Jay Bilas Hates Seeing Kids Have Fun, Calls For Court Stormers To Be Arrested After Kyle Filipowski's Sell Job

The outrage over court storming in college basketball has hit an entirely new level thanks to Jay Bilas. It was inevitable that someone was going to suggest law enforcement get involved in keeping tuition-paying students off the floor to celebrate their school's win, and Bilas has proudly taken on the responsibility.

Bilas is a former Duke star himself, so given that it was Blue Devils star Kyle Filipowski who picked up an injury after Wake Forest fans stormed the court over the weekend, him taking the driver's seat for the banning of court storming comes as no surprise.

Bilas jumped on ESPN's ‘First Take’ on Monday and suggested that fans who storm the court be arrested. He made his plea without having his face painted like a clown, too, which seemed like a missed opportunity.

"If they wanted to stop it, they could stop it tomorrow. The administrations will tell you the security experts tell them that it’s not a good idea to try to stop the court storming because that could cause more problems than it would solve," Bilas said.

"But you don’t have to stop the court storming. One time, all you have to do is, once they’re on the court, don’t let them off. Just say, ‘You’re all detained,’ and give them all citations, or arrest them if you want to. And then court stormings will stop the next day."

Bilas must have missed the close-up video of Filipowski walking with his arm and leg extended looking for contact and shoving a student before acting as if he had been shot from the rafters.

We do have to tip our caps to Filipowski's acting in the moment, however. We're talking about a 7-foot premiere athlete who gets hacked in the post by fellow giants for 40 minutes a game, but suddenly forgot how to walk when a bunch of 5-foot-6 students from Wake Forest stepped on the floor. Filipowski ‘needing’ no less than five teammates to carry him off the court as if he had just been wounded in battle was a nice touch as well.

As for Bilas calling for kids to be arrested for storming the court, it's one of the most outrageous things ever said on ESPN, which is saying a lot in today's day and age of the four-letter network.

Court storming has been happening for 100 years, literally. It's very much a fabric of the game, making the sport what it is.

Maybe the elite-level athletes should figure out a way to walk off the court and get out of the way. Believe it or not, the 10,000 people rushing the court matter as well, not just the 12 players who just lost the basketball game.