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Related: About this forumGrambling women's 🏀 159 - College of Biblical Studies 18
https://www.espn.com/womens-college-basketball/story/_/id/39232423/grambling-women-beat-college-biblical-studies-159-18The 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.
Xavier Breath
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(187,107 posts)sinkingfeeling
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(187,107 posts)460 students
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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)Jilly_in_VA
(11,051 posts)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)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)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)...
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)ProfessorGAC
(70,406 posts)...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)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)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)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.