Butler basketball will need to dig deep in the 2020-2021 season to replace four-year starting shooting guard Kamar Baldwin. Baldwin was the focus of every defense for the past two years for Butler’s opponents. Whatever the task, whatever the challenge, Baldwin handled it with poise. Embed from Getty Images Not every player can say they ended their collegiate career with
The day has come for Trip to officially hang up his leash. Butler Blue III’s last Trip has come to an end. It’s time for him to take a step back and relax with the Kaltenmark family in their soon to be new home. The year may not have led to the fanfare parade out as expected but Trip has
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College basketball teams rise and fall year after year. Keeping a consistent program is a challenge and a struggle and breaking into the ranks of the elite can be even more difficult. Join in as we take a look at the best college basketball programs since the 2015-2016 season from A-Z. Determining what makes a great college basketball program can
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In a normal year, we would have crowned a national champion this past Monday. Players would have gone into a game thinking this could be their last and many more would have earned their one shining moment. The 2020 sports world isn’t normal, however. In college basketball, there is a small snippet of what a normal offseason brings as the
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Omaha – With the Big East regular season championship on the line, the Creighton Bluejays captured their first Big East championship since they joined the league in 2014 with a 77-60 win over Seton Hall. Creighton (24-7) will clinch a share of the Big East title with Villanova and Seton Hall (21-9). With the share, the Pirates win their first
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As the first full week of March comes to a close, the madness is already upon us. Conference tournaments began Tuesday with well over 200 teams knowing that winning a conference tournament title is their only hope to be recognized and be in the Big Dance. We are well aware of the Big Ten tournament and the ACC tournament. We
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Seton Hall and Butler played a classic Big East battle Wednesday evening. The Pirates had won four straight in the series but not by much as the previous 10 matchups between the two had all been decided by less than eight points. Wednesday night was no different, as the Pirates and Bulldogs threw punch after punch before a buzzer beat
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Creighton held the nations leading scorer, Markus Howard scoreless in the first half for the first time all season as the Blue Jays defeated Marquette on the road 73-65. Creighton won their eighth game of their last nine and now has five road victories in arguably the nation’s toughest conference. The Big East’s highest-scoring teams battled in a surprisingly defensive
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Villanova remained unbeaten at home as they handled Butler 76-61. The Wildcats used a balanced attack with five players scoring in double figures. Villanova’s defense was the story of the game as they held Butler to 25% shooting from behind the arc and only committing a total of ten fouls the entire game. Villanova opened up a 10 point halftime
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