What would be hilarious involving Butler? Would it be the insistence on calling being normal The Butler Way? What if that bit of self-aggrandizing was undercut by two guys going academically ineligible right before the biggest games of the year? That’s what happened to the Bulldogs, as Manny Bates and Eric Hunter hadn’t met the academic standards and couldn’t play.
St. John’s can be scary if you let them dictate the terms of engagement, and that’s what Butler let them do. The Johnnies used a 13-2 run to take control of the game late in the first half and Butler never really answered.