LaVall Jordan’s first season as head coach at Butler had its share of successes. There were the 21 wins, a home victory over eventual National Champion Villanova and a fourth straight trip to the NCAA Tournament.
But whatever the Bulldogs have in mind for an encore in Jordan’s second season will have to come without the services of one of the program’s all-time greats in Kelan Martin as well as Tyler Wideman, a dominating presence in the paint for Butler the past few seasons.
OK, so that’s the bad news. The good news, however, is the Bulldogs will return a plethora of premier pieces in order to make a fifth consecutive run at an NCAA Tournament invitation.