Sixteen points. Eight baskets.

Or depending on how many three-pointers she takes, maybe less.

That's what was on the mind of the 10,000 plus that filled the Bryce Jordan Center on Friday night. How long would it take for Kelly Mazzante to become the all-time leading scorer in Penn State basketball history?

Mazzante takes two dribbles and drills the jumper in traffic. She is now just 14 points away from the record.

The senior from Montoursville has made a living scoring from all over the court, and from day one, people knew that this Lady Lion was something special.

Mazzante comes off the screen at the top of the three-point arc, gets the ball, and hits the three. Eleven points away.

A huge banner tracking the countdown hung on the north side of the Jordan Center, and with each point the crowd began to get louder and louder. "That was right in my eyes," Mazzante said. "I think it's just a neat thing."

Mazzante drives through a slew of LSU defenders, but somehow finds a way to get the ball in the hoop. 9 points until history.

It doesn't matter how the points come, whether a text-book "spin, rotation, splash" jumper, or a scrappy lay-up, Mazzante has proven that she knows how to get the job done.

The ball is loose. Tanisha Wright grabs it near the corner. She fires it under the basket to a wide-open Mazzante for the easy lay-in. That bucket gives her nine points on the night.

Many of the Lady Lions faithful were worried that nerves might get the best of Mazzante, especially after she started one-for-seven in Penn State's only exhibition game this season against an over-matched team from Slovenia.

Mazzante drives left, pulls-up, and hits her shot. Kelly Mazzante is now 5 points shy of passing Susan Robinson as Penn State's all-time leading scorer.

As the Lady Lions came out after halftime with a commanding lead and the game pretty much put away, everyone's attention was focused on one thing and one thing only: 2,254.

She drives, ball fakes, goes up with the five footer ... it rolls around the rim ... and drops! Mazzante is three points away.

What has made Mazzante remarkable throughout her run at the record is her ability to continue to be the clutch player that she was as a freshman, when there wasn't much pressure on her, and even today when, at times, it must seem that the world is watching her.

With 12:45 to play in the second half Mazzante will go to the line to shoot two foul shots. The first shot falls. And ... Swish, Kelly has tied the Penn State basketball scoring record.

Mazzante is a lot of things; she's a role model to little Lions, as shown by the dozens of number 13 jerseys that buzz around the Jordan Center. She's seen as quite the prize by the male student body, as seen by the number in attendance who swoon for her attention. But mainly, she's just a very special player, the type of player that not many people are lucky enough to see in their lifetimes.

It's Mazzante and Strom, a two on one, Mazzante drives and she's fouled by the LSU defender. She will go to the line to try to break the record.

"It put a little more pressure on me," Mazzante said of going to the line for the record. "I would have rather had it probably be a three than a foul shot."

The entire crowd is silent as Mazzante looks to the rim. She dribbles three times, releases the ball ... and ... hits nothing but the bottom of the net. Kelly Mazzante is the new all-time leading scorer in the history of Penn State women's basketball.

Well at least now that that's all out of the way, Portland and the rest of the Lady Lions can focus on the next big goal -- Mazzante breaking the Big Ten scoring mark.