There are two 20 minute halves in Girls basketball. The clock does not stop except for time-outs until the 2 minute mark.
Do you have any idea how hard you have to try to score 100 points even without an opponent in 40 minutes?
ZERO points??? There’s something part of the story missing here, and there’s some culpability on the part of losing coach and school that’s not also on display.
IIRC, the losing team has about 25 students in the school (I think they have about 1/3 of their student body on this team) and they all have learning disabilities. Their team is obviously not on the court to win, they are on the court to try their best. When an vastly superior team is running a full court press and stealing the ball at every opportunity and blocking shots at every opportunity, then scoring ZERO points is pretty understandable.
High School basketball in our area has 4 quarters. (It’d be really confusing if there were 3 quarters, wouldn’t there?:>)
In any case, I’ll not relent on the culpability of the other team. It is more consistent with a socialist society to send competitors into a game with the admonition “Don’t try.”
The game never should have been scheduled in the first place.
Also, the losing coach should have pulled his team and forfeited the game. What exactly was the lesson he was teaching by hanging on ‘til the bitter end? “When something doesn’t make sense and isn’t working, I want you to hang in there girls. Keep beating your head against the wall.”
The winning coach should have been fired, but the more I think about it, the losing coach should be reprimanded.