INDIANAPOLIS — Their names are Doug Morris and John Lacheta. You haven’t heard of them, but the Butler University facilities workers are improbably important cogs in the machinery of this chaotic college basketball season.
They are the two men who got up on the catwalk at the top of Hinkle Fieldhouse Wednesday night, some 80 feet above the court, and confronted a ceiling leak that was dripping rainwater on the playing surface and threatening to halt the Big East game between Butler and Villanova. Armed with a red bucket, towels, rope and hope, Morris and Lacheta heroically stopped the leak that was coming in along one of the beams in the nearly 100-year-old basketball cathedral.