The Butler Men’s Club Basketball team\u00a0ended a strong\u00a0weekend with a second place finish in the Southern Illinois University-Edwardsville tournament.\u00a0 On Saturday, October 20th the team won all three of its pool play games.\u00a0 First defeating Miami (OH) by forfeit then pulling out a hard nosed contest against Truman College.\u00a0 Butler faced a 15 point deficit before making a second half surge and winning with a put back by Grant Rodgers in the final seconds.\u00a0 Next, the Bulldogs beat Indiana University’s B team, leading\u00a0by as\u00a0much as 25 in the contest.<\/p>\n
On Sunday, Butler earned a first round bye, and the\u00a0second overall seed,\u00a0because of their 3-0 finish in pool play.\u00a0 In the first single elimination\u00a0match up the Bulldogs faced the Indiana University A team.\u00a0 Butler won the contest by generating a sizable lead\u00a0from the tip, thanks to the hot shooting of Alex Prittie, and never relinquished it.\u00a0 Next was Southern Illinois University-Carbondale, the reigning national champions.\u00a0 This hard fought contest finished with Butler winning by 20, setting up a meeting in the championship with the University of Missouri.\u00a0 In the “ship” the Bulldogs jumped out to 10 point lead, but were unable to hold on late.\u00a0 The runner-up finish is Butler’s second in the past year in major tournaments.<\/p>\n
Next up for the Bulldogs is a home tournament on Saturday, November 10th.\u00a0 The tournament will be played at the HRC between the Bulldogs, Indiana University 1, Indiana University 2, SIU-Carbondale, SIU-Edwardsville, and Ivy Tech-Lafayette.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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