The NCAA is trying to crack down on bench celebrations

After some hilarious bench celebrations from Monmouth and other schools, the NCAA is reportedly trying to stop bench celebrations.

There’s no room for fun in college basketball.

After Monmouth has taken college basketball by storm with their awesome bench celebrations and the effort that they put in to having a good time on the bench during games, the fun could very well be stopping soon for Monmouth and any other school that likes to have fun.

According to Jay Bilas, the NCAA is looking for a way to crack down on Monmouth and their well-choreographed bench shenanigans.

Well that’s just one big rain on the fun parade. While people watch college basketball for the play on the court, the Monmouth bench and other bench fun around the league helped draw people into the sport by making it a full entertainment experience.

These aren’t program or NCAA violations. These violations don’t even really violate the rules of the game, so of course it is necessary to do any and all things to make sure that no college kids are having one while their team is having success.

Wouldn’t want a bunch of people to genuinely have a good time going to a game or while watching on television. Nope, can’t have that at all. So when these rules come down and everyone on the bench is once again acting like a boring, civilized gentleman, just remember that it didn’t have to be this way.

Unfortunately, the powers that be wanted to make it this way because they thought it hurt the integrity of the sport. What’s next? Banning crazy crowd celebrations or half-court shots? Maybe they should just eliminate in-game entertainment entirely, if they are so worried about some kids on a bench having fun on the court celebrating success.

Sorry, Monmouth.