Butler junior guard Ronal Nored is an assistant coach for an AAU team and I saw him yesterday at the indyball.com tournament at North Central High School. Nored is one of the most accommodating interview subjects in the world. He friendly, funny, and open. You ask a question, you get the kind of answer you [...]
by Kent Sterling Old friends who found a way to the same very successful summer team from 2004-2006, were recruited hard by Butler when other schools didn’t and achieved even more in college, Zach Hahn and Matt Howard have shared the same hardwood for almost 350 games together. They played the last of those 350-ish [...]
by Kent Sterling “Everybody, put your hands together for (Butler University president) Bobby Fong!” prompted WISH-TV’s Anthony Calhoun, who served as the master of ceremonies for the event that tied a ribbon around the season tied with last year as the best in the program’s history. The crowd responded with polite applause befitting a university [...]
by Kent Sterling I don’t read sports columns very often and get angry – not with Jay Marrotti’s work as scarce as it is today – but this morning I read what I think is a lazy and frankly stupid piece by a writer who is almost never either lazy or stupid. Bill Rhoden is [...]
by Kent Sterling Whether Butler won or lost last night was never going to matter. They keep score, but college basketball is not all about winning and losing. The role of college basketball and all college athletics is to provide kids with an educational experience they can get nowhere else. The kids and coaches work [...]
by Kent Sterling Some nights the ball just doesn’t go in. That’s the way basketball works. The bucket is huge during some games, and it closes up the next. That doesn’t make the accomplishments of this remarkable group any less amazing, and there are 66 other teams who started this dance and would gladly changed [...]
by Kent Sterling Like everyone who wants to see the final game in the 2011 spectacular edition of the NCAA Tournament, I’m looking forward to the 9:21 p.m. tip. Two hours later, either Butler or UConn will hold a National Championship trophy over their heads and celebrate with their second family – their teammates. I’m [...]
by Jeff Showalter I don’t think people really understand the magnitude of this moment. Let’s think about this for a second, well, maybe longer. Butler University, for the second consecutive season, is playing the final game for all the marbles. In the landscape of today’s college basketball, the premise of a team from a one [...]
It’s impossible to win the heart of a nation’s sports fans while playing against Butler. UConn will be seen tonight as the giant trying to squish David between his toes, and Butler is the underdog who really shouldn’t even be here – again. Never mind that Butler has won 10-of-11 NCAA tournament games over the [...]
by Kent Sterling Sportswriters are blowing through a lot of column inches today with pieces about how tonight’s game between UConn and Butler isn’t about good vs. evil. They say it’s just a basketball game between two sets of kids who’ve both blazed remarkable trails to reach this summit of college hoops. Nonsense. America casts [...]
