Men’s College Basketball Team Loses Game, 108-14, and Fans Had So Many Jokes

North Dakota State had no problem winning this home game.
Men’s College Basketball Team Loses Game, 108-14, and Fans Had So Many Jokes
Men’s College Basketball Team Loses Game, 108-14, and Fans Had So Many Jokes /

A matchup between the North Dakota State men’s basketball team and a non-Division I team on Sunday produced a ludicrous final score that has fans everywhere in amazement.

While it’s not uncommon for Division I schools like NDSU to occasionally play teams from lower divisions during the non-conference season to bolster their home schedule, its matchup with Oak Hills Christian College was certainly an outlier. Oak Hills Christian, a school with a listed enrollment of just 100 students in Bemidji, Minn., isn’t part of the NCAA at all. Instead, it plays sports in ACCA (Association of Christian College Athletics). The result, as you might expect, wasn’t pretty: North Dakota State won 108–14, producing this hilarious graphic that has since gone viral.

This might be ard to believe, but things were actually worse for Oak Hills Christian at halftime. They mustered just five points in the first half en route to a 60–5 deficit at the break before nearly doubling that output in the second to get to 14 points for the game. In total, Oak Hills Christian shot just 6–49 from the field, committed 23 turnovers and got outrebounded 59–14 by the Bison.

Oak Hill Christian’s roster lists just one player taller than 6’4”, and its coach, Tom Haldeman, doubles as a faculty advisor and instructor for the business program.

Was this a productive game for anyone? Probably not. But did it produce some funny memes in the process? Of course it did.


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Kevin Sweeney is a staff writer at Sports Illustrated covering college basketball and the NBA draft. He joined the SI staff in July 2021 and also serves host and analyst for The Field of 68. Sweeney is a Naismith Trophy voter and ia member of the U.S. Basketball Writers Association. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism.