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Butler's Big Dance The Team, the Tournament, and Basketball Fever

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ISBN-10: 0253223121

ISBN-13: 9780253223128

Edition: 2011

Authors: Susan S. Neville, Brad Stevens, Bobby Fong

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The Butler Bulldogs advanced to the NCAA National Championship basketball game against Duke University upon defeating Michigan State on April 3, 2010. With only 4,500 students, Butler was the smallest school to play for a national championship since the tournament expanded to 64 teams in 1985. Coached by Brad Stevens -- just three years into his position as head basketball coach -- the undefeated Bulldogs were a hometown team, playing before a hometown crowd on the national stage. Two days later, Butler lost narrowly to Duke, 61--59, but their run for the championship had become a national phenomenon. From her vantage point as a Butler professor, acclaimed writer Susan Neville observed (and…    
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Book details

List price: $14.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 11/22/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 128
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Susan Neville is a native Hoosier and professor of English and creative writing at Butler University. Her books include Indiana Winter (IUP, 1994), Falling Toward Grace: Images of Religion and Culture from the Heartland (edited with J. Kent Calder) (IUP, 1998), and Iconography: A Writer's Meditation (IUP, 2003). She is also on the faculty of the Warren Wilson Program for Writers in North Carolina. She lives in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Foreword
Preface: On Joy
Acknowledgments
On Fire
The Summit
The Bookstore
T-Shirts
Why Basketball?
Beneath the Hoosier Sky
Toward a Theory of Indiana Basketball
On Being a Fan
How Surreal Was It?
Another Voice: An Alum
On Teaching
On History
Hinkle Fieldhouse
Lightness of Being
The Dance
The Dancers
Other Voices: Almost Religious
Student Athlete I
Basketball Stars
Physics
Other Voices: Rituals
Chant
Time Delay
Student Athlete II
Student Athlete III
Awe
Gordon Hayward's Decision: On Vocation
The Championship Game
Another Voice: Alum II
CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
A Blessing
Epilogue: Brad Stevens Basketball Camp
Afterword: What Do We Talk About When We Talk About Surreal?
Another Voice: Butler University President Bobby Fong's Speech to the Team after Their Loss in the Championship Game
The Scores, in Case You've Forgotten!