Epiphanny Prince scored 113 points in a high school game Wednesday.

Epiphanny Prince was everywhere this week - appearing on "Good Morning America," holding press conferences, being profiled on Page 2 of this newspaper.

The reason? Prince scored 113 points in a girls high school basketball game, setting a national record.

Good for her.

There's only one problem: Prince should have never seen the floor in the second half. At halftime, she had 59 points and Bergtraum was leading Louis Brandeis, 74-11. Most would call that a comfortable lead.

But her coach at Murry Bergtraum, Ed Grezinsky, decided to let her play. With Kobe Bryant's recent 81-point effort as the backdrop, Prince continued to score, cherry-picking her way to layup after layup.

Grezinky has built a national powerhouse, winning seven straight PSAL titles and a national championship and his team is ranked second in the country.

Maybe this was Grezinsky's way of one-upping his rivals at Christ the King, the No. 1-ranked team in the nation. He's trying to prove that Prince is the best player in the country, not CK's Tina Charles.

That may be true, but scoring 113 points against an inferior opponent doesn't prove that. Prince had her chance at the Garden against Charles earlier this season. Bergtraum lost, 65-63. Prince had 39 points, Charles had 20 points and 24 rebounds. Hopefully, they'll meet again at the state Federation tournament in Glens Falls, N.Y.

As for Grezinsky, he has brought a lot of positive attention to girls basketball and the PSAL. With that success, he has earned a great deal of power in the New York City basketball community. But with that power comes tremendous responsibility.

A responsibility to teach, mentor and coach his girls - and class wasn't in session on Wednesday.

The Positive Coaching Alliance, an organization based out of Stanford University that has such luminaries as Larry Brown, Phil Jackson and Bill Bradley on its advisory board, has a philosophy for what it calls double-goal coaches:

Winning is important, but teaching life lessons is even more important.

What life lessons were learned last week? That it's OK to run up the score as long as you're going for a record? Who cares about humiliating the other team as long as we get ours?

"It doesn't seem like much of an accomplishment," says PCA executive director Jim Thompson. "I don't know that any good life lesson was taught there."

Grezinsky was unapologetic, saying, "Her job is to play as hard as she can. Whatever flak comes falls on my shoulders. I felt she had a chance for a record and I didn't want to deny her that."

How nice of him.

Grezinsky comes off looking like another in a long line of untouchable coaches (see Bob Knight, and the recent rantings of UConn's Jim Calhoun).

Prince scored 113 points on Wednesday. Her coach had zero.