DETROIT – Butler has endured such heartbreak before. The climactic shot, released a step inside midcourt, looked like it might fall.
The Bulldogs have made so much March magic, you always wonder if it will happen again.
“I thought it had a shot of going in,” Kamar Baldwin said.
Baldwin’s shot, released Sunday as time expired, was at nearly the same spot on the court as Gordon Hayward’s in Lucas Oil Stadium eight years ago. Hayward’s miss allowed Duke to be college basketball’s national champion. Baldwin’s rimmed off, breathing life into the Purdue Boilermakers.