Ayoka Lee

  Kansas State center Ayoka Lee, pictured in Decemeber, made 23 of 30 field goals and 15 of 17 free throws in Sunday’s game.  Credit... Colin E. Braley/Associated Press By  Natalie Weiner Jan. 23, 2022 Kansas State center Ayoka Lee broke a 35-year-old record on Sunday, scoring 61 points, the most in a Division I women’s college basketball game, while leading her team to a  94-65 victory  over No. 14 Oklahoma in Manhattan, Kan. She was 5 points short of scoring more than the opposing team. “It’s crazy,” Lee, a 6-foot-6 redshirt junior, told ESPN after the game. “I thought it was just going to be another Sunday.” The N.C.A.A. Division I single-game scoring record had been 60 points, set by Cindy Brown at Long Beach State in 1987 and tied in 2016 by the University of Minnesota’s Rachel Banham, who now plays in the W.N.B.A. for the Minnesota Lynx. Lee broke the record by going 23 of 30 from the field (76.7 percent), and without attempting a single 3-point basket....