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<no><h1>Utah Valley's Toolson thrust into spotlight</h1></no>
Steve Megargee
Rivals.com College Basketball Staff Writer
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Less than 18 hours after Utah Valley senior guard Ryan Toolson
had finished playing the craziest game of his life, the number of
messages piling up on his phone hadn't quite matched his point total
from the previous night.
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</td></tr><tr><td align="center">Ryan Toolson lead the way shooting 18-of-31 from the field and hitting 20-of-21 from the free-throw line.</font></td></tr></t></table>But it was getting close.
"I've got about 50 text messages and voice mails at least," Toolson
said after scoring 63 points</span> Thursday night in his team's 123-121
quadruple-overtime victory over Chicago State. "There are phone calls
from family and friends. People I hadn't heard from in two or three
years started calling me. This girl from [my] high school [in Gilbert,
Ariz.] who doesn't listen to sports at all somehow found my number and
texted me.''
Toolson, the nephew of Boston Celtics executive director of basketball
operations and general manager Danny Ainge, went 18-of-31 from the
field and 20-of-21 from the free-throw line. Toolson's 63-point</span>
performance represented the highest single-game individual scoring
total of any NCAA Division I player this season, but his exploits only
told half the story. Chicago State lost on a night when two of its
players broke the 40-point mark.
Chicago State's David Holston,
who opened the week as the nation's fourth-leading scorer with 25.7
points per game, added to that total Thursday by scoring 41 points. John Cantrell added 40 points for the Cougars.
The high-scoring contest sure represented a contrast in styles from
Utah Valley's last game - a 55-39 victory over Savannah State. Toolson
had gone 1-for-10 from the field in that game.
"It was really the most back-and-forth game I've played in my life,''
said Toolson, who is 6 feet 4 and also had 12 rebounds and six assists
during his amazing night. "We were up 11 with about two minutes to go
in the game, and Chicago State came back with some tough shots and
full-court press to tie the game up. In each overtime, each team had
its chances. We thought they would win and then we'd hit a tough shot.
Then we'd think we would win and they would hit a tough shot."
Gary Johnson, the NCAA's associate director of statistics, said the
Chicago State players were at least the fourth pair of teammates in
history to score 40 each. The most recent occurrence came March 4,
1991, when Missouri-Kansas City's Ronnie Schmitz scored 51 and Tony
Dumas 40 in a win over U.S. International.
The NCAA didn't have any records to indicate whether three players had
ever scored at least 40 points in a game before. Even if this did
represent the first time it had happened, it wouldn't officially count
in the NCAA Division I records because Utah Valley still is making the
transition from the junior college ranks to the Division I level.
That also explains why Toolson isn't included among the NCAA's official
rankings of the Division I scoring leaders, even though his average of
24.6 points per game would have placed him sixth on the list.
Toolson isn't about to complain, not after he just created a memory that will last longer than any line in a record book.
"I'm so excited," Toolson said. "I really think this game is a
once-in-a-lifetime thing. I don't think I'll ever score 63 again in
anything."
Toolson's history suggests otherwise. He also scored 63 points</span> in an all-star game during his high school career.
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<no><h1>Utah Valley's Toolson thrust into spotlight</h1></no>
Steve Megargee
Rivals.com College Basketball Staff Writer
document.write("<div id="contentcontainer" style="">");
Less than 18 hours after Utah Valley senior guard Ryan Toolson
had finished playing the craziest game of his life, the number of
messages piling up on his phone hadn't quite matched his point total
from the previous night.
Ryan Toolson lead the way shooting 18-of-31 from the field and hitting 20-of-21 from the free-throw line.', ';<t></t><t></t><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="258"><t><tr><td width="252">
"I've got about 50 text messages and voice mails at least," Toolson
said after scoring 63 points</span> Thursday night in his team's 123-121
quadruple-overtime victory over Chicago State. "There are phone calls
from family and friends. People I hadn't heard from in two or three
years started calling me. This girl from [my] high school [in Gilbert,
Ariz.] who doesn't listen to sports at all somehow found my number and
texted me.''
Toolson, the nephew of Boston Celtics executive director of basketball
operations and general manager Danny Ainge, went 18-of-31 from the
field and 20-of-21 from the free-throw line. Toolson's 63-point</span>
performance represented the highest single-game individual scoring
total of any NCAA Division I player this season, but his exploits only
told half the story. Chicago State lost on a night when two of its
players broke the 40-point mark.
Chicago State's David Holston,
who opened the week as the nation's fourth-leading scorer with 25.7
points per game, added to that total Thursday by scoring 41 points. John Cantrell added 40 points for the Cougars.
The high-scoring contest sure represented a contrast in styles from
Utah Valley's last game - a 55-39 victory over Savannah State. Toolson
had gone 1-for-10 from the field in that game.
"It was really the most back-and-forth game I've played in my life,''
said Toolson, who is 6 feet 4 and also had 12 rebounds and six assists
during his amazing night. "We were up 11 with about two minutes to go
in the game, and Chicago State came back with some tough shots and
full-court press to tie the game up. In each overtime, each team had
its chances. We thought they would win and then we'd hit a tough shot.
Then we'd think we would win and they would hit a tough shot."
Gary Johnson, the NCAA's associate director of statistics, said the
Chicago State players were at least the fourth pair of teammates in
history to score 40 each. The most recent occurrence came March 4,
1991, when Missouri-Kansas City's Ronnie Schmitz scored 51 and Tony
Dumas 40 in a win over U.S. International.
The NCAA didn't have any records to indicate whether three players had
ever scored at least 40 points in a game before. Even if this did
represent the first time it had happened, it wouldn't officially count
in the NCAA Division I records because Utah Valley still is making the
transition from the junior college ranks to the Division I level.
That also explains why Toolson isn't included among the NCAA's official
rankings of the Division I scoring leaders, even though his average of
24.6 points per game would have placed him sixth on the list.
Toolson isn't about to complain, not after he just created a memory that will last longer than any line in a record book.
"I'm so excited," Toolson said. "I really think this game is a
once-in-a-lifetime thing. I don't think I'll ever score 63 again in
anything."
Toolson's history suggests otherwise. He also scored 63 points</span> in an all-star game during his high school career.
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