As it is now April 7th, I think it is time for the March game of the month. Especially now that the tournament is over, and that is where I will get my game of the month from.
You can choose from a multitude of games, any Butler game from the time the tournament began until the Elite Eight, the George Mason/Villanova game in the opening round, the Kentucky/Princeton, Washington/Georgia, Temple/Penn State games in the opening round, or, you can go with the Butler/Old Dominion opening round game. Also, as I couldn't make the choice, since there were so many games, I asked a very Godly man, Corydon Metcalf to make the choice for me.
This game was back and forth the entire way. It had a whopping 21 lead changes, and neither team led by more than six points the entire game. This is exactly the kind of game you suspect from two great mid-major conferences, and two great mid-major teams. Plus, the tension was building due to this being the opening round of the tournament, and with a single tip in or one bad play, or just something not going some team's way, that team would be out. Well, the first of these occurred on the last play of the game, where Matt Howard, Butler's outstanding senior forward who will be sorely missed, tipped the ball in over Old Dominion forward Andrew Smith, who is three inches taller than Howard. The play in which Butler won was not exactly drawn up as planned, but, as they say sometimes it is better to be lucky than good. Well, Butler was both lucky and good that afternoon as they started on their trek back to their second straight national title game.
Some info was taken from here: http://www.ncaa.com/game/basketball-men/d1/2011/03/17/old-dominion-butler
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