List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career scoring leaders

==Top 25 career scoring leaders==

, fourth all-time in points, finished his collegiate career in March 2019. finished with 2,884 points.|alt=A picture of a darker black man wearing a suit while standing behind a podium. The photograph is in black and white. is also eighth all-time in three-point field goals made (457). == All-time conference scoring leaders ==

The following list contains current and defunct Division I conferences' all-time scoring leaders. The "conference founded" column indicates when each conference first began intercollegiate athletic competition, not necessarily when they began basketball. For example, the Great West Conference was established as a football-only conference in 2004 but became an all-sports conference in 2008 (with basketball actually beginning in 2009–10). Also note that some of the schools on this list are no longer in the conference in which they are identified. Utah, for instance, is currently a member of the Big 12 Conference, but when Keith Van Horn set the scoring record it was still a member of the Western Athletic Conference. Similarly, BYU is also a current Big 12 member, but the career of its scoring leader Jimmer Fredette coincided with the program's last four seasons in the Mountain West Conference. (2,361). amassed an ACC-record 2,872 points at North Carolina. netted a Sun Belt record 2,679 points at New Orleans. , the Ivy League's all-time leading scorer, is also in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. == All-time schools' scoring leaders ==

These schools are full, current members of NCAA Division I, meaning they have finished the process of joining Division I or its historical equivalent. Some of the records below were set while the school was still in a lower division and are not intended to be solely Division I era scoring records; if no season-specific link exists, it is because the record was set while the school was a member of a lower division. Through 2024–25, the oldest school record is held by Jim Lacy at Loyola of Maryland, whose 2,199 points were last scored in 1949. The newest record holder, meanwhile, is Bruce Thornton of Ohio State, who set his record on March 7, 2026 in a game against Indiana. Lipscomb's John Pierce holds college basketball's all-time, all-divisions scoring mark of 4,230 points. He played from 1990 to 1994 while the Bisons were still a member of the NAIA. All schools are listed with their current athletic brand names, which do not necessarily match those used when a school's scoring leader was active. ==Footnotes==