For the Butler Bulldogs, Big East Tournament appearances have to start feeling like the movie “Groundhog Day”. The Bulldogs took a 62-57 loss to the Xavier Musketeers in Thursday night’s second round game to fall to 0-4 in four Big East Tournament appearances. To make the analogy even more complete, “Groundhog Day” star Bill Murray was seated behind the Xavier bench (Murray is the father of Xavier assistant Luke Murray).
However, Butler head coach Chris Holtmann wants everyone to take the 0-4 record with a bit of context. “We played pretty much a good team every year.