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Sound Off: We often see students rush the floor after defeating Kansas University in basketball. When is the last time KU students rushed the floor?
The last time KU students rushed the floor actually wasn’t at home. KU fans rushed the floor after an 82-80 victory over No. 1 Florida on Nov. 25, 2006. That game was at the Las Vegas Invitational at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. As far as home games go, about 150 KU students rushed the court following KU’s 90-87 victory over No. 3 Texas on Jan. 28, 2003.
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newtongirl (anonymous) says…
And the other 16,150 chanted, "Get-off-the-court!! Get-off-the-court!!". I remember that. We were livid.
riverdrifter (anonymous) replies…
Yep, I was there too for that one. Embarrassing.
littlexav (anonymous) replies…
Aw, it was my first year at KU and the first time I'd ever seen the fans rush the court. My camping group always ended up close to the floor behind the KU players, and I wanted to run down there so bad! But one of the sophomores who lived on my floor wouldn't let me. "We don't do that." :-)
introversion (anonymous) says…
Ok, so here's another question- I know we (as in the jayhawk nation) are not generally court-rushers, but what if we can pull off this 8th big 12 championship... would that be rush-worthy?
Solomon (anonymous) replies…
No.
cheeseburger (anonymous) replies…
No.
BigAl (anonymous) replies…
No
sourpuss (anonymous) replies…
No.
UNIKU (anonymous) replies…
NO! Act like you've been in the winners circle before. DO NOT rush the Allen FH court -- anybody who does is not a true fan.
riverdrifter (anonymous) replies…
Nope.
Gotland (anonymous) replies…
Rushing the court is a spur of the moment thing for students. If they want to rush the court then let them. The whole we are too good for that attitude is obnoxious.
Speicher (Daniel Speicher) replies…
Absolutely NOT! Rushing the court is for teams who don't expect to win. As a Jayhawk fan we expect to win every basketball game every time. Period. Never a reason to rush the court. Ever.
rockchalker52 (anonymous) says…
The only things rush-worthy are Mass. St & Jayhawk Blvd.after a Nat'l title. That Channel 6 building cam showed it after the last one. It went from nobody in the street to everybody in the street in pretty short order.
noprshtr (anonymous) says…
We are Kansas. We do NOT rush the court. Rushing the court is for major upsets. We expect to win every game at AFH. Therefore, never an upset.
UNIKU (anonymous) replies…
+1000000
Catsap (anonymous) says…
The last time KU students rushed the floor . . . . was as they passed out. Same as over here at KSU.
BigAl (anonymous) replies…
What?
autie (anonymous) says…
As a Jayhawk one must conduct themselves in a manner accorded to a group that is accustomed to winning and has done so on many occassions. To rush the floor tends to be crude and vulgar and can only be a behavior associated with lower forms of competition such as certain feline sports collectives. Most notably those to the east that tend to wear clothing stained yellow by their own urine.
jaywalker (anonymous) says…
There was a year in the mid '80's when we the football team (ranked 99th) beat Oklahoma (ranked 2nd) and we rushed the field, took down the goalposts, and tossed 'em in Potters Lake. I believe the very next weekend, the 'Hawks took on Memphis at AFH. We were unranked, they were #3 with a couple of high profile 7 footers. No one made a move toward the court after the upset. And that's how it should be.
gphawk89 (anonymous) replies…
Remember that one well. Given the odds, hadn't planned to go to the game. I turned on the radio to listen early in the 4th quarter and immediately ran about a mile to the stadium to catch the last five minutes of play. That was the most excitement I've ever seen at the stadium. Security tried to keep the crowd away from the goalposts for a very short time, but gave up and let it happen when the crowd swelled. Good memories...
jaywalker (anonymous) replies…
I was one of the drunk morons who decided it was a good idea to jump in the lake after we tossed the goalposts in! Luckily I had some friends at JRP so I could get a hot shower; not a wise move, though.
avoice (anonymous) says…
Good timing for this topic, because this Saturday will be an excellent time to update the floor-rushing statistic.
kujayhawk93 (anonymous) replies…
MU will be the higher-ranked team, and favored to win. If they beat us and storm the court, that will be truly pathetic.
westcl (anonymous) says…
Rushing the court is too dangerous. Case in point is the referee who was injured after the Iowa State game.
ladyoneill (anonymous) says…
Agreeing with several comments above. You rush the floor/field when you're not expected to win. We're expected to win every game at the Fieldhouse. It doesn't matter if we're unranked and beat #1 or beat Missouri by forty points.
Teams that rush the floor are ones that haven't won in a while, have just beaten a rival they've lost to for x number of years in a row, have been underdogs for a long time. That is not KU basketball, not, at least since the early 1980s.
vertigo (Jesse Crittenden) says…
Bah. I answered this a couple days ago.
http://tinyurl.com/6mr3qtr
P.S. I hate that linking to a comment on this very website triggers the spam filter and blocks the comment from posting, making me go to an outside url creator just to post a link on ljworld to a page on ljworld.
Rara_Avis (anonymous) says…
It's always funny until someone gets hurt. It'll really be funny when the floor bleachers at AFH come crashing down from all Duke West pogo stomping.
Gotland (anonymous) says…
Rushing the court is a spur of the moment thing for students. If they want to rush the court then let them. The whole "we are too good for that" attitude is obnoxious
jaywalker (anonymous) replies…
Obnoxious is storming the court and seriously injuring a referee or anyone else. Feeling your program is above such is pride and self-awareness, not obnoxious.
Speicher (Daniel Speicher) replies…
What's REALLY obnoxious is fans who don't understand tradition and class... You know... Like, oh say... Rushing the court when you are one of the most storied basketball programs in the nation with the second highest number of wins. That, in point of fact, would be obnoxious.
mom_of_three (anonymous) says…
i have seen it in football, but never in basketball. (except for those who watched the national championship in 2008 at allen fieldhouse.).
We don't need to do it in basketball. We ARE the ones everyone wants to beat.
Gotland (anonymous) replies…
We are the ones to beat for now. But in the furture if the program slips and we are unracked and beat a 1 or 2 at home. I expect people to storm the court.
bad_dog (anonymous) replies…
Not to say the program couldn't slip-anything is possible. Given however, KU's involvement in and dominance of the sport for more than a century I'd suggest you don't hold your breath on either count.
shotgun (anonymous) says…
Jayhawks new slogan. "We are "Self" Righteous!"
alcoholbliss (anonymous) replies…
No that is not it.
Street shoes damage court floors; please don't wear any shoes on the courts that you wear outdoors.
Take your shoes off then RUSH the floors win or loose.
alcoholbliss (anonymous) replies…
lose...the alcohol