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Zarria Carter's 37-Point Double-Double Tops This Week's Video Game Numbers

Zarria Carter's 37-Point Double-Double Tops This Week's Video Game Numbers

Wingate's Kendall Taylor and Midwestern State's Zarria Carter top this week's list of top college basketball stats from across the NCAA's three divisions.

Jan 16, 2025 by Briar Napier
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The midseason stretch is fully locked into college basketball now, but the wild statistical performances aren’t stopping anytime soon.

Welcome to another edition of Video Game Numbers, where FloCollege recaps some of the biggest weeks from the biggest stars in the NCAA’s three divisions. This week features the first full week of games from the new year, and between NBA Draft prospects and 50-point outbursts, it’s a good list.

Here’s a look back at college basketball’s Video Game Numbers from the week that was across the NCAA landscape:

NOTE: Stats are for the week from Jan. 5-11

Men's College Basketball Stats

Division I: Cooper Flagg, F, Duke

Of all the greats who have played across the decades in the Atlantic Coast Conference, no freshman in league history has ever scored more points in a single game than Flagg — now on Video Game Numbers for the second time this season already — did last Saturday in the Blue Devils’ victory over Notre Dame.

Flagg, the national player of the year candidate and searing-hot, big-time NBA Draft prospect from Maine, had his magnum opus to date thus far in a Duke uniform against the Fighting Irish, in which the Blue Devils ended up winning 86-78 inside Cameron Indoor Stadium.

Flagg’s record-setting 42-point night on 11-for-14 shooting (including 4 of 6 from 3-point range and a 16 for 17 clip from the free throw line) was nothing short of magical, and on top of seven assists and six rebounds to go with it, it instantly became one of the best single-game outings in all of college basketball this year. 

Meanwhile, his 19-point, 10-rebound double-double in his other qualifying game for this past week (another Duke win at home against Pitt last Tuesday) was merely the cherry on top for a player who is likely bound for All-America honors and much, much more as his draft stock climbs almost endlessly.

Division II: Kendall Taylor, G, Wingate

Sometimes, when you’ve done all that you can do, you do what you can.

That was the situation Taylor found himself in last Saturday against Mars Hill, when despite his best efforts to help get the Bulldogs over the line in a big South Atlantic Conference game, Wingate narrowly lost on the road by a 92-85 scoreline.

Taylor had a 39-point outburst against the Lions that night, bringing down seven boards and dealing out five assists with it as he hit the 30-point threshold for the third time this season. It also doubled as a good bounce-back game for Taylor following just 12 points earlier in the week on Wednesday against Catawba, which ironically ended up being a Wingate win.

Regardless, Taylor is the SAC’s second-leading scorer at 21.2 points per game (as of Tuesday afternoon) and has a chance to take that crown away from Carson-Newman’s Jack Browder when Wingate travels to face the Eagles on Saturday live and exclusively on FloCollege in a showdown of high-level, electric scorers.

Division III: Justin Allen, G, Carnegie Mellon

A 50-piece is rare in college basketball, but when one happens, it creates a clear buzz — as if it wasn’t clear already why Allen is on this week’s edition of Video Game Numbers and occupying the D-III men’s part of the list.

Already the division’s second-leading scorer at 27.3 points per game, Allen shattered his average in the Tartans’ 101-92 overtime win over Dickinson last Monday by breaking both the school record for points in a game with his 50-bomb and for 3-pointers made with nine, blisteringly going 9 for 13 from deep (and 17 for 30 from the field as a whole) for the game. He additionally was a perfect 7 for 7 from the foul line, combining it all to hit the 20-point mark for the ninth time this season and the 30-point mark for the fourth time this season, as well.

Allen came back down to Earth in Carnegie Mellon’s following game last Saturday at Case Western Reserve, scoring 19 points in a Tartans defeat, but it didn’t matter as he now has something that no one is ever going to be able to take away from him thanks to his performance last Monday.

Women's College Basketball Stats

Division I: Katie Dinnebier, G, Drake

Potentially the best women’s college player right now that you’ve never heard of, the reigning Missouri Valley Conference Player of the Year looks well on her way to winning it in consecutive years as long as she keeps stuffing the stat sheet like she’s been doing recently.

Simultaneously a 20 points-per-game scorer (20.5 as of Tuesday afternoon) and one of the nation’s leaders in assists per game (7.5, second nationally), Dinnebier is a motor on offense for the Bulldogs who can dish, score, and overall dictate the pace of play, unlike few other point guards in college basketball.

Dinnebier helped extend Drake’s winning streak to nine games this week with a pair of MVC victories on the road against Bradley and Illinois State on Friday and Sunday, respectively. A 31-point performance against Valparaiso on Jan. 4 falls just outside the qualifying period for Video Game Numbers this week, but that doesn’t mean that Dinnebier didn’t have other games to help pick up the slack, either.

Against Bradley, Dinnebier put up one of the best all-around games that you’ll likely see in college hoops this year by scoring 26 points, swiping away eight steals, dealing out seven assists, and pulling down five rebounds in the Bulldogs’ four-point win to set a new career-best in steals while also crossing the 1,600-point barrier for her career, too.

Two nights later at Illinois State, Drake won by a more comfortable 85-64 margin in Normal as Dinnebier picked up a points-assist double-double for the fourth time this season, scoring 18 and dishing out 12 assists with six rebounds to boot. The Bulldogs are red-hot at the moment, and Dinnebier has been the ringleader behind the team’s midseason surge.


Division II: Zarria Carter, F, Midwestern State

Carter had a loaded three-game slate this week for the Mustangs in Lone Star Conference play, and her play only got better and better as the week went along.

The senior from Mansfield, Texas, began the week last Sunday with a 19-point, six-rebound, six-steal performance in a loss at Eastern New Mexico — a great game, no doubt, but not the sole reason why Carter makes this week’s edition of Video Game Numbers, either.

Back in Wichita Falls on Thursday against Western New Mexico, meanwhile, Carter’s stats only got even more eye-popping in the Mustangs’ dominant 82-44 win, in which she was spectacular with 26 points on 10-for-12 shooting to go along with 14 rebounds in the blowout win.

Then, Carter saved her best performance of the week for last.

In MSU’s week-closing rout over Sul Ross State (80-60), Carter was absolutely unstoppable by posting a ridiculous 37-point, 16-rebound double-double on 14-for-17 shooting to lead the Mustangs to a big victory. She shot over 80% from the field in back-to-back games and picked up her ninth and 10th double-doubles of the season in the process, too, safely earning her the D-II women’s slot on Video Game Numbers for this week.

Division III: Heaven Figueroa, G, Lehman

Averaging 40 points per game over two games played this past week is a great way to get yourself some kudos on Video Game Numbers.

Figueroa, the second-leading scorer in all of D-III (as of Tuesday afternoon) at 27.4 points per game, has been lighting it up for the Lightning all throughout the season, and if there’s one player in all of college basketball worth watching to potentially put up a next-to-impossible quadruple-double this season, it’s her.

City College of New York was the first team to feel Figueroa’s wrath this past week on Wednesday as she put up 39 points with nine rebounds and seven steals, flirting with the rare points-rebounds-steals triple-double in the process as Lehman won. 

Then, two nights later against Brooklyn College, Figueroa decided to outdo herself.

The grad student from Brooklyn dropped a season-high 41 points in another Lightning victory, pairing it with a season-high 15 rebounds to boot plus seven assists and six steals, if that wasn’t enough already. She also got to the free throw line effectively, shooting 13 for 15 from the charity stripe, and led Lehman to its first win over Brooklyn in eight years with a game for the ages.

D2CSC Division II Women's Basketball Poll

As of Jan. 14

1. Grand Valley State (14) – 16-1

2. Texas Woman’s – 15-1

3. Cal State-Dominguez Hills (1) – 14-0

4. Bentley – 15-1

5. Seton Hill – 15-1

6. North Georgia – 13-0

7. Embry-Riddle – 13-1

8. Minnesota State-Mankato – 15-2

9. Montana State Billings – 16-2

10. Texas Tyler – 13-2

11. Pittsburg State – 14-2

12. Ashland – 14-3

13. Fort Hays State – 13-1

14. Azusa Pacific – 14-1

15. Union – 14-2

16. Lubbock Christian – 14-3

17. Gannon – 15-3

18. Nova Southeastern – 13-2

19T. Holy Family - 12-3

19T. Coker - 13-1

21. Concordia - 14-2

22. Indiana (Pa.) -  12-2 

23. Southern Connecticut State - 13-2

24. Lewis - 12-1

25. Belmont Abbey - 12-2

Dropped Out: Carson-Newman (16), Northern Michigan (24), Tampa (25)

Others Receiving Votes: Cal Poly-Pomona – 27, Colorado State-Pueblo – 6, Northern Michigan – 6, Southwest Minnesota State – 3, Alaska-Anchorage – 1, Alabama-Huntsville – 1.

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