Pete Maravich averaged 44.2 points a game during his 4 year college career. According to Dale Brown, his coach at LSU, who conducted research to adjust his points total if the 3 point shot had been around he would have averaged 13 three pointers per game. That would have made his career average 57 points per game.
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44.2 ppg by Pete Maravich for three seasons at LSU (1966-70). If the three-point line had existed during his time there, he would have averaged around 57 points per game.
Pete Maravich scored more points in his college career than any other NCAA Division 1 player. While playing at LSU "Pistol Pete" Maravich scored an amazing 3667 points and averaged 44.2 points per game. What makes this record even more amazing is that it was accomplished before the three point line was established. He also had to accomplish this amazing feat in three years because at that time, the NCAA did not allow freshman to compete on the varsity team in college basketball.
"Pistol" Pete Maravich scored 3,667 career points for LSU. He ended his college career in 1970. In that era, freshman were not allowed to play on the varsity team, so Pete achieved his scoring total in only 3 college seasons. He averaged around 44 points a game each season for 3 years. And there was no 3 point line back then.
Pete Maravich (aka 'Pistol Pete') of LSU still holds the record for All-Time Leading Scorer in NCAA Division I Men's Basketball! What you might also want to know is that he set this record in only THREE seasons, not FOUR. His record still holds at 3,667 points. His closest competitor was Freeman Williams of Portland State, who still fell short by 418 points after FOUR Seasons of play.
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In only three years playing for his father Press Maravich at LSU, Maravich scored 3,667 points - 1,138 points in 1968, 1,148 points in 1969 and 1,381 points in 1970 while averaging 43.8, 44.2 and 44.5 points per game. In the process, "Pistol Pete" set 11 NCAA and 34 Southeastern Conference records, as well as every LSU record in points scored, scoring average, field goals attempted and made, and free throws attempted and made, and assists. In his collegiate career, the 6' 5" (1.96 m) guard averaged an incredible 44.2 points per game in 83 contests and led the NCAA in scoring three times. He also set an NCAA record by scoring more than 50 points 28 times. He was named a three-time All-American and still holds many of these records, more than 35 years later. Notably, his 3,667 points don't factor in the 741 he scored his freshman year, or the fact that they played without a three-point line.
Rick Mount 2323 points. There was no three point line and freshman were not allowed to play varsity. His freshman year he averaged 45 points a game in the JV league
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The boys averaged 14 points each.
Wilt Chamberlain had an NBA high 50.4 PPG (points per game) in the 1961-62 season, while playing with the Philadelphia Warriors.
Obviously its two points for the returning team.
50.4 is not the correct answer. I don't know the correct one, but 50.4 is what he averaged in points his SECOND season in the NBA. First season average was 37.6.