Stop Storming the Court!

In College Basketball nothing indicates a huge victory other than the students storming the court and celebrating with their teammates. Being a Duke fan, I am used to the fact that beating Duke is a big deal, but really storming the court has gone overboard!

Here are some principles to storming the court:

1. Must be an underdog playing at home, by at least 10 points in the spread.
2. Must be a team that does not have any signature wins this year.
3. The team they beat can have no more than 2 losses in November, or 4 losses in December, or 5 losses in January, 7 losses in February or 10 losses in March.
4. There needs to be some history between the two teams (ie. Utah should not be charging the court after beating North Carolina), but that doesn't mean that there needs to be more history than a first meeting.

Supplementary Rules:
(Can take precedent over the principles in these circumstances)
1. Have a long history of losing (either have not won in 10 years (at least 7 meetings) or in more than 15 meetings)
2. A Mid-Major over a Power Conference team.
3. Any Ohio team over Ohio State (play your in-state rivals Thad Motta!)

Absolutle Nots for Storming the Court (can be ignored if the team falls into one of the above rules)
1. a Top 25 team- if you are ranked, you cannot storm the court, period, even if you are #25 beating #1.
2. a team that has less than 5 losses on the season at any time cannot storm the court, unless it is in the first 5 games.

A look a cases of court storming:

Georgia Tech storms the court vs. Duke- at the time Duke was #5, and Georgia Tech was #17- this falls under the Absolute Not rules- GT was a Top 25 team.

Clemson storms the court vs. North Carolina- at the time Clemson was unranked and UNC was #10 I believe-approved because UNC had beaten Clemson 25 of the last 27 times

North Carolina State storms the court vs. Duke- at the time Duke was ranked #7 and NC State was unranked- approved because NC State was a huge underdog and had only beaten Duke 3 times in their last 20 meetings.

College Basketball Fans- look to the fine school of Tennessee as a #16 team and at home against #1 Kansas on CBS- they won and DID NOT storm the court- kudos Tennesse Volunteer fans!