Girls High School Basketball Game Final Score: 13-8

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Girls High School Basketball Game Final Score: 13-8

By Stephen Douglas March 2, 2012 1:08 pm ET Follow @Stephen_Douglas

By: Stephen Douglas | March 2, 2012 1:08 pm ET Follow @Stephen_Douglas

You read that headline and you assume the game was called off after a quarter because of weather, right? Nope. This was a complete, 4-quarter girls high school basketball game. The score was 4-0 at the half and 6-0 at the start of the 4th quarter. Without having seen so much as a still photo of the game, I can say without a doubt that it was an insult to the game of basketball and an embarrassment for everyone involved. From High School Sports.net:

Notre Dame, ranked third in the Cincinnati Enquirer Northern Kentucky coaches’ poll, led seventh-ranked Highlands 6-0 after three quarters in a contest that had officials wondering if this was the lowest scoring game in Ninth Region girls’ basketball tournament history. They could not confirm it, but the contest was definitely an anomaly.

What say you, worst basketball coach in the world?

“Tonight was all strategy for us to make it a close game,” Highlands coach Jaime Richey said. “We lost big when we tried to run with them. We had to come up with the best possible way to win the game, so we slowed it down.”

And the other coach? More than happy to rest his players during the game.

“I didn’t want to pick up the pace because I didn’t see the need for the girls to run around,” Notre Dame coach Nicole Levandusky said of the Bluebirds stalling strategy. “I thought we might as well stay back and wait on them to play.”

And wait they did.

The Bluebirds didn’t budge. Fisse held the ball for two minutes on Highlands’ first possession. Voskuhl scored the first points with a basket at the 2:30 mark and Highlands held the ball for two more minutes. Fisse held the ball for three minutes to begin the second quarter, but the Pandas’ Hannah Thelen hit a basket to make it 4-0.

Earlier today I tweeted (follow me!) that Obama had lied about enjoying watching his daughter play basketball. Games like this would make parents pine for the halcyon days of watching girls missing 10 layups every trip down the floor.

[HighSchoolSports.net]

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Comments

MP

We got next.
KingGrizz

Smart coaching — what kind of ratings did it get?
cracker jack

I once played in a rec league game with other 12-13 year olds that the final score was 22-2. We were the 2. I got an assist!
http://i.imgur.com/6mQjo.gif VladimirCrouton

/Obligatory B1G joke
http://twitter.com/#!/sousedbergin sousedbergin

13 points HA! That what the Wisconsin men’s team put up a half.
Matty_Cam

Brutal. High schools need a shot clock too. It might not increase scoring, but at least you have to shoot (or throw) the ball to towards the basket.
http://twitter.com/#!/sousedbergin sousedbergin

Uh, i need a drink.
vajayjay redick

Semi-serious – why dont high schools invest in some adjustable rims and lower them for the girls? They already use smaller balls dont they?
http://www.twitter.com/djr1904 Big Hoss

Iowa was one of the last states to convert from six to five-player girls basketball. I was in high school when this happened and the games were painful. The first points our girls team scored in a five-player game were for the other team.
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

13 points HA! That what the Wisconsin men’s team put up a half.

We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of the greatest basketball game ever played…watched every minute, the train wreck quality of it was what made it amazing

I like how the game flow chart looks like a flatline, sums it all up nicely
http://twitter.com/adamstbear St. Bear

Semi-serious – why dont high schools invest in some adjustable rims and lower them for the girls? They already use smaller balls dont they?

Or better yet, hold the game in a kitchen rather than a gym, instead of balls use baking ingredients, and call it Cooking.
MP III

sure this wasnt a Big ten game?
TheGilly

My son’s second grade team beat someone 37-0 in a tournament last week. I was keeping the book and the other coach said, “This really should be a 30-20 game.”
http://spartyandfriends.com/ mizerle06 is mcintyred of all the trollin'

You read that headline and you assume the game was called off after a quarter because of weather, right?

no, I assumed these were the 13th and 14th members of the Big Televwelven.
Human Vacuum Cleaner

…Notre Dame’s Olivia Voskuhl, who led all players with six points.

Related to Jake?

/Fuck Jim Calhoun
http://tunagolf.wordpress.com/ TheRealAC

My son’s second grade team beat someone 37-0 in a tournament last week.

boys > girls
MP

Or better yet, hold the game in a kitchen rather than a gym, instead of balls use baking ingredients, and call it Cooking.

Think of the money they would save. Instead of buying home AND away jerseys, they could just get reversible aprons.
http://twitter.com/#!/sousedbergin sousedbergin

Or better yet, hold the game in a kitchen rather than a gym, instead of balls use baking ingredients, and call it Cooking.

Are they playing in full length ball gowns? Is Hellen Keller point guard for both teams? What do their boyfriends think about this?
http://twitter.com/MantisToboggan5 Mantis Toboggan

We’re coming up on the one-year anniversary of the greatest basketball game ever played…watched every minute, the train wreck quality of it was what made it amazing

It was a magical night. Got PSU in their once in a decade appearance to the tourney. Between that and NIT championship, they had a nice little dynasty for 3 years
TK

They’re the Notre Dame Pandas? That’s interesting.
http://spartyandfriends.com/ mizerle06 is mcintyred of all the trollin'

1973: Tennessee 11, Temple 6 Go Vols!!
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

It was a magical night. Got PSU in their once in a decade appearance to the tourney. Between that and NIT championship, they had a nice little dynasty for 3 years

It’s a shame they ran out of Crispin brothers, I liked their teams 10-12 years ago…especially the one that took out UNC, that was fun
http://nudistcolonytailor.com/ got_em_looking

Clearly this was a case of first to (Title) 9 wins.
http://twitter.com/ButtersBC ButtersBC

They’re the Notre Dame Pandas? That’s interesting.

New racist headline: Notre Dame’s Defense Bamboozles Highland
http://twitter.com/MantisToboggan5 Mantis Toboggan

Damn, we are tied with Nebraska for dead last in the B1G. I didn’t know Nebraska had a basketball team until this year.