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You're not going to believe this one:

Prince's big game was not a good thing http://msn.foxsports.com/wcbk/story/5302874

(snip) First, praise to Epiphanny Prince. Scoring 113 points in a 32-minute game is an incredible athletic achievement — and if, as reported, she made 54 of 60 shots, that's even more incredible. I'm sure many were layups, but even making 54 out of 60 layups is no mean feat.

And Prince's performance highlights a season in which she has proved wrong some who doubted her intensity. She has played at a high level all year, and clearly established herself as one of the top players in the country.

Epiphanny Prince scored 113 points this week in one game. (Michael Appleton / Associated Press)

All that said, even accounting for the marvelous skills of Prince, the 137-32 Murray Bergtraum win was a disgrace to the coaching staff and the school. There is simply no reason to humiliate another team, regardless of the level of the play and regardless of whatever might have contributed to the desire to run up the score and let Prince get a national record.

Coach Ed Grezinsky, who transformed Murray Bergtraum from just another New York City high school into a national power, must shoulder most of the blame for this disgusting display of excess. At every level, from local rec leagues to the NBA, responsible coaches recognize that there are two teams on the court, and that the players wearing different-colored uniforms deserve respect, no matter what their talent level.

12 posted on 02/05/2006 7:39:26 AM PST by AliVeritas (The Espionage Act of 1917... It's time to use it.)
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To: AliVeritas
Even if you leave the other team out of it, just consider two basic points here:

1. There is no reason to keep your starters playing in a game where you are up by 50+ points. If your bench players don't get into a game that you end up winning by 100+ points, then when do you ever send them on the court?

2. Epiphanny Prince already has a basketball scholarship to Rutgers next year. Imagine the cries of outrage that this coach would have heard -- and justifiably so -- from every corner of the sports world if she had suffered a career-threatening injury in the second half of a game that her team was winning by 80 points.

21 posted on 02/05/2006 8:04:16 AM PST by Alberta's Child (Leave a message with the rain . . . you can find me where the wind blows.)
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