By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Perhaps sharing the ball was a large emphasis in Butler’s players-only meeting heading into a big road game at Massachusetts. If so, the Bulldogs did it, tallying 18 assists on the evening, their most in nearly two months. With Butler’s season at a crossroads, the team’s chemistry came around real […]
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By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent With pressure defense seeming to throw Butler out of whack, there aren’t many places less inviting than Amherst, Mass., where yet another brand of aggressive Atlantic 10 basketball is practiced. However, to coach Brad Stevens, whose Bulldogs are playing Massachusetts tonight, the forceful defense he will see in Amherst is […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent The biggest threat to Saint Louis these days would appear to be injury. The Billikens retain the top spot of IndySportsLegends.com’s Atlantic 10 Power Rankings for a second straight week and show no signs of letting go any time soon. Usual suspects VCU and La Salle are still in pursuit. […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent There’s a beautiful rodeo called the Atlantic 10 tournament heading our way in less than two weeks, and if you’re a Butler fan it might be an iffy investment of time. With Virginia Commonwealth and Saint Louis in the pool, Butler faces an uphill and daunting path to the trophy. […]
By COLLIN O’CONNOR ISL Correspondent HAVOC, what VCU head coach Shaka Smart calls his team’s intensity on defense, is something that has made this basketball program well known over the past few years and during its Final Four run in 2011. “We are going to wreak havoc on our opponents’ psyche and their plan of attack,” […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent It might be both the first and last meeting of league foes when No. 20 Butler visits No.25 Virginia Commonwealth. The two schools joined the Atlantic 10 this season. Fresh reports say the Bulldogs will jump to a reformed Big East this summer. If so, that would nip a great […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent As Butler prepares for what coach Brad Stevens terms the “reward” for a long season — the month of March — the time is ripe for an assessment of each player’s strengths and weaknesses. Enough games have been played for trends to solidify, and the statistical readings have mostly shaken […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Sweep Butler and win big against VCU, and you make the decision easy. Saint Louis has thus seized the top spot of IndySportsLegends.com’s Atlantic 10 Power Rankings on the heels of a nine-game winning streak and two statement victories last week. After dominating their highly anticipated showdown with Shaka Smart’s […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent INDIANAPOLIS”Maybe Butler isn’t overrated or too unathletic. Maybe Saint Louis is just really, really good. It took less than 72 hours for that realization to crystallize locally and nationally, after Saint Louis followed Tuesday’s upset of No. 24 Virginia Commonwealth with a 65-61 outclassing of the Bulldogs on Friday night […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent Let’s take a quick look at how the Saint Louis Billikens earned a 65-61 win over the Butler Bulldogs on Friday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse. WHY IT HAPPENED: Saint Louis was clearly the better team in the second half, unleashing a 10-2 run out of the locker room that turned […]
By CHRIS GOFF ISL Correspondent 10:05 — After beating VCU and Butler in back-to-back games, the Billikens have won nine in a row and are the clear-cut best team in the Atlantic 10 at this point in the season. Thank you for stopping by the live blog tonight. It was our first try at this, […]
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