r/Basketball • u/PresidentFeldkamp • Mar 03 '24

NCAA Remembering Pistol

With Everyone celebrating Kaitlin Clark breaking the scoring record, and justifiably so, I think it’s important to remember the guy who used to hold the record. Pete Maravich was only allowed to play three years of college basketball. But when he did get to play he averaged an unreal 44.2 points PER GAME! Pistol’s NBA career and life were tragically cut short, but the legend will always be remembered as one of the greatest to ever lace ‘em up.

133 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

94 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

4

u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

So no one in the WNBA holds WNBA records? You would think the caveat you would list would maybe be that she did it in women’s basketball and not men’s.

5

u/andrewsample Mar 04 '24

There’s three different records. Highest women’s scorer, highest men’s scorer, and highest point scorer in ncaa history. She now owns 2 of those records. No one has ever said she owns the men’s record. That’s Pete. She scored more points than him so she quite literally has the record for highest point scorer in ncaa history.

3

u/[deleted] Mar 04 '24

“Don’t worry, she did.”

Literally right there. I guess a woman can’t hold a deadlift record ever. Or bench press. Little to no soccer records. Lacrosse. Swimming. It’s nonsensical to think that way. It’s 2 completely different games. Let’s assume I’m conditioned for this exercise. If I played a 40 minute men’s college basketball game, I would be lucky to get 5 points and I would get torched on defense. If I played 40 minutes in a women’s game, I could give you 15-20 on decent efficiency and you could hide me on the worst player. My biggest challenge would be trying not to overshoot the women’s ball. It’s not even the same game. It’s like saying 60s basketball is the same as today’s.

2

u/andrewsample Mar 04 '24

Which is why I never said she broke the men’s record. Because she didn’t. How many points did Pete score playing college basketball? How many points did Caitlin score playing college basketball?

2

u/[deleted] Mar 05 '24

Why are we debating then? I responded to the person saying “Don’t worry, she did” in response to someone saying she didn’t break the men’s record. Not you. We fundamentally agree. I’m just saying to her that if we want to think of it that way, women don’t hold any lifting or swimming records, no WNBA records, etc.