After Sam Hauser hauled in Darryl Reynolds’ failed put back and extended a fist to the sky as the final horn sounded, the Marquette student section bolted onto the court to celebrate MU’s victory over #1 Villanova.
As much fun as it was to see, and as much fun as the genesis for it was, it’s still in violation of official Big East policy. Thus, the league officially fined Marquette $5,000 on Wednesday.
You can have all the debates about when it is and isn’t appropriate to storm the court you want, but the fact of the matter is that it introduces a massively unsafe environment to a basketball court.