Court stormings

[How Sway?!]

Not cool. Players including home team, should be running football style to the exit though.

Yeah this is on Wake. The security was garbage, the kids were already sprinting on the court by the time the buzzer sounded.

 

[superjohn]

Seriously, this shouldn't be hard. There's actually some people blaming Filipowski when he of course did nothing wrong. Just hold back the students at least until the players are off the court.

I hope there isn't an overreaction. Don't ban it, just do it right and it should be a simple fix. It's great for the promotion of the sport and college hoops already doesn't do enough to promote the sport. These buildings are all full of security and ushers. Use them as a barrier and take the 10-15 seconds to get the players off the court.

 

[uconnfan68]

Yeah this is on Wake. The security was garbage, the kids were already sprinting on the court by the time the buzzer sounded.

Did they say first sellout in 7 years?

 

[champs99and04]

If you want to make the case against court stormings, Duke's big man spraining his ankle is not it. The possibility of a serious injury or a fight breaking out might get me to ban it, but Scheyer whining about it after he designed a play for his seven footer to be as far away from the tunnel as possible - with zero shot of winning the game - is just music to my ears. These things by definition are never neat and orderly, so if you have to wait until 20 minutes after the buzzer to do it, you might as well not.

 

[bendm]

If Vegas had given odds on which program would end up getting court storming banned I think Duke woulda been the favorite. How much ya wanna bet filipowski doesn’t miss any time with his “sprained ankle”? If I’m proven wrong I’ll happily own up to it.

 

[Bomber36]

Not cool. Players including home team, should be running football style to the exit though.

Those of you saying he didn’t try too hard to get off are living in your own world. He would have had to be the Flash to get away from that.

 

[Kitaman]

Those of you saying he didn’t try too hard to get off are living in your own world. He would have had to be the Flash to get away from that.

Yeah but, players including home team, should be running football style to the exit though.

 

[HCCForever]

I don't hate the stormings for other fans but UConn should expect higher standards and not rush the court for any victory except maybe a conference or National Championship. Act like you were there before and we have.

Although I hate Duke, they did nothing wrong in this situation.

This reminds me of the Baltimore Colt linebacker Mike Curtis tackling a fan. When someone said that he should not have tackled the fan, Curtis responded that "the fan should not have been there on the field". This is how I feel about fans on the court while the opposing players are still on the court.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Looks like he hurt himself going to trip the kid.

 

[HuskyHawk]

This can’t be allowed to happen.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Looks like he hurt himself going to trip the kid.

He’s walking. He’s 7’ tall. He isn’t tripping the fan, that’s what steps look like.

 

[IndyLives]

Wow. He took a shot right in the knee. Hope he's OK, but if its a serious injury, I can see lawsuits flying all over the place!

 

[Bomber36]

Looks like he hurt himself going to trip the kid.

Yeah but, players including home team, should be running football style to the exit though.

Like he wouldn’t risk getting hurt doing that. And if they run over and hurt a stormer, what then? Who gets sued? Imagine if this happened to DC? We would invade the campus of the guilty party.

 

[Leebo]

I like the WF fans bragging about "fastest court storm they've ever seen" while not acknowledging the fans were on the court before the buzzer.

 

[UConnSwag11]

Should’ve just left it. Comments are growing

 

[metsfan2323]

Looks like he hurt himself going to trip the kid.

Interesting, was the Duke player trying to trip the fan? He was certainly trying to shove the fan with his arms.

 

[superjohn]

If you want to make the case against court stormings, Duke's big man spraining his ankle is not it. The possibility of a serious injury or a fight breaking out might get me to ban it, but Scheyer whining about it after he designed a play for his seven footer to be as far away from the tunnel as possible - with zero shot of winning the game - is just music to my ears. These things by definition are never neat and orderly, so if you have to wait until 20 minutes after the buzzer to do it, you might as well not.

Terrible take

 

[superjohn]

He’s walking. He’s 7’ tall. He isn’t tripping the fan, that’s what steps look like.

This is the time when people start slowing things frame by frame to make the player out to be the bad guy/girl.

I swear people are getting dumber.

 

[Rich]

Make Wake forfeit. I don’t like it but this crap has to stop.

 

[Scoe]

Such an avoidable situation people just gotta watch where they’re going. We have all been in crowds how many of us have gotten hurt, that includes mosh pits at concerts. Poor job by security btw.

 

[slepers]

Conference should fine wake $250k maybe next time they will have sufficient security ... but still Duke sucks

 

[Hamms30]

it's going to come to the point where schools are going to need to be threatened with post season forfeiture and fines to keep their fans in check.

 

[Rich]

aConference should fine wake $250k maybe next time they will have sufficient security ... but still Duke sucks

1,000,000.

That will get their attention. 250 is pocket change.

Also, demand that Wake expell the student that injured Filipowski.

That will get the students’ attention

 

[HuskyHawk]

This is the time when people start slowing things frame by frame to make the player out to be the bad guy/girl.

I swear people are getting dumber.

He puts his arms out to keep the guy from running into him. He saw it coming. With Caitlin Clark I’ll admit she seemed to be looking off in the distance and could have avoided the collision if she’d been paying attention.

 

[cohenzone]

Not clear that the idiot intended to run into Filipowski who was not stationary, but that’s beside the point. Court stormings are a crappy tradition and UConn isn’t immune. Players and anyone else in the mob scene is open to injury. There are ways to stop it that shouldn’t wait.