Opponent: Maryland
Specifics: Wednesday, November 15  |  8:30 p.m. ET  |  XFINITY Center  |  College Park, Md.
TV: FS1  |  Justin Kutcher & Jim Jackson
Radio: 1430 AM & the TuneIn Radio app  |  Mark Minner (play-by-play) & Nick Gardner (analyst)
Follow Along: @ButlerMBB

Complete Notes (PDF)
 
FAST START: Senior Kelan Martin earned BIG EAST Player of the Week honors after registering back-to-back 20-point games as Butler won two games over the weekend. This is the fifth weekly honor for Martin, who also was recognized twice as a junior and twice as a senior.
 
'BOARD' OUT OF HIS MIND: Martin had a career-best 14 rebounds Sunday against Princeton, which contributed to his first double-double of the season and the 11^th of his career. No Bulldog had more than 11 rebounds in a game last season.
 
CLIMBING THE CHARTS: Just two games into his senior season, Kelan Martin now has 1,344 career points, which is already 20th on Butler's all-time list. His 544 points in 2016-17 were the seventh-best total for a junior in Butler history.
 
QUICK HITS:
• Butler is 1-0 against Maryland, a 62-59 win in the second round of the 2007 NCAA Tournament. The 2007 win over Maryland was the final win for LaVall Jordan as an assistant coach at Butler. Current Director of Basketball Operations Brandon Crone had 13 points in that win as a senior.
• Freshman guard Aaron Thompson is from Glenn Dale, Md.
• Butler is receiving votes in both national polls (AP and Coaches polls), just outside the Top 25
• Butler opens the regular season with four games in nine days, followed by a flight to Portland, Ore., for the PK80 event, which features three games in four days.
 
GOOD IN THE GAVITT GAMES: Butler is 1-0 as a participant in the Gavitt Games, which pairs BIG EAST and Big Ten teams. The Bulldogs' win came a season ago over Northwestern at Hinkle Fieldhouse. Kamar Baldwin, in his second collegiate game, hit a step-back 17-foot jumper with 0.4 seconds remaining on the clock to give the Bulldogs a 70-68 win.
 
HANDLE WITH CARE: Butler committed only seven turnovers in Sunday's win over Princeton. Butler averaged only 10.2 turnovers per game in 2016-17. That mark was ninth nationally. The Bulldogs posted 10 or fewer miscues in 16 games last season and were 13-3 in those games, including the team's NCAA second round win over Middle Tennessee State.
 
WELCOME HOME: LaVall Jordan started his Butler head coaching career in style Friday night as his Bulldogs posted an 82-64 win over Kennesaw State in front of a sold-out Hinkle Fieldhouse crowd. Jordan, who helped Butler to conference championships and NCAA Tournament appearances as both a player and an assistant coach, returned to his alma mater as the 24th head coach in men's basketball program history on June 12. The head coach who recruited him to Butler as a student-athlete (Barry Collier) is the Butler's Director of Athletics who hired him to this position over the summer.
 
THE FRESHMAN 15: Newcomer Aaron Thompson posted 15 points on 5-of-6 shooting in Sunday's win over Princeton. He also went 5-of-7 from the free throw. Ten of his points steadied the ship in the first half as Butler's starting backcourt of Kamar Baldwin and Paul Jorgensen were saddled with two fouls.
 
Thompson had five assists in the team's opener against Kennesaw State.
 
'POST'ING BIG NUMBERS: Butler's three post players – Tyler Wideman, Nate Fowler and Joey Brunk – combined to go 13-of-16 from the floor Friday night against Kennesaw State. The trio tallied 28 points as Butler had a 50-16 advantage in points in the paint. Wideman shot .615 last season, which is in the top 10 of Butler's single-season marks. Fowler shot .667 on 99 attempts a season ago (one attempt shy of being the top mark on that single-season list).
 
Butler followed that with a 50-26 points in the paint advantage over Princeton.
 
THANK YOU FOR YOUR CHARITY: Butler went 18-of-21 (86 percent) from the free throw line Sunday night against Princeton, rebounding from a 12-of-23 (52 percent) performance in Friday's opener with Kennesaw State.
 
BIG DAWGS IN BIG MOMENTS: Kelan Martin and Kamar Baldwin combined for 29 of their 35 points in the second half against Princeton, securing the win for the Bulldogs.
 
THAT'S JUST OFFENSIVE: The Bulldogs have shot at least 50 percent in both games so far this season. The Bulldogs were 12-1 last season when making at least half of their attempts from the field. Butler has also eclipsed 80 points in both of their games this season, something that led to a 12-2 mark last season.
 
QUANTITY AND QUALITY: Butler's two-day turnaround for Princeton is almost the early-season norm for the Bulldogs, who open with four games in nine days. Butler then flies to Portland, Ore., for the exclusive PK80 event honoring Nike's Phil Knight. That tournament features three games in four days. November alone includes match-ups with NCAA Tournament teams Princeton and Maryland, and a highly-regarded Texas team to open PK80, in addition to the remainder of the PK80 field.
 
TOP DAWG: Senior Kelan Martin had team-highs of 20 points and nine rebounds Friday against Kennesaw State. After also leading the team in both categories Sunday against Princeton, Martin now has 23 career games scoring 20 or more points and he has led the Bulldogs in scoring 33 times and in rebounding 33 times.
 
GRAB AND GO: Butler forced 17 turnovers by Kennesaw State Friday night and converted those into 29 points. Junior Paul Jorgensen, playing in his first game for Butler after transferring from George Washington, tied his career-high with three steals. His 14 points were just two shy of his career-high during his time at GW.
 
'TAPAS' PERFORMANCES: The Bulldogs utilized a four-game foreign tour to Spain to prepare for the 2017-18 campaign. The team went 4-0, playing professional teams in Madrid, Albacete, Valencia, and Barcelona, from August 2-12. The team flew to Spain on coach LaVall Jordan's 50^th day as Butler's head coach. The Bulldogs did extensive sight-seeing throughout the country, literally only touching a basketball during the four games.
 
BEST GUESS: BIG EAST coaches picked Butler to finish eighth in the league's preseason poll, which was released at BIG EAST Media Day Oct. 18. The Bulldogs finished second in the league standings a season ago after being picked sixth in the preseason poll.

HONORS PILING UP: Senior Kelan Martin earned one of the spots on the preseason All-BIG EAST first team after averaging 16.0 points and 5.8 rebounds per game a season ago. Martin has also been named to preseason watch lists for three prominent awards: the Naismith Trophy (national player of the year presented by the Atlanta Tipoff Club), the Lute Olson Award (national player of the year who has played college basketball for two or more seasons, presented by CollegeInsider.com), and the 2018 Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award. 

He has been voted an All-BIG EAST second team performer by the conference's head coaches following each of the past two seasons.