CINCINNATI – Winning at Xavier as a freshman did not define Gordon Hayward’s college career. Same applies to Kamar Baldwin.
Comparisons are inevitable, though. Hayward ultimately played on a special Butler team, and now Baldwin is doing likewise.
This is college basketball’s regular season, and the book won’t be completed until after March. Still, what the Bulldogs did in a five-day span – go on the road and beat the top two Big East programs – qualifies as its own chapter in Butler’s 2000s story.
Kelan Martin scored 25 points Sunday, and the 22nd-ranked Bulldogs shot 55 percent in stealing one from Xavier, 88-79.