Butler’s starters gather on the court during the Villanova game on Dec. 31. After defeating No. 1 Villanova 101-93, the Bulldogs are 3-0 against the Wildcats in 2017. Photo by Jimmy Lafakis.
DANA LEE | SPORTS EDITOR | delee1@butler.edu
What do you do when the No. 1 team in the country comes to your school?
You grab your friends, squeezed shoulder to shoulder in the student section, and storm the court, because they drove up, down and from all around — Memphis, Crawfordsville and Columbia City — to see this too.
Call it a pilgrimage of sorts, all 9,244 fans congregating in Hinkle Fieldhouse to see Butler upset Villanova University.