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College basketball isn’t exactly a paragon of parity, and there is no shortage of lopsided games between teams that boast a massive talent gap. That was the case with an NAIA matchup that unfolded on Tuesday night and ended with Indiana’s Grace College breaking a scoring record that was set a couple of years ago.
It’s been close to two weeks since the 2025-26 college basketball season got underway, and we’ve already been treated to plenty of blowouts courtesy of the many teams that opt to ease into the year with games against inferior opponents who tend to be heavily compensated in exchange for being used as a punching bag.
Those contests don’t always go according to plan—Boise State suffered a shocking upset at the hands of Hawaii Pacific, the DII school that handed the Broncos a 79-78 loss in their season opener—but they have the potential to produce some wild margins of victory; the men’s team at Jacksonville State recently earned a 75-point win over Reinhardtt, while LSU’s women tied a school record by beating Southeastern Louisiana by 89 points.
In 2024, the women’s basketball team at Grambling State set a record by beating Houston’s College of Biblical Studies by 141 points in a contest where it also set a new mark for the most points scored in a women’s game. However, there’s a new one to beat courtesy of a tiny program in Indiana.
Grace College set a record for the most points scored in a women’s basketball game with a 172-91 rout of Ohio Christian
On January 12, 1992, the men’s basketball team at Troy set a record for the most points scored in a single game by any collegiate squad with a 258-141 win over DeVry (the Trojans harnessed a feverishly high-paced offensive strategy that revolved around chunking up three-pointers as quickly and often as possible).
The women’s team at Grambling State didn’t come close to reaching that number during their showdown with the College of Biblical Studies on January 2, 2024, but they set a record on the women’s side with a 159-18 win that also represented the biggest margin of victory in Division I history at 141 points (surpassing the cushion of 129 that Savannah State had over Wesleyan in 2018).
However, that first record has now fallen courtesy of the women at Grace College, an NAIA program at a Christian school in Winona Lake, Indiana. The Lady Lancers headed into Tuesday night’s showdown with Ohio Christian hoping to score at least 100 points for the third game in a row, and they extended their winning streak to the same length with a record-setting 172-91 victory.
The record breaking point for @gracecollegewbb! The most points scored in a single game at any collegiate level!!#LancerUp #SCTop10@SportsCenter @espn @ESPNAssignDesk pic.twitter.com/GfF7n40k0X
— Grace Athletics (@GraceLancers) November 12, 2025
The team may have “only” won by 81 points, but they have earned the right to brag about scoring more points than any other women’s team in college basketball history in a contest where Maddy Poynter had a game-high 34 points while seven of her teammates ended up in double digits.
Not too shabby.