Posts Tagged ‘Butler’

The always prescient John Gasaway explains why the Butler Bulldogs defy the odds and just seem to get better and better.
Hint… it has something to do with playing defense. Something their fellow Indianans down the road in South Bend don’t do.

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Cleveland State, the Notes From A Basketball Junkie pick to win the Horizon.

The Vikings, a team I barely knew when the season began, but came to know and love the way a dog owner might come love to a mutt that looks downright ugly to everyone else, emerged bloodied, but unbowed, beating Butler on the [...]

Even though Butler, barring a major meltdown by the selection committee, is already in the Big Dance, I get the sense they really want to win the Horizon League title on their homecourt, historic and eminently atmospheric Hinkle Fieldhouse. Yet, they just can’t shake Cleveland State.
The Bulldogs’ superlative forward Matt Howard just picked up [...]

Whenever I watch Cleveland State play hoop, I can’t think of a basketball analogy for the withering, grind you down way the Vikes hoop, but I can think of a boxing one. Cleveland State is the Julio Cesar Chavez of college basketball. Every game I’ve seen this season is like a hardwood equivalent [...]

Blue II and Butler could play host to the Horizon League tourney
List of leagues — The Colonial Athletic Association, The Valley, Big Sky, and the MAC all spring to mind — were the conference tourney is going to be an absolute bloodbath. Most people know about 23rd-ranked Butler and some folk know about Cleveland [...]

Or maybe that’s the comeback kids. Either way, the Cavs aren’t the only hoops team folks in Clevo should be psyched about since Cleveland State’s come from behind 66-63 win over the Illinois-Chicago Flames is the Vikings second in a row following a three-game Horizon League losing streak, and has them positioned to build [...]

Following the first four days of the Big Dance, I want to deal with a couple of things. Let’s start with the Butler Bulldogs, 76-71 losers to Tennessee yesterday in an overtime thriller.
As good as this game was — and it was one of the best games of the college basketball season [...]

All the hype may be about tonight’s Tennessee-Memphis game but, for my money, the game of the week was the Drake-Butler clash of mid-major heavyweights. And both sides played like this was a game that their seasons were riding on, even if it wasn’t. This was truly a game played a level that was more Final Four than Bracket Buster Saturday. While Drake’s season was not riding on this game, they had lost two of their last three so this was an immensely important victory for them to halt the mini-skid and give notice that they are for real.