Houston Cougars vs Butler Bulldogs

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Final

	1	2	T
Butler BUT	20	32	52
Houston HOU	41	29	70

Houston CougarsHoustonHOU

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Butler Bulldogs

starters
Ty GroceTy Groce#4
Bryce GoldenB. Golden#33
Chuck HarrisC. Harris#3
Jayden TaylorJ. Taylor#13
Aaron ThompsonA. Thompson#2
bench
DJ HughesD. Hughes#0
Mike ParkerM. Parker#30
Myles WilmothM. Wilmoth#5
John-Michael MulloyJ. Mulloy#35
Christian DavidC. David#25
Jair BoldenJ. Bolden#52
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
29	10	2-7	1-4	5-6	7	1	1	1	0	3	4	3
20	1	0-3	0-1	1-2	1	0	4	0	0	0	1	4
28	3	1-6	1-5	0-0	4	5	1	0	0	0	4	3
26	9	3-7	0-2	3-4	3	0	5	0	0	1	2	2
32	5	2-3	1-1	0-1	4	6	2	3	0	1	3	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
9	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
9	6	2-2	2-2	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
8	2	0-0	0-0	2-2	2	0	1	0	0	0	2	3
7	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	2	0	0	0	1	0
31	16	5-13	4-8	2-3	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0
	52	15-41	9-23	13-18	26	12	20	4	0	5	21	17
		37%	39%	72%

Houston Cougars

starters
Marcus SasserM. Sasser#0
Kyler EdwardsK. Edwards#11
Taze MooreT. Moore#4
Reggie ChaneyR. Chaney #32
Fabian White Jr.F. White Jr. #35
bench
Ja'Vier FrancisJ. Francis#5
J'Wan RobertsJ. Roberts#13
Josh CarltonJ. Carlton#25
Robbie ArmbresterR. Armbrester #2
Tramon MarkT. Mark#12
Jamal SheadJ. Shead#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
30	9	4-7	1-3	0-0	0	3	3	2	0	0	0	3
31	10	3-6	0-2	4-6	3	4	0	0	0	1	2	0
26	7	3-6	1-3	0-0	4	1	1	2	1	2	2	1
9	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	4
32	21	8-13	3-5	2-3	8	0	2	1	1	2	6	1
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
3	0	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
20	5	1-3	0-1	3-4	6	1	1	1	0	1	5	2
5	2	1-1	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	3
3	3	1-1	1-1	0-0	1	0	1	1	0	0	1	1
17	5	2-6	0-1	1-2	1	1	0	1	0	0	1	2
23	8	4-8	0-3	0-0	2	3	1	3	1	0	2	2
	70	27-53	6-19	10-15	28	13	10	11	4	6	22	19
		51%	32%	67%

Taze Moore flies in for the put-back poster dunk

0:34

Taze Moore skies for the big-time rejection

0:21

Aaron Thompson shows off his vision with nice pass vs. Houston Cougars

0:16

Game Information

Las Vegas, NV

Referee:Pat Driscoll

Referee:Bert Smith

Referee:Chance Moore

NCAA Division I

Big East Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
St. John's	18-2	-	30-7
UConn	17-3	1	34-6
Villanova	15-5	3	24-9
Seton Hall	10-10	8	21-12
Creighton	9-11	9	16-18
DePaul	8-12	10	16-16
Butler	7-13	11	16-16
Providence	7-13	11	15-18
Marquette	7-13	11	12-20
Georgetown	6-14	12	16-18
Xavier	6-14	12	15-18

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	16-2	-	36-3
Houston	14-4	2	30-7
Iowa State	12-6	4	29-8
Kansas	12-6	4	24-11
Texas Tech	12-6	4	23-11
TCU	11-7	5	23-12
BYU	9-9	7	23-12
UCF	9-9	7	21-12
West Virginia	9-9	7	21-14
Cincinnati	9-9	7	18-15
Colorado	7-11	9	17-16
Arizona State	7-11	9	17-16
Oklahoma State	6-12	10	20-15
Baylor	6-12	10	17-17
Kansas State	3-15	13	12-20
Utah	2-16	14	10-22

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