South Bend was left with a black eye on a night that saw the head coach (Matt Painter) of the nation’s top-ranked college basketball team (Purdue) in attendance to scout potentially future Boilermakers.
High school basketball in this town — in this state — is sacred. So are high school gymnasiums, where no matter what’s happening outside those four walls on a given winter’s night, you can grab a box of popcorn, grab a spot on a wooden bleacher and settle in for 32 minutes.Of good kids doing good stuff. Making jumpers. Driving for layups. Grabbing rebounds. Competing until the final buzzer, often against their buddies. Doesn’t matter if it’s North , South , East or West .
Instead of a game, we get dopes playing games that don’t involve a ball and a basket. We get video of “fans” and we use that word loosely for this one — deciding that halftime was the time to throw hands. To feel strong. To seemingly settle a score that didn’t involve a board. We have other spectators running wildly around the gym floor. We have reports of every police officer in town being summoned to the scene. Another report of an ambulance responding.
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