The lead was slipping away from Butler, and Suite 67 at Bankers Life Fieldhouse was quiet. It was full of people, all connected to Butler, and for the better part of two hours this suite had been a standing-room-only party. Barbeque ribs, meatballs, beer, water. Dentists, college kids, IndyCar driver Ed Carpenter. You name it, this room had it.
This room had Andrew Smith, too.
You know Andrew Smith. This state’s leading rebounder at Covenant Christian in 2009. A center for those Butler teams that reached the NCAA championship games in 2010 and 2011.
Fighting non-Hodgkin lymphoma since December 2013.