Storming the court? Against Wofford?

Andrew Goudelocke.
82-79.
#9 North Carolina.
Carolina First Arena.

For any College of Charleston fan or anyone that watches college basketball in general, figuring out what those words mean are fairly simple. For those of you who live under a rock: This year on January 4, 2010 the College of Charleston upset #9 North Carolina at the Carolina First Arena in Charleston, SC.

As with any upset, everyone knew the fans/students (mostly students) would storm the basketball court after the final horn. Deservedly so, their Cougars had just pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the entire season.

Some even compared it with the Michigan-Appalachian State football upset two years ago.

But this past weekend when the College of Charleston defeated conference opponent Wofford 70-68, the students/fans thought it was appropriate to storm the court again. Granted the game was televised nationally on ESPN2, and granted that Wofford had upsets the likes of South Carolina and Georgia this season.

But Wofford?

Matt Norlander of Rivals.com said it best. "Wofford, a 13-8 powerhouse and fellow SoCon resident of C of C, made the unfortunate mistake of thinking it could come into the Cougars' house and run game. You make that kind of error, and you will pay for it".

As a CofC student this kind of mockery kinda upsets me. Our student section storming the court became a joke to sports networks such as Rivals.com and even ESPN.
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And deservedly so, there was no reason to storm the court. NONE.

Being 8-0 in the conference, a win over Wofford, who was third in the SOCON standings, wasn't a huge victory for the college. It was a game that CofC was expected and supposed to win. It wasn't a surprise.

The only defense these networks have for CofC is that they think maybe it was poking fun at the other universities around the nation, who seem to make "storming the court" an every-game event. Hey ESPN and Rivals, it wasn't a joke. Most of the students here would not even understand the sarcasm in it.

Every time fans/students storm the court, it should be one worthy of a court storming. You aren't showing your team any respect by going crazy like they just won the national championship after beating a mediocre team.

So how bout next time we beat Francis Marion or USC Upstate how bout lets not storm the court. Our conference opponents don't deserve a court storming.

Maybe a conference title in March or a win over next year's home match with Tennessee. But no, not Wofford.




Links for articles:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/College-of-Charleston-pulls-off-meta-filled-cour?urn=ncaab,215331

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/post/_/id/2342/college-of-charleston-fans-storm-court-after-win-over-wofford