INDIANAPOLIS – It is not official. It is not a certainty. It is college basketball, after all, where the absurd is ordinary.
Yet for all practical purposes, Butler’s senior night victory is sending Kelan Martin and Tyler Wideman to a fourth NCAA tournament.
Martin rebounded from previous futility against Creighton to score 26 points in his Hinkle Fieldhouse finale, and the Bulldogs made 14 3-pointers in a 93-70 blowout of the 25th-ranked Bluejays.
The Bulldogs are 9-7 in the Big East, fighting for third place against Providence (8-6), Creighton (8-7) and Seton Hall (7-7).