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The 2009–10 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Butler University in the 2009–10 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Brad Stevens, serving his 3rd year. The Bulldogs played their home games at the Hinkle Fieldhouse, which has a capacity of approximately 10,000. [1]
Butler entered the tournament as the #5 seed in the West Regional. In the 1st round, Shelvin Mack made seven three-pointers to lead Butler to a 77–59 victory over UTEP . [ 2 ] In the 2nd round, Butler used late free throws from Ronald Nored and Matt Howard to beat Murray State 54–52 and advance to the Sweet 16. [ 3 ]
In the 2010 NCAA tournament, Butler was the National runner-up to Duke, advancing to the National Championship Game after defeating Michigan State in the Final Four. [2] With a total enrollment of only 4,500 students, Butler is the smallest school to play for a national championship since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. [3]
The Bulldogs have lost four in a row and five of six as they slip further off the NCAA tournament bubble. Butler loss at Seton Hall pushes Bulldogs further away from NCAA tournament bid Skip to ...
Butler basketball signed the highest-rated recruiting class in program history on the first day of the national ... earning a trip to the quarterfinals of the North Carolina Class 3A tournament ...
The 2016–17 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Butler University in the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Chris Holtmann , in his third year. The Bulldogs played their home games at Hinkle Fieldhouse and were members of the Big East Conference .
In a back-and-forth high-level offensive game, Butler got key stops in the second overtime, pulling away for a 97-90 win over Cal. Butler basketball needs double overtime to avoid upset bid by Cal ...
The 2011 national championship game was between Butler, a mid-major university team that was a surprise finalist in the 2010 tournament, and The University of Connecticut, a basketball powerhouse which had previously won the tournament twice under coach Jim Calhoun but had had an average regular season, finishing 9th in the Big East before ...