Not only is he the youngest player to reach 3,000 career points in Minnesota high school basketball history, but Anders Broman can also bake. “I make a good peanut butter cup cheesecake,” he told Fox Sports Florida. Oh, and he’s also noteworthy for this: on Saturday, the Lakeview Christian Academy junior scored 71 points against Melrose (Minn.) High, but it wasn’t enough. Lakeview lost, 114-110. That’s gotta sting. Prep Rally:
That marked the second-highest single-game total by an individual player in state history. Equally incredibly, Broman’s 71-point outburst was still 19 points shy of the state single-game record held by former Minneapolis (Minn.) Minnesota Transitions star Cash Eggleston, who racked up 90 points in a 2005 victory.
“It was a bittersweet game,” Broman told the News Tribune of the loss. “I made a couple threes to start the half, so I started feeling it. It felt like everything I shot would go in. I love when those days happen.”
How good was Broman? He shot an incredible 67 percent in the game and scored 47 of his points during his team’s furious second-half comeback from a 16-point halftime deficit. He hit six of his eight 3-pointers in that stretch as well.
Melrose had three players who scored 39, 30 and 18 points, respectively.
Broman is being recruited by Virginia Tech, Northwestern and San Diego State, according to the Duluth News Tribune.
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Broman erupts for 71 points in 114-110 loss [Duluth News Tribune]
