(Photo: AP)
Butler and Tennessee are not natural rivals in college basketball, and their series consists of just four games. But all four have been consequential.
The teams meet again at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at Hinkle Fieldhouse (Fox Sports 1).
Recapping the Dawgs/Vols games:
Dec. 20, 1958:
Butler 81, Tennessee 66
(Excerpted from The Butler Way.)
This was supposed to be a homecoming for Tennessee coach Emmett Lowery, an Indianapolis native who had starred at Tech High School and Purdue. After all, the fifth-ranked Vols were 5-0 and Butler an unimposing 1-5.