Going for the record: Grinnell College's Jack Taylor during Tuesday night's game, in which he scored 138 points.

Sophomore guard Jack Taylor of Iowa's Grinnell College shot and shot and shot some more. He smashed the old individual NCAA record, set in 1954, of 113 points. "I am very exhausted," he said afterward.

We are not making this up:

Sophomore guard Jack Taylor of Iowa's Grinnell College scored 138 points Tuesday night, an NCAA record, during his team's 179-104 victory over Faith Baptist Bible College.

"I am very exhausted," he said, not too surprisingly, after the game.

Let's run some of the numbers:

-- The old record, 113 points, was set by NCAA Division II player Clarence "Bevo" Francis of Rio Grande in 1954, according to Grinnell's Pioneer Athletics website.

-- Taylor, reports The Des Moines Register, played 36 of the game's 40 minutes. During his time on the court, he launched 108 shots. That's one every 20 seconds, by our count.

-- Taylor sank 52 of those shots from the court. They included 27 three-pointers.

-- He only went to the foul line 10 times, and sank 7 of those one-pointers.

According to the Register, coach David Arseneault, "now in his 24th year at Grinnell, is known for starting a scoring revolution. His teams fire 3-point shots at will, and substitutes move swiftly into the game like hockey line shifts. In 2011, Grinnell's Griffin Lentsch set an NCAA Division III single-game scoring record with 89 points in a game against Principia."

There's video here of Taylor in action.

Meanwhile, Faith Baptist's David Larson scored 70 points in his team's losing effort. And his school's website says that's a Faith Baptist record.

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