Butler quick facts

This year’s team:

26-8 overall record
6^th NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in seven years and the 11^th in 17 years.
18-18 overall NCAA tournament record.
No. 6 seed was the third highest in Butler history. The only higher ones were No. 5 seeds in 2007 and 2010.
Has never lost to a lower seed in the tournament.
There are three players on the Butler roster that have played in a national championship game: Andrew Smith, Chase Stigall and Khyle Marshall
Was 4-0 against RPI Top 20 teams and 6-6 against RPI Top 50 teams.
Had zero losses outside of the RPI Top 100
Has had nine different players start this season
Two Geico Player of the Year finalists in Alex Barlow with his shot against Indiana and Roosevelt Jones’ game winner against Gonzaga
The top three wins by Butler this season against Indiana, Gonzaga and Marquette were decided by a combined four points
As a team averages: 69.3 points, 34.8 percent 3-point shooting, 68.9 percent free throw shooting, 36.6 rebounds, 13.1 assists, 13.4 turnovers, 5.7 steals and 2.4 blocks per game
As a team allows: 63.8 points, 41.8 percent opponent field goal shooting and 33.3 percent 3-point field goal shooting per game.

Brad Stevens:

Has an 11-4 NCAA tournament record as head coach
Butler has had six Top 10 wins with Stevens as coach
Has moved into the top spot on the NCAA Division I list for best career coaching starts by wins in six seasons, with a record of 165-48. He hold the NCAA three, four and five-year record.

Rotnei Clarke

Butler is 10-1 when Clarke scores 20 or more points per game
He leads the team averaging 16.7 points per game
Has scored 518 points this season
He is first on the team in free-throw shooting, with an average of 88.6 percent
Is third in Butler history for single-season 3-point field goals with 108
Has scored in double-figures in all but five games he’s played in this season
He missed three games after suffering a severe neck sprain at Dayton in January.
Is a member of the Atlantic 10 First Team All-Conference
Scored a season-high 27 points in the loss to Illinois during the championship game of the Maui Invitational.

Andrew Smith

He is the only player in the country to have played in two national championship games
Is Butler’s second-leading scorer averaging 11.1 points per game
He and Roosevelt Jones lead the team in rebounding averaging 5.7 rebounds per game
Smith is a finalist of the Lowes Senior Class Award, was named to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team and is an Academic All-American

Roosevelt Jones

Jones is the only Butler player to start in all 34 games this season.
He is one of three Butler players averaging in double-figure scoring with 10.1 points per game
He averages 30.4 minutes per game, second-most on the team.
He leads the team in assists with 3.5 per game
Jones is a member of the Atlantic 10 All-Defensive Team

Khyle Marshall

Butler is 15-1 when Marshall scores in double-figures
He averages 9.9 points per game
Shooting 56.4 percent from the field, he is second on the team in field goal percentage
Marshall averages 4.7 rebounds per game

Kellan Dunham

Kameron Woods

Has scored in double figures four times this season, three coming in the last five games. Butler has won all four of those games
He leads the team in field goal shooting percentage with 56.9 percent
Woods is averaging 4.8 rebounds and 4.6 points per game

Alex Barlow

Has started 21 games this season for the Bulldogs. The team is 17-4 in those games and 8-3 when he comes in off the bench
Averages 43.1 percent field goal shooting
Has 66 assists this season, averaging two per game
He has the best assist to turnover ratio on the team with 1.7

Erik Fromm

Chase Stigall

Stigall is a 77.8 percent free-throw shooter
He averages 10.6 minutes, most of the time coming off the bench. He has started in three games for the Bulldogs this season
Stigall has a season-high 12 points in the 77-58 win at St. Bonaventure