List of NCAA Division I men's basketball season scoring leaders

In basketball, points are the sum of the score accumulated through free throw or field goal. The National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I scoring title is awarded to the player with the highest points per game average in a given season. The NCAA did not split into its current divisions format until August 1973. From 1906 to 1955, there were no classifications to the NCAA nor its predecessor, the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States. Then, from 1956 to 1973, colleges were classified as either "NCAA University Division " or "NCAA College Division ". The NCAA's official men's basketball media guide recognizes scoring champions beginning with the 1947–48 season; from 1935–36 to 1946–47, "unofficial" scoring champions were compiled from the annual National Basketball Committee Official Basketball Guide.
Pete Maravich of LSU holds the all-time NCAA Division I records for career scoring and average . His three consecutive scoring titles from 1968–1970 are also the three highest single-season averages in NCAA history.
Nine players have earned multiple scoring titles. The most recent player to accomplish this is Reggie Williams of Virginia Military Institute. There have been two occurrences where, in back-to-back seasons, two different teammates have earned the NCAA scoring title. Frank Selvy and Darrell Floyd of Furman each won in 1954 and 1955, respectively, while Hank Gathers and Bo Kimble of Loyola Marymount won in 1989 and 1990, respectively.
Many of the scoring champions from the 1986–87 season and earlier could have added significantly more points if the three-point line had been instituted. It wasn't until the 1987–88 season that the NCAA standardized the line and accounted for three-point field goals in its official record book. The only player since they were instituted to have not made a single three-point shot in his scoring title season is Gathers, who instead made 419 field goals and 177 free throws en route to scoring 1,015 points and averaging 32.7 points per game.
One prolific college basketball scorer who was not an NCAA scoring champion was Notre Dame's Austin Carr. Carr averaged 38.2 ppg as a junior in 1969–70 and 38.0 ppg as a senior in 1970–71. Unfortunately for Carr, he happened to accomplish these feats while playing at the same time as Maravich, whose 44.5 ppg in 1969–70 is the highest in Division I history, and as Johnny Neumann, whose 40.1 ppg in 1970–71 is the fifth highest average. While finishing second in the scoring races each of his last two seasons, Carr is the only player on the NCAA's top ten single season scoring averages list who never won an NCAA scoring title.

Key

Pos.	G	F	C	PPG	Ref.
Position	Guard	Forward	Center	Points per game	References

*	Elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame
Player	Denotes the number of times the player had been the scoring leader up to and including that season

Scoring leaders

Unofficial

Between 1935–36 and 1946–47, there were no "official" NCAA scoring champions. The statistics during that era were compiled from the National Basketball Committee Official Basketball Guide, which was not regulated by NCAA authorities. Therefore, the following players are included in the annual NCAA men's basketball media guide, but are listed as unofficial season scoring leaders.

Season	Player	Pos.	Cl.	Team	Games played	Field goals made	3-point field goals made	Free throws made	Total points	PPG
1935–36	*	G		Stanford	29	?	—	?	416	14.3
1936–37	*	G		Stanford	24	?	—	?	410	17.1
1937–38		F		Rhode Island	21	177	—	87	441	21.0
1938–39		F		Rhode Island	21	201	—	73	475	22.6
1939–40		G/F		Rhode Island	22	210	—	89	509	23.1
1940–41		G/F		Rhode Island	25	178	—	107	463	18.5
1941–42		G/F		Rhode Island	22	182	—	106	470	21.4
1942–43		G		Saint Joseph's	22	211	—	93	515	23.4
1943–44		G		Rhode Island	20	226	—	82	534	26.7
1944–45	*	C		DePaul	24	222	—	114	558	23.3
1945–46	*	C		DePaul	24	206	—	143	555	23.1
1946–47		F		Loyola	32	242	—	183	667	20.8

Official

Season	Player	Pos.	Cl.	Team	Games played	Field goals made	3-point field goals made	Free throws made	Total points	PPG	Ref.
1947–48		G		Iowa	19	152	—	95	399	21.0
1948–49		F		Yale	30	228	—	215	671	22.4
1949–50	*	F		Villanova	29	260	—	215	735	25.3
1950–51		F		Temple	25	303	—	125	731	29.2
1951–52	*	C		Kansas	28	352	—	182	795	28.4
1952–53		G		Furman	25	272	—	194	738	29.5
1953–54		G		Furman	29	427	—	355	1,209	41.7
1954–55		G		Furman	25	344	—	209	897	35.9
1955–56		G		Furman	28	339	—	268	946	33.8
1956–57		F		South Carolina	29	336	—	234	906	31.2
1957–58	*	G		Cincinnati	28	352	—	280	984	35.1
1958–59	*	G		Cincinnati	30	331	—	316	978	32.6
1959–60	*	G		Cincinnati	30	369	—	273	1,011	33.7
1960–61		G		Gonzaga	26	304	—	234	842	32.4
1961–62		C/F		Utah	26	394	—	221	1,009	38.8
1962–63		F		Seton Hall	22	221	—	208	650	29.5
1963–64		G		Bowling Green	23	292	—	260	844	36.7
1964–65	*	F		Miami	26	340	—	293	973	37.4
1965–66		G		Purdue	24	284	—	213	781	32.5
1966–67		G		Providence	28	323	—	205	851	30.4
1967–68	*	G		LSU	26	432	—	274	1,138	43.8
1968–69	*	G		LSU	26	433	—	282	1,148	44.2
1969–70	*	G		LSU	31	522	—	337	1,381	44.5
1970–71		F/G		Ole Miss	23	366	—	191	923	40.1
1971–72		G		Southwest Louisiana	29	429	—	196	1,054	36.3
1972–73		G		Pepperdine	25	352	—	144	848	33.9
1973–74		G		Canisius	25	326	—	183	835	33.4
1974–75		G		Richmond	26	321	—	213	855	32.9
1975–76		G		Texas–Pan American	25	361	—	197	919	36.8
1976–77		F/G		Portland State	26	417	—	176	1,010	38.8
1977–78		F/G		Portland State	27	410	—	149	969	35.9
1978–79		G		Idaho State	27	310	—	192	812	30.1
1979–80		G		Southern	29	377	—	178	932	32.1
1980–81		G		South Carolina	27	300	—	181	781	28.9
1981–82		F		Texas Southern	29	336	—	190	862	29.7
1982–83		F		Texas Southern	29	333	—	169	835	28.8
1983–84		G		Akron	27	304	—	206	814	30.1
1984–85		F/C		Wichita State	31	351	—	142	844	27.2
1985–86		G		Wagner	29	321	—	212	854	29.4
1986–87		G		Army	29	311	—	268	953	32.9
1987–88		G		Bradley	31	377	87	284	1,125	36.3
1988–89		F/C		Loyola Marymount	31	419	0	177	1,015	32.7
1989–90		G		Loyola Marymount	32	404	92	231	1,131	35.3
1990–91		G		U.S. International	28	358	60	278	1,054	37.6
1991–92		F		Morehead State	29	278	66	193	815	28.1
1992–93		G		Texas–Pan American	19	189	67	111	556	29.3
1993–94		F		Purdue	34	368	79	215	1,030	30.3
1994–95		C		TCU	27	288	3	202	781	28.9
1995–96		G		Texas Southern	24	194	30	230	648	27.0
1996–97		G		Long Island	30	338	109	118	903	30.1
1997–98		G		Long Island	30	326	116	101	869	29.0
1998–99		G		Niagara	29	253	65	157	728	25.1
1999–00		G		Fresno State	27	252	58	107	669	24.8
2000–01		G		Centenary	27	244	85	214	787	29.1
2001–02		G		VMI	28	285	79	171	820	29.3
2002–03		G		New Mexico	28	218	94	253	783	28.0
2003–04		G		Saint Peter's	29	233	112	197	775	26.7
2004–05		G		Saint Peter's	28	230	109	152	721	25.8
2005–06		F		Gonzaga	33	306	74	240	926	28.1
2006–07		G		VMI	33	338	76	176	928	28.1
2007–08		G		VMI	25	269	43	114	695	27.8
2008–09		G		Davidson	34	312	130	220	974	28.6
2009–10		G		Houston	35	305	51	235	896	25.6
2010–11		G		BYU	37	346	124	252	1,068	28.9
2011–12		G		Oakland	36	281	118	262	942	26.2
2012–13		G		Virginia Tech	32	261	61	218	801	25.0
2013–14		F		Creighton	35	330	96	178	934	26.7
2014–15		G		Eastern Washington	32	230	128	150	738	23.1
2015–16		G		Howard	30	226	80	280	812	27.1
2016–17		G		Central Michigan	32	313	125	208	959	30.0
2017–18		G		Oklahoma	32	261	118	236	876	27.4
2018–19		G		Campbell	33	304	139	246	993	30.1
2019–20		G		Marquette	29	237	121	211	806	27.8

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