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The Butler Bulldogs are the teams that represent Butler University in U.S. NCAA Division I athletic competition, and are members of the Horizon League. Their basketball arena, Hinkle Fieldhouse, was the largest basketball arena in the US for several decades, whith 10,757 seats capacity. It is considered a Hoosier Hysteria icon: from its opening in 1928 until 1971, it was the site of the final rounds of the Indiana state high school basketball tournament. The Butler program has traditionally been one of the best of the mid-major basketball programs over the last decade, having won at least 20 games and reached postseason play eight of the last ten seasons, including five NCAA Tournaments, and has been to six NCAA Tournaments since 1997.
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About The Butler Bulldogs
The 2006-2007 team won the NIT Season Tip-Off, which in part helped them to be named one of the top 12 underdog sports stories of 2006 by ESPN and eventually earn a program-record number 5 seed to that year's NCAA Tournament. They began the season with ten straight wins, their third time in the last six years starting 10-0.
The Bulldogs defeated 12 seed Old Dominion in the opening round in 2007 NCAA postseason play, then upset 4 seed Maryland with 62-59, and in the regional sweet-sixteen game, they lost to defending national champions Florida with 65-57. Butler junior guard AJ Graves was named a Wooden Award National Player of the Year finalist in men's college basketball, during the 2006-2007 season, while Head Coach Todd Lickliter was named a finalist for National Coach of the Year. Wooden Award Jim Phelan Award Lickliter won the 2006-07 mid-season National Coach of the Year.
