Bevo Francis dies at 82; scored 113 points in college basketball game

Clarence "Bevo" Francis, who had 113 points for Rio Grande College in a 1954 game and was one of college basketball's great scorers, has died. He was 82.

He died Wednesday at his southern Ohio home, Roberts Funeral Home said. Rio Grande said he died after a long illness.

Francis' landmark game came against Michigan's Hillsdale College on Feb. 2, 1954 and put his small Ohio college on the map. The school in southeastern Ohio is now called University of Rio Grande and had less than 100 students at the time.

His 113 points set a record that was broken in 2012 by Grinnell's Jack Taylor, who had 138 against Faith Baptist Bible.