Kobe who?
New York City girls hoops star Epiphanny Prince scored 113 points Wednesday in a game for her Murry Bergtraum High School team — making Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game look like child’s play.
“I guess this is just once in a lifetime,” said Prince, 17, of Brooklyn, whose team is ranked No. 2 in the nation by USA Today. The 5-foot-10 senior hit an incredible 54 out of 60 shots in leading her team to a 137-32 rout of Louis Brandeis High School.
It was only after the final whistle blew that Prince found out she had shattered the girls high school record set by the legendary Cheryl Miller, who went off for 105 in a 1982 contest.
Two-time WNBA MVP Lisa Leslie scored 101 points in a half for Morningside High School in Inglewood, Calif., against South Torrance in 1990. South Torrance refused to play the second half.
“When I found out I broke the record, I just started smiling,” Prince said. “I couldn’t stop smiling.”
The triple-digit display came an hour after Prince told her coach she was getting bored of playing against much weaker competition.
Coach Ed Grezinsky challenged her to play her best game every time she steps on the court — and she took the advice to heart.
“We didn’t plan this,” Grezinsky said. “She just scored like crazy.”
Prince, who plans to play for Rutgers next season, started the game strong, scoring 38 in the first quarter. By halftime, she had 58 points, topping her previous complete-game career high of 51. She had 25 points in the third quarter and closed with 30 in the final quarter.
She scored only one point from the free-throw line and hit just four three-pointers as she knifed through the defense at will to score layup after layup.
“It was efficient,” Prince told the Associated Press. “It wasn’t like I missed a whole bunch of shots. That’s what made it even better.”
The boys’ high school record is 135 points set by Danny Heater of Burnsville High School in West Virginia in 1960, according to the National Federation of State High School Association’s Web site.