Girls Basketball Teams Suspended For Trying To Lose

Published February 26, 2015 at 12:33 PM EST

The Riverdale High School and Smyrna High School girls basketball teams were suspended for both trying to lose the game on Feb. 21. (Screenshot from a video tweeted by Trevor Goodson @CousinTrevvv)

Two Tennessee high school girls basketball teams made news this week after playing so badly as to tip off the referee and the Tennessee Secondary School Athletic Association that they were playing to lose. Here & Now sports analyst Mike Pesca joins host Meghna Chakrabarti with details.

Smyrna trying to hand Riverdale the ball back. Then intentionally getting called for a backcourt violation. @tssaa pic.twitter.com/hkBPJIpEY7

— Trevor Goodson™ (@CousinTrevvv) February 21, 2015

Guest

Mike Pesca, Here & Now sports analyst and host of Slate’s daily podcast The Gist. He tweets @pescami.

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