The switches, both from a personnel and a mentality perspective, paid off. “So after that player meeting, I think after that, guys really knew that we didn’t want our senior year to end the way it was going.” “Everybody said their piece and knew that we were capable of turning the team around,” Vanzant said. Vanzant said during the meeting leaders on the team, like senior Matt Howard and junior Shelvin Mack, held themselves accountable. In addition to the personnel switch, the players also held a team meeting to discuss the changes that needed to be made. And here’s a guy that started the National Championship game the year before and started every game of his career up to that point.” “Then I just brought him in a couple days later and said, you’re gonna come off the bench the rest of the year. “I told before the Cleveland State game, I said, ‘we’re gonna bring you off, because I don’t know if you’re gonna be able to do much.’ And so we brought him off, we won the game,” Stevens said. Concerned about how the injury would affect Nored’s play, Stevens, the strategic mastermind, turned to backup point guard Shawn Vanzant. To make matters worse, in that loss to Youngstown State, starting point guard Ronald Nored sustained a cut to his hand. The last path to secure an NCAA Tournament bid was through a conference championship, and the pressure was starting to mount. With that many losses in the Horizon League, an at-large tournament bid was now out of reach for the Bulldogs. The loss dropped the Bulldog’s record to 14-9 on the season. 3, 2011, the Butler men’s basketball team dropped their third game in a row on the road to Youngstown State. “Like there is no vibe, there is like, all of a sudden, all the energy and excitement that was generated was replaced with expectation,” Stevens said. Just a year before, as the team was enjoying great success, the same alumni event was, in Stevens’ words, “hopping and vibrant.” After a championship appearance the year prior, the 2010-11 team was struggling.
In February 2011, Stevens remembers attending a dull alumni event in what is now the Efroymson Family Gym. In 2007, Stevens was named head coach, a position he held until moving to the Celtics, one of the NBA’s most historic franchises, in 2013.īefore Stevens was on the sidelines in Boston, he was coordinating a second consecutive run to the National Championship, but midseason, the team was sputtering.
The next year, he was promoted to an assistant coaching position. After quitting his job at Eli Lilly, a pharmaceutical company in Indiana, he started volunteering in the Butler Basketball office. Stevens has risen the ranks since he entered coaching in 2000. It’s been such a fun group to stay up with, and they’re all doing great, which is a real testament to what that group was about.” “And I think a lot of the players would say that we have great relationships with those guys. “We’ve benefited greatly individually,” Stevens said. Even after going to the Eastern Conference Finals with the Celtics three out of four years, he called the back-to-back NCAA Tournament runs in 20 “ the most rewarding thing I’ve been a part of.” SPORTS EDITOR | YOUNG | MULTIMEDIA REPORTER | a Zoom interview with The Butler Collegian, sitting in an office in the Boston Celtics facility, Brad Stevens reminisces on his days at Butler fondly. The Bulldogs would defeat VCU before falling to UConn in the championship game. Austin Tice’s family says the U.S.Butler celebrates after defeating Florida, 74-71 in overtime.New CDC COVID-19 recommendations reflect herd immunity, Houston health expert says.Subramaniam russia The Good The Bad and The Ugly Most Viewed
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