By Shawn Rine for MountainEast.org

WHEELING, W.Va. -- Records, they say, are made to be broken. Glenville State took that to an extreme during quarterfinal action of the Mountain East Conference Tournament on Wednesday night at WesBanco Arena.

The top-seeded Pioneers (24-5), who entered averaging a NCAA-high 108.5 points a game, recorded a tournament-record 64 in the first half and went on to rout No. 9 West Virginia State (10-20)f for the third time this season, by a 124-84 count. Glenville also established marks for most points in a game, as well as most 3-pointers with 21.

"I thought it was a good game and that we played hard, (but) I don't know if we played as hard as we needed to consistently," Pioneers coach Kim Stephens said. "But it was a team effort and it was balanced."

She's right.

Senior All-MEC guard Emily Stoller led the way with 25 points, five assists and four rebounds, but she wasn't alone. Ty Armstrong and Re'Shawna Stone (seven assists, three rebounds) added 18 apiece, while Taychaun Hubbard (game-high 11 rebounds) and Blaize Burgess notched 15 and 10 points, respectively.

"Do I have to?" State coach Charles Marshall joked when asked for his thoughts postgame. "I don't know why I'm frustrated because I knew we were going to have to play extremely well and they were going to have to have an off night, and neither happened. If (the Pioneers) are going to shoot like that, there aren't too many teams out there that are going to beat them."

Glenville didn't start nearly as hot as it finished. In fact, the Pioneers began by missing their first seven 3-point attempts, allowing the Yellow Jackets to hang around. It was a one-point lead after State's Alexis Hall hit a pair of free throws that made it 11-10, but the Pioneers' Hubbard connected from beyond the arc on the following trip and the floodgates opened.

"We shoot 3s every day and have the confidence, and they have a very, very green light," Stephens said. "Our whole thing is, if we're going to shoot it we better go get it and rebound it. They're eventually going to fall. We're not going to stay super cold for very long, and when we do we're going to find other ways."

That Hubbard 3 ignited a 13-4 run where Glenville knocked down 6 of 7 overall, including a couple beyond the arc from Stoller and Stone. The Pioneers finished the first quarter with a 31-17 upper hand.

It was more of the same in the second as GSC opened with three straight from 3 -- two by Burgess and another by Armstrong, to balloon the margin to 40-17. By halftime it was 64-41, and the route was on.

"We came in a game plan and I'm rethinking it, and you can't do that," Marshall said. "They do what they do. They're a wonderful team and they're coached well. They shot lights out. We've got to defend better. To be honest, we're trying to get where they are.''

Glenville continued the onslaught in the third quarter, bombing away for 31 more points. In the fourth, the Pioneers connected for seven of their 21 3-pont baskets, in the process tying another record, this one for points in a quarter with 35.

"This was good to get this one under our belts," said Stephens, whose team scored 33 points off 23 Yellow Jackets turnovers. "We like to play fast and we had a lot of turnovers (too) because at times we tried to play too fast. But we like when teams press us. We did turn it over a couple times, but we're going to score on the backend."

Freshman Destiny Fields led the way for W.Va. State with 16 points and nine rebounds. Hannah Shriver added 15 points, Hall netted 14 and Chloe Cheresne contributed nine points and nine rebounds.