A group of 24 men in Georgia broke the record for the longest basketball game during a charity game to raise money to fight sex trafficking.1 The new Guiness World Record for a continuous basketball game is 121 hours and 3 minutes, which broke the previous record of 121 hours, set by the same group of men in 2024.2
The players, ages 17 through 64, were required to stay inside the gym the entire time, even during breaks, and were required to eat and sleep on the court.3 The game was played with no quarter breaks or timeouts, and groups of six played two-hour shifts during the day with a five-hour sleeping shift at night.
The final score was 13,096 to 12,972. As compared to the highest scoring game in real March Madness history: in 1990, LMU beat Michigan 149-115.
