This is so dumb. 30 years ago people would have told the losing team to "get over it." Now the winning coach gets suspended. I feel like my generation (I'm 17) is the softest and stupidest generation ever.

The way you get around this in basketball is you tell the dominant team to slow it down on offense, eventually only taking jump shots, and play a compact zone around the paint, hands at or below the shoulders.  That way the losing team avoids an endless stream of embarassing layups aginst them, and they get off some makeable shots.

The alternative, the bully way, is to play suffocating defense against a physically inferior opponent who will get literally no shots so you can run up a stupidly outrageous score.  Obviously that was done here and this person shouldn't be coaching.  Whoever it is really should be looking for a job in an office somewhere as a middle manger where he or she can torment some underlings.

Probably the most pathetic thing about this is the fact that the winning team had 6 fouls and the losers none.  You're up by that much and you're fouling?

My freshman HS team that I played on lost one game 63-9 (we were down 40-1 at halftime) and another game 77-20.  I thought we were bad...

I wouldn't mind if I saw this score as anyone who plays Ped State - 161, Ped State - 2

A GIRLS basketball team getting beaten that badly? Can you even imagine how much crying was going on in the losing locker room after that game?? The coach for the winning side SHOULD get fired; he/she is directly responsible for a half dozen new eating and/or cutting disorders!!

He was coaching eighth-grade boys one year and had a really, really good team, and spent the season trying to come up with ways to keep the score down. He'd do things like take away the dribble--nobody's allowed to dribble, at all, unless you need one dribble to get to the basket for an open layup.

Sometimes that didn't even work.

And sometimes the ideas backfired. Once they were up 26-7 at the half. That wasn't quite as bad as some of the games had been, and at some point you have to let your starters get some game experience, right? At that point they'd only had one competitive game all year.

So he split the team into two groups of six, with the best players split between the groups. He took away the dribble, again, and he told the two groups that whichever one gave up more points in their quarter would have to run gassers the next day in practice. (My memory is that he also said whichever group scored fewer would run, too, but it's probably wrong because nobody else remembers it.)

You've probably already figured out the strategy for the third-quarter group--they went out and used up all the fouls, made sure the other team was in the bonus when the 4th quarter started. They won their quarter 16-0 and were pretty pleased with themselves.

The second group went out in a bad mood. No dribble was bad enough, and now a single foul would mean they had to run.

They won their quarter 17-0.

And the other coach was mad. Hell, their scorekeeper was mad, which I remember well because I was keeping our book and got an earful.

What I thought, sitting there at the table watching it all and listening to all the bitching, I couldn't very well say, which was that damn it there's no excuse for being that bad. Their school was twice the size of ours, and they couldn't even put five guys out there that could defend a team that wasn't allowed to dribble??? That wasn't lack of physical talent, that was years of incompetent coaching.