Pointed Analysis

Alexandra Chili has scored more points than any other player in Muhlenberg basketball history (male or female). She became the all-time leading scorer in Mule women’s basketball history at McDaniel in early January and broke the all-gender mark at Johns Hopkins in late January.

Chili will be returning to her home state of Maryland next weekend for the Centennial Conference Championships and has a shot at becoming the league’s all-time leading scorer. She has 1,908 points; the record for women is 1,965 and for all players 1,973.

How, when, where and against whom did Chili get her first 1,908 points? Last week, we broke down the record rebound total for men’s player Spencer Liddic. Now it’s time to take a closer look at Chili’s record point total.

But first, a trivia question: Which team held Chili to the lowest point total in a single game during her career? The surprising answer is at the bottom.

• by type

  • points on three-pointers 963 (8.8 per game)
  • points on two-pointers 628 (5.7 per game)
  • points on free throws 317 (2.9 per game)

• by class year

  • freshman 480 (16.0 per game)
  • sophomore 471 (17.4 per game)
  • junior 546 (18.8 per game)
  • senior 411 (17.1 per game)

• by site

  • home games 933 (17.0 per game)
  • road games 884 (18.0 per game)
  • neutral site games 91 (15.2 per game)

• by month

  • November 249(17.8 per game)
  • December 334 (18.6 per game)
  • January 723 (18.1 per game)
  • February 467 (15.6 per game)
  • March 135 (16.9 per game)

• by day of the week

  • Sunday 80 (16.0 per game)
  • Monday 268 (19.1 per game)
  • Tuesday 233 (17.9 per game)
  • Wednesday 295 (16.4 per game)
  • Thursday 218 (19.8 per game)
  • Friday 173 (17.3 per game)
  • Saturday 641 (16.4 per game)

• by game type

  • Centennial Conference games 1341 (17.6 per game)
  • CC playoff games 90 (15.0 per game)
  • Scotty Wood Tournament games 132 (16.5 per game)
  • NCAA Tournament games 112 (16.0 per game)
  • other games 233 (17.9 per game)

• by opponent (more than two games, in order of average)

  • Moravian 100 (25.0 per game)
  • Swarthmore 173 (21.6 per game)
  • Washington 132 (18.9 per game)
  • Johns Hopkins 185 (18.5 per game)
  • Ursinus 126 (18.0 per game)
  • Dickinson 161 (17.9 per game)
  • McDaniel 174 (17.4 per game)
  • Haverford 132 (16.5 per game)
  • Franklin & Marshall 131 (16.4 per game)
  • Gettysburg 140 (15.6 per game)
  • DeSales 55 (13.8 per game)
  • Bryn Mawr 77 (12.8 per game)

Trivia answer: Arcadia. In Chili’s freshman season, the Mules played Arcadia in the first round of Marymount’s tournament in their first game back from the holiday break. Although Muhlenberg won 59-29, Chili scored just three points on 1-of-7 shooting in 15 minutes. Arcadia went on to finish the season with a record of 4-21.

1 thought on “Pointed Analysis”

  1. Unlike other great scorers, she has not been in there in garbage time. She could have averaged 20+ points vs. Bryn Mawr and yet its the opponent that she has scored the lowest average against. Had she played regularly against Bryn Mawr and Arcadia, she would have surpassed 2000 points long ago. Classy not to run up scores with your best player scoring at will.

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