Monday, March 19, 2007
How Easily They Forget!
Jollyblogger wants to know who Butler is? It is amazing to me how an otherwise very intelligent man can so easily slip. But then Flordia is in the Southeastern Conference. It was my priviledge to spend my freshman year at the only institution in that conference that cares about the actual education of its students (Vanderbilt) so really I should not be surprized.It is difficult to know where to start with someone so dense. You may remember the climactic game from the finest sports movie ever produced - Hoosiers? That game was filmed in Hinkle Fiedlhouse where the Butler Bulldogs hold court each year for all home games. For decades the largest indoor sports arena in the nation (Though then dubbed "Butler Fieldhouse") there is no place that can claim more history in the great game of basketball.
But then how can you expect anyone from an educational institution of such repute to know much about history, or even cinema for that matter?
But here is the real reason I think Jollyblogger could be so forgetful.
Florida beat Butler 69-68 in overtime in the first round of the 2000 NCAA Tournament at Winston-Salem, N.C., on Mike Miller's buzzer-beating leaner in the lane. Florida, which trailed by seven points with four minutes left in regulation, went on to the national championship game at the RCA Dome.That's right dear reader, Butler announced it's return to national prominence in 2000 (they've been in the tournament 4 years since and once in the Sweet Sixteen) by quite nearly removing the then #1 ranked 'Gators from the tournament in the first round. I'm not at all surprized David would want to forget that little fact.
So David, Who's Butler? Just the team breathing down your neck and about to kick your behind.
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