The scene following Wake Forest’s 83-79 win over Duke on Saturday has provided endless hours of debate, calls for reform and hot takes throughout the sports world. Even if court-storming Demon Deacons fans hadn’t collided with Duke star Kyle Filipowski, the madness still would have been troubling to a growing contingent calling for reforms and the eradication of court-storming from college basketball.
There have been other notable court-storming incidents this season, including one that resulted in Iowa women’s basketball megastar Caitlin Clark being knocked to the floor. Tulane also decided to open an “investigation” into a fan who appeared to strike a Memphis player.
But the visual of Filipowski being helped off the floor by his teammates on Saturday — and the subsequent slow-motion videos of what happened — amounted to a dose of lighter fluid on the court-storming conversation. Amid all the other issues in college sports, somehow the age-old tradition of home students running onto the floor after a big win has become something of a crisis.
So where should we go from here? Our writers offered their takes on the situation for this week’s Dribble Handoff.
