The Butler Bulldogs’ season is over. After a successful year that included a sweep of the regular season champion Villanova Wildcats and Elite Eight-bound Xavier Musketeers, the ‘Dawgs saw their Phoenix dreams go up in smoke as the North Carolina Tar Heels put on a clinic. Inside the FedEx Forum in Memphis, UNC was truly the ‘total package,’ using a red-hot 1st half of play to help lead them to a 92-80 victory.
Butler never quite caught fire as they did against the Winthrop Eagles or Middle Tennessee Blue Raiders on Friday night, as UNC stifled and frustrated them on that end of the floor.