Court stormings

[Dove]

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.

Those Wake fans were the fastest stormers I have ever seen. What a surge. No security was stopping that.
Not surprised there was carnage.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Terrible take

Should have drawn up a play that had Filipowski standing in the tunnel.

 

[Chin Diesel]

Put me on record of Filipowski won't miss any playing time.

 

[TheChamps990411]

Not good. Hope hes not seriously injured. Fans should wait till the opposing team is off the court before they can storm the court.

 

[CL82]

I don't want it to go away because it's great for fans and it showcases the excitement of college basketball (it looks awesome on TV) but you gotta protect the players. Do it like Creighton did it the other night, line both sides with security and allow the players to get off the court.

I have to say, Creighton did do a nice job with that.

 

[Dream Jobbed 2.0]

I’m thankful our guys got off safely and Danny didnt have to knock anyone out

 

[Chin Diesel]

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.

Scheyer's facial expressions made it all worth while.

 

[Eleven]

It’s stupid and unnecessary. You can jump up and down just as well in front of your seat.

 

[Blueballer]

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.

Well take the name DUKE out of the story and just imagine ANY player getting badly hurt due to this stupidity. Caitlin Clarke got decked a few weeks ago during a storming and fortunately wasn't hurt. It was a kid holding a phone up and recording while they were running. The phone crap is part of why it's become so dangerous. As with driving or walking many people aren't watching where they are going while recording. That wasn't a factor years ago. Just put a stop to it altogether.

 

[huskymedic]

 

[Dove]

Put me on record of Filipowski won't miss any playing time.

"Okay. Chin Diesel says he'll play. Gonna write that down."

 

[UCann]

Im in the camp court storming is something that makes cbb special. The sport already had a marketing problem why take this away?? The two “incidents” this year: one was a clear flop, and the other was a potential flop without the team/player making a real effort to avoid the issue. You know they’re storming the court. Seems like the losing team is bitter and looking to make issue of the court storm. . Neither were really injured. Put in some basic guidelines and move on.

 

[BugsyCT]

 

[AtlHusky]

I watched it a couple times and what I see is the WF fan was sprinting down the court looking to his right, up into the stands, while holding a phone to his left ear when he made contact with Flip. My take is that the fan wasn't watching where he was going and had no idea he was about to make contact with a player. Poor form.

 

[Dove]

Scheyer's facial expressions made it all worth while.

My wife is sick. At the half, when they replayed Sheyer's post-game comments, she says, "Shut the **** up." She has no clue who he is.

 

[NEforceUConn]

My wife is sick. At the half, when they replayed Sheyer's post-game comments, she says, "Shut the **** up." She has no clue who he is.

Dayuum, you married a keeper.

 

[JungleLobo]

textbook Finish Him!

 

[FfldCntyFan]

As it was Duke that this happened to, I'm very confident that the NCAA will quickly ser rules in place to severely punish court storming.

 

[jibsey]

It was a quick run by, taunt and push of Filipowski by that student as the herd stampeded. Not premeditated, but the kid is guilty especially with the taunt. Wonder the liability of the student and the school.

 

[Scoe]

It all just happened so fast addrenaline is flowing, and your judgement is off. Flipowski was trying to brace himself, unfortunately he stood straight up when he probably should’ve gotten lower. Just totally avoidable to not run into him.

 

[EnochRoot]

It was a quick run by, taunt and push of Filipowski by that student as the herd stampeded. Not premeditated, but the kid is guilty especially with the taunt. Wonder the liability of the student and the school.

The student was the one who acted with forethought by running onto the court. My guess is the student who made contact with Flipowski (student was running blind, apparently paying attention to the crowd still in the stands) will likely be banned from ever attending a WF sporting event again, and that would be a step an institution like Wake would take in an effort to ensure it never happens again.

 

[AtlHusky]

It was a quick run by, taunt and push of Filipowski by that student as the herd stampeded. Not premeditated, but the kid is guilty especially with the taunt. Wonder the liability of the student and the school.

I didn't see any evidence of a taunt, and as I noted in my post above, I don't think the fan even saw Flip until just before he ran into him. I watched it frame-by-frame, the kid's head was turned, was on his phone, and wasn't watching where he was going.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I will also add, Wake and Duke have been rivals forever and until the mid 1980's, there was little separation between the two. Wake should see no need to storm the court after beating Duke.

 

[champs99and04]

Should’ve just left it. Comments are growing

If anyone was on the fence about how to feel, Duke's collective response to the matter should make it easy. This has been a masterclass in living up to stereotypes.

 

[rman726]

I didn't see any evidence of a taunt, and as I noted in my post above, I don't think the fan even saw Flip until just before he ran into him. I watched it frame-by-frame, the kid's head was turned, was on his phone, and wasn't watching where he was going.

The guy in the brown jacket seems to have been a bigger $&@#, clearly pushing him in the back, even if he didn’t actually cause any injury.