Vanderbilt guard Mikayla Blakes set a new NCAA freshman record by scoring 55 points in the Commodores’ 98-88 win over Auburn on Sunday.
The performance marked her second outing with 50-plus points this season, with the first one happening just two weeks ago when she dropped 53 against Florida.
In the Florida game, Blakes set the SEC single-game scoring record and tied for the second-most points ever scored by a freshman in a Division I game. For the all-time freshman record, Blakes was tied with Nevada’s Chris Starr, who went for 53 in 1983, and trailed Delaware’s Elena Delle Donne, who scored 54 against James Madison in 2010.
Now she holds that record all to herself.
Blakes became the first Division I women’s basketball player to register multiple 50-point games in a season since Rachel Banham (Minnesota) and Jasmine Nwajei (Wagner) each had two in 2015-16.
Kansas State’s Ayoka Lee set the Division I record with 61 points against Oklahoma in 2022.
Blakes leads Vanderbilt back from 15-point deficit
The Commodores were down by 15 points in the fourth quarter but crawled their way back into the game with Blakes leading the way. They were down by three with seven seconds remaining, but Blakes…
