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I actually wrote a blog entry about this last night when I read the story. There are more people at fault than the winning team for this, but the winning team does share a huge chunk of the responsibility of this situation.
-The losing team averages 17 ppg and has lost 23 straight. They have no business even playing the winning team. That is on the schools who scheduled this nonsense.
-Indiana does not use the shot clock. The winning team could have just ran clock all game like tons of girls teams do around the country (some of the higher ranked teams end games 17-15 and it is equally pathetic to this since they literally stand there with the ball for minutes at a time. They could have done that.
- Why is there no mercy rule in basketball to prevent these situations? There is in HS baseball.
- The winning coach shouldn't have to tell his players to stop. They should have the cognitive ability to realize what they are doing is pathetic and should have just started passing it around the horn and running out the clock rather than extending the game by continuing to take shots and play hard defense.