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138 points one for the ages

I suspect Jack Taylor didn’t pass the gravy yesterday.

Or the yams. Or the cranberry sauce.

Taylor didn’t do much passing for small NCAA Division III school Grinnell College Tuesday night when the sophomore guard scored 138 points on the basketball court against Faith Baptist Bible.

Yes. That’s correct. He scored 138 points.

Perhaps more amazing is those points were a product of 108 shots.

On average, Taylor gunned one up every 20 seconds.

He made 52 of those jumpers, including a 27-for-71 effort from 3-point range.

By the end of the night, his elbow was aching and his legs were jelly.

Only Michael J. Fox in “Teen Wolf” has taken more shots in a game. Even Kobe Bryant and Carmelo Anthony — no strangers to jacking up copious amounts of off-balance jumpers — thought 108 field goal attempts in a game was crazy.

But Taylor is not a ball hog. It’s the system at Grinnell College. It’s the old Loyola Marymount run-and-gun offense, only on speed.

It was just a perfect storm of events — hot shooting, poor opponent and teammates who kept feeding him the ball.

It got me thinking about some of the other amazing individual performances.

Here are a few that spring to mind:

• Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game.

This was the first achievement I thought of, but Wilt the Stilt’s 100 points came in a much different way than Taylor’s.

It took Chamberlain 68 shots to get there and he was 28-of-32 from the free throw line. Incidentally, he also had 25 rebounds in the game.

• Roger Bannister breaking the four-minute mile.

This was one of those thresholds no one thought could be broken, like the speed of light or 82 wins for the Pirates.

But in 1954, Bannister broke through.

• Nadia Comaneci’s perfect 10.

No one had ever earned a perfect score in a gymnastics routine until Comaneci accomplished the feat on the uneven bars in the 1976 Summer Olympics.

The Romanian went on to notch six more perfect 10s.

• Don Larsen’s perfect game for the N.Y. Yankees in the World Series.

It’s hard enough to toss one in a regular ol’ game, but to put 27 up and 27 down in the World Series, that’s some kind of extra special.

• My fantasy football team, Dec. 17-18, 2000.

This is a day I will long remember for its fantasy football perfection — in the championship game no less.

I had Terrell Owens (20 receptions), Jeff Garcia (402 passing yards), Warrick Dunn (145 yards, three TDs) and a few other guys who had great days. It was by far the best fantasy day ever.

Sort of like scoring 138 points in a basketball game.

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