Moving from the world of champion dogs, I segue over to college basketball and give you my brother Tom's story in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch about his coverage of the highest scoring game in Division I basketball by one team and the lowest scoring in Division I basketball by one team since the advent of the shot clock.

History often happens on lonely nights. Sports fans may tune in by the millions to watch a Super Bowl or a World Series, but some of the more amazing events in sports are played out in front of small crowds in out-of-the-way places.

When Loyola Marymount played U.S. International on Jan. 5, 1991, just 1,092 people turned out at Gersten Pavilion in the Westchester area of Los Angeles. Loyola Marymount, just one year removed from a spot in the NCAA regional finals, went out that night and beat USIU 186-140. It remains the most points scored by one team in an NCAA Division I basketball game. Also in that game, Kevin Bradshaw of USIU scored 72 points, the NCAA record for points against a Division I opponent.

Fast forward 17 years to Jan. 10, 2008, when St. Louis University played George Washington in the Smith Center in the Foggy Bottom section of Washington. There were 3,213 people on hand as SLU lost 49-20 and set a record for the fewest points in a game since the shot clock was put into use in 1985-86.

And if there were a cosmic Venn diagram of those games, two circles overlapping to show some commonality between the two most divergent games in NCAA history, that one spot in the middle would be me.

My part in this was helping to track down the boxscore of the USIU-LMU game. I could only find a full one in the San Diego Union and it wasn't perfect.

Name	FG made	FG att	FT att	FT made	3-pt made	3-pt att	Total
I. Brown	10	19	0	5	0	0	20
M. Brown	1	5	0	1	1	1	3
Obekea	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Bradshaw	23	59	19	23	7	22	72
Polinsky	5	15	0	0	1	3	11
Tuite	5	11	1	1	4	8	15
Davis	0	1	1	2	0	0	1
Bonner	1	2	0	0	0	0	2
Banks	3	6	1	2	1	2	8
Iztlein	0	1	0	0	0	0	0
Sterner	3	4	2	4	0	0	8
Total USIU	51	124	24	38	14	36	140
Petruska	13	20	2	3	0	0	28
Knight	9	11	9	9	0	0	27
Scott	2	6	0	0	0	0	4
Holt	4	10	0	0	3	5	11
Lowery	11	26	10	10	2	8	34
Walker	2	5	6	8	0	0	10
O'Connell	3	6	5	6	0	0	11
Harris	11	15	2	2	0	0	24
Richardson	8	11	0	0	8	11	24
Slater	3	5	7	9	0	0	13
Total LMU	66	115	41	47	13	24	186

The stats for Terrell Lowery weren't complete and I had to estimate his totals from other sources, such as the number of rebounds in the game. Each team was credited with 63, although I don't know if that included dead ball rebounds. Lowery had 16 assists in the game also.

Here is a link to the SLU-GW boxscore from earlier this year.

UPDATE - SLU and GW matched up again tonight in St. Louis. The Billikens won it, 63-38. Judging from the boxscore, the game was even duller than the score would indicated.

Lowery's figures have been fixed.