College basketball coaches recruit and watch film and prepare game plans and use analytics. Apart from all that, sometimes games are won on resolve.
Coach Chris Holtmann called on some best-of-Butler highlights in a pregame film digest, saying there were hustle plays featuring Matt Howard and Brandon Miller. Probably some Shawn Vanzant, Willie Veasley, Ronald Nored and Alex Barlow in there, too.
Even the background music, was, uh, colorful.
“To be honest with you, it wasn’t necessarily PG-rated,” Holtmann said.
Thus “pumped up,” as Kellen Dunham put it, the Bulldogs went out and deflated DePaul 67-53 Wednesday night before a crowd of 7,611 in a Big East game at Hinkle Fieldhouse.