Valparaiso 85, Butler 79 -F/OT For one afternoon, it felt like 1998 all over again in a town where upsets are beloved and cherished with a passion. You remember 1998 – that was the year when a team from Valparaiso, Indiana, captured the imagination of college basketball fans everywhere. A coach named Homer Drew coached [...]

Cleveland State 63 Illinois-Chicago 49 It’s a different kind of season with a distinctly weird vibe. Don’t ask the kids from Cleveland State if they have any objections. A team that crashed the NCAA Tournament party two years ago is making a push to get back to the Big Dance. The Cleveland State Vikings continued [...]

UW-Milwaukee 86, Butler 80 (OT) Roger Federer has Rafael Nadal on clay. The Indianapolis Colts have the San Diego Chargers. The Iowa Hawkeyes’ football team has the Northwestern Wildcats. And the Butler Bulldogs’ basketball team has the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers. There are several matchups in sports that simply possess a Superman-and-Kryptonite quality. Evidently, in 2011, a [...]

Wright State 69, Butler 64 Just when you thought the Butler freight train was getting ready to plow over and through the Horizon League, a feisty underdog just managed to Wright its own ship on Sunday night while throwing a monkey wrench into the plans of America’s most credentialed mid-major program. N’Gai Evans had a [...]

Butler 87, Detroit 64 Remember the night when the Butler Bulldogs got undressed by more than 20 points in a Horizon League game? Yes, of course you don’t. It’s back to the same old song and dance in the Horizon League. After a drama-free Friday night in Detroit, the annual master of this mid-major conference [...]

Valparaiso 71, Wright State 60 A good 20 minutes gives you nothing more than good odds in college basketball. It’s a good 40 minutes that will produce a victory. One team played 20 minutes and one team played 40 on Friday night. As a result, the Butler Bulldogs have company atop the Horizon League standings. [...]

Gonzaga 74, Portland 61 The years and seasons go by, one after another. Yet, some truths of life simply don’t change in the West Coast Conference. If there’s anything one can count on in the college basketball league that’s dominated by Catholic schools, it is simply this: The Gonzaga Bulldogs do not lose conference games [...]

Butler 84, Youngstown State 79 Yes, the college basketball world took notice on Friday night that the Butler Bulldogs were back. However, that return really wasn’t going to mean something unless last season’s darling took care of business roughly 40 hours later. It’s one of the great challenges of competitive sports. Any elite athlete, any [...]

Wisconsin-Milwaukee 76, Butler 52 No, the score of Monday night’s Horizon League game in the city that knows its beer is not a typo. Yes, the Wisconsin-Milwaukee Panthers didn’t nip the Butler Bulldogs or tip the defending national runner-up in Division I-A college basketball. The men from Milwaukee ripped apart the kings of the Horizon [...]