Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Butler's ride ends as Duke wins 61-59

Butler has a young team. If they ever learn to shoot jump shots, then they may be unstoppable in the future.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100406/ap_on_sp_co_ne/bkc_ncaa_championship_butler

Butler, however, puts the "old" in old school. With 4,200 students, it was the smallest school to play for the title since the field was expanded to 64 in 1985 and fourth-smallest overall. Forget state-of-the-art facilities. The Bulldogs play in an 82-year-old gym, the barn-like Hinkle Fieldhouse. Practice there, too — at 6:30 a.m., no less. There are no athletic dorms and, yes, those were some of the Butler players spotted in the classroom Monday morning.

I can vouch for the small size of the campus and the lack of athletic dorms. We ran across a player in the dorm lobby on one of those moving-in days for my college kid. "Hey! You've got a great game. By the way, hold that door open for me and could you hand me that lamp cord I'm dragging? Thanks."

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