Comments on: ATB: The Season’s First RTC?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 11 Dec 2010 02:24:17 +0000

I can understand why you think it’s not justified, considering we’re one of the top programs in college basketball history (and one that is often forgot about because we dont play in a power conference). What you need to understand is that for those of us older Temple students, we cant exactly stop all of the younger Temple students from storming the court. In fact, a bunch of them were walking the aisles with a few minutes left asking those of us in the front if we should storm the court. I just told one kid that if you do, we’re not going to be able to stop you.

It’s college, kids want to have fun, so it’s not a big deal. Not to mention it was their first big win as Temple students. You could certainly justify it from the standpoint that we’re a non-power conference school and beat a top 10 power conference school, in dramatic fashion, for our beloved coach’s 400th career victory.

I’m fortunate to have been able to storm the court against #8 Tennessee, #3 Villanova, and #10 Georgetown. Not to mention, for 3 straight A10 Tourney Championships.

Was I a bit hesitant to storm the court this time? Sure, but it’s something that is a lot of fun, I potentially wont get to experience again, and many college students never get to experience, let alone 6 times.

The worst part of it was someone stealing my hoodie that I guess I dropped in the midst of the pandemonium. Oh well, it was worth it. Go Owls!

By: rtmsf

rtmsf — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:47:52 +0000

In reply to James. Great one, James. Yeah, sometimes it's appropriate to go crazy on a buzzer-beater situation, but I'm not sure that's one of those situations.

By: Reverend Paul Revere

Reverend Paul Revere — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 19:13:27 +0000

I was actually at the game and found it a bit surprising that the fans rushed the court. But maybe they did it because it was Dunphy’s 400th win? That’s my guess, but I agree it was a bit odd.

By: James

James — Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:19:03 +0000

I saw video of St. Bonaventure fans rushing the court after a win over Buffalo win this past Saturday, strange as that sounds. Check this out:

http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/basketball/blog/the_dagger/post/St-Bonaventure-star-hits-game-winners-in-back-t?urn=ncaab-293354

You can clearly see the rush after the Buffalo miss and before the clip goes into the St. John’s game.

If the Temple RTC was weak after beating a Big East pwer that has been to the Final Four recently, then how does one categorize a RTC by an A-10 team over a MAC team that has never been to the NCAA tournament in early December? Perhaps that is why the Bonnies RTC was ignored.