(5) Butler 63, (2) Kansas State 56 They did it. Butler really did it. As a result, one of the happiest homecomings in the history of Division I college basketball will unfold in a land where hoops is sacred. The movie Hoosiers was filmed in Hinkle Fieldhouse, the home of the Butler Bulldogs and the [...]

(5) Butler vs. (2) Kansas State So, Thursday night was fun, huh? Butler advanced to the Elite Eight for the first time in school history by knocking off the region’s No. 1 seed from Syracuse. The Indianapolis-based school moved within a game of playing in the Final Four in its home city. Kansas State needed [...]

Thursday 7:07 pm: (5) Butler vs. (1) Syracuse On paper, this looks like a terrible matchup for the Bulldogs. A lot of people wrote off Butler early in the season after watching them struggle against much of their premiere competition. The knock? The Bulldogs can’t handle the size and athleticism of the best teams in [...]

(1) Butler 70, (2) Wright State 45 The Big Picture: No madness occurred in Indianapolis Tuesday night, as Butler (28-4), winners of 20 games in a row – 20 games! – took care of business and took Wright State (20-12) behind the woodshed in a 25-point rout.  To be fair to the Raiders, playing the [...]

(1) Butler 68, (4) Milwaukee 59 The Big Picture: It wasn’t exactly the college hoops version of The Met doing Carmen, but there was a degree of artistry to Butler’s win on Saturday.  Said artistry didn’t come on the offensive end of things, as the Bulldogs were pretty much mediocre, but it did  happen on [...]

(2) Wright State 69, (7) Detroit 50 The Big Picture: Second-seed Wright State dispatched seven-seed Detroit with a 69-50 rout of the Titans.  Brad Brownell’s Raiders rained triples on the Titans all game, as 24 of their first 26 points came beyond the arc.  Despite Eli Holman’s All-Galaxy hops and athleticism, Detroit just isn’t the [...]

Game Two: (4) Wisconsin-Milwaukee 82, (5) Cleveland State 75 While the seeds held in the Milwaukee Panthers’ 82-75 win over Cleveland State, there was still an element of March Madness in this one, as the Vikings rallied from 14 down to make a game of it.  The Panthers, always prone to the turnover bug, nearly [...]

Game One: (7) Detroit 62, (3) Wisconsin-Green Bay 53 The Horizon isn’t the Norris Division of men’s NCAA college hoops without reason.  Now that Bruce Pearl has split (from Wisconsin-Milwaukee several seasons ago), most Horizon League teams play a brand of ball that’s neither easy on the eye nor on opponents.  Sure, Butler, with all [...]

Quarterfinal 1: (7) Detroit (19-13, 9-9) vs (3) Wisconsin-Green Bay (21-11, 11-7) Time: 6:00 PM EST Season Series: The Phoenix swept the Titans, winning both games by a deuce Vegas Says: Green Bay -1.5 Breaking it Down: As Green Bay’s 64-62 and 74-72 regular season wins attest, the Phoenix and Titans might just be the [...]

“Obviously, the main goal is to win the national championship,” Butler University’s Gordon Hayward says.  This 6’8 sophomore form Brownsburg, Indiana may be onto something. After posting a 26-6 record last year, the Butler Bulldogs looks to recover from disappointing end of the season. Returning every player from last year’s lineup will make that task [...]