2 points?! 2 damn Points?!

[Chef2]

http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8738942/107-2-bloomington-south-girls-basketball-team-beats-arlington

 

[Starman]

"(The score) is probably not what we would like to see," Chris Kaufman, a spokesman for the Indiana High School Athletic Association, told the station.

Kaufman also told the station that the governing body does not have a mercy rule.

Hmmmmm.

Also, any coach always has the option to take his team off the floor and go home at any time if he feels the opponent is playing with flagrant disregard for safety or sportsmanship.

 

[Chef2]

"(The score) is probably not what we would like to see," Chris Kaufman, a spokesman for the Indiana High School Athletic Association, told the station.

Kaufman also told the station that the governing body does not have a mercy rule.

Hmmmmm.

Also, any coach always has the option to take his team off the floor and go home at any time if he feels the opponent is playing with flagrant disregard for safety or sportsmanship.

This. You don't like it, walk off the floor. Fairly simple.

 

[Azrael]

This is also the IMDB listing for Teen Wolf VI.

 

[Chef2]

This is also the IMDB listing for Teen Wolf VI.

I'll take sequels that should have never been made for 300, Alex.

 

[dixiehack]

Luckily Arlington High has a football team in a big market, so their Big East invite is still good.

 

[Bob Cook]

The Arlington team that Bloomington South scheduled was not the Arlington team it ended up playing. The Arlington team scheduled was an Indianapolis Public School team that, while not good, could provide some semblance of a competitive game. By the time the game was played, Arlington had been taken over by the state and handed to a private company. Enrollment has cratered, and there is no more public school support for sports. So, basically, Bloomington South was now playing a small charter school drawing on kids who hadn't played competitive basketball before.

As if they saw this coming, Indiana voters in November ousted the state superintendent of public instruction who came up with the takeover plan.

 

[Captain_Kirk]

So what did the losing team shoot from the floor for the game? Oh fer what? Just curious.

Would be great if the losing coach would drop a quote bemoaning their missed free throws as a key difference maker or said something like 'we just couldn't buy a bucket tonight.'

 

[e_bowker]

Private school girls team in our neck of the woods got shut out last week, 63-0.
The losing team is a struggling Class A program that is currently on about a 30-game losing streak, during which it probably hasn't scored more than 35 points in any single game. The winning team is a solid Class AA program.
So, these things can happen — especially in girls' sports, where the talent difference can be huge.

 

[Stoney]

So, basically, Bloomington South was now playing a small charter school drawing on kids who hadn't played competitive basketball before.

There's always an explanation like this when these scores arise. But the question is why do these games remain on the schedule? Obviously both sides must have seen this coming.

I don't necessarily fault the kids for winning by 105, but I do question the judgment of those who allow such colossal mismatches to be played.

 

[Gator]

So, basically, Bloomington South was now playing a small charter school drawing on kids who hadn't played competitive basketball before.

There's always an explanation like this when these scores arise. But the question is why do these games remain on the schedule? Obviously both sides must have seen this coming.

I don't necessarily fault the kids for winning by 105, but I do question the judgment of those who allow such colossal mismatches to be played.

That's the first thing I thought. When the spokesman of the high school association said "That's not what we want to see," well, isn't that a reflection of the high school association, which allows these games to be played?

And I know it's not in the same ballpark, but we had a JV game last night end in a 35-8 score. It happens.

 

[Lugnuts]

The Arlington team that Bloomington South scheduled was not the Arlington team it ended up playing. The Arlington team scheduled was an Indianapolis Public School team that, while not good, could provide some semblance of a competitive game. By the time the game was played, Arlington had been taken over by the state and handed to a private company. Enrollment has cratered, and there is no more public school support for sports. So, basically, Bloomington South was now playing a small charter school drawing on kids who hadn't played competitive basketball before.

As if they saw this coming, Indiana voters in November ousted the state superintendent of public instruction who came up with the takeover plan.

That's pitiful. Surely some team in the state of Indiana can hand Bloomington South its ass on a platter.

Paging Tamika Catchings.... Show 'em what it feels like.

 

[dixiehack]

One Indy Star article said Arlington averaged 17 points per game before this massacre. They have no business playing a varsity schedule.

That said, does Indiana do boys-girls doubleheaders? The boys' game could theoretically be a legitimate game. Do you scrub that to protect Sisters of the Crippled?

 

[heyabbott]

"(The score) is probably not what we would like to see," Chris Kaufman, a spokesman for the Indiana High School Athletic Association, told the station.

Kaufman also told the station that the governing body does not have a mercy rule.

Hmmmmm.

Also, any coach always has the option to take his team off the floor and go home at any time if he feels the opponent is playing with flagrant disregard for safety or sportsmanship.

This. You don't like it, walk off the floor. Fairly simple.

If you are coaching a team that doesn't stand a chance in hell of being competitive, why on earth are you scheduling games against such opponents.

Both coaches can choke on a **** as far as I'm concerned. The winning coach's explanation that the losing team was playing an aggressive 2-3 zone is insanity. How aggressive could it be if you rolled up 107 in 40 minutes

 

[ColdCat]

"(The score) is probably not what we would like to see," Chris Kaufman, a spokesman for the Indiana High School Athletic Association, told the station.

Kaufman also told the station that the governing body does not have a mercy rule.

Hmmmmm.

Also, any coach always has the option to take his team off the floor and go home at any time if he feels the opponent is playing with flagrant disregard for safety or sportsmanship.

This. You don't like it, walk off the floor. Fairly simple.

If you are coaching a team that doesn't stand a chance in hell of being competitive, why on earth are you scheduling games against such opponents.

Both coaches can choke on a **** as far as I'm concerned. The winning coach's explanation that the losing team was playing an aggressive 2-3 zone is insanity. How aggressive could it be if you rolled up 107 in 40 minutes

yeah, that's nice, how about getting the ball over halfcourt and then just holding it. It's not like there's a shot clock you have to account for.

That said, does Indiana do boys-girls doubleheaders? The boys' game could theoretically be a legitimate game. Do you scrub that to protect Sisters of the Crippled?

some conferences do, but you don't see it for non-conference games. (Arlington is in a conference for city schools, Bloomington South is Conference Indiana)

 

[Starman]

One Indy Star article said Arlington averaged 17 points per game before this massacre. They have no business playing a varsity schedule.

We've taken three or four varsity high school girls games on the phones this season in which the winning team didn't score 20 points. I **** you not.

 

[KYSportsWriter]

We have a girls' team in our area that's lost 90-something straight district and region games. That team is why I'm glad the KHSAA implemented a 35-point running clock this season.

 

[NoOneLikesUs]

As far as participation is concerned, high school girls basketball is losing big-time ground to volleyball, soccer and softball. At least in my neck of the woods.

 

[93Devil]

"Winters said, telling the Star that Arlington's defense was in an aggressive 2-3 zone."

Yeah, **** him. They were extending the zone and pressuring the ball.

 

[kingcreole]

Earlier this season, I noticed a juco women's score that ended 89-3. That's a 40-minute game. With a 30-second shot clock.

Does Indiana play four eight-minute quarters, I'm guessing? Insane that a game could end 107-2, but a similar mismatched juco women's game ends 89-3.

The small college I cover has a great women's basketball team. They routinely pound opponents. Last weekend, they were up 26-5 less than six minutes in. They won by 70. I once joked with the coach after a similar game that they could have scored 150 points and won by 100. His response was, "Yeah, but what would that have accomplished?"

I guess that's a question I would ask the winning coach. What was accomplished by winning 107-2? I mean, they couldn't do a little Gene Hackman? "Four passes!" Did the winning coach empty the bench? You don't want to take away the chance for the kids to play, and when the scrubs get in, you want them to play. But still, there are ways to avoid scores that bad.

It reminds me of a high school girls game I covered at a former paper. The school I covered lost 100-24. The winning team was fouling in the final minute as if they were down six points, just to get the ball back to try to get 100. Yeah, you got 100 points, but was it worth it?