Wierd News: Final Basketball Score 107-2

[arniejolt]

Mercy Rule? What's that?

The Bloomington South High School girls' basketball team beat Arlington High School 107-2 on Tuesday night in Indianapolis, prompting an official with the state prep sports association to say he never wants to see an outcome so one-sided again.

"(The score) is probably not what we would like to see," Chris Kaufman, a spokesman for the Indiana High School Athletic Association, told RTV6 in Indianapolis.

Bloomington South coach Larry Winters told the Indianapolis Star there was no effort to embarrass Arlington or run up the score. Winters said he played all nine of his players.

"I didn't tell my girls to stop shooting because that would have been more embarrassing (to Arlington)," Winters said, telling the Star that Arlington's defense was in an aggressive 2-3 zone. "We were not trying to embarrass them or run up the score."

Arlington's only points came on a free throw in the second quarter and another in the third. In Indiana there is no "mercy rule," where games are halted when a score gets out of hand.

First-year Arlington coach Ebony Jackson says she was disappointed with how Bloomington South (8-1) handled the game. Her team is 0-6 this year and has lost 23 straight games.

"No, it's not OK, but (Winters) will have to live with that," Jackson said, according to the Star. "If that's how they want to carry themselves, that's fine. I'm focused on me and mine, and we'll just keep going."

In its report, the Star carried tweets from outraged fans. From one: "This is disgraceful & a blow 2the integrity of (Indiana high school basketball)."

From ESPN:
http://espn.go.com/espn/story/_/id/8...eats-arlington

[HeyRiles]

Now I can't stop thinking about the Backyard Baseball field in the parking lot with the pizza box home plate and the truck on the left field wall that you could hit your ball on top of and get a home run

Fun fact: the game stops recording your runs at 99

[CJHobbes]

Now I can't stop thinking about the Backyard Baseball field in the parking lot with the pizza box home plate and the truck on the left field wall that you could hit your ball on top of and get a home run

Fun fact: the game stops recording your runs at 99

That reminds me of my buddy's pinball table. It's an old one and the scoreboard can only score up to 999,999. The nice thing is if you get over a billion, it rolls over and shows the score as 001,324. Still, pretty funny.

As far as the story, it isn't the first lopsided sporting event and it certainly won't be the last. Why this is getting so much publicity is beyond me, other than fueling one of the many cyclical sports arguments that people enjoy having for some reason.

Fun fact: 2 years ago another girl's high school team won a game 100-0, and those circumstances were much more inciting than this story. The coach of the winning team was actually fired because of it.

[sillystou]

I'm surprised it wasn't the Raptors who lost like that...

[abynormal]

How inept can a team be if they can only score one basket over the course of a game? EDIT: Oh their only points came from free throws. I know this is only high school ball but come on!

[sillystou]

Oh their only points came from free throws. I know this is only high school ball but come on!

Speaking of freethrows... You have to see this, lol.

[Witticus]

Speaking of freethrows... You have to see this, lol.

16 million views... Published December 8th...

[sillystou]

holy ****, I didn't even see that! I wonder if it's a new record...

[HeyRiles]

holy ****, I didn't even see that! I wonder if it's a new record...

The original video has since been deleted, but back when it first hit Youtube this clip was pretty close to the sports view record