{"id":38313,"date":"2014-02-21T21:56:26","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T01:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38313"},"modified":"2020-07-10T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T01:56:49","slug":"caption-says-it-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=38313","title":{"rendered":"Caption says it all"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It\u2019s no secret that when it comes to college sports, I have a team in Virginia Tech, no matter how disappointing they are in football, no matter how mediocre they are in basketball, and no matter how much of a non-factor they are in baseball. However, I have another team that I favor pretty often: whomever is playing against Duke.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last night, North Carolina defeated Duke<\/a>, which the fact of that alone is pleasing, but the visuals that accompanied the discovery of such news were absolutely abhorring. After the clock wound down, the people of the Dean Dome stormed the court.<\/span><\/p>\n

The University of North Carolina stormed the court after defeating Duke in men\u2019s basketball.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now I believe that there is a lot of importance in the act of storming the court<\/a> (especially when it\u2019s after defeating Duke), but in addition to the importance of doing it, there\u2019s as much meaning behind in when storming the court isn\u2019t done.<\/span><\/p>\n

UNC is one of the few basketball programs in the country that should absolutely never storm the court upon defeating Duke. They\u2019re supposed to be Duke\u2019s greatest rivals; equal, if not better, having a superior educational program and students and alumni of a higher class.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doing it might have seemed cool and like a great idea at the time, but it\u2019s probably going to have some petty, obnoxious (and very much white) repercussions. Articles (again) about opponents storming the court on Duke by the Duke studentpubs, and heaven have mercy on all UNC fans if Duke wins the rematch on March 8 in Durham, because retribution will be insufferable and cringeworthy when Duke fans storm their own court in defeat of Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Storming the court is something that lesser programs do when defeating programs that are supposed to be superior. Pretty much every school in the ACC feels the need to storm the court whenever they defeat Duke, because frankly they\u2019re never supposed to be able to defeat Duke. North Carolina is supposed to be the exception, because they\u2019re supposed to think that they\u2019re better than Duke.<\/span><\/p>\n

Virginia Tech<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n