VILLANOVA, Pa. – Villanova’s Maddy Siegrist scored a BIG EAST women’s basketball single-game record 50 points to become the league’s all-time leading scorer on Saturday in a 99-65 win over Seton Hall. Siegrist entered the game with 1,500 career points in BIG EAST play, needing 47 to pass Boston College’s Sarah Behn, who finished her four-year career (67 games, 1989-93) with 1,546 points. With five more BIG EAST regular-season games on the calendar for Villanova, Siegrist already has a league-record 1,550 points over 64 career games.
 
The senior forward shattered the single-game standard of 43 with 7:23 left in the fourth before becoming the BIG EAST’s career scoring leader with 5:55 left in the game. She capped the afternoon by reaching the 50-point mark with five minutes remaining before exiting to a standing ovation on her home court at Finneran Pavilion. The previous BIG EAST single-game scoring record of 43 was first achieved by Louisville’s Angel McCoughtry on Jan. 31, 2009, against Providence, before Creighton’s Jaylyn Agnew matched the total on March 1, 2020, against Georgetown.
 
Siegrist’s 50-point showing is the most by a Division I player, men’s or women’s, this season as the nation’s scoring leader bumped her overall average to 29.1 on the year, including 29.7 in BIG EAST play. Siegrist set the BIG EAST single-season scoring average record last year with her 27.9 clip and is on pace to bump that this year. She is 33 points away from breaking the single-season total points record as well, which is 478 (Behn, 1991-92). She finished four points shy of that standard in 2021-22.
 
Adding to the records list on Saturday, Siegrist also broke the BIG EAST single-game record for field goals made with 20, going an astonishing 20-of-26 from the field in just 32 minutes of action. Providence’s Kathy Finn previously had the record of 19, set on Feb. 11, 1984, against Syracuse. Earlier this year, Siegrist set the career record for most BIG EAST Player of the Week honors with 15 and counting.
 
Siegrist In The BIG EAST Record Book
BIG EAST regular-season games only
Name, School                           Category                                  Stat       Ranking
Maddy Siegrist, Villanova       Career Points                          1,550    1st
                                                    Career Scoring Avg.                24.2       1st
                                                    Career Rebounds                   612        8th
                                                    Career Rebounding Avg.       9.6         T-14th
                                                    Career FGA                              1,194    1st
                                                    Career FGM                             583        1^st
                                                    Career FTM                             263        T-11^th
                                                    Career Player of the Week   15          1^st
                                                    Single-Game Points                50          1^st
                                                    Single-Game FGM                  20          1^st