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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]
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]
The 2010–11 Butler Bulldogs men's basketball team represented Butler University in the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Their head coach was Brad Stevens , serving his 4th year. The Bulldogs played their home games at the Hinkle Fieldhouse , which has a capacity of approximately 10,000. [ 1 ]
With the victory, Butler became the fourth team in NCAA tournament history to hold its first five opponents under 60 points. On April 3, 2010, Duke , the #1 seed from the South and West Virginia Mountaineers , the #2 seed from the East, squared off in the second of the Final Four games.
The National Championship game was between Butler, a mid-major university team that was a surprise finalist in the 2010 tournament, and Connecticut, a basketball powerhouse which had previously won the tournament twice under coach Jim Calhoun but had an average regular season finishing 9th in the Big East Conference before winning The Big East ...
Butler's Jahmyl Telfort (11) drives Xavier's Lazar Djokovic (17) during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the first round of the Big East basketball tournament, Wednesday, March ...
The NCAA championship game was a very defensive contest, with UConn coming out on top 53–41 to win their third-ever national title and Butler scoring the fewest points in a championship game since 1949. The Bulldogs led at halftime 22–19, but suffered in the second half from poor shooting, making only 6 out of 37 shots in the second half.
Edwin was among a whopping 40 former Seton Hall players in attendance Saturday, including 2016 Big East Tournament MVP Isaiah Whitehead, 1989 Final Four team sub Michael Cooper and 2004 NCAA ...