I’m sure that the parents didn’t send their girls to The Covenant Academy to become WNBA stars. They more than likely expected the school to teach them some dignity and class.
Major assumptions there. How do we know the girls don’t have dignity and class with or without this game?
How SHOULD they have responded? By staging a mutiny against the coach? By sitting down and refusing to play? By intentionally committing errors, fouls and turnovers?
Sports is about preparation and competition. Should the game have been scheduled? Probably not. But asking male or female athletes to prepare then telling them to dog it in a game is pointless.