Fayetteville Breaks National Record For Three-Pointers in a Game – 40!

No high school basketball team in history has ever shot the ball like the Fayetteville boys did Tuesday.

The Lions broke the national high school record for 3-pointers in a game as they beat Buckholts 120-25. Every single point for the Lions came via 3-pointers as they hit 40, beating the old national record of 36, which was set by Missouri’s Meadow Heights back in 2006.

This wasn’t a record broken by accident.

Fayetteville head coach Jake Diggs said he thought his team might have a good chance at hitting a lot of threes against Buckholts, which they had already beaten 93-34 back on Jan. 9 when the Lions made 14 threes. So Diggs did some research to find the state record for threes in a game (which was 34, held by Lipan) and just for fun he looked up the national record too.

“We gave ourselves the goal that we were going to try to break it,” Diggs said.

The players were all in to try to get into the record books Tuesday.

“The guys were pumped,” Diggs said.

They didn’t attempt any two-pointers in the game. Instead, every time they got an offensive rebound (of which they grabbed 30 Tuesday) they kicked it out for another 3-point try.

Overall the Lions attempted 98 shots in the game (allthrees), making 40 of them.

Every Lion that played Tuesday hit at least one-three pointer with Kole Schmitt leading the way with 13 shots made.

Mason Fenhaus made 12. Kasen Kocian made 10. Cole Jurecka made two. Jack Schley, Luke Beseda and Dylan Henneke each made one.

The signs were there early that the Lions might be able to break the national record as they made 16 threes in the first quarter, but they didn’t break the record until there were about three minutes left in the game. They made their 40th in the game’s final minute.

Diggs said he’s not even sure many fans knew they were watching history in the making.

“I think they just thought we were shooting a lot of threes,” Diggs said.

And the three-ball is a big part of the Lions game this year as they have built a 23-6 overall record and climbed to a No. 8 spot in the latest state rankings. Diggs credits his players with putting in a lot of extra work on their own to turn themselves into a team that can now call itself national record holders.