Tyler Hall Etches Name in Record Books
By Danny Waldo
As if a road victory over a Pac-12 opponent wasn’t reason enough to celebrate, MSU senior guard Tyler Hall added a little more icing on the cake by becoming Montana State’s all-time leading scorer in guiding the ‘Cats past Washington State 95-90 recently.
Hall, who finished with 24 points, became the Bobcats leading scorer on a three-pointer with just over 10 minutes to play versus the Cougars. Not only did he set the scoring mark with the triple, he also set the record for most three-pointers made in Big Sky history, passing the old record of 347 set by Weber State’s Jeremy Senglin.
The 6’5 senior from Rock Island, Illinois would go on to finish the night with 2,038 points surpassing the record set by Larry Chanay that had stood for 59 years. In the process of setting MSU’s new scoring mark, Hall also surpassed two of the Big Sky Conference’s greatest scorers in UM’s Larry Krystkowiak and Weber State’s Bruce Collins. Next on his list is the all-time leading scorer in league play, Bogdan Bliznyuk, of Eastern Washington, who just set the league scoring mark last season with 2,169 points.
Hall will get his first crack at adding to his scoring total when the Bobcats take on the University of Denver on December 18th. MSU will then break for Christmas before beginning conference play on the road at Southern Utah on December 29th. MSU’s next home game doesn’t come until the new year when Portland State and Sacramento State visit Bozeman January 3rd and 5th.
