DANA LEE | STAFF REPORTER | delee1@butler.edu
The Butler basketball NCAA Tournament runs of March 2010 and 2011 were Cinderella stories in almost every regard. Butler was the Cinderella of the Big Dance, the smallest school to enter the Finals in tournament history.
Perhaps the happily ever afters ended with consecutive losses. Duke. Connecticut. The crushing heartache.
A Cinderella fairy tale cannot end without a happily ever after. To assume otherwise implies that the time of riding off into the sunset is over, as if the sun could suddenly stop setting west, the red hues of the sky faded by reality.