Final Four: Losing Is Just As Important As Learning How To Win
Words. Julian Caldwell Conspicuously absent from this year’s Final Four are the top seeds that steamed rolled their way through the regular season. Instead, you see teams that struggled to perform like...
View ArticleDime Q&A: Gordon Hayward Talks Butler & Why He Loves Cruises
Is there anyone more inclined to speak on the rise of the Bulldog other than a guy who used to be one? Gordon Hayward helped build Butler, or at least the part of the school that we know something...
View ArticleBest Five: The Final Four Teams’ All-Time Starting Lineups
More than just a championship is on the line in this weekend’s Final Four. A lot of these players – guys like Kemba Walker, Shelvin Mack, Joey Rodriguez and Brandon Knight – have the chance to do...
View ArticleKemba Walker Close to Being Crowned King; The Thunder Try to Beat Up Blake...
Monday’s National Championship game is set after UConn and Butler emerged victorious from two hard-fought semi-final games yesterday in Houston. In the heavyweight game, the Huskies took out the...
View ArticleUConn vs. Butler: Dime Picks a National Champion
So what are you doing at 9:23 PM ET tonight? Unless you’re watching WWE RAW’s recap of last night’s Wrestlemania, you’ll be tuned in to the NCAA National Championship game between No. 8 seed Butler and...
View ArticleUConn and Kemba Walker Choke the Life out of Butler, Win NCAA Championship
We have all witnessed history. On many, many levels. We wake up this morning with UConn as champions of college basketball; the Huskies the last team standing at the end of an absolutely incredible...
View ArticleNBA Draft: Butler’s Shelvin Mack Will Be This Year’s Greivis Vasquez
Since jumping onto the national radar in Butler’s amazing 2010 National Championship run, Shelvin Mack has gone from unexpected surprise to burgeoning star. Last season, many of the accolades...
View ArticleButler’s Chrishawn Hopkins Enters The “Dunk Of The Summer” Conversation With...
We won’t hold it against you if you don’t know Butler’s Chrishawn Hopkins. Despite making it to the national championship game as a freshman this season with the Bulldogs, he only saw four minutes of...
View ArticleCollege Super Tournament Of Nike Schools Is Close To Happening
Sixteeen Nike-sponsored universities from eight college conferences are getting closer to creating a branded tournament as a tribute to Nike co-founder Phil Knight in 2017, ESPN reported yesterday. The...
View ArticleToday’s NCAA Tournament Underdog: The Bucknell Bison (Presented by Point 3)
Everyone loves an underdog, right? Especially when it comes to NCAA Tournament time. If you’re not moved by the Butlers of the world, there’s a good chance you’re dead inside. In that same spirit, we...
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Dime Q&A: Gordon Hayward Talks Utah Jazz & March Madness
Gordon Hayward (photo. Utah Jazz) The butler did it…again. Yesterday’s miraculous buzzer-beater lay-in by Matt Howard to beat Old Dominion had me reminiscing over Butler’s miraculous run last year to...
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For The Final Four, This Year’s Butler Is… Butler
Words. Eitan Tye The Butler Bulldogs stamped their ticket to the Sweet 16 this year in spectacular fashion, edging out a bruising Old Dominion team with a tip-in at the buzzer, and muscling their way...
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Butler and Kemba Walker Shoot Their Way Into the Final Four; The Knicks...
Kemba Walker The Butler is back again. You ever doze off, then wake back up to see the game you thought you were watching be turned upside down? You sit up, confused, eyes straining like “Huh?” Thank...
View ArticleThis View Of Pat Connaughton’s Game-Saving Block Against Butler Is So Good
Pat Connaughton is mostly known for being the heart of the Notre Dame team. He shows a lot of emotion, comes through in a big way with clutch jumpers, makes the extra pass, and generally just helps...
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Prince’s Butler Shares The Very Real Story Behind Prince’s Breakfast Obsession
Getty Image / Vince Bucci Sometimes breakfast cannot wait. Well, it can but you wouldn’t want to disappoint Prince, now would you? Of course not. As we continue to mourn the passing of Prince and...
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Matty D’s Top 25 College Basketball Preview (25-21)
That’s right, the start of the college hoops season is just one week away and you know what that means: it’s time to unleash the mother effing fury! For the past seven months, I’ve been bottling up a...
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March Madness: 6 First Round Upsets To Have In Your Bracket
Now that the brackets have been released, and you’ve been able to get your initial observations out of the way, it’s time to start talking upsets. So check below for 6 first round upsets to have in...
View ArticleTSS 2010 March Madness Preview: First Round – Day One
Today’s gonna be a good day y’all. Between March Madness & SXSW, along with recuperating from St. Patty’s day, this is definitely one of those unofficial holidays. With North Carolina out of the...
View ArticleTSS 2010 March Madness Preview: Second Round – Day One
Day three of the world’s greatest postseason tournament, so how is your bracket looking? Great? Horrible? Keeping your head above water? At this point, if you’ve still got your Final Four teams around,...
View ArticleTSS 2010 March Madness Preview: Sweet 16 – Day One
Even those of us strung out in Texas in the midst of deafening Hip-Hop managed to keep one eye on The Tourney last weekend. And for hoops fans, it couldn’t have gone better. Comebacks, overtimes,...
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Jonny Flynn Defends Syracuse
Jonny Flynn just tweeted the following about the big Syracuse/Butler upset: For everybody solely placing the blame on 1 individual player #youreajoke it was jus 1 of the games where Butler was the...
View ArticleTSS 2010 March Madness Preview: Elite Eight – Day One
Our picks have been all over the place and wrong more often than not. But like the weatherman predicting rain for 17th consecutive day without a cloud in the sky, we carry on. The games have been...
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Austin Rivers H.S. Hoop Diary: North Carolina enters the mix
Winter Park (Fla.) High School point guard Austin Rivers is one of the best prep players, pound-for-pound, in the country. HighSchoolHoop.com ranks the 6-4 junior fifth overall in its national top 50....
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Butler will win the National Championship
Butler's Gordon Hayward Let me get this out of the way: Gordon Hayward is not Jimmy Chitwood, and the Butler Bulldogs are not the Hickory High Hoosiers. But if all goes according to plan, Butler’s...
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Duke will win the National Championship
Duke's Nolan Smith & Jon Scheyer For all of those haters and “experts” who have been crying from moment the original NCAA Tournament seedings were announced weeks ago (and there were many) that...
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Duncan puts Dwight in his place; NCAA Final Four preview
(photo. adidas) Before you settle in this afternoon for the Final Four games (Butler/MSU tips off at 6 p.m. EST), first you should read these: The Dime crew’s best arguments for Michigan State, West...
View ArticleTSS 2010 March Madness Preview: The Final Four
This is the last hurrah with “One Shining Moment” looming in the distance. By the end of the night four teams will be whittled down to two and the pieces will be in place for the ultimate prize. Each...
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3 Key Matchups In Tonight’s National Championship Game
Butler's Gordon Hayward The always entertaining and interesting Jonah Lehrer has an essay in this past weekend’s Wall Street Journal which uses recent studies to examine The Superstar Effect: “While...
View ArticleTSS 2010 March Madness Preview: The National Championship
Let’s face it, you probably forgot the NCAA final game was tonight. We certainly did. Sure, Opening Day and the Man taking control of our souls on a Monday had something to do with it. But mostly we...
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Revenge of the Sith: Duke wins another National Championship
Duke's Kyle Singler Under the list of ingredients that have become standard in the NCAA championship recipe — defense, momentum, chip on the shoulder, good coaching, depth, etc. — perhaps we should add...
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Dime NBA Draft Profile: Gordon Hayward
Butler's Gordon Hayward With the season almost over, NBA GMs have their minds set on the NBA Playoffs. But for those teams that will be counting ping pong balls instead of playoff victories, the...
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Gordon Hayward Should Stay In The NBA Draft
Butler's Gordon Hayward With the NCAA deadline for players to withdraw their names from NBA Draft consideration rapidly approaching on May 8th, one of the most intriguing underclassmen prospects is...
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