SEATTLE -- For the final regular season game of her collegiate career, University of Washington senior Kelsey Plum poured in a Pac-12 record 57 points to pass Jackie Stiles and become the all-time leading scorer in women's college basketball history with 3,397 career points.
"You don't do something like this by yourself and I hopefully make that very clear," Plum said. "This is an individual record but it's broken by a village of people. It's broken by every teammate that I've ever played for, every trainer, doctor, my parents, my sisters my brother, it's this university, it's the support I've been given. I'm very grateful, but it's not something I take on myself because it's not broken by just me."
Plum's 57 points ranks fifth in the NCAA for most points in a game as she surpassed Stiles who scored 56 during a game in 2000. She fell three points shy of the NCAA single-game scoring record.
Plum tied Stiles' mark with a hesitation drive and lay-in at the 4:57 mark of the fourth quarter. After a Utah basket and a timeout, Plum hit a runner from just outside the lane with 4:06 remaining to move past Stiles on the all-time list.
Stiles now sits in second with 3,394 points, trailed by Brittney Griner's 3,283. Plum has scored the second-most points in NCAA Division I history, men's or women's, trailing Pete Maravich.
Plum, who leads the nation in scoring at 31.6 points per game, is shooting 53.7 from the field, 43.6 from three-point range and 88.7 from the foul line. She has a chance to finish her illustrious senior season as the only player, male or female, in the history of the NCAA to finish a season as the game's leading scorer and a member of the 50-40-90 club.
In today's game, Plum also broke Washington's single-season scoring record, a record in which she set as a junior. She now has 979 points in her senior year, surpassing the record of 960. Plum scored 712 points her freshman season, 746 her sophomore year and 960 last season.
Plum has drained an NCAA-leading 103 three-pointers this year which is 22 more than her previous season-best of 81 her freshman year. She hit 69 as a sophomore and 78 from beyond the arc as a junior.
