His first lesson? How to tell time.Ĭoach Brad Stevens before a win at Youngstown State two days earlier. Nored, Butler’s senior captain and an elementary education major, sat in a conference room to participate, via the Internet, in a meeting for his role as a student teacher. after a meeting with a sleep expert, Stevens has shied away from the morning practices he favored the past few seasons - its most endearing player was up three hours earlier. While Butler’s game day did not begin until 10 a.m. “That’s one thing that our team has that a lot of other teams don’t have. “Don’t write our obituary until we’re dead,” Stevens said. In the team’s game-day film session, Stevens sounded more like a shaman than a coach, stressing the importance of a clear mind and about not thinking twice about shots. Stevens sent a text message to the assistant Terry Johnson and told him to put together a highlight reel of Butler’s 20 best plays this season.
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Stevens would not normally address an article, but it is impossible to avoid free newspapers in hotels. On the front page of USA Today’s sports section, an article headlined “At Butler, Glass Slipper Cracks” greeted the team. “I think Brad is doing a really good job with what’s his most difficult challenge.”īutler awoke at a Hampton Inn to its obituary. “There’s not a resignation to this season by them or by Brad,” said Athletic Director Barry Collier, who coached Butler from 1989 to 2000. “What we’ve achieved the last five years makes it more difficult. “These guys aren’t robots, they’re humans,” Stevens said. The bookish Stevens now finds himself searching for a way to bring his team together, to begin playing the style that those around the program call the Butler Way.īutler officials allowed a reporter and a photographer an all-access look at the team while it made its way from Indianapolis to Youngstown and Cleveland for two recent games that loomed ever more important as the end of the regular season approaches. That success has made Butler an underdog favorite across the country and a Horizon League bully. The difference is that Butler played for the national title the past two seasons. The Bulldogs’ record - 13-12 over all, including 7-6 in the Horizon League - put them in the same predicament as hundreds of other teams: trying to secure a decent seed for their conference tournament and figure out a way to start playing their best basketball once they get there. Butler entered last week’s two-game trip to Youngstown State and Cleveland State in worse shape than last season. The Bulldogs and Nored recovered, however, and did not lose again until they were defeated by Connecticut in the national championship game two months later.
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