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underpants

(187,107 posts)
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 10:39 AM Jan 2024

Grambling women's 🏀 159 - College of Biblical Studies 18

https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39232423/grambling-women-beat-college-biblical-studies-159-18

The Lady Tigers jumped out to a 34-0 lead, not allowing their opponent's first points until the 2:14 mark of the opening quarter. They closed that period with a 12-4 run, then scored the first 12 points of the second quarter en route to an 82-10 lead at the half.

The College of Biblical Studies is based in Houston and plays in the Southwest Region of the Division II National Christian College Athletic Association.

The previous record for margin of victory was set in 2018, when Savannah State beat Wesleyan (Georgia) 155-26.

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underpants

(187,107 posts)
4. 8 players on the team. All Freshman
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 11:01 AM
Jan 2024
https://www.cbs-athletics.com/womens-roster/

460 students
17% graduation rate

Theological position
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The college is nondenominational and evangelical, and more specifically dispensational, premillennial, and non-charismatic.[8] Its "doctrinal statement" includes the premillennial belief that the "imminent return of the Lord [...] is to be followed in order by: the tribulation; the establishment of the reign of Christ on earth for one thousand years; the eternal state of punishment for the unsaved and the eternal state of blessing for the saved."[8]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_Biblical_Studies

madinmaryland

(65,185 posts)
8. I guess you see what happens when you are coached by "thoughts and prayers". 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 07:35 PM
Jan 2024

Jilly_in_VA

(11,051 posts)
5. Really?
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 11:10 AM
Jan 2024

Was Grambling that hard up for opponents? I like women's college basketball but I don't approve of this kind of scheduling.

madinmaryland

(65,185 posts)
9. The Bible school will get a really good payout which will support their team for the year.
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 07:41 PM
Jan 2024

That is why division 2 and 3 teams visit the big teams and get humiliated. It supports a lot of other teams in their schools.

hlthe2b

(106,647 posts)
6. I think they could have "taken a break/slowed down" after they ran up the score to 100...
Wed Jan 3, 2024, 11:13 AM
Jan 2024

I only defend college football teams doing this--where it is not uncommon-- with obviously majorly outmatched season opponents if they go down their entire eligible roster for experience purposes. Leaving in their first string is unconscionable IMO. Looking at you Michigan and Ohio State (two of the worst offenders in recent decades)...

ProfessorGAC

(70,406 posts)
10. In This Game, No Grambling Player...
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 04:40 PM
Jan 2024

...played over 21 minutes of a 40 minute game.
11 of 12 players logged double digit minutes. The 12th played nine minutes.
There is a shot clock. The winning team isn't allowed to just stall.
Besides, if the other team quit trying after scoring a hundred, that might be a bigger insult than continuing the game normally.
To me, winning 100-15 without making any effort in the last third of the game is belittling to the opponent.
If all the players played at least 23% of the game, what would you have them do? Take random students out of the crowd to finish the game? Then what? "We beat you by 70 using players not good enough to get on this team?"
The target of our disgust should be the CBS athletic director who humiliated the team for a few bucks.

hlthe2b

(106,647 posts)
11. UGA all but sent in the concessionaires after moving through their entire roster to play in Orange Bowl
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 05:19 PM
Jan 2024

after the first half. Decent teams do not humiliate obviously inferior/inappropriate opponents. No, I don't expect them to stop trying and scoring, but they do not have to try to replicate the RATE of massive humiliation in the final minutes of the game.

I know. Good sportsmanship is dead or dying. But that was obscene.

ProfessorGAC

(70,406 posts)
12. You Have Provided No Alternative
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 05:32 PM
Jan 2024

And you've already shown you're willing to condemn without all the facts.
Your 2nd post is more of the same.
The UGA comparison is silly. College teams can dress 82 players. The SEC limits it to 60. But, this was not a SEC game, so the dress the maximum so as many players get the experience as possible.
82÷22=3.727. For b-ball, 5 play 12 dress. That's 2.4. A football coach can dig 50% deeper into the bench.
Then exactly how does a team playing all their reserves, in a game with timed possessions reduce the RATE of scoring. Miss on purpose? Why should the benchwarmers, playing significant minutes fir a change, willfully diminish their own games.
The opposing coach could have forfeited at half-time. That didn't happen. Why don't you question the sportsmanship of the defeated coach?

hlthe2b

(106,647 posts)
13. No. But I refuse to argue this with you, given your seeming lack of empathy for that outmatched team
Thu Jan 4, 2024, 05:35 PM
Jan 2024

I respect the coach for the losing team for maintaining his/her dignity and teaching a sad but valuable lesson in sportsmanship to their team members. Why the hell would I question THAT? Why would I demand THEY default? Disgusting... Talk about adding insult to injury. About like kicking the poor crippled dog for not keeping up.

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