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Butler Bulldogs a Good Role Model for UIC Flames

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For a solid blueprint to success, the team playing at the campus colloquially known as "Circle" can look to their "Circle City" conference brethren. "Butler has a program that we're aspiring to be, not that we're trying to be Butler," said UIC first year Head Coach Howard Moore, who previously worked as an assistant under Bo Ryan at Wisconsin. "We're aspiring for that … [Read more...] about Butler Bulldogs a Good Role Model for UIC Flames

Does ‘The Butler Way’ Lead to a Return NCAA Tournament Trip?

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Beneath the Hoosier Sky last March, the Butler Bulldogs unfolded one of the greatest stories in college basketball history. And had that last second half-court heave stayed down and fallen through in the national title game, history would not have denied the glow of the victory firelight for the "home team" at Lucas Oil Field. Just one more basket and the small mid-major … [Read more...] about Does ‘The Butler Way’ Lead to a Return NCAA Tournament Trip?

Butler Bulldogs 79, UIC Flames 52: Rapid Reaction

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If you read a lot of March Madness bracket projections (as college hoops nerds such as I often do) you might have noticed the Butler Bulldogs beginning the day as one of the last college basketball teams into the field of 68. So with a road trip to UIC and a home game against Loyola waiting to finish up the conference slate, it was imperative the Bulldogs win big over … [Read more...] about Butler Bulldogs 79, UIC Flames 52: Rapid Reaction

NCAA Title Game Preview

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By Paul M. Banks INDIANAPOLIS- 2010 has been perhaps the most exciting NCAA Tournament in recent memory. This March madness is yet another example of why the college hoops postseason is the best postseason around. It doesn’t need fixing; college football’s pathetic excuse for a postseason does. The run up to this Final Four featured comebacks, upsets, and many incredibly … [Read more...] about NCAA Title Game Preview

Gordon Heyward proves Butler is NOT real life “Hoosiers”

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By Paul M. Banks INDIANAPOLIS- Now that Butler is back home to face Michigan State in the Final Four, a lot of people are describing the Butler Bulldogs, the first University to play in a Final Four they're hosting since 1972, as "real life Hoosiers" or "this year's Cinderella." Both are blatantly inaccurate. These Bulldogs are much more like the 1979 Runner-up Indiana … [Read more...] about Gordon Heyward proves Butler is NOT real life “Hoosiers”

Five Reasons Gopher Basketball Will Be Alright

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By Mike Gallagher In a weekend filled with excitement for University of Minnesota basketball, some came out of the third annual 76 Classic a little disappointed.   The Gophers haven’t played in a tournament this publicized and full of big name programs in recent memory, so just being in it at all was exciting.  Two losses, both to unranked teams, wasn’t exactly what Tubby … [Read more...] about Five Reasons Gopher Basketball Will Be Alright