<P> In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through field goals (two or three points) and free throws (one point). 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 achievement may have had different circumstances surrounding it, such as game length, opponent skill level and the league in which it occurred . </P> <P> Internationally, the highest single player total between national teams is 116 points, scored by the Philippines' Luis "Lou" Salvador in May 1923 against China . It happened during the 1923 Far Eastern Games . 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 . He recorded every single point in his team's 272--0 win on February 5, 1974, during a regional boys' tournament held in Stockholm . The highest total by a female basketball player worldwide is 136, scored by Anat Draigor of Israel . It happened on April 5, 2006, in a 158--41 win . 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 . 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 . </P> <P> 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 . In high school, there have been 24 verified occurrences, 19 by male players and 5 by female players . The first recorded instance was in 1913, when Herman Saygar of Culver High School (Indiana) scored 113 points against Winamac High School . 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 . That season, Long's senior year of 1967--68, she averaged a still - standing national record 68.2 points per game . 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 . The boys' high school record is 135 points, scored by Danny Heater on January 26, 1960 . Playing for Burnsville High School (West Virginia) against Widen High School, Heater made 53 of 70 field goals and 29 of 41 free throws . His 135 - point outburst is still the highest total for the high school level worldwide . </P> <P> At the college level, there have been six 100 - point games, two of which were recorded by Clarence "Bevo" Francis of Rio Grande College and two by Jack Taylor of Grinnell College . 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 . One year later, on February 2, 1954, Francis scored 113 against Hillsdale College, which had been 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 . He again recorded 100 + points on November 17, 2013 when he scored 109 against Crossroads College . Frank Selvy of Furman University is the only player to score 100 points at the Division I level . Selvy recorded exactly 100 points on February 13, 1954--less than two weeks after Francis scored 113--against Newberry College . He scored his 99th and 100th points on a 40 - foot shot as the final buzzer sounded . </P>

Most points in a high school basketball career