{"id":6031,"date":"2025-03-24T17:56:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=6031"},"modified":"2025-03-24T17:56:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T22:56:22","slug":"butler-to-face-off-against-utah-in-college-basketball-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2025\/03\/24\/butler-to-face-off-against-utah-in-college-basketball-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Butler to face off against Utah in College Basketball Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The Bulldogs will face off against Utah on March 31. Photo courtesy of LiveNowFox.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Butler men\u2019s basketball team will kick-off the inaugural College Basketball Crown tournament on March 31 when it plays Utah at 1 p.m. The game will be hosted inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Butler is 3-1 all-time versus the Runnin\u2019 Utes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 16-team postseason tournament starts on Monday, March 31, and the championship game is slated for Sunday, April 6. The first round of the tournament and quarterfinals are set to air on FS1 with the semifinals and finals airing on FOX.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Four teams from the Big East are represented in Georgetown, DePaul, Villanova and the Bulldogs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the Big 12, Utah put up an 8-12 record with key wins over BYU and Kansas who both made an appearance in the NCAA tournament \u2014 with BYU still dancing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a win, Butler will face off against the winner of George Washington-Boise State.<\/span><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bulldogs will face off against Utah on March 31. Photo courtesy of LiveNowFox. The Butler men\u2019s basketball team will kick-off the inaugural College Basketball Crown tournament on March 31 when it plays Utah at 1 p.m. The game will be hosted inside the MGM Grand Garden Arena. Butler is 3-1 all-time versus the Runnin\u2019 [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9198231,"featured_media":6032,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[380324,380329],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mens-bb","category-winter-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9198231"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6033,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6031\/revisions\/6033"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}