Newspaper columnist injured when Iowa St fans storm court

But this is still going to rekindle the debate over an increasingly risky college basketball tradition. They beat the Cyclones down the floor nearly every possession, which led to easy buckets in transition.

Storming the court (and field) is a hot-button issue in college athletics. “That’s a great moment”, Prohm said of fans storming the court Thursday. This is when the Cyclones began their furious comeback, and they never looked back aside from when the Hawkeyes were able to make a small run with around 5 minutes left. “I think they’ve probably been looking at it for a while”.

“I was standing there and the students, went over the top of me”, said Pat Murken, Usher. “Coach Prohm and I went out to talk to him and tried to comfort him”. It spent part of the summer passing regulations that would allow the commissioner power to reprimand schools that fail to stop court rushes from happening.

The measure came on the heels of an ugly incident in February at Kansas State, where Kansas coach Bill Self was pushed up against a press table after the Wildcats beat the Jayhawks. His junior forward, Jamari Traylor, was body-checked by another fan.

But the magic was in the air at the Hilton Coliseum, and despite trailing by 20 points with 15 minutes remaining, the Cyclones rallied to pull off one of the better comebacks of the young season.

Briahanna Jackson scored 18 points while Myisha Hines-Allen had 16 for Louisville (3-5), which shot 36 percent and had its modest two-game winning streak end. That shot was set up by a very intelligent backwards tip by Jameel McKay, who knew at the time there was too much traffic for him to bring the board down himself.

Katz: Iowa State. The Cyclones are Final Four good. “And we have pretty good video evidence of all our big events so we can review them”. Peterson, who was covering Thursday night’s game between Iowa and No. 4 Iowa State, was the injured victim of Iowa State’s storm.