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Something Needs to Be Done About Court Storming in College Hoops Before It's Too Late

Related Topics: Kyle Filipowski, Caitlin Clark

As you've surely already heard a few too many times, the college basketball tradition of court storming is back at the forefront of the national conversation again this week, as it seems to be a couple of times every season.

Never quite like this before, though, right?

This one feels different, with Kyle Filipowski—an arguably first-team All-American from Duke of all teams—suffering a minor knee injury from what sure looked like a couple of premeditated collisions on the part of raucous, almost certainly inebriated Wake Forest fans.

At long last, this incident feels like the catalyst for a major change to—or perhaps the complete elimination of—one of the dumbest things that we have allowed to happen for far too long.