Duke’s Filipowski still ‘sore’; status for Wed. in air
Duke center Kyle Filipowski avoided major injury but was still “a little bit sore” Monday, two days
after a collision with a fan left him hobbled during a court-storming
incident following the Blue Devils’ loss to Wake Forest on Saturday, head coach Jon Scheyer said.
The incident left Filipowski sporting a bag of ice on his right knee after
banging that leg into a leg of a fan running by him toward midcourt.
Scheyer — who initially misspoke Saturday when he said Filipowski hurt an
ankle — said Monday that the preseason Associated Press All-American
didn’t require any type of diagnostic internal imaging for the knee to
search for a structural injury.
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Filipowski didn’t have a significant limp when he spoke to a few reporters
after the game, though his status wasn’t immediately clear for the
10th-ranked Blue Devils’ game Wednesday against an eight-win Louisville
team.
The image of Filipowski having to be helped off the court amid the chaos
only added to the discussion on the dangers of court storming in a season
with multiple run-ins, the highest-profile one being when Iowa star Caitlin Clark was accidentally knocked down by a fan running onto the court after a
January upset loss.
On Monday, Scheyer followed his postgame call to ban court storming with a
plea for the ACC to put such a policy in place now, even with Duke down to
four regular-season games and only one on the road (at North Carolina State
on March 4).
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Source: Duke’s Kyle Filipowski, who was hobbled during Saturday’s court-storming incident after a loss to Wake Forest, was still “a little bit sore” Monday and his status for Wednesday’s game against Louisville wasn’t immediately clear.
