Coach walks off floor....with players

[Stat-Man]

I saw it happen in 1999 during a weekend Semi-Pro Women's Basketball tournament.

We had a three team weekend tournament (Saturday was a round robin and Sunday was the finals) with the winner qualifying to some national tournament.

Anyways, the final game is a local team versus a team from Chicago. The visiting team isn't doing too bad, but as the game prtogresses, the coach is getting more and more agitated and his team is starting to get more physical.

I'm not sure what all triggered the final action any more, but according to my archives, he decided to pull his team off the court with 9:18 left in the game trailing by 19. I do remeber that the league office was contacted. I do know they weren't allowed to participate in the national tournament (which they might have been able to do had they fiished the game and finished as the regional runner-up).

It was crazy. I mean, I can understand coaches being all passionate and such, but pulling a team off like that accomplishes nothing good.