Now, the past couple weeks have been very busy for us on the HiLite, from our January 2016 issue of the HiLite, to Winter Storm Jonas leaving a Cathedral High School group stranded on the highway (they said via Facebook they are ok and have enough food and water to wait out the storm), to Donald Trump saying…eh, who gives a <expletive> about what Donald Trump says, anyway? But over in Sports, there was a big story that got lost in the wind.

Yes, I refer to the Pike-Ben Davis girls basketball incident. I know I covered this extensively last week, but now that the situation has come to a close and it’s sort of old news, I thought it would be nice to take stock of this entire incident and finally bring this entire incident to a close, because apparently, this story, which is big news in the world of Sports, was paid little heed, and that is bad, considering the incident affects tonight’s women’s basketball game, which will now be played against Jay County.

I spent the entirety of last week tracking members of the boys basketball team down, and asking them what they know of the incident. The fact that Head Coach Scott Heady didn’t sit them down to talk about the incident is not entirely surprising, considering the team has high character anyway. What is surprising is how little they know of the incident. Let me offer you the entire transcript from several boys basketball members:

Ethan Merriweather: “I know the girls from both programs got suspended, and I know there was a fight, but beyond that, I don’t know much.’

Mike Pitz: “The fight is an affront to Indiana sports, to see such a brawl does not align with the goals of basketball, and there are some who never deserve to play again. Ever.”

Britt Beery: “Speak to someone else, please.”

Sterling Brown: “I don’t know much on the incident.”

Out of all these interviews, the only person who may know more is Pitz, but then again, I’m probably not going to get much out of these boys.

And then I finally understood why. Girls basketball does not have the popularity of Boys basketball. So that is why they know little of the incident.

Unfortunately, I could ramble on about how girls basketball should really have a jump in popularity, but that’s not the point of this.

Regardless of whether the boys basketball team knows little or a lot, it’s not been disputed: Pike and Ben Davis, in that specific moment, did not act with class.

To conclude, I think it’s somewhat important to realize that the incident, while lost in the mud due to the fact girls basketball is not popular, is still a huge story in the world of Indiana sports. To be honest, I hope Pike and Ben Davis take this as a learning opportunity and hopefully sends a clear message to the rest of Indiana that these kinds of fights are unacceptable.