The Arroyo Valley High School in San Bernardino, Calif. has a girls basketball team that's really, really good. And the Bloomington High School in Bloomington, Calif. has a girls basketball team that's really, really bad. So when the two teams collided during a game last week, it got ugly. Fast. It actually got so ugly that the final score ended up being—get this—161-2.
Arroyo Valley head coach Michael Anderson claims that he tried everything to keep the game somewhat competitive. He called off his full-court press after halftime. He sat all of his starters in the second half and went deep into his bench. He even asked his team not to shoot the ball on offense until there were only seven seconds left on the shot clock. But nothing worked.
"I didn't expect them to be that bad," he said after the game. "I'm not trying to embarrass anybody. And I didn't expect my bench to play that well. I had one [bench] player make eight of nine threes."
Bloomington head coach Dale Chung didn't see things that way, though. He accused Anderson of trapping his team in the half court in the second half and said that Arroyo Valley ran up the score on purpose.
"I've known [Anderson] for about seven years," Chung said later. "He's a great Xs and Os coach. Ethically? Not so much. He knows what he did was wrong."
Anderson was disciplined by his own school for what he did. But it reportedly took them three days to do it and someone from the school also reportedly posted the photo that you see above on the school's official Facebook page for the team.
So do you have a problem with what Arroyo Valley did? Or do you think Bloomington should force their team to fold if they can't be more competitive moving forward?
[via Sportz Edge]
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