Who is the all time leading NCAA Division One basketball scorer?

It may or may not be hard to believe. Peter "Pistol Pete" Maravich, who averaged 44.2 points per game over three seasons for Louisiana State, holds the NCAA Division One scoring record with 3,667 points. This fact is even more significant when you noted that three players—Pete Maravich, Oscar Robertson and Elvin Hayes—only had three seasons to compile their totals.

Maravich who was born June 22, 1947, in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania lived for 40 years. He died on January 5, 1988 of heart failure in Pasadena, California.

During his life as a player, he was a spectacular showman who helped open up the game in the 1970s. After a legendary college career at LSU, he played 10 productive seasons in the NBA, earning 5 trips to the NBA All-Star Game and one league scoring title. With the NBA New Orleans Jazz, a reporter called him "an American phenomenon, a stepchild of the human imagination." Simply, Maravich seemed to be misplaced: an individualist in a team environment; a perfectionist but not a purist; a white man in a group with 75% black; the people's choice who felt that the people were against him.

It started in college. He holds nearly every major NCAA scoring record. They include: most career points (3,667), highest career scoring average (44.2 ppg), most field goals made (1,387) and attempted (3,166), and most career 50-point games (28). Pete accomplished all this without the benefit of the 3-point basket. It wasn't introduced into college until the 1986-87 season.