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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- Khyle Marshall can't bring himself to do it. The Butler forward hasn't watched tape of the Bulldogs' ugly loss in the national championship game to Connecticut, and he doesn't plan to because what's done is done. In focu...

Butler says guard Shelvin Mack is keeping his name in the June 23 NBA draft and won't return for his senior season with the small Indiana school that reached the NCAA basketball final the last two seasons.

HOUSTON -- Two years. Two storybook runs to the national title game. Two brutal, demoralizing finishes. Butler's first run at glory ended with a just-this-close heave from Gordon Hayward. Instead, Duke took the title. This year, Butler's second ch...

NEW ORLEANS -- The familiar refrain after Gordon Hayward's missed half-court shot in last year's national championship loss to Duke was this: What if the shot had gone down? Hayward would have been an iconic figure in the sport, owner of the most ...

On April 5, 2010, with a national title on the line, Duke and Butler sparred in Indianapolis for 40 minutes. In the end, Gordon Hayward's last-second, half-court heave missed by inches. Duke won the national title. Butler ended its storybook run with...

There's still time. I have to remind myself that sometimes, because my brain is currently on bubble overload. Today we'll publish our second Bubble Watch of the season, and as I'm learning (this is my first year doing Bubble Watch) it's really hard t...

Butler's Bulldogs had a preposterous, intoxicating notion last April that they could actually win the Final Four. Crazy, eh? Well, guess what: They still do.

In honor of Round 2 of Butler-Duke, Sport Science examines how close Gordon Hayward's shot came to beating the Blue Devils in the national championship game in Indianapolis last April....

With fans clapping in unison like the team featured in the movie "Hoosiers," No. 17 Butler hung the first Final Four banner in school history before the tipoff of Saturday's season-opener.

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Inspired by a start of another college basketball season, and perhaps a few too many readings of "The Cat in the Hat," Dana O'Neil shares a college hoops tribute that Shakespeare might appreciate.

While John Wooden had the Pyramid of Success, Butler coach Brad Stevens has The Butler Way and some acronyms to help describe it. He talked about what SHARPENS stands for during a speech the other day. According to the Washington Times-Herald: Th...

Baby-faced Butler coach Brad Stevens got a lot of face time on television during the NCAA tournament. Now he's lending his image to help Prevent Blindness Indiana raise money, entering in the organization's Most Beautiful Eyes contest that asks pe...

For the next month or so, our friends at The Mag are previewing one high-profile school per day for their Summer Buzz series. For the sake of all that is synergistic, yours truly will be attempting the same, complementing each comprehensive Insider p...

Butler will take a step back in 2010 without NBA draft lottery pick Gordon Hayward. No one would ever dispute that fact. But losing Hayward, who was taken by the Utah Jazz at No. 9, after his sophomore season doesn't mean the Bulldogs no longer hav...

Oliver Purnell raised the level of play at Clemson, but never quite took the next step before bolting. Can his replacement, Brad Brownell, do the trick?