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Game 7-105: NCAA National Championship
April 5, 2011 6:35 am ET by Kyle Whelliston

Butler Bulldogs vs. Connecticut Huskies

April 4, 2011 9:23 pm
Houston, TX
BBState Stats/Recap

TheNational
Here's where the story ends.

@midmajority Game Tweets

20:52Nored Island! http://plixi.com/p/89605636
20:53Star of the show. @ButlerBlue2 http://plixi.com/p/89605541
20:54Hink looks angry. http://plixi.com/p/89605360
20:55Credentials. http://plixi.com/p/89605240
20:55This sign said VCU on Saturday. #AOUEOU http://plixi.com/p/89605017
20:56Connersville love. http://plixi.com/p/89604690
21:00RT @mlandes1536 @midmajority the season doesn't always end in a loss....it can't #godawgs
21:01RT @fangsbites I'm loving @midmajority's tweets from the Final Four and the Championship Game. And @MattNorlander's too!
21:02RT @goldengrizzGP To borrow a phrase, there is a basketball game tonight. It means a lot for all of us, each of us. #aoueou @midmajority
21:03RT @TheBopper @midmajority I'm a Duke fan, and if there is one team we know that deserves to win tonight, it's Butler. Amazing program.
21:04RT @laplanck Tonight, every member of the @midmajority is a Bulldog. #ibelievethatwewillwin #AOUEOU
21:10RT @DouglasAngle After tonight we will all spell it Khyle. @midmajority #Butler
21:11RT @MRJAMEZ5 Goin with the @midmajority #Butler gets revenge after last years buzzer beater doesn't drop!!
21:18RT @thrashsoundly We are all Bulldogs today! RT @ButlerBB: Are you a bulldog??? @midmajority
21:18Game No. 7-105. Butler vs. UConn. National Championship. We're going to do some call and response. Ready?
21:18I! #callandresponse
21:18RT @pntafter @midmajority I!
21:18RT @JohnEzekowitz @midmajority I!
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21:18RT @TypoDC @midmajority I!
21:18I BELIEVE!
21:18RT @quarantedeux @midmajority I BELIEVE!
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21:18RT @Dobber_BtB_SBN @midmajority I BELIEVE!
21:18RT @albolte @midmajority I BELIEVE!
21:18I BELIEVE THAT WE!
21:18RT @pntafter @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE!
21:18RT @NovaYankee @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE
21:18RT @MattnotDonovan @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE! (Starts bouncing up and down)
21:18I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN
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21:18RT @chrispalm @midmajority: I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!
21:18RT @ncaabbguy RT @midmajority: I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN"
21:18RT @dannyobyrne @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!
21:18RT @redsoxunixgeek @MidMajority BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!
21:19 RT @Nyghtewynd: @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! #AOUEOU
21:19 RT @polarscribe: @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!
21:19 RT @mrericreyes: @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN! I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!
21:19 RT @Max_Koenig: @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN I BELIEVE THAT WE WILL WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!
21:20 Let's win.
21:21 RT @achiappazzi: Holy crap. @midmajority just blew up my Twitter feed.
21:21 RT @BrianDFrancis: My timeline is all @midmajority all the time right now. #gobulldogs #loveit
21:21 RT @michaelkruse: CAPE HAZE, Fla. -- Here with Matt White and family and friends getting ready to watch #Butler play for the national title. @midmajority
21:22 RT @pretzel_logic: Here's what I want. If Butler wins, I want a national media organization to hire @midmajority.
21:23 Starting lineups: BUTL - Mack, Vanzant, Stigall, Howard, Stevens. CONN - Lamb, Walker, Olander, Smith, Oriakhi.
21:23 RT @bseal: I just want one season where @midmajority doesn't end in a loss! #letsgetit
21:25 Reporting live from Row M2 on the floor of Reliant Stadium. We are in the "@goodmanonfox Suite", meaning that if I throw up, it's on him.
21:25 RT @Bobfrueh: @midmajority Let's close that circle #butler
21:26 RT @StifledChirp: I think @midmajority just broke Twitter with that wave of a chant...
21:27 Sea of flashbulbs. The National Championship game is underway.
21:28 Olander scored first, but Stigall answers two possessions later with a NCG #superhoop. 3-2 BUTL.
21:28 RT @JMeredithA: Well @DavidWoods007 and @Midmajority will finally be able to wash the lucky boxers they've been wearing all season #gobutler
21:30 Butler misses 5 of first 6 shots. Thankfully, UConn has misses 5 of 7. Nervous energy.
21:32 The first Howard #sup54hoop try goes bad. Butler starts out 1-for-9 from the floor. Still 4-3 UConn at 15:58 1H.
21:33 This game is a greasy carbon gunkball so far, certainly.
21:34 RT @DavidWoods007: Kemba is 0 of 4, Mack 0 of 3.
21:34 RT @Smith_Family: RT @gnumoon Poor UCONN. It must suck to have the whole country rooting against you. @midmajority
21:36 Do NOT doubt the power of the #sup54hoop! Howard! For 3! 14:48 1H, tied at 6.
21:39 Butler .154, UConn .267. Those are not shortstop batting averages, this is for the title.
21:40 Kemba Walker with two straight hits after missing his first 5. And one. Butler students start a "Kem-ba" chant.
21:42 10 of UConn's 13 are paint points. Butler disrupting well in the backcourt though. 13-9 Huskies, and we're already 8 minutes in.
21:42 RT @noslowallgo: Yes, @ballybasketball has a National Championship-watching throne. http://plixi.com/p/89611903 (cc @midmajority)
21:44 Speaking of great perim D, UConn is being quite gunky/sticky on the other end. Shutting down lane. Only two Dawg FGs: 3's by Stigal & Howard
Guy next to me is writing a feature (buzzer file, I'm guessing) that assumes UConn wins. Let's make him eat it.
Smith does great things 25% of the time, goofy s___ the other 75%. This ratio will improve the next 2 yrs. Nice layup. UC 13-11, end of 1Q.
RT @darrenrovell Mad lib writing still not dead? RT @midmajority Guy next to me is writing a feature that assumes UConn wins.
RT @goodmanonfox I warned @garyparrishcbs not to do that. RT @midmajority: Guy next to me is writing a feature that assumes UConn wins.
Buzzer file! RT @bhornet2010: @midmajority i am writing feature where UCONNs wins get vacated
I was being nice! RT @BrendanAndrew: @midmajority I'd say it's more 10/90(great/goofy), but you are the professional.
Stigall's #superhoop stroke looks like something out of the 200IM, but it's occasionally effective! Butler takes lead, 16-15. 6:44 1H.
Might be discernible on TV, but Butler is having great success with rib-level ball slaps on the blocks. Not being called, but very audible.
Row 2, lower left side. Just put Bally in a better TV position. RT @MichaelHadley3: @midmajority Where are you seated?
UConn riding Kemba like a dirty, dirty pony. 10 shots for him. And there's Mack! #superhoop! Tied at 19, 3:54 1H.
RT @jasonbartel @midmajority I SEE BALLY!!
RT @omgitsfeely @midmajority BALLY SIGHTING (but only because I was looking for him)
I knew that putting the little dude up higher would do him good. #8orangepixels
Love how Butler's benchies are 100% involved in the MTO discussion. Any one of them might be called in to give the game a little 2H twist.
Butler Formula in full effect y'all. Shooting 20%, getting wiped in rebound %, -4 on turns. Tied at 19 with 1:58 1H.
Game being called quite fairly, erring on the side of the no-call.
MACK
Fun little 6-0 run there to close the half. BUTL 22 CONN 19. HOF announcement at HT. Rodman looks like Christmas.
And now, for the last time in Season 7.
Tempo-free HT is brought to you by who?
RT @thrashsoundly @midmajority BLAPP! BLAPP! We need more BLAPP - and a Butler win. GO DAWGS!
RT @donpot @midmajority BLAPP!!!!
RT @TourneyTrip @midmajority give me some # BLAPP
RT @peashley @midmajority BLAPP son! RT @midmajority: Tempo-free HT is brought to you by who?
RT @ursinussid @midmajority BLAPP?
22:17 RT @dcbradley: @midmajority BLAPP!!!
22:17 RT @bcmu03: @midmajority BLAPP!
22:17 RT @rhettumphress: @midmajority BLAPP! BLAPP! BLAPP! Get your BLAPP on!
22:17 RT @thehemogoblin: @midmajority The notorious B.L.A.P.P.!
22:18 RT @polarscribe: @midmajority We want BLAPP!
22:18 RT @donpot: @midmajority I BELIEVE THAT BLAPP IS GOOD! I BELIEVE THAT BLAPP IS GOOD!
22:19 That's right, Hoops Nation. Tempo-free HT, built by BLAPP. Butler has 22 points in 26 possessions (.84). UConn: 19 points in 27 trips (.70).
22:20 Disclaimer: a good way to guarantee that it ends in a loss is BLAPP. It will kill your fool ass.
22:22 RT @albolte: @midmajority Lager, fruit juice AND grain alcohol. Just f____ing drink it, halftime.
22:23 Meanwhile, my seatmate has put away his UConn story. New lede: "Butler never stopped believin'." #sportswriting
22:24 RT @NovaYankee: @midmajority After a night of drinking BLAPP the only cure is 5 Guacos.
22:25 Also, all you: shut yer traps about ugly. Defense is an art.
22:28 RT @This_SIDs_Life: #CBS in front of "handpicked" #Uconn fans. I spotted C-USA t-shirt. Snicker. CC @midmajority
22:28 RT @KraigW: Gotta think my Butler friends are catatonic right now. Hang in there hoops nation is with you #AOUEOU @midmajority
22:29 RT @bubbaprog: Rice is a member of the @midmajority for another hour or so, thus: (also crazy guy) http://30fram.es/1u6
22:32 It's not the National Anthem or anything. http://plixi.com/p/89623406
22:32 Can't get through a Final Four game without mentioning Corporate Champion AT&T's cell service in the stadium. Or, "No service." #saturated
22:33 We'll be right over. RT @bmckim: Save me @ballybasketball ! @EdLassX is making Horchata BLAPP! @midmajority
22:33 RT @rwmonty: @midmajority Gotta believe Gus is thinking to himself, "Nobody would notice the low score if I were calling this game."
22:35 Yes, confetti warning. I want that scrolling on the bottom of CBS' screen in the final minute. #dopplerconfettiradar
22:36 Stigall from Vanzant to start the half. He's a #superhoop genius! Butler by 6!
22:38 CONN 26 BUTL 25 after a 7-0 run. Gotta win the First Five Minutes (tm), Dawgs.
22:40 RT @GMURayRay: I'm really starting to worry that @midmajority will no longer exist after tonight because Kyle is going combust if Butler wins...
22:40 RT @DavidWoods007: UConn on 7-0 run to go ahead 26-25. Butler 1 of 14 on 2s
22:42 I'd like to apologize on behalf of all 78,000 of us here to anybody who is not being entertained by the NCG. #sportz
22:42 RT @redsoxunixgeek: Maybe @MidMajority needs to start barking out commands to the Butler team to relax...
22:49 Butler is not going to hit another 2, are they. 1-for-19 inside the arc.
22:52 FYI: the lowest FG% in a win this season was Fla Gulf Coast vs Campbell on 2/19. Shot 24%, won 47-39. Butler shooting 17%, down by 5.
22:53 Butler 1-for-21 from 2. Down 7. Something good needs to happen.
22:55 There's a two. Vanzant nails one, UConn lead down to 5. 12:11 to go. How are they in this game? #dejavu

Twitter automatically cut the @midmajority account off at this point for tweeting too much. It was for the best; there was nothing to add.

Boxscore

CONNECTICUT 53, BUTLER 41
04/04/2011

BUTLER 28-10 (13-5) -- M. Howard 1-13 4-4 7; S. Mack 4-15 1-2 13; S. Vanzant 2-10 0-0 5; A. Smith 2-9 1-2 5; R. Nored 0-2 2-4 2; C. Stigall 3-11 0-0 9; K. Marshall 0-2 0-2 0; Z. Hahn 0-2 0-0 0; C. Hopkins 0-0 0-0 0; G. Butcher 0-0 0-0 0. Totals 12-64 8-14 41.
CONNECTICUT 32-9 (9-9) -- K. Walker 5-19 6-7 16; J. Lamb 4-8 3-4 12; S. Napier 1-6 2-2 4; A. Oriakhi 5-6 1-1 11; N. Giffey 1-3 2-2 4; R. Smith 0-2 0-0 0; C. Okwandu 1-3 0-0 2; D. Beverly 1-2 0-0 2; T. Olander 1-3 0-0 2; J. Coombs-McDaniel 0-3 0-0 0. Totals 19-55 14-16 53.

Three-point goals: BUTL 9-33 (Z. Hahn 0-1; M. Howard 1-6; S. Vanzant 1-5; S. Mack 4-11; R. Nored 0-1; C. Stigall 3-9), CONN 1-11 (K. Walker 0-4; J. Coombs-McDaniel 0-1; N. Giffey 0-1; J. Lamb 1-2; S. Napier 0-2; R. Smith 0-1); Rebounds: BUTL 40 (A. Smith 9), CONN 51 (A. Oriakhi 11); Assists: BUTL 5 (S. Vanzant 2), CONN 6 (J. Lamb 2); Total Fouls -- BUTL 17, CONN 15; Fouled Out: BUTL-None; CONN-None.