After playing one season at Butler, then graduating, Rotnei Clarke has played basketball for seven years overseas. He’s raising a family, chasing a childhood dream and pondering the future.
From the Eastern Bloc to Oz
ARI KASLE | STAFF REPORTER In just a few weeks, the Butler men’s basketball team will begin its 2013 season. On the other side of the world, former Bulldog stars Rotnei Clarke and Andrew Smith have started their new lives as professional basketball players. After graduating from Butler last year, both players received interest from…
No. 6 Butler falls to No. 3 Marquette in Lexington
Marquette junior guard Vander Blue scored a career-high 29 points as the No. 3 seed Golden Eagles squeaked out a 74-72 win over No. 6 seed Butler in the third round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament. Butler had a chance to tie or win the game with 2.9 seconds remaining, but senior…
Despite the statistics, Butler keeps rolling
No matter how well a college men’s basketball team may play during its regular season, should it make the NCAA Division I Tournament, it will ultimately fall into one of two categories. The ‘teams that showed up’ category, or the ‘teams that folded like a card table’ category. In its last few tournament appearances, Butler…
Stevens impresses the masses
Lexington—Butler coach Brad Stevens is the worst kept secret in college basketball. Everyone has known that Stevens is a good coach. But this year, people are getting a chance to understand and break down just how good he is. After all, you don’t boast a 12-4 NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament record and have…
Marquette looking for redemption
Butler is looking to win. Marquette is looking for revenge. Tomorrow’s third round match-up boasts a rematch of the two from the Maui Invitational back in November of this season. Butler beat Marquette on a buzzer-beating, desperation heave from senior guard Rotnei Clarke. And Marquette hasn’t forgot about it. Marquette guard Vander Blue said that…
Traditional Butler-style play advances Bulldogs
Butler used its traditional opponent-stifling defense to propel itself to the next round of the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament with a 68-56 win over Bucknell. It was the defensive-minded Butler basketball that the nation was introduced to during the Final Four run in 2010. It was the kind of basketball where you can…
Butler quick facts
This year’s team: 26-8 overall record 6th NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Tournament in seven years and the 11th 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…
A look at Hinkle after hours
Hinkle Fieldhouse appears void of activity to the outside observer after dark. But for Rotnei Clarke, nights in Hinkle hardly lack action. On any given night, one can find the senior guard shooting and working on his game in a nearly deserted Hinkle Fieldhouse. Apart from an occasional security guard or maintenance worker, Clarke normally…
Barlow desires to coach after playing days
KYLE BEERY | Staff Reporter You’ve heard the story before. The one about the big star on the team who hits a game-winning shot. But have you heard the story about the little-known walk-on who takes the same shot and knocks off the number one team in the nation? Alex Barlow is a walk-on sophomore…