Someone had to ruin this.

On Monday night Kansas State upset #9 Kansas in a great game in Bramlage Coliseum, and afterward the Kansas State fans stormed the court, like college kids sometimes do. The Wildcats fans weren’t out there just to celebrate, though. They mobbed the players and coaches of Kansas, trapping Bill Self against the scorer’s table. One student ran across the court and intentionally put his shoulder into Kansas forward Jamari Traylor. It was ugly.

This happened because everything good in this world will one day be ruined.

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It’s entropy. It’s when you find out the vending machine is giving out free sodas. Someone is going to go too far and ruin it for everyone.

USA TODAY Sports’ Nicole Auerbach asked if this would be the tipping point. I’m afraid it will be.

I’ve written before on this site that the hubbub over court storming is incredibly stupid. People who say it isn’t classy to storm the court, or “act like you’ve been there before” are usually uppity jerks or Duke fans or both. These kids are in college; they’re only there for four years, and if their team happens to win a huge game, who cares if they run on the court and celebrate with their classmates?

I always had a caveat though. One simple thing: And that was that court-storming is totally cool, always and for most any reason, as long as it wasn’t violent or dangerous.

Kansas State crossed the line last night, and it’s terrible, because now those uppity fools who lecture you about the sanctity of the game and “court storming should only be done when the team deserves it” or whatever, those people now have ammo. I, the guy who has always argued that college kids should run out and celebrate whenever they want, can’t argue with them on this. Last night was dangerous. It was stupid.

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The NCAA and conferences have tolerated court storming because it’s almost always done in good spirit. Students are out there to celebrate with the team, not taunt the opponent.

That didn’t happen last night, and the conferences will probably have to change the rules because of it. We’ve gone and ruined a beautiful thing.