In Saturday’s action, Butler did it again, slipping past Florida in overtime to return the Final Four for a second consecutive season. In the late game, Connecticut survived a late comeback by Arizona to make it to the team’s fourth Final Four under coach Jim Calhoun.
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Quick Hitters – April 8, 2010
Some quick hitters on the national championship game, recruiting and the start of travel team basketball, and coaching changes.
Bracket Breakdown: Your Complete Guide to the Final Four
Cinderella waits with bated breath for the tip-off of the first Final Four game, while the two remaining heavyweights prepare for a gritty bout later tonight.
Butler Rolls in Horizon League Championship
Butler jumped out early on Wright State and was in control for most of the Horizon League Championship en route to a blowout win.
Wright State, Butler Advance to Finals Once Again
The Horizon League championship game matchup is now set, and it has a familiar look to it.
Bracket Breakdown: Three Conference Tournaments That Bubble Teams Should Fear
Three potentially one-bid conferences could steal at-large spots from bubble teams if the favorites fail to win their conference tournaments.
Horizon Notebook – Looking Towards the End Game
Everybody’s doing it. Everybody denies it, but everybody’s doing it. At this time of the year, every coaching staff in America is scrutinizing its remaining schedule. Can we win our conference? Can we get a conference tournament bye? Can we get an at-large bid to one tournament to another?
Horizon Notebook: Butler Too Good for Green Bay in Battle for First Place
The Wisconsin-Green Bay team may not have read this space recently, as we had long decided that the Horizon regular season belongs to Butler. In fact, the only question that remains in the mind of this writer is whether Butler will lose a single game, either in the Horizon regular season or in a conference tournament in which it will need to win but twice, both games at home.
Horizon Notebook – CSU Loses Wisconsin Two-Step for the Two-Seed
Coming into the weekend just past, with Butler a perfect 5-0, Wisconsin-Green Bay and Wisconsin-Milwaukee each had one loss, Cleveland State had two, and Wright State had three. And predictably, Butler stayed perfect, taking care of business this weekend in Chicago, beating Loyola and Illinois-Chicago; also predictably, Wright State took care of business in its lone game at Detroit, still stuck on three losses. So there was Cleveland State on its annual brutal trek through Wisconsin, needing two wins to be tied for second and a split to stay close; it got neither.
Horizon Notebook: Great Week Clarifies Horizon Race – or Does it?
By late Friday evening I was pretty sure what I was going to write in this space. With Wright State still playing without injured star Vaughn Duggins, 20th ranked Butler had no trouble dispatching the Raiders at home on Thursday night, 64-48. Remarkably (truly remarkably), Loyola-a team that I said elsewhere with some hyperbole does not have a true Division I player on its roster–removed Wisconsin-Green Bay from the ranks of conference undefeated, upsetting the Phoenix 62-60 on Monday night on Chicago’s north side.
