The Rules for Storming the Floor

For college basketball fans there are few joys more savory than rushing the court, storming the floor, running out onto the field of play after a monumental, satisfying home win. However, as a great man once said, “This is not ‘Nam, there are rules.” So what are the rules of proper court storming etiquette? Is it polite to rush the court when you’re at another team’s gym? Is it okay to linger on the floor for a while? In what kind of situation would a ranked team have the right to storm the court? Thankfully there is a whole blog dedicated to storming the floor and all the stuff such a moment entails.

The Final Four Blog would like to agree whole heartedly with the rules set forth by the blog “Storming the Court.” As a fan of the WCC, this blogger used to absolutely hate it when the Gonzaga Bulldogs, who travel very well and good for them, used to come to some other team’s gym for the WCC Tournament, win every game by a million points, end the tourney ranked in the AP (while no other WCC team came close) and then, as they have for the past few decades, win the conference title with little problem. What would the Zags do? Storm the court.  It’s just plain bad karma to rush the court in those situations.

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