Kamar Baldwin sets his eyes on the court. Baldwin scored 12 points against Villanova on March 10 after totaling a career-high 32 points the night before. Jimmy Lafakis/Collegian file photo.
DANA LEE | SPORTS EDITOR | delee1@butler.edu
Halfway into their wreck of a game in the Big East semifinals against Villanova, Butler players walked into the Madison Square Garden locker room, looked in the mirror and recoiled. They didn’t like what they saw, nor did they have reason to in a game that turned into their worse loss of the season, 87-68.
Less than 24 hours after Kamar Baldwin was using the team’s season-long motto of “Gritty not pretty” to explain a 14-point comeback against Seton Hall the night before, the same motto could be used to describe the Butler-Villanova game — it wasn’t pretty.