NCAA's greatest hits: Austin Carr's record 61 points in 1970
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March 29, 2020
Austin Carr played for Notre Dame in an era when prolific scorers dominated college basketball.
LSU's Pete Maravich was scoring 40 a night and still No. 1 on the points list. Niagara's Calvin Murphy, Purdue's Rick Mount and St. Bonaventure's Bob Lanier, along with Carr, were others putting up eye-popping numbers.
It wasn't until Carr scored a still-standing NCAA Tournament-record 61 points against Ohio in the first round in 1970 that, in his mind, he started to separate himself.
"At the time it gave me a different status in the basketball world," he told The Associated Press this week. "It gav...
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