The Chevrolet Suburban carrying Claflin High School's girls basketball team bounces over snowy county roads on its way to a game in Stafford before another sellout crowd.

And Stiles, the reason the fans are there, sleeps on, for good reason. She had been up until nearly midnight at the school gym in her usual workout the night before a game.

All that practice has helped make the 18-year-old point guard the greatest scorer in Kansas high school history -- boy or girl.

Playing for a school with less than 100 students, Stiles scored 71 points in a game earlier this season, the most ever by a prep player in this state where basketball is nearly a religion.

She has more than 3,200 points -- over 400 points above the old state record -- in a career that has made sellout crowds and mobs of autograph seekers routine at Claflin games.

Stiles is the reason Grant Overstrake and his 10-year-old son, Garrison, waited two hours to make sure they got in to see Claflin play Stafford, their hometown team.

"It's not like it's a (competitive) game," the father said. "It's an exhibition, the closest thing we get to a happening."

Stiles is intense about improving her game. Each morning before a game, she shoots until she makes 115 shots. Twice a week, she'll hit the gym until she's made another 1,000 shots -- which can take four hours at a time.

"She is obsessed, clear and simple," said her coach, Gregg Webb. "It's almost like a disease. She's a goof. She's a weirdo."

Webb jokes that Stiles should skip college and join the newly formed Women's National Basketball Association.

"I'm having a hard time convincing her," Webb said. Instead, Stiles has chosen to play college ball at Southwest Missouri.

Before Stiles, parents made up most of the crowd at Claflin's girls varsity games. Now more people show up to watch the girls' games than boys'.

Mike Flynn, editor of the Blue Star Report, a Philadelphia-based newsletter on girls basketball, ranks Stiles among the nation's top 10 prep prospects because of her aggressiveness.

"You can tell just by the way she plays: 'Give me the ball, I'm just going to run you over,"' Flynn said.

The allure of such a player is apparent this night, with Stafford school officials taking the unusual step of making each fan have a ticket so the crowd doesn't surpass the gym's capacity.

As Stiles runs onto the court for warmups, Garrison Overstrake and eight other kids rush to her, but she promises to give them an autograph after the game.

"I can't wait to see her play," the 10-year-old said. "I've heard so much about her scoring 71 points a game. I know we really don't have much of a chance."

His father wants to see for himself if the stories about Stiles' talent are true. By halftime of a game in which Stiles will get 55 points, he's convinced.

"She controls the break like Magic Johnson," he said. "She has a great jump step. You just don't see that at the high school level, especially among girls.

"If my daughters want to be like her, that would be fine with me."

Webb took Stiles out for much of the second half to let younger team members play, and undefeated Claflin beat Stafford 93-24.

"I appreciated the coach taking it easy on us," Stafford coach Erin Capettini said. "He could have left her in the whole game and had her break another record."

One of 24 seniors in a high school with 97 students, Stiles has a 3.3 grade-point average and also plays on the tennis, cross-country and track teams.

Last summer, she was selected for the U.S. Junior National team. During the fall, the family was overwhelmed as the top women's basketball programs in the country recruited Stiles.

"Our fax machine went nuts," Stiles said. "We got 30-page faxes every day."

One day, Stiles was so stressed about whether to pick Connecticut, Kansas State, Colorado, Oklahoma or Southwest Missouri that she stayed home from school and called a psychic hotline.

The psychic told her to follow her heart.

She picked Southwest Missouri, the site of her summer basketball camps and close enough to her central Kansas home for her family to drive to on the weekend.