Butler

In a comment on my Richmond post earlier, Erieberg makes a good point:

While your Richmond/VCU run is great, let's not forget the Husker parallels to a little school from Indy who is still playing, also.

- The real Huskers were a pretty good team who lost to the eventual champs the year previous.

- The Milan coach was a very young man (and a recent graduate of where? You guessed it).

- Milan actually beat a couple smaller schools who had even more improbable runs through the tournament that year, on their way to the finals.

- Milan won the championship in the building currently occupied by the Butler Bulldogs.

And in this note: "Mack's 30-point game was obscured by the calamitous sequence at the finish.

With 1,450 points, Mack moved past Bobby Plump (1,439 from 1954-58) into 12th on Butler's all-time list."

Spooky.

It's a fun story to watch.  I will say that unlike Milan, Butler did lose their best player from last year.  And Butler's coach isn't foreced to kiss that fugly Barbara Herschey  :)

8) Speaking of movies, I’ve watched “Hoosiers” oh, maybe 5,000 times. A super-slice, my religion. But it occurs to me every time I watch it that other than Jimmy Chitwood, I have no idea which player is which. I know there’s a Rade, a Merle, a Buddy. Strap, Ollie. I have no idea which is which, and for all I know they switch names throughout the flick. Which would actually help distract us from being bothered that with millions of dollars in their hands the best chick they could get for Coach Dale’s love interest was Barbara “Ugly Farmer Man” Herschey. A banner phone call for Hackman, I'm sure. "So Gene, you'll spend all day with these 16 year-old boys, then at the end of the day we'll let you kiss Barbara here. What’s that? No, I don’t think an affair with Dennis Hopper instead is a good idea here. It’s Indiana. See ya on the set!” Ugh.

GO HUSKERS!