{"id":5341,"date":"2024-03-06T16:06:05","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/?p=5341"},"modified":"2024-03-06T16:06:05","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T21:06:05","slug":"bulldogs-keep-season-alive-after-blue-demon-beatdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.butler.edu\/butler360\/2024\/03\/06\/bulldogs-keep-season-alive-after-blue-demon-beatdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulldogs Keep Season Alive After Blue Demon Beatdown"},"content":{"rendered":"
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DJ Davis scored 24 points to lead the Bulldogs to victory.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Saturday afternoon, the Butler Bulldogs headed on the road to Chicago with hopes of ending their five game losing streak in desperate need of a win to keep their slim tournament hopes alive.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The dawgs started the game off slow, trailing 19 to 15 to a 3-25 DePaul team, who has not won a conference game all year. However a 30 to 4 run helped the Dawgs take an 18 point lead into the half.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Junior guard, Pierre Brooks, added 16 points in the first half for the Dawgs thanks to a hot six for six shooting start. Brooks had been struggling in February and seemed to have finally broken out of his slump with 16 points in this game.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In the second half, DJ Davis helped the dawgs maintain a double digit lead throughout the second half adding 24 points and seven rebounds for the Dawgs. Butler ended up winning the game by 19 and ending a brutal 5 game losing streak.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The bulldogs head into their regular season finale against Xavier with a small chance at an at-large bid in the NCAA Tournament. For the dawgs to be in tournament contention, this is a must win game as well as winning at least two games in the Big East Tournament in Madison Square Garden next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Butler Bulldogs would end the season with a 20-14 record with 5 Quad 1 wins. With a resum\u00e9 like that, it would be very hard for the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to leave the dawgs out of the field.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Saturday afternoon, the Butler Bulldogs headed on the road to Chicago with hopes of ending their five game losing streak in desperate need of a win to keep their slim tournament hopes alive.\u00a0 The dawgs started the game off slow, trailing 19 to 15 to a 3-25 DePaul team, who has not won a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9197235,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11891],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t