The Bulldogs open the final week of the non-conference portion of their schedule with an opponent Butler hasn't faced in more than 50 years.

Butler (6-3) vs. Yale (8-1)
Tuesday, Dec. 6;  6:30PM
Hinkle Fieldhouse; Indianapolis, Ind. 

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THE SERIES: Butler Leads, 4-0
Streak: Butler, W4
At Hinkle: 4-0
First Meeting: Butler, 51-16; 12/30/21
Last Meeting: Butler, 96-77, 12/28/70

• Including the 4-0 mark against Yale, Butler is a combined 13-1 in match-ups against current members of the Ivy League; the only setback came to Cornell during the 1966-67 season. 

• Chuck Harris posted career-highs of 32 points and six three-pointers in Saturday's win over Tennessee Tech. 
• Harris is the first Bulldog to score 30 points in a game since Kamar Baldwin had 36 at Xavier March 7, 2020, and the first Butler player to hit six three-pointers since Jair Bolden had six against Indiana Dec. 19, 2020. 
• Butler is 69-2 over its last 71 non-conference home games.
• Through nine games, Butler has shot 50 percent or better from the field six times; the Bulldogs hit the 50-percent mark six times all of last season (31 games). In a similar fashion, Butler already has five games this season shooting 40 percent or better from three-point range, which was only done four times during the 2021-22 season.
• Over the past two games, Butler's starters have played 362 of a possible 400 minutes; Pierce Thomas has accounted for 33 of those 38 bench minutes.
• Butler is 6-0 this season when leading at halftime. 
• Over the past six games, Butler has limited its opponents to 26.3-percent shooting from three-point range (30-114); five of those six opponents have hit five or less three-pointers. 
• Butler is committing only 12.1 fouls per game, which is fifth nationally.
• Butler's 5.6 blocks per game are 16th nationally.
• For the season, Butler is shooting 49.7 percent from the field, which is 21st nationally. 
• Butler put five players in double figures Wednesday against Kansas State, the second time this season doing so. 
• Manny Bates led the Bulldogs with 22 points and 10 rebounds against Kansas State, his second 20-point game and third double-double of the young season. 
• Bates is eighth nationally in blocks per game at 2.9 per game; his 63.1 field goal percentage is 29th in the NCAA.
• Simas Lukosius handed out a career-high seven assists against Kansas State, which also matched the most by a Butler player this season. 
• Harris is now 24th in Butler history in career three-pointers (114). 
• Jayden Taylor has scored in double figures in eight of the team's nine games.
• Harris and Taylor have combined to go 49-for-54 from the free throw line so far this season (91 percent). 
• Bates opened his Butler career with back-to-back double-doubles; his 25 points in the season-opener against New Orleans were a career-high.
• Bates is the first Bulldog to score at least 20 points in his Butler debut since Rotnei Clarke (21 vs. Elon in 2012). 
• The Bulldogs have been without DJ Hughes for the past three games after he suffered a concussion in the Nov. 24 win over BYU. Butler has been without Ali Ali, John-Michael Mulloy, Jalen Thomas, and Myles Wilmoth due to injury for the entirety of the regular season thus far.
• Butler posted a 47-point win over The Citadel Nov. 19, which is the largest margin of victory by the Bulldogs since defeating Western Illinois, 107-46, at Hinkle Fieldhouse Dec. 21, 2017.
• Butler shot 70.4 percent from the field in the 95-67 win over Saint Francis (Pa.) Nov. 17; it was the second-best field goal percentage in program history, trailing only the 71.9 clip from the Nov. 15, 2014 win over Maine.
• The Nov. 19 win over The Citadel included 17 three-pointers, which was just shy of the program-record of 20 and the most since hitting 17 vs. Northern Illinois Dec. 8, 2018. 
• The Bulldogs committed only five turnovers in the Nov. 14 Gavitt Games loss at Penn State.
• The Bulldogs forced New Orleans into 30 turnovers in the season opener.