PHILIP TOR | STAFF REPORTER | ptor@butler.edu
The late season push by the Butler University men’s basketball team placed them in a tie for fourth place in the Big East, knotted up with the Providence Friars.
The two teams will face off in the second round of the tournament with Providence owning the No. 4 seed because of their regular season sweep of the Bulldogs as the tiebreaker. Providence won both meetings against Butler in the regular season, defeating the Bulldogs at Hinkle Fieldhouse on New Year’s Eve in the Big East season opener 81-73 and 71-68 in a Jan.