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Duke trolls NC State following 15-point road win over rival

20200517_134556by:Justin Rudolph•03/04/24

The Duke Blue Devils got the best of their in-state rivals, the NC State Wolfpack, on the road on Monday. The Blue Devils silenced the raucous environment at PNC Arena with a 15-point 79-64 victory. And after the game, Duke had a little fun at the expense of their ACC rival.

The Blue Devils took to social media and delivered this message after rumors of a possible court storming from the NC State’s faithful.

There wasn’t anything in particular that NC State or their fans did to necessarily deserve this troll. Rather, it might have been thanks the individuals at Barstool Sports, who are a part of their Storm Chasers team that should be thanked for this tweet from Duke.

Ahead of the Monday night showdown, the Storm Chasers showed up on Duke’s campus and posted about their adventure into ‘enemy territory.’ The group was then front and center for the Blue Devils’ showdown on the road against the Wolf Pack. Unfortunately for them and the NC State faithful, there was no storm insight.

Or maybe the tweet was thanks to recent events involving the Blue Devil program.

Court storming has been a hot topic in college basketball and is particularly a touchy subject for Duke, who saw one of their star players, Kyle Filipowski, get injured during eight court storming celebrations courtesy of the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. After the incident, there was plenty of back and forth between pundits and experts of the game about what the NCAA should do in order to prevent injuries to opposing players and staff from happening.

Duke was one of the leading programs that adamantly opposed court storming celebrations and believed they should be outlawed altogether. However, no such ruling has been made, which likely played into the Storm Chasers’ attempt for another celebration at the expense of the Blue Devils. But it looks like they’ll have to wait until at least next year to capture that storm in real life if either the NCAA or the ACC has not stepped in to stop that celebration altogether.