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How many fans were on the court? 3, 5, 10, 40 and growing? we do not know since the writer choose for some reason not to give us that info. I'd suggest he had a motive for that. Sympathy for the team? Was he the hometown reporter?
If hordes of fans were charging the floor, then the aspects Bob cites in the NCAA book have been met and you have to make your decision: do I enforce the rule or not? At some point, the number of fans on the court interrupts the game and as officials we have to make a judgement when that ocurrs. When that figure is met in the official's judgement, you'd better have the steel to make the call.
Finally, the fans cost their team the game by putting the officials in a position of having to make a very tough call or not.
Those are my 2 cents.
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