Wed Dec 12, 2012, 04:14 PM

Indiana girls basketball team routs foe 107-2, sparking sportsmanship outrage

Ever since Dallas (Texas) Covenant School's girls basketball team routed Dallas (Texas) Academy's girls program 100-0 in 2009, the round-numbered rout has served as the benchmark for brutal blowouts. It was even obliquely cited in an article about another girls hoops blowout on Monday right here at Prep Rally.

Now Covenant may finally be off the sportsmanship hook, thanks to an even more absurd act of poor sportsmanship in Indiana. On Tuesday night, Bloomington (Ind.) South High's girls basketball squad topped Arlington (Ind.) High's team by a score of 107-2.

According to the Indianapolis Star, Arlington hit a solitary free throw in both the second and third period. All the rest of the scoring came from Bloomington South, with the team's coach encouraging his players to keep shooting as the points piled up.

"I didn't tell my girls to stop shooting because that would have been more embarrassing ," Bloomington South coach Larry Winters told the Star. "We were not trying to embarrass them or run up the score."

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/highschool-prep-rally/indiana-girls-basketball-team-routs-foe-107-2-181525152.html?

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Indiana girls basketball team routs foe 107-2, sparking sportsmanship outrage (Original post)	Tony_FLADEM	Dec 2012	OP
It's the Arlington team who exhibited the "poor" sportsmanship	rocktivity	Dec 2012	#1
Are you being sarcastic? nm	rhett o rick	Dec 2012	#6
About how poorly they played, yes. But not about the skunk rule	rocktivity	Dec 2012	#8
Tough to tell w/o being able to picture it	JonLP24	Dec 2012	#2
Looky at what I found, LOL!	rocktivity	Dec 2012	#3
There was an 88-0 girls game just last month..	Upton	Dec 2012	#4
I really don't understand Winters' point	caraher	Dec 2012	#5
there are NBA teams that can't score 107 points	WooWooWoo	Dec 2012	#9
There is no excuse. The coaches explanation was total BS.	rhett o rick	Dec 2012	#7
I disagree	Travis_0004	Dec 2012	#10
It's high school. The more reason to demonstrate sportsmanship.	rhett o rick	Dec 2012	#11
They stopped pressing at 50-0	Indianademocrat91	Dec 2012	#12
Exactly. An asshat. I bet the winning team was yucking it up the whole game. I have	rhett o rick	Dec 2012	#13
Pressing With A 48 Point Lead?	ProfessorGAC	Dec 2012	#14
Wait a minute!	Iggo	Dec 2012	#15

Response to Tony_FLADEM (Original post)

Wed Dec 12, 2012, 04:26 PM

rocktivity (36,631 posts)

1. It's the Arlington team who exhibited the "poor" sportsmanship

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They're 0-5 for the year on top of losing 18 in a row previously. And they were only able to score on free throws?

The league should have a policy of automatically ending the game if the margin of victory is that large. When I played volleyball in school, the game ended if the lead grew past fifteen points (known as the "mercy" or "skunk" rule):

In high school basketball, many states have a "continuous clock" rule, similar to American football, which takes effect in the second half after a lead grows to a prescribed point (e.g., in Iowa, 35 points or more). The clock stops only for charged, officials' or injury time-outs; or at the end of the third quarter. The clock would not stop in situations where timing would normally stop, such as for fouls, free throws, out-of-bounds plays or substitutions.

The rules vary when normal timing procedures take effect after a lead is diminished (such as due to the trailing team's rally); for instance, in Iowa, normal timing procedures are enforced when the lead is lowered to 25 points, but re-instituted once the lead grows back to 35 or more points. As with other sports, some states offer provisions to allow a team to end the game early by mutual decision of the coaches (for instance, if a large lead continues to grow and the talent disparity is obvious).

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Indiana girls basketball team routs foe 107-2, sparking sportsmanship outrage

1. It's the Arlington team who exhibited the "poor" sportsmanship

6. Are you being sarcastic? nm

8. About how poorly they played, yes. But not about the skunk rule

2. Tough to tell w/o being able to picture it

3. Looky at what I found, LOL!

4. There was an 88-0 girls game just last month..

5. I really don't understand Winters' point

9. there are NBA teams that can't score 107 points

7. There is no excuse. The coaches explanation was total BS.

10. I disagree

11. It's high school. The more reason to demonstrate sportsmanship.

12. They stopped pressing at 50-0

13. Exactly. An asshat. I bet the winning team was yucking it up the whole game. I have

14. Pressing With A 48 Point Lead?

15. Wait a minute!