most points in a high school basketball career
List of basketball players who have scored 100 points in a single game 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.[7][3] In high school, there have been 24 verified occurrences, 19 by male players and 5 by female players.[8][9] The first recorded instance was in 1913, when Herman Saygar of Culver High School (Indiana) scored 113 points against Winamac High School.[9] 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.[10][11][12] That season, Long's senior year of 1967–68, she averaged a still-standing national record 68.2 points per game.[12] 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.[13] The boys' high school record is 135 points, scored by Danny Heater on January 26, 1960.[14] Playing for Burnsville High School (West Virginia) against Widen High School, Heater made 53 of 70 field goals and 29 of 41 free throws.[14] His 135-point outburst is still the highest total for the high school level worldwide.[14]