ALL THOSE POINTS : Loyola Marymount’s Scoring Records Leave More Than Players Breathless

Loyola Marymount and United States International scored 2 points every 14 1/2 seconds Tuesday night. A shot was taken every 11 seconds. Loyola won, 181-150, and a point was scored for every eight fans at the Lions’ Gersten Pavilion.

Those 2,661 saw one crazy game.

So crazy, in fact, the official scorer wrote “Whew!!” at the bottom of the shot chart. And one of the three officials working the game thanked another for calling a foul just “to get the play stopped” for a minute.

It was the highest-scoring college game, breaking five National Collegiate Athletic Assn. records.

Loyola broke the 100-point barrier on an 8-foot jumper by Enoch Simmons with 56 seconds gone in the second half.

The 331 total points in the game broke the record of 306 that Loyola and U.S. International set Jan. 7 when the Lions beat the Gulls, 162-144.

The game also set records for most points by one team, most points by a losing team, most points by one team in the first half (94 for Loyola) and most points by both teams in the first half (170).

The previous record for most points by one team was 164 in 1976 by Nevada Las Vegas and equaled in Loyola’s season-opener against Azusa Pacific. USIU’s total points and the halftime scores broke marks from the Jan. 7 game.

“Everything happens so rapidly, you really don’t have time to say, ‘Wow, look at that score,’ ” Loyola Coach Paul Westhead said Wednesday. “We just don’t ever think about that.”

Loyola took 119 shots in the game, making 67 for 54.2% from the floor. U.S. International shot 61.1% and took 101 shots, making 63. Loyola was 34 of 45 from the free-throw line; U.S. International 21 of 35.

Loyola made 13 of 34 3-point shots to 3 of 7 for USIU.

The longest stretch between baskets in the game was 59 seconds.