Despite Injuries to Kyle Filipowski, Caitlin Clark and Others, Ex-Purdue Star Instills Surprising Take on Court-Storming

The ongoing debate on whether court-storming should be banned or not is starting to gain a lot of traction. After the unfortunate incident in an ACC game involving Duke and Wake Forest, the Blue Devils’ head coach John Scheyer has advocated for the banishment of such exuberant fan behaviour from the NCAA.

While some of the observers tend to agree with his proposal, there are some who have contrasting views about it. Former Purdue star has some very interesting inputs on the subject.

Robbie Hummel has a soft corner for court-storming in NCAA

In the latest episode of The Field Of 68: After Dark, Jeff Goodman and Robbie Hummel centered their conversation on Wake Forest’s upset over the Blue Devils. However, the massive court-storming incident took centerstage not so long after. At this time, Hummel opened up about his views on court-storming. He said, “I like court-storming. I had a good experience with it from a home perspective. It’s a really cool memory. Even when we lost on the road and it happened, it never got out of hand. I do understand that this has probably gone out of hand. I like court-storming because I think it’s in the fabric of college basketball.” 

As it turns out, these incidents have the potential to cause serious injuries to the opposition players. This actually became true as Dukes’ towering center Kyle Filipowski suffered a knee injury as a result of such pandemonium. Moreover, NCAA’s all time top scorer in women’s division Caitlin Clark also had a similar experience against Ohio State. Still, Robbie Hummel had his own reasons why it shouldn’t be scrapped from the NCAA. He further added, “I do think it is one of the cooler traditions of a team upsetting a good team.” 

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Meanwhile, both these experts also put in some valid points on how to fix this issue.

What are the measures to curb it?

The conversation had an interesting segment in which both these popular observers of the game had their measures on how to tackle court-storming. Jeff Goodman went ahead and said, “The visiting team needs to have better security. Next, you need to get the ropes up immediately.” Following this, Hummel had his say and added, “There has to be some sort of punishment that deters this. I love court-storming and I hope it doesn’t go away. But, it’s definitely time that we legitimately make a change to it.” 

It will be interesting to see if a ban is imposed on court-storming in the near future or not. While both sets of people have their reasons, the one thing that must hold utmost importance is a player’s well-being.