GREENVILLE, S.C. – Junior Jordan Lyons tied an NCAA Division I record with 15 3-point baskets and poured in an NCAA Division I season-high 54 points to power Furman to a 107-67 victory over North Greenville in nonconference men’s basketball action Thursday evening at Timmons Arena.

The Peachtree City, Georgia, product connected on 15 of his NCAA-record 34 attempts to tie the 3-point mark previously set by Marshall’s Keith Venney in 1996 and matched by Robert Morris’ Josh Williams last night. He also converted on 9-of-12 trips to the foul line to post the most points by an NCAA Division I player since 2009 and the most by a Furman Paladin since Darrell Floyd scored 62 versus The Citadel in 1956.

Lyons, who entered Thursday averaging 15.3 points per game, buried nine of his 16 3-point tries in the opening half to score 31 points and lead the Paladins to a 55-38 advantage at the break. The guard drained two 3-point attempts before the first media timeout of the second half to up the Paladin lead to 71-42. After missing his next attempt, Lyons connected from long range on back-to-back possessions with under 11 minutes to play and hit his 14th trey of the night with 7:55 to go. He missed on five straight attempts before hitting the record-tying triple with 3:09 left to give Furman a 101-61 lead.

The 54-point performance ranks as the eighth-best in school history and Lyons became the first Paladin to reach 50 points since Dick Esleeck in 1969. Former All-American Frank Selvy holds Furman’s all-time scoring record with 100 points versus Newberry in a 149-95 victory on Feb. 13, 1954.

Furman shot 47.2 percent from the field and matched a school record with 21 3-point baskets, while launching a school-record 49 3-point attempts. The Paladins, who improved to 4-0 for the first time since the 1987-88 season, limited North Greenville to 36.8 percent shooting in the second half and finished the night with 35 points off of 18 Crusader turnovers.

Senior Matt Rafferty joined Lyons in double figures with 10 points and freshman Jaylon Pugh added a career-high nine points. Roderick Howell led North Greenville with 17 points on 8-of-14 shooting from the floor.

Furman goes for its fifth straight win to start the season when it travels to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to face defending national champion and eighth-ranked Villanova on Saturday at 5 p.m. The game will be televised live on FS2.