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So, THAT explains why they had the full-court press and were shooting three point shots during the fourth quarter while they were leading by 70, 80 or 90 points.

I have no way of knowing if the coach is telling the truth, but he's said that they dropped the full-court press and went to zone defense early. Is there any chance that they could have been taking three-point shots because they were running out the clock? After all, it's a lower-probability shot, or so I've been told, so if you're poorly positioned as the clock runs out, you shoot from where-ever you are. Or do you feel that it was unsportsmanlike of them to try to shoot baskets at all?

Is there any chance that they could have been taking three-point shots because they were running out the clock?

There are no shot clocks in high school. They could have eased up when the score was 30-0 and used the opportunity to just practice dribbling and passing. If your team is really really good, then you have to put the ball up at least 75-80 times to score 100 points in a high school game.

And IIRC, in girls high school basketball you have 2 20 minutes halves, which means this team had to take a shot at the basket at least once every 30 seconds including the time the other teams had posession of the ball.

I suspect that Covenant took at least one shot every 20 seconds. There is no way this team could score 100 points and not be trying to humiliate the other team.

Is there any chance that they could have been taking three-point shots because they were running out the clock? After all, it's a lower-probability shot, or so I've been told, ....

There is a much more effective tactic for intentionally running out the clock:

It's called "dribbling".

Since it seems the other team could not get a rebound if their life depended on it, a missed three pointer would have merely reset the time on the shot clock after the rebound.

Stopping short to shoot a three on a fast break is NOT something you do to "run out the clock". It is what a classless team does to "run up the score" when the score is already 74-0.

Or do you feel that it was unsportsmanlike of them to try to shoot baskets at all?

What part of "the Coach was yelling for them to break 100 points" do you have a problem understanding?

Against semi-handicapped kids that had not been able to score a single basket.

As long as you are intentionally humiliating them, why not have your cheerleaders and your crowd chant:

REEEEE - TAAAAARDS!

I am truly flabbergasted that the basics of Sportsmanship seem to be a foreign concept to some people on this thread.

Even in the NFL, if a team is winning 38 to 3 with two minutes left in the game and the team that is winning has taken over the ball on downs and has a first and goal with the ball on the five yard line, such a team will show class and sportsmanship, not by trying to get the ball into the end-zone, but by "taking a knee" four times if necessary.

That is called "the Victory Formation" and it is used by those teams that have class.

"When the Great Scorer comes to mark against your name,
He writes not that you won or lost, but how you played the Game."