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Players from South keep Butler heading north

David Woods / IndyStar

INDIANAPOLIS –Maybe the Southeastern Conference should not fret about Jim Harbaugh and Michigan’s satellite football camps. It is Butler that is poaching in the South.

Look at home states of half the Bulldogs’ 10 active scholarship basketball players: Mississippi, Georgia, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky.

The South is football country. You want basketball, you go to Indiana.

“Indiana is rich in basketball history, and so is Butler,” said guard Avery Woodson, a fifth-year transfer from Waynesville, Miss. “That’s intriguing, especially coming from an area that’s not really big on basketball but more on football.