March Madness top scorers: Who has scored the most points in the NCAA tournament?
All it takes is one March Madness game for a player to stamp their name into NCAA tournament lore forever. Does this year’s tourney have an Ali Farokhmanesh or a Harold Arceneaux in its midst? How about a Bryce Drew or even, dare we say … a Stephen Curry ?
All it takes is one freak performance or a buzzer-beater to become a college basketball legend. Kentucky’s Otega Oweh made sure he never has to buy himself a drink in Lexington again with a buzzer-beating heave in a thrilling Wildcats win over Santa Clara in the first round of the tournament on Friday. And that 3-pointer only accounted for three of his 35 points in the game.
On the women’s side, there haven’t been too many upsets but the stars are showing out with some monster performances. Olivia Miles cobbled together an all-time stat line on Friday with 12 points, 14 assists and 16 rebounds in TCU’s opening-round win. She’s the third player to record multiple triple-doubles in the NCAA tourney, alongside Oregon’s Sabrina Ionescu and Stanford’s Nicole Powell.
Who has the most points in a single game in this year’s NCAA tournaments? Men’s tournament top scorers Otega Oweh, Kentucky: 35 points As mentioned above, Oweh Oweh hit one of the best NCAA tournament buzzer-beaters you’ll see to force overtime in the No. 7 Wildcats’ 89-84 win over No.
10 Santa Clara . The senior guard had eight rebounds and seven assists on top of it. AJ Dybantsa, BYU: 35 points The star BYU freshman looked every bit like a player who could be taken No.