Jay Bilas Comically Roasts Himself After A Fan Calls Him Out For His Court-Stroming Take

Jay Bilas may have offered the worst solution for court-storming at college basketball games, but that doesn’t mean he lost his sense of humor because of it. 

Court-storming has taken the college hoops world by storm, and caused some controversy in the process. We at OutKick have often mused on when, and if it all, this form of celebrating wins is appropriate, and how it should be done. So have many in the world of college athletics.

One of those people is Bilas, a former Duke basketball star and current ESPN analyst. After Blue Devils center Kyle Filiposwki got injured during a court-storming (more on that in a minute) after losing to Wake Forest, he said colleges should arrest anyone who storms the court.

"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 said this because he was mad that a Duke star got hurt. But what he failed to see was that Filipowski completely exaggerated the severity of the contact and suffered no serious injury. Except, of course, his pride.

Jay Bilas Repsonded Perfectly To A Fan Who Called Him Out For His Ridiculous Opinion

Since Bilas delivered his uninformed, premature, and ridiculous rant, countless people have ridiculed him for suggesting that fans need to be arrested. That includes a guy named Kallon Fullerton, who works for the "Pittsburg Morning Sun."

Fullerton saw a clip of Loyola-Chicago men’s basketball super fan Sister Jean attending yesterday’s game against the Dayton Flyers. He retweeted the video, and said that Bilas would send the elderly woman to a famous jail for daring to go onto the court, even for a brief second.

Instead of getting offended by this joke and creating more online conflict (which is in a surplus these days), Bilas decided to insert some humor in this situation (who would ever say no to a good joke?). He ran with the Alcaraz reference and posted a meme of himself standing guard over Sister Jean in that prison.

I don’t even remotely support Bilas’ on how court-storming should be handled, but I love his sense of humor here. Instead of arguing with those who disagree with them, he tried to ease tensions by poking fun at himself. This was self-deprecating comedy at its finest.