INDIANAPOLIS –Butler accelerated the Selection Sunday timetable by three weeks. You may place the Bulldogs in the NCAA tournament bracket – in indelible ink.
No. 25 Butler could achieve more, and earn a favorable seed, before college basketball’s genuine Selection Sunday. Yet consider that a year ago at this time, the Bulldogs were 7-8 in the Big East and on the bubble, not in the bracket.
Nate Fowler scored 12 of his 15 points in the second half, and the Bulldogs shot 57 percent in extending DePaul’s losing streak to 10 in a row, 82-66, before a Hinkle Fieldhouse sellout of 9,100 Sunday.