Butler vs. Ohio Northern - Exhibition
Saturday, Oct. 28;  7:30PM
Hinkle Fieldhouse; Indianapolis, Ind.

TV: None
Radio: 1430AM & Varsity Network Radio App - @MarkMinner & Nick Gardner (@n_gardner)
@ButlerMBB  |  #ButlerWay  |  ButlerSports.com

The Bulldogs will tip off the 2023-24 season Saturday night, welcoming Ohio Northern to Hinkle Fieldhouse. The contest serves as the first of two exhibitions for Butler as the team will also host Franklin College Wednesday, Nov. 1 before the regular season begins the following week. The men's basketball match-up is part of Homecoming Weekend on the Butler campus. Tip is set for 7:30 p.m. Fans not taking in the action in person at Hinkle Fieldhouse can listen to Mark Minner and Nick Gardner, who will call the action on the PNC Butler Radio Network on WXNT 1430AM in Indianapolis and on the Varsity Network Radio App nationally. 

• Thad Matta has won 453 games in his 18 seasons as a head coach, which averages out to 25.2 wins per season.
• Butler returns only 9% of scoring (191 of 2,088 points) and 9% of minutes played (563 of 6,400) from the 2022-23 season. 
• The nine scholarship players on Butler's 2023-24 roster who bring collegiate experience have combined for 237 double-figure scoring games; only eight of those games (all by Jalen Thomas during the 2022-23 season) have come in a Butler uniform. 
• Five of Butler's incoming transfers averaged double figures during the 2022-23 season for their respective former teams. 
• Posh Alexander arrives at Butler from conference rival St. John's; Alexander led the BIG EAST in steals in each of his three seasons with the Red Storm.
• DJ Davis, a transfer from UC Irvine, was a first-team All-Big West Conference selection during the 2022-23 season; his 40.2-percent three-point percentage was 33rd nationally.
• Jahmyl Telfort played for Canada's U23 team in July as part of the GLOBL JAM event in Toronto, helping the Canadians to the silver medal in the four-team event. Telfort posted 12 points, nine rebounds and three blocks in the gold medal game, a loss to the University of Kentucky, which represented the United States in the event. In the four games, Telfort averaged 10 points per game. 
• Telfort, a transfer from Northeastern, ranked fifth in the Colonial Athletic Association in scoring in 2022-23. 
• Despite being limited to only 19 games during the season, Landon Moore was named Northeast Conference Rookie of the Week seven times during the 2022-23 season while playing for St. Francis (Pa.).
• Pierre Brooks II arrives at Butler from Michigan State; Brooks was named Michigan's Mr. Basketball in 2021 and was a Top 75 recruit nationally. 
• Andre Screen, a transfer from Bucknell, ranked second in the Patriot League in both blocks and field goal percentage during the 2022-23 season. 
• Incoming freshman Finley Bizjack was ranked as a Top 100 recruit by ESPN in the Class of 2023; he scored 2,832 points during his high school career.
• Thomas led the Bulldogs in scoring in the Dec. 29, 2022 game against Providence, the only game that anyone on Butler's current roster has led the team in scoring. 
• Thomas and Connor Turnbull combined for 32 of the team's 74 blocked shots in BIG EAST play despite combining to play only 493 of the team's 4,000 minutes played in conference action. 
• Alex Barlow, most recently the head coach of the Boston Celtics' G-League affiliate in Maine, returns to Butler as an assistant coach for the upcoming season; as a player, Barlow helped the Bulldogs to NCAA Tournament appearances in 2013 and 2015. 
• The ESPN Events Invitational field includes opening-round opponent Florida Atlantic in addition to Texas A&M, Penn State, Iowa State, Virginia Tech, VCU, and Boise State.
• According to KenPom, Butler played the nation's 19th-toughest schedule during the 2022-23 season. Twenty-three (23) of the team's 32 games came against teams ranked among the KenPom Top 100.
• In 2022-23, all seven of Butler's top scorers were available in only nine of the team's 32 games. 
• Butler shot 50 percent or better from the field 11 times during the 2022-23 season; the Bulldogs won all 11 of those games. 
• Butler was 11-0 during the 2022-23 season when scoring 70 or more points.