22] He scored his 99th and 100th points on a 40-foot shot as the final buzzer sounded.^[23]

Professionally, there have been a number of occurrences of 100-point games worldwide. It has only happened once in the United States, however. Wilt Chamberlain of the National Basketball Association's Philadelphia Warriors scored 100 points on March 2, 1962 against the New York Knicks during a game played at Hersheypark Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania.^[24] He made 36-of-63 field goals and 28-of-32 free throws, the latter being a particularly unusual statistic considering Chamberlain was a 51.1% free throw shooter for his career.^[25]

Key

Most of the players' exact statistics cannot be found, but whatever information was able to be verified is included. When a dash (—) appears in the three-point field goal statistic, it indicates that three-pointers had yet to be implemented and were therefore not an applicable statistic.

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Points	Nationality	Player	Date	Team	Opponent	Final score	FGM	FGA	3FGM	3FGA	FTM	FTA	Notes	Ref.
272	Sweden	Mats Wermelin	February 5, 1974			272–0			—	—			According to Guinness World Records, Wermelin, a 13-year-old boy, scored all 272 points in the shutout win in Stockholm during a regional boys tournament.	[3] [4] [26]
227	Poland	Konrad Migdalski	December 2005	MKS-MOS Pruszków	UKS Czarodzieje z Bielan	326–15							He scored 100 points 3 minutes before end of 2nd quarter. The game was a local U-14 Polish league match.	[27]
178	Croatia	Marin Ferenčević (1)	May 2006	KK Virovitica	ABN Graminea	187–70	67	86	9	14	17	18	He also grabbed 22 rebounds and had 16 steals in the contest. The game was a local U-14 Croatian league match. His scoring by quarter went: 34, 61, 55, 28.	[8]
153	Turkey	Erman Kunter	March 12, 1988	Fenerbahçe	Hilalspor	175–101							Kunter scored 81 points in the first half and 72 in the second half and set the Turkish Basketball League record.	[28] [29]
145	Greece	Aristeidis Moumoglou	July 13, 1972	Iraklis	VAO	172–94			—	—			Scored in a Greek Basket League game.	[30]
144	Yugoslavia	Zdenko Babić	October 10, 1985	KK Zadar	APOEL	192–116							Scored in the first round of the 1985–86 FIBA Korać Cup. It only took 26 minutes (of the 40-minute game) for Babić to score 113 points.[citation needed]	[31][32]
142^	Taiwan	Lin Yi-Huei	October 24, 2023	Taichung City	Kinmen County	164–182			46				Scored in The National Games Tainan City 2023.	[33]
136†	Israel	Anat Draigor	April 5, 2006	Hapoel Mate Yehuda	Elitzur Givat Shmuel	158–41							Draigor's total is recognized by Guinness World Records as the highest single game point total in women's professional basketball history. When she accomplished the feat, she was a 46-year-old mother and playing in an Israel Division III League playoff game. She scored 61 first-half points and 75 second-half points.	[7]
136	Taiwan	Lo Yu-Chun	October 24, 2023	Kinmen County	Taichung City	182–164			42				Scored in The National Games Tainan City 2023.	[33]
134	Poland	Leszek Doliński	December 18, 1993	ATS Koszalin	Gajjal Choszczno								Scored during a III Liga (3rd division) game. Doliński was a former Polish National Team player. Record in Polish senior leagues.	[34]
129	Brazil	Marx Martins Rodrigues Carvalho	September 16, 1984	CR Vasco da Gama	Hebraica Sociedade Cultural Esportiva e Recreativa								Scored in a Rio de Janeiro State Championship game.	[35]
129	Poland	Krzysztof Jakóbczyk	January 22, 2007	AWF Wrocław	WSH Wrocław								During local academic league game.	[36]
126	Philippines	Julian Macoy	September 21, 1958	University of San Carlos	Cebu School of Arts and Trades	152–80							Scored in a Cebu Collegiate Athletic Association (CCAA) game. Macoy played 33 minutes in this game. Macoy's 126-point output remains the all-time highest scoring mark ever for a Filipino player. In addition, Macoy is also the only Filipino player to score 100 points or more on more than one occasion.	[37][38]
124	Great Britain	Paul Ogden	March 9, 1982	St. Alban's School	South Chadderton School	226–82							Scored at the British high school level.	[39]
124†	Brazil	Hortência Marcari‡	1987	Minercal		252–31							The game was played at São Paulo State College, which was the location of a city tournament.	[40] [41]
120	Philippines	Clark Quijano	October 2013	AMA University High School	Grace Christian College	166–85							Set a new Philippine high school record during the Freego Tiong Lian Basketball Association Tournament.	[42]
116	Philippines	Lou Salvador	May 1923	Philippines national team	China national team				—	—			Achieved in the gold medal game at the 1923 Far Eastern Games and still remains the highest single game total in international competition.	[2]
116	United States	Archie Talley	1980	TV Clausen	Trier	132–91							Scored during a game in Germany.	[43] [44]
113	Lebanon	Mohammad Akkari	April 3, 2012	Al Mouttahed Tripoli	Bejje SC	173–141	40	69	32	59	1		This was the first 100-point performance in any official game of any league in a FIBA Asia member country. El Akkari had only been averaging 7.6 points per game until this game.	[45]
112	Philippines	Felix Duhig	1989	Cebu Institute of Technology	Cebu School of Arts and Trades								Scored in a Cebu Amateur Athletic Association (CAAA) game. Duhig made 30 three-point shots in this game.	[38]
112	Yugoslavia	Dražen Petrović*	October 5, 1985	Cibona Zagreb	SMELT Olimpija	158–77	40	60	10	20	22	22