SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – When she gets back home Monday night, Theresa Grentz ought to see if she can get a new record book printed up.

This one's starting to get outdated.

One day after setting a new school standard for margin of victory in a 95-37 romp over the University of Puerto Rico-Mayaguez, Grentz's Illinois women's basketball team made a run at the all-time school mark for points in a game.

The Illini didn't know it at the time, but they came within seven of tying the record in their 106-74 San Juan Shootout rout of Providence on Saturday night.

The total's the fourth-best in school history and the highest for a UI team in 16 years.

The 1981-82 crew bombed Ball State 113-61 for the top spot.

"My team just loves to flat-out score," Grentz said. "I mean, they love scoring."

And she isn't taking any of the credit.

"It's hard to teach offense. It's hard to teach people to score," Grentz said. "As Bob Cousy used to say, 'Offensive is instinctive, defense is concentration.' "

Cousy would have been proud of the mad-bombing Illini on Saturday.

Behind sophomore sub Katie Coleman and senior point guard Krista Reinking, they broke the school record for three-pointers in a game.

Coleman canned 9 of 13 and Reinking hit 3 of 9, beating the previous best of 10, set by the 1993-94 team in a 97-91 loss to Kent State. (Remember those days?)

Big deal

Since Ashley Berggren and friends last ran into Purdue Boilermaker-turned-Duke Blue Devil Michele VanGorp, she's added a little something to her game.

"I can dunk now," she said.

Say what?

"I can," the 6-foot-6 stringbean said. "I never get a chance to do it in a game, but I have in practice."

So it says in Duke's media guide, right next to a full-body shot of the tallest woman ever to wear a Duke jersey.

VanGorp will be among the tallest orders the Illini face all year, but they're plenty prepared. They caught her act two years ago when she averaged 7.3 points and led the Boilermakers in blocks and have gotten a scouting report from Coleman, who was almost her teammate.

Like Coleman and several others, VanGorp decided to split Purdue after her coach, Linn Dunn, was canned following the 1995-96 season.

"Why'd I leave? Because the administration screwed my coach over," VanGorp said. "She got fired, and she didn't deserve it."

Six Dunn signees are playing elsewhere in Division I, including two at Duke. Shooting guard Nicole Erickson made the move with VanGorp. Both are starters.

"They do have a couple of new faces that we haven't seen," Reinking said. "But we got a glimpse of how they play the last few days. It shouldn't be any surprise, the things they do."

Area update

It's been a good weekend for former Big 12 stars in Puerto Rico.

Centennial's Gia Lewis got another four minutes of action and another basket for Illinois.

Normal's Meredith Jackson, a starting forward for Southern Illinois, threw in 11 points in a 76-51 loss to Duke.

Freshman Lauren Rice, who had 12 points in Duke's win, could have been a Big 12 star. But the Mattoon-born forward moved to Peru, Ind., before her prep career began.