<p>Jack Taylor, Grinnell sophomore, broke the NCAA record by scoring 138 points in one game.</p>
<p>Previous record was 116. Holy crap.</p>
<p>I mean, right? I don’t even care about sports, but this is cool!</p>
<p>Actually, not so cool. The other team is from a school with something like 150 men total, probably would lose to a lot of high school teams. Stories I have read make pretty clear that the Grinnell team was intentionally trying to give this guy shots so he could run up his points, even though the game was not competitive. Really questionable sportsmanship.</p>
<p>However, in 50 something years, no one else would/could have done this to break a record? They are all so much more sportsmanlike than Grinnell?</p>
<p>Of course 50 years from now nobody will care that it wasn’t true sportsmanship, and of course people will always be able to do stuff like that. The real question is if it’s right to do things like that.</p>
<p>Running up points, whether team or individual, against a clearly overmatched opponent is never good sportsmanship.</p>
<p>I know so little about sports that this is new information to me. I don’t quite get where that stops because professional teams don’t pull out their best players, I wouldn’t think, if they were performing too well against the competition. What is the dividing line? I must sound naive, but I really don’t get it. Like would a high school soccer team take out their highest scorer so that the other team wouldn’t feel bad? The other team in this Grinnell game got 104 points, so they can’t be that deficient.</p>