Every game, LaVall Jordan’s Butler team looks more and more like the Butler teams coached by Brad Stevens several years ago. Those Stevens teams played suffocating defense but what many have forgotten is that they were also characterized by struggling offense. Chris Holtmann led the Bulldogs in a slightly different direction, but Jordan, who was once on Todd Lickliter’s Butler staff alongside Stevens, seems to be re-establishing Butler’s previous identiy.
Wednesday’s contest against Brown marked yet another stellar defensive performance by the Dawgs. Brown’s Desmond Cambridge, who is a legitimate star, was held to just 15 points on 5-of-16 shooting and Brown as a whole scored just 55 points.