When scanning my ESPN app this morning I came across the women’s college basketball game - between the Sun Belt’s Division 1 Georgia Southern Eagles team and a team named Carver - in progress.
The score late in the third quarter was 90-9. I blinked hard and switched it on. Like an evolving train wreck, I couldn’t resist watching. The Carver women looked like they had never touched a basketball before.
The venue was a bit surrealistic. It was an 11 o’clock AM start on a Monday morning and the Georgia Southern arena was packed with screaming Statesboro area elementary school kids.
The final score ended up being 133-15.
It appears Carver is a tiny (about 60
students in 2017) “Bible college” in Atlanta. Their official athletics link - like their women’s basketball team - is broken so I have no idea who their players are. But it is very clear they obviously need lots of prayer.
And I forgot to mention that the Eagles’s head coach and assistant coach were both dressed in Sunday attire and both were wearing 4” spiked heels on the court. Seriously!
I don’t think they were created as that initially but you might be on to something. Beatdown games might have become their version of a bake sale or go fund me page. Would be interesting to research it.