Rush the court when we win?

[JHG722]

Didn't realize you guys won already. Damn. Hope someone told our players.

Go Owls.

[joe_davola]

OMG I hope this was a joke just to get people talking...

Then again, after reading Moy's reply, I almost agree with him. We haven't "been there" before. But still, it looks very poor. It is embarrassing though for us alumni who have to deal with Big 10, SEC, and Big 12 fans who will taunt us relentlessly if we rush.

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE do not. It reflects horribly when we rush against a #18 ranked team.

Agreed...I think most of our students should get the word out. Thank GOD we didn't rush against Dayton. I thought the students might, given how we won the game and the Mitchell bank job, but we acted appropriately. Willie gave the students the thank you they deserved. That was still the best atmosphere of the year as far as I'm concerned.

[showthebill]

Don't rush. It makes beating a #24 ranked team look like it just made our entire season. Save it for the top 5

[slu72]

Don't rush. It makes beating a #24 ranked team look like it just made our entire season. Save it for the top 5

A big long applause at the end would suffice. You can bet the Temple wags are gonna have a feast day with this if we lose. But we're not gonna lose. Rushes should be saved for a #1.

[drkelsey55]

A big long applause at the end would suffice. You can bet the Temple wags are gonna have a feast day with this if we lose. But we're not gonna lose. Rushes should be saved for a #1.

I though rushing the floor came when you beat some one that no one thought you could. We think we can and should. NO RUSH!

[Cowboy]

I though rushing the floor came when you beat some one that no one thought you could. We think we can and should. NO RUSH!

-no rushing the court

-also there was a team in the last couple of weeks that got fined for its fans rushing the floor, i think it was a $25k fine, not sure we want to subject the U to that if we would fall under the same rules (it may have been a conference rule that was violated that resulted in the fine)

[Bearvision]

You guys are 4th out of a 14 team league, and at home. Hell no you shouldn't rush the floor, you should expect to win that game.

If you were 10-21, maybe, but not after the year you guys have had.

[cheesycow]

I've been a part of two instances of rushing the court/field. Both happened when I was at Mizzou. Neither one was "pre-planned" so to say, so much as they were the result of highly emotional contests against top-flight opponents, where we really didn't know any other way to express how intense it was other than to run around screaming.

The first was against Nebraska in football in 2003 (still my favorite sporting event ever), against a team we hadn't beaten in over 2 decades, and who we were losing to 24-14 going into the 4th quarter. An epic rally later and we were at a fever pitch and the push towards the field started with about 2 minutes left in the game. Mob rule.

The 2nd was a huge game against Kansas at home, where we won in a really tight game late. The excitement of the moment pushed us over the edge.

I generally don't like it when people rush the field or court, but sometimes the situation dictates the mob.

[BillikenROAR]

end this stupid debate ..

Listen, you Froyo freaks, you face-painters, you hoopheads of higher learning: Before you rush the court, storm the court, wreck the court … rush your butts back to your seats while I explain something.

You're doing it WAY too much.

This isn't karaoke Tuesdays. It's not a scheduled event. True rushing the court happens to a school once every 20 years or so. It should be, "Oh, there's Professor Krumpke. Let's have him tell us about the time he rushed the court." It's like walking down the aisle: If you do it more than twice in your life, you're doing it wrong.

It's spontaneous, like a flash flood. It's unpredictable, like Publishers Clearing House showing up at your front door. It's as unstoppable as a sneeze and just as unplanned. It carries you away like a tornado. You suddenly find yourself on top of the rim and have no idea how you got there.

You people are treating it like it's your weekly Spanish lab. Or poker night. You can't e-mail about it ahead of time. It'd be like penciling into your calendar "Make out with Halle Berry tonight after winning Oscar." And it can't be something to do just to get on TV. You wanna be on TV, go bother Matt Lauer.

I'm talking to you, Indiana. You rushed the court this season after beating Minnesota. Minnesota? Really? How is beating Minnesota cause for unrestrainable joy? It's like pantsing the chess club.

The win clinched your spot in the tournament? Big deal. Sixty-five teams make it. It's like making the White pages. Cheer from your seat.

I'm talking to you, South Carolina. You RTC'd after beating Kentucky both this season and in 2005. It's supposed to be, "Hats in the air! War's over!" Not, "I really want a picture next to John Wall!"

I'm talking to you, Illinois. You RTC'd when you beat No. 5 Michigan State this year. Even Illinois legend Dee Brown was cringing. He tweeted: "No no no no! … We are Illinois! Winning should be normal."

Sorry, Dee. Illinois has a new motto: "We are Illinois! We really like to pregame!"

I'm definitely talking to you, Wake Forest. You RTC'd when you beat North Carolina last season. They were third in the nation. You were fourth. What's going to make you storm the floor next? New nets?

This has got to stop. Therefore, here are the Ironclad and Unbreakable Rushing-the-Court Rules. From now on, you can NOT rush the court if …

• You've won an NCAA title in the past 20 years.

• You've been in the Final Four in the past five years.

• The team you just beat is not in the top three.

• Or is ranked within 15 rungs of you. (Somebody do the math for Wake.)

• Or is really a football school. This includes Florida, Texas and Ohio State. Get over it.

• You've beaten this same team in the past five years.

• You won the stupid game by more than 10 points. There is no such thing as a PRTC (Premeditated Rush The Court.)

• You're a university and you just beat a college.

• Coach K comes to your coach's clinic.

• You have a dead-mortal-lock lottery pick on your team.

• Your team has appeared in a recent "One Shining Moment."

I don't want to hear "It was a signature win!" I'm not signing off on it. I don't want to hear "It was the first time we've beaten a top-10 RPI team in six seasons." If it's a stat your mother wouldn't know, forget it. Nor will I stand for "It clinched our spot in the NCAA tournament." Big deal. Sixty-five teams make it. It's like making the White Pages. Cheer from your seat.

Now we understand here at the Court of Court Rushing that there are occasionally unusual circumstances. Therefore, here are the Official Amendments to the Ironclad and Unbendable Rushing-the-Court Rules. You can rush the court if:

• Your arena is closing down forever after the game. That will happen this week at Freedom Hall in Louisville and Mac Court in Oregon. Fine. Dig up the boards, too. Take the chairs. Knock yourselves out.

• Something stupidly wonderful happens, like a 90-foot David Blaine Special goes in or an air ball bounces off the ref's head to win your conference. Fine.

• You are Wisconsin-Milwaukee and you are 0-37 against your cross-city rival Marquette. When you win you should rush the court, then City Hall, then the Miller factory.

• It's the first time you've beaten your archrival in 10 years or more, and one of the following: (1) they still have your goat, (2) they stole and painted your best physics professor, or (3) they're going to end up making PILES more cash than you.

• Jihadists have kidnapped your power forward and are holding him captive near the key.

Finally, if you are in compliance with the Ironclad and Unbreakable Rules, make sure at least three of you hoist the center. Otherwise you'll drop him, causing him to rip a rotator cuff and, consequently, miss the rest of the year. Then people will egg your dorm room until you graduate, which will be never, since every professor will hate you, too.

Now get out there and remain seated!

-thanks rick reilly

[kshoe]

Looks like ESPN caught on to the SLU student's plan.

Here is Rick Reilly's take on the subject.

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/news/story?id=4961547

Key excerpt:

This has got to stop. Therefore, here are the Ironclad and Unbreakable Rushing-the-Court Rules. From now on, you can NOT rush the court if …

• You've won an NCAA title in the past 20 years.

• You've been in the Final Four in the past five years.

• The team you just beat is not in the top three.

• Or is ranked within 15 rungs of you. (Somebody do the math for Wake.)

• Or is really a football school. This includes Florida, Texas and Ohio State. Get over it.

• You've beaten this same team in the past five years.

• You won the stupid game by more than 10 points. There is no such thing as a PRTC (Premeditated Rush The Court.)

• You're a university and you just beat a college.

• Coach K comes to your coach's clinic.

• You have a dead-mortal-lock lottery pick on your team.

• Your team has appeared in a recent "One Shining Moment."

[b.hayes]

end this stupid debate ..

Listen, you Froyo freaks, you face-painters, you hoopheads of higher learning: Before you rush the court, storm the court, wreck the court … rush your butts back to your seats while I explain something.

You're doing it WAY too much.

This isn't karaoke Tuesdays. It's not a scheduled event. True rushing the court happens to a school once every 20 years or so. It should be, "Oh, there's Professor Krumpke. Let's have him tell us about the time he rushed the court." It's like walking down the aisle: If you do it more than twice in your life, you're doing it wrong.

It's spontaneous, like a flash flood. It's unpredictable, like Publishers Clearing House showing up at your front door. It's as unstoppable as a sneeze and just as unplanned. It carries you away like a tornado. You suddenly find yourself on top of the rim and have no idea how you got there.

You people are treating it like it's your weekly Spanish lab. Or poker night. You can't e-mail about it ahead of time. It'd be like penciling into your calendar "Make out with Halle Berry tonight after winning Oscar." And it can't be something to do just to get on TV. You wanna be on TV, go bother Matt Lauer.

I'm talking to you, Indiana. You rushed the court this season after beating Minnesota. Minnesota? Really? How is beating Minnesota cause for unrestrainable joy? It's like pantsing the chess club.

The win clinched your spot in the tournament? Big deal. Sixty-five teams make it. It's like making the White pages. Cheer from your seat.

I'm talking to you, South Carolina. You RTC'd after beating Kentucky both this season and in 2005. It's supposed to be, "Hats in the air! War's over!" Not, "I really want a picture next to John Wall!"

I'm talking to you, Illinois. You RTC'd when you beat No. 5 Michigan State this year. Even Illinois legend Dee Brown was cringing. He tweeted: "No no no no! … We are Illinois! Winning should be normal."

Sorry, Dee. Illinois has a new motto: "We are Illinois! We really like to pregame!"

I'm definitely talking to you, Wake Forest. You RTC'd when you beat North Carolina last season. They were third in the nation. You were fourth. What's going to make you storm the floor next? New nets?

This has got to stop. Therefore, here are the Ironclad and Unbreakable Rushing-the-Court Rules. From now on, you can NOT rush the court if …

• You've won an NCAA title in the past 20 years.

• You've been in the Final Four in the past five years.

• The team you just beat is not in the top three.

• Or is ranked within 15 rungs of you. (Somebody do the math for Wake.)

• Or is really a football school. This includes Florida, Texas and Ohio State. Get over it.

• You've beaten this same team in the past five years.

• You won the stupid game by more than 10 points. There is no such thing as a PRTC (Premeditated Rush The Court.)

• You're a university and you just beat a college.

• Coach K comes to your coach's clinic.

• You have a dead-mortal-lock lottery pick on your team.

• Your team has appeared in a recent "One Shining Moment."

I don't want to hear "It was a signature win!" I'm not signing off on it. I don't want to hear "It was the first time we've beaten a top-10 RPI team in six seasons." If it's a stat your mother wouldn't know, forget it. Nor will I stand for "It clinched our spot in the NCAA tournament." Big deal. Sixty-five teams make it. It's like making the White Pages. Cheer from your seat.

Now we understand here at the Court of Court Rushing that there are occasionally unusual circumstances. Therefore, here are the Official Amendments to the Ironclad and Unbendable Rushing-the-Court Rules. You can rush the court if:

• Your arena is closing down forever after the game. That will happen this week at Freedom Hall in Louisville and Mac Court in Oregon. Fine. Dig up the boards, too. Take the chairs. Knock yourselves out.

• Something stupidly wonderful happens, like a 90-foot David Blaine Special goes in or an air ball bounces off the ref's head to win your conference. Fine.

• You are Wisconsin-Milwaukee and you are 0-37 against your cross-city rival Marquette. When you win you should rush the court, then City Hall, then the Miller factory.

• It's the first time you've beaten your archrival in 10 years or more, and one of the following: (1) they still have your goat, (2) they stole and painted your best physics professor, or (3) they're going to end up making PILES more cash than you.

• Jihadists have kidnapped your power forward and are holding him captive near the key.

Finally, if you are in compliance with the Ironclad and Unbreakable Rules, make sure at least three of you hoist the center. Otherwise you'll drop him, causing him to rip a rotator cuff and, consequently, miss the rest of the year. Then people will egg your dorm room until you graduate, which will be never, since every professor will hate you, too.

Now get out there and remain seated!

-thanks rick reilly

Indeed.

[Bearvision]

Thank you Roar for not pointing out Missouri State rushing the floor after we beat a dreadful Arkansas team last year. granted it was the first game in our new arena, but I was literally cringing as students climbed around me to rush the floor (I was a Grad student in the student section at the time).

Seriously. Stop turning it into a weekly occurence. I never did get to rush the floor in my time at Missouri State, because I believe you should only rush if you win the conference (MSU has never won the Valley), or if you win the conference tournament and go to the big dance (MSU didn't go in my time there- under grad or grad work).

It's supposed to be special.

[slufan13]

If we win by 50+ can we storm?

[b.hayes]

Thank you Roar for not pointing out Missouri State rushing the floor after we beat a dreadful Arkansas team last year. granted it was the first game in our new arena, but I was literally cringing as students climbed around me to rush the floor (I was a Grad student in the student section at the time).

Seriously. Stop turning it into a weekly occurence. I never did get to rush the floor in my time at Missouri State, because I believe you should only rush if you win the conference (MSU has never won the Valley), or if you win the conference tournament and go to the big dance (MSU didn't go in my time there- under grad or grad work).

It's supposed to be special.

I believe this is what is on the front page of ESPN.com right now, not something Roar posted. At first I thought he was really getting after us Billikens fans, but then I saw the end of his post.

[moytoy12]

Thank you Roar for not pointing out Missouri State rushing the floor after we beat a dreadful Arkansas team last year. granted it was the first game in our new arena, but I was literally cringing as students climbed around me to rush the floor (I was a Grad student in the student section at the time).

Seriously. Stop turning it into a weekly occurence. I never did get to rush the floor in my time at Missouri State, because I believe you should only rush if you win the conference (MSU has never won the Valley), or if you win the conference tournament and go to the big dance (MSU didn't go in my time there- under grad or grad work).

It's supposed to be special.

I hear what you guys are saying, but I respectfully disagree. As a student, you don't always get a chance to have a "special" moment to rush the court. If the student body feels compelled to rush the court, then good for them. These "rules" strike me as silly, especially for a school like SLU that hasn't enjoyed a ton of success.

Students, if you feel like rushing then do it. To hell with all of these "rules".

[b.hayes]

If we win by 50+ can we storm?

Go for it.

[drkelsey55]

If we win by 50+ can we storm?

If we are ahead by that much half most of the people will all ready be in their cars on the way home.

[showthebill]

I hear what you guys are saying, but I respectfully disagree. As a student, you don't always get a chance to have a "special" moment to rush the court. If the student body feels compelled to rush the court, then good for them. These "rules" strike me as silly, especially for a school like SLU that hasn't enjoyed a ton of success.

Students, if you feel like rushing then do it. To hell with all of these "rules".

The whole point of that article along with storming the court... is that its not supposed to happen often. Too bad if in your four years you don't get to rush the court. That's the whole point. You don't get to rush the court because oh I'm a senior I haven't done it yet and we suddenly have had nominal success that hasn't guaranteed us an NCAA bid or winning the conference.

Don't rush.

[Pick and Roll]

I think if the Billikens can keep a team to under 20 points then a student rush is warranted. That was not listed as acceptable and should be.

[Postcard]

I hear what you guys are saying, but I respectfully disagree. As a student, you don't always get a chance to have a "special" moment to rush the court. If the student body feels compelled to rush the court, then good for them. These "rules" strike me as silly, especially for a school like SLU that hasn't enjoyed a ton of success.

Students, if you feel like rushing then do it. To hell with all of these "rules".

So it wouldn't bother you if they rushed the court against teams like Fordham or St. Bonny or SEMO? You dont think there is a time and place for this? I think that's what people are saying. It should be done, just not against a team like Temple.

[SShoe]

"special" moment to rush the court.

Herein lies the issue. While beating Temple would be great, it is not really a "special" moment. It's a "just so I can say I did that" moment.

[moytoy12]

So it wouldn't bother you if they rushed the court against teams like Fordham or St. Bonny or SEMO?

No.

You dont think there is a time and place for this? I think that's what people are saying. It should be done, just not against a team like Temple.

Whenever the students want. Let them enjoy their time in college however they want.

[moytoy12]

Herein lies the issue. While beating Temple would be great, it is not really a "special" moment. It's a "just so I can say I did that" moment.

Fair point. To us alumni and older fans, it probably seems stupid. However, as a student, I had a lot of fun doing "stupid" stuff. If the students feel like it, I say go for it.

I think it's odd that students would let non-students dictate what is "special" to them.

[Postcard]

No.

Whenever the students want. Let them enjoy their time in college however they want.

I think it would be a poor reflection of the program. It would make our fans look like that guy from Duq who dunked in the final seconds the other night. It would be overkill and unecessary. Also, I don't think the administration would approve.

[moytoy12]

The whole point of that article along with storming the court... is that its not supposed to happen often.

Says who? Rick Reilly?

Too bad if in your four years you don't get to rush the court. That's the whole point. You don't get to rush the court because oh I'm a senior I haven't done it yet and we suddenly have had nominal success that hasn't guaranteed us an NCAA bid or winning the conference.

Don't rush.

Disagree.