107-2? Really?

A high school girls basketball game in Indiana, which ended with a score of 107-2 recently, has drawn the ire of fans throughout the country. The most common complaint is, “why would you beat someone 107-2?” I agree with the outrage. My question however, “why would anyone ever put a team on the court that could get beat by a score of 107-2?” The winning team in this situation used all nine of its players and ran a, reportedly, “aggressive” 2-3 zone defense. Indiana doesn’t have a mercy-rule situation. I don’t understand why the winning team is always at fault in these mismatched contests. What are they supposed to do? I’d rather lose badly than have an opponent feel pity on me and stop playing. I’ve never understood why it’s the fault of the team that has obviously put in the time and effort to perfect its skills and honed itself into a well-oiled machine. Hey, shame on you for out-working all the other teams. It’s about time someone focused on the “2” instead of the “107.” You see, I know what it takes to accomplish the “107.” It takes dedication and grit and desire and teamwork and persistence. What I don’t understand is how a team can be so incompetent to only score a mere “2” points in a regulation basketball game. That takes a lack of dedication, a lack of grit and desire and heart and competitive spirit. That’s a team that shouldn’t be on the floor in a competitive game. High school sports is about competition. If you can’t compete, practice until you can but don’t put a non-competitive group on the floor and expect players who have worked their tails off to be good to not put their skills on display. Sportsmanship and pity are two different things. It’s about time we got back to basics and started using the rules of the playground. If you can’t play, get the hell off the court.