Two Tennessee high school girls basketball teams were banned from a post-season tournament after they “made a mockery of the game” by tanking free-throws, making intentional turnovers, committing blatant rule violations and trying to shoot in their opponent’s goal, officials said.

The suspensions came in response to a Feb. 21 game between Riverdale High School and Smyrna High School, who met in the round of a tournament that would determine who would be seeded third in a regional showdown. The winner of the game would have faced a powerhouse squad from Blackman High School, the defending state champions, officials said.

In the end, Smyrna won, 55-39. Afterwards, the TSSAA called a meeting with administrators from both schools, who apologized, association executive director Bernard Childress said in a letter outlining the case. Childress banned both teams from the post-season and put them on probation through the 2015-16 season.

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