<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">NEW YORK (AP) -- Julian Betko scored 11 of his career-high 15 points in a decisive second-half run to give Butler a 56-44 victory over No. 22 Tennessee on Wednesday night in the NIT Season Tip-Off semifinals. With Butler leading by one, Betko hit three 3-pointers and a layup to give the Bulldogs a 46-38 lead with 7:49 left in the game. The Bulldogs (5-0) moved on to Friday night's championship game against the winner of the late semifinal at Madison Square Garden between No. 2 North Carolina and Gonzaga. The Volunteers (4-1) will play in the consolation game.</div> Full Story Yahoo
Whoo, Butler for the preseason NIT championship and A.J Graves gets MVP! An amazing team that everybody's gonna be watching this year, I expect them to be close to one of the 4 #1 seeds in the March tournament. Graves showed amazing poise and a good awareness of where the ball is and where it's going, offensively or defensively.
<div class="quote_poster">Char Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Whoo, Butler for the preseason NIT championship and A.J Graves gets MVP! An amazing team that everybody's gonna be watching this year, I expect them to be close to one of the 4 #1 seeds in the March tournament. Graves showed amazing poise and a good awareness of where the ball is and where it's going, offensively or defensively.</div> I'm guessing that you're joking about Butler possibly being a #1 seed? Anyways, there's not much you can say about this Butler team except WOW! This team can flat out shoot the rock and play lock-down defense. Hopefully their preseason success will carry over to conference play and we'll see this team again come March.
<div class="quote_poster">UKFan33 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I'm guessing that you're joking about Butler possibly being a #1 seed?</div> I think he was serious, but give mercy to him <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Anyways, there's not much you can say about this Butler team except WOW! This team can flat out shoot the rock and play lock-down defense. Hopefully their preseason success will carry over to conference play and we'll see this team again come March.</div> The NIT is always a competitive tourney, and most of the final four teams are successful, I'm hoping they can do a lot of damage come March. The only thing I'm scared of his if they can stay healthy because they don't have much depth. I sure hope they keep it up unlike Drexel last year
I know everyone hates to remember this, but that Butler team reminds me a lot of Dick Bennet's Badgers in 2000 when we made our run to the Final Four: play suffocating D, knock down some threes, and ugly up the game so that it's close at the end and you can game plan and out-execute your opponent. Smart team, smart players, good basketball. Congrats to Butler, and I hope they can make some sort of similar run in March.
<div class="quote_poster">Char Wrote</div><div class="quote_post"> I expect them to be close to one of the 4 #1 seeds in the March tournament.</div> Close to one of the #1 seeds. Heck, Butler could be a #1 seed if they don't lose too many games.
<div class="quote_poster">Char Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Close to one of the #1 seeds. Heck, Butler could be a #1 seed if they don't lose too many games.</div> Dude, your on crack No Mid-major not named Gonzaga or Nevada gets a seed over #7 or #8, keep dreaming
