It's here March, the month that belongs too college basketball, conference tournaments start next week, then on March 14th the Big Dance starts. College basketball doesn't get too much pub b/c it's so fluid, you can't put a lot of stock in the rankings. You can watch the Big East, Big Ten and ACC but it's hard too make defining statements unless their is that dominant team like Kentucky last year. With all this fluidity upsets happen all the time, which leads to today's column, the court storming. I'm not a huge fan of storming the court, and I think there has to be something done about it. I've felt this way for a long time, I believe I touched on it last year or the year before but never spent a whole post on it, but Coach K bringing up his beef with it last week led me to write about it today. I've elected myself Court Storming President, I'm gonna lay out some rules for proper storming.
Rule 1) You may only storm the court once a year, if you storm when you beat Michigan, then you can't wait later in the year and storm against Indiana. If you storm twice your losing the "specialness" of storming to begin with. If you storm that many times, then why not storm after every win. Yeah we beat Texas A&M Kingsville, lets rush the court. I also think if you decide to storm the court more than once maybe your team is actually good and beating a top team isn't that much of a reach.
Rule 2) You may only storm against a Top 10 team. You storm after beating #20 that's lame, besides that team will probably be out of the rankings b/c they lost to a team who felt they were bad enough too storm the court when they beat you. A Top 10 team normally has 0-4 losses so a loss is rare and hey they should've beat a terrible team like yours.
Rule 3) You may only storm if your not ranked. This happened this year already NC State stormed on Duke, when NC State was ranked, not only that they started the year ranked higher than Duke so in actuallity their team underperformed. This is also goes for if you were ranked in the last month, Minnesota stormed on Indiana last week, Minnesota underperformed so much that they fell out of the top 25, but they played well one night and stormed against Indiana but they'll get back in the top 25 this week. If your ranked and you beat a top 10 team, you were probably favored in the game. Homecourt advantage is a big deal in college basketball, I remember Wisconsin storming the court a few years ago in a game they were favored in, that's right a game they were picked to win and they felt the urge to storm the court. If your ranked you should win sit your asses down and watch your team win.
Rule 4) You may only storm if you haven't been stormed upon. A few years ago Notre Dame was involved in 3-straight court stormings, they stormed, were stormed upon, then restormed, that's a 3-game span where court storming was seen as needed? You have to wonder was the 1st one wrong? The 2nd one wrong? The 3rd one? Where does it end? I wish I knew who those 3 games were against but I can't recall right now. If you were ranked high enough to be stormed upon then you were too good to be storming other teams.
The final Rule, that we can't control is this, ESPN and other news outlets stop showing court stormings unless they follow the above 4 rules. Why do these kids do this, b/c they get on TV and if you would take away the exposure the kids would end this crap. I understand they're college kids and they get caught up in the moment, but if their isn't an end game they'll stop doing this.
That's all for this week, I'll be back next week, follow me on twitter @derekbredeson. One thought on Joe Flacco, just b/c your highest paid doesn't mean your the best, if that were true nobody could make more than Jordan, Rice, or Bonds.
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