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ROSEMONT, Ill. — It would have been a horrible loss. A 14th-ranked basketball team angling for NCAA tournament seeding and a Big East title run should not lose to a last-place opponent.
Yet the Butler Bulldogs did not lose.
They fell behind 25-5. They missed eight consecutive attempts in crunch time, shooting a season-worst 36 percent. They watched a DePaul player miss what surely would have been the winning free throw. They trailed by one point with four seconds left in overtime.
Freshman guard Kamar Baldwin rescued the Bulldogs (again), scoring their final five points in a 70-69 victory Saturday.