INDIANAPOLIS (AP) --
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - They've snarled traffic, made cheesy
mustaches fashionable and drew a bigger crowd for practice than
their fabled fieldhouse can hold. One of the players even got asked
to prom.
Butler is enjoying the kind of lovefest that Michigan State saw
at last year's Final Four - and then some. Playing just 5.6 miles
from their campus, the Bulldogs have brought what seems like the
whole Hoosier state along for their first appearance on college
basketball's biggest stage.
All that enthusiasm also can cause a headache. Only 10 schools
have played a Final Four in their home state before. None has won
it since UCLA in 1975, when the Final Four was played right down
the road from Westwood in San Diego.
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