Preface and disclaimer--none of what follows is intended to be taken personally by anyone. This challenge is the result of shooting in a very difficult situation with very limited options.

Gymnasium lighting has for a long time typically been done with mercury vapor lighting. I am guessing that is the case here. It is very efficient and can quite easily achieve quite high brightness levels. The problem is that if you look at the light on a spectrograph, it's all made up of six very narrow lines of light...two each of orange, green, and violet. (Sort of like red, blue, and green, but not really.) The problem is that while the light looks sort of white (subjectively, at least), it's really not. The CRI of mercury vapor lamps ranges from about 17 (clear lamps) to somewhere around 49 (coated lamps, similar to fluorescent tubes). This limits the ability to do color correction, because much of the color that you might want to increase is simply not present. (By the way, low pressure sodium lamps have a CRI of around -44 (yes, that's negative 44), and high pressure sodium...the ones that make you think they're white...are around 24. They are essentially almost monochromatic yellow light sources.) Some gyms today are equipped with LED or other new-fangled lighting, but this is far from universal. It's expensive, and despite marketing claims, maintenance and replacement frequency is about the same as for the more traditional options.

I have found through experience that just about the best way to handle sodium lighting is to shoot in monochrome. Mercury vapor can usually be best handled by exposing for fluorescent and then leaving everything alone. What you would like to achieve is simply not there to be recovered. With apologies to each of those who have tried, I do not believe that the corrections offered provide improvement over the originals. They all seem (to me at least) to have something of a blue haze that I don't care for. Additionally, the skin tones do not seem natural (or healthy) and the colors in the clothing are less believable.

Of great importance here is for me to acknowledge that I was not present at the game. Like everyone else, I have no frame of reference of what might be correct. But to me, the original remains most pleasing and most believable.