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Butler basketball players get pumped up (or slimmed down) for new season

Joey Brunk is ready for another season of Butler basketball. David Woods, david.woods@indystar.com

INDIANAPOLIS – Kamar Baldwin and Sean McDermott are thicker. Joey Brunk and Jerald-Gillens Butler are thinner.

College basketball’s summers are devoted to skill development, but to that the Butler Bulldogs have added body development.

Butler recently hired a strength and conditioning coach, Matthew Johnson, assigned strictly to basketball. It’s not that the Olympic motto — citius, altius, fortius — is unique around Hinkle Fieldhouse. Other teams have long sought to be faster, higher, stronger.