NCAA: Butler v Winthrop - Thurs 1:30pm 3/16/17

[billyjack]

Game in beautiful downtown Milwaukee. Warriors fans should give the Bulldawgs some love.

Thursday 3/16/2017
Butler vs Winthrop, 1:30pm.

Winthrop of the Big South... best win was at Illinois... losses to Dayton, Florida State, New Hampshire. Butler's first step on their return to a Final Four.

[pki1998]

Winthrop is coached by Pat Kelsey (former X player and assistant coach). Sorry to see they got a Big East Team first round, now I have to find a new Cinderella to route for.

[Irishdawg]

In a single-game situation, Winthrop is a dangerous team. They take a ton of threes and make a good amount of them. Keon Johnson is a stud and Xavier Cooks is going to be a tough matchup for the Dawgs. When Butler's lost this year, it's been at least in part because their opponent shot well from deep. Could be a game I could see the Dawgs winning by 15 or losing by 15.

[DanofXav76]

I have to echo PKI's sentiments here. Not only does Pat have strong ties to X, he's also a top notch guy. Having said that, I'm all in on the Bulldogs to get this one to start an extended run. Best of luck to Butler.

[kayako]

Anybody watch the Butler press conference? kinda ridiculous how some hack continued to ask Butler players and Holtmann about Keon Johnson.

[milksteak]

Read an Indy Star article about the matchup a few minutes. Holtmann and the Winthrop coach know each other well from Holt's Gardner-Webb days. They actually had lunch together in Indy eight months ago and picked each other's brains.

[JohnW22]

Pat Kelsey is a great guy and might be Xavier's future coach. He came to my school to talk to me then give a speech to all the other students when I was in 5th grade since my teacher knew him and always talked Xavier with me but gotta root for Butler no question.

[JohnW22]

Butler is at their best when Woodson/Savage are adding offense. Great start

[kayako]

Pretty good crowd in Milwaukee. Butler can't let them hang around and have the crowd turn on them.

[ArmyVet]

1st half of BU sort of reminds me of last night. Hope the outcome is different.