Final Four....but we want more!

“We’re not here to just go back to Indy and go to the Final Four and celebrate that way,” said sophomore guard Ronald Nored, whose pestering defense held the Wildcats’ leading scorer, Jacob Pullen, to 14 points on 4-for-13 shooting.

“We want to win the whole thing.”

"Defensively, they just try to hound everybody, try to stay in the lane, pack it in so there's nowhere to drive," Pullen said. "Then they just send five to the glass every time. Did a good job rebounding."

“The power of ‘we,’” Stevens said.

“It’s all five of us,” Hayward insisted. “It’s not just one of us.”

"Our dreams definitely didn't stop at getting to the Final Four," said Hayward, voted outstanding player of the West Regional. "We want to win the whole thing."

"This is a very special moment in our life," Mack said. "We all believed in each other."

"God is good all the time, and all the time God is good." - Julian Mavunga and Gale Watson

Keep it up G-Time and the Butler Bulldogs!

What does it take to beat #1?

Gordon Hayward: We are so very proud of you and the Butler Bulldogs! Keep holding the rope fella!


"We're not going to say we have the best athletes in the country, but we've got a system and we have to be crisp to execute it," Butler forward Matt Howard said. "We're not going to beat you one-one-one. We play for each other. There's not one guy on this team who is selfish and that's why we win."

"We said this word over and over in Indianapolis, and that word is 'resolve.' These guys have resolve," Butler coach Brad Stevens said. "It's hard to measure, but they've got it."

What does it takes to beat #1?

That's Ali Farokhmanesh, the Northern Iowa guard who hit the game-icing 3-pointer Saturday after Kansas had whittled its deficit to one. Typical of an underdog, Farokhmanesh concedes that when he was in high school, he wasn't even sure he'd play Division I basketball.

"To go from that to, we're in the Sweet Sixteen, we just beat the No. 1 team in the country," Farokhmanesh said. "I mean, if someone would have told me that back then I would have laughed at them probably. But I think it shows that hard work really does pay off."

Another example that attitude and discipline makes the difference.

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