There were two held balls and an out-of-bounds traveling call in the final 10 seconds. A ranked team nearly blew a 17-point lead against a team that starts four freshmen. At one point, the officials -- who had to use a sub after a first-half injury -- forgot that a free throw was the front end of a 1-and-1. Such were the oddities of No. 14 Butler's first trip to the Smith Center as the Bulldogs make their inaugural tour of unfamiliar hostile environments in the school's first Atlantic 10 season. Butler held on for a 59-56 win over George Washington on Saturday, despite going the final 7½ minutes without a field goal. The arena's first sellout crowd since 2006 nearly willed the Colonials to victory against the new kid with the target on his back
