138 points: Grinnell College Guard, Jack Taylor Shatters Scoring Record, 'If You Don't Believe Me, You Don't Know Jack!"

By Mereb Gebremariam, Mstars Reporter | Nov 21, 2012 11:09 AM EST

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Jack Taylor shot 138- points during a college basketball game against Faith Baptist Bible Tuesday. The guard shattered NCAA's record and lead his team to a 179-104 game win. Basketball stars like New York Knicks, Carmelo Anthony and OKC's, Kevin Durant expressed their amazement at the young college athlete. 

Anthony said, "I never heard of nothing like that. That's like a video game," Anthony said. "How can you shoot 100 times, though?" He added, "that someone shot it 108 times."

Durant was amazed at the leading scorer as well tweeting, "Jack Taylor you deserve a shot of Jack Daniels after that performance lol...wow." 

Marking his territory in the books, Taylor had broken Bevo Francis of Rio Grande scoring record with 113 points  in 1954, which was short of his own record in 1953 with 116. Taylor said, "There was a point during the second half where I hit a number of threes in a row -- maybe seven or eight -- I felt like anything I threw up was going in," he said. "I've been in the zone before but I've never taken so many shots."

Before the game, Taylor and his teammates had a pregame prayer, which he read a bible verse from Matthew 25 with the team, which was a sophomore first, "I gotta thank the man upstairs," Taylor said. "I was able to multiply my talents tonight."

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