Butler announced that Thad Matta would be men's basketball coach Sunday, April 3. His first order of business was meeting the remaining players.
He had little idea what to expect, Matta said on the Field of 68 podcast.
"I remember I was coming to meet with the team on a Sunday morning, and I told my wife, I could walk in and there could be nobody left in the room," Matta said.
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Turns out almost everybody showed up.