Is the Butler story over?

[NHUConnfan]

For the sake of argument, all of Butler's success was only in two consecutive years, and therefore with largely the same core of players. Two years ago, they were carried by Gordon Heyward, last year it was Shelvin Mack and Matt Howard. They're all gone. And I don't see a single player on their team right now who's even close to their level.

Stevens is going to have to show he can recruit over a longer period of time before I think he's a great coach.

It's looking like a real struggle for them here against Xavier.

Yeah, maybe because Xavier is one of the best teams in the country.

 

[Walker11]

Butler has some very good recruits, 4 * type recruits coming in which should allow them to remain the bully of the Horizon. Plus, they have lights out shooting, Arkansas transfer Rotnei Clarke coming in for a year.

 

[TheChamps990411]

Stevens is a good coach. But it's highly unlikely that Butler will return to a final four in this decade. Their run was magic and that they did it twice was beyond magic.They should remain as a good team but not see deep NCAA runs very often.

people thought the same thing 20+ years ago about uconn.