High school girls basketball: Aaliyah Chavez of Texas eclipses 4,000 career points, moves into 40th on all-time scoring list

Aaliyah Chavez of Monterey (Lubbock, Texas) moved into 40th on the all-time high school girls basketball scoring list Tuesday just a week after hitting the 4,000-point mark for her career. 

Chavez, regarded as the No. 1 senior prospect in the country by multiple media outlets, dropped 48 in a 74-43 win over Lubbock to up her career total to 4,062 points.

The 48-point performance pushed her past Northwestern assistant Brittany Johnson, a four-year standout at Richland County (Olney, Ill.), who finished with 4,031 points. Chavez should pass Kim Mulkey, the LSU coach and four-time national champion, on Friday. Mulkey scored 4,075 at Hammond (La.) from 1977-80.

The Monterey sharpshooter also passed South Carolina star and two-time MaxPreps National Female Athlete of the Year Joyce Edwards of Camden (S.C.) and her total of 3,966 points Nov. 30 in an 80-52 loss to Ontario Christian (Ontario, Calif.), the No. 1 team in the MaxPreps Top 25.

Entering Tuesday's game, Chavez was the nation's leading scorer at 35.2 points per game. The win helped the Plainsmen improve to 18-2 on the season.

Chavez has dropped 717 points so far as a senior. Monterey has at least 12 more regular-season games scheduled and then playoffs. Based on her scoring average, she has the chance to move into the top 20 in all-time scoring. She scored 1,001 points as a freshman, 1,020 as a sophomore and 1,324 last year.

She has six career 50-point games and has gone over 40 on 25 occasions. Her career high is 57 points during her junior year in an 80-54 win over Plano.

The 5-foot-11 point guard's final six college choices include LSU, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Texas Tech and UCLA.