Um, are you nuts?
HS basketball has 4 8 minute halves.
That means the second half’s 31 points on top of the first half’s 59 points was a bucket every minute in the second half and 2 buckets per minute in the first.
Not remotely a VERY VERY slow game.
halves should read QUARTERS.
Which doesn’t include missed shots. You rarely see a girls high school game in which the shot % is greater than 50%. I’d like to know how many shots each team put up.
You can shoot fish in a barrel, but it’s not very sporting nor fun to watch.
Sounds about right to me. Assuming that they used the entire shot clock, and scored more or less every time (not at all a ridiculous assumption, assuming that the team likely rebounded at will, as well). I don't know what the shot clock is for HS....figure 35-45 sec...actually, this score sounds about right if the game was total mismatch.
Actually, throwing out the first 3 minutes where the team put up a 25-zip lead, figures out to 75 points in 29 minutes, or just slightly better than a basket a minute.
When I was playing girls HS basketball, 18 years ago, there were four 15 minute quarters and the shot clock was 24 seconds.
I see you're a public high school student and don't know the difference between halves and quarters, so let me try and explain this to you.
High School Basketball has four (4) twelve (12) minute quarters, at least where I live and went to school. Given a 12 minute quarter and a 24 second shot clock, each team has a minimum of 1 posession per minute available to them, with time left over in that minute.
Do the math, 12*60=720 (that's the number of seconds per quarter.) Divide 720 seconds by 24 (the number of seconds on the shot clock) to obtain the minimum number of posessions available. The answer is 30. Assuming each team used up the 24 second clock on each posession, each team would have 15 posessions per quarter.
Now, given the fact the team scored 31 points in the second half on perhaps 30 posessions using the math above, this would mean mathematically that they only scored on every other posession across 2 quarters.
Gee, it sure looks to me like they gave the other team every opportunity to score, and probably did in fact do a good job of running out the clock. If they hadn't, the score would've likely been 200 - 0 at the rate they were going.