Joe DiMaggio, Cal Ripken Jr. and Troy basketball all have one thing in common: they all possess records that will likely never be broken.
DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak and Ripken’s 2,632 MLB games played are widely famous, but less famous – but just as insane – is what the Trojans did on the basketball court 25 years ago today.
On Jan. 12, 1992, Division II Troy (then Troy State) scored a whopping 258 points in a basketball game to beat DeVry Institute of Technology by 117 points – 258-141 .
The mark still stands as the NCAA’s best, and in the thousands of basketball games played on three levels since then, the closest any team has come is 201 points from DIII Lincoln (Penn.