Butler welcomes North Dakota State to Hinkle Fieldhouse Tuesday night in the Bulldogs' final non-conference home game of the season. The Bulldogs are coming off a road loss at No. 17/18 Houston Saturday, which ended Butler's six-game winning streak.
 
THE SPECIFICS:
Butler (7-2) vs. North Dakota State (7-4)
Tuesday, Dec. 10 • 6:30PM
Hinkle Fieldhouse • Indianapolis, Ind.
 
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THE SERIES: This is the first meeting between Butler and North Dakota State as men's basketball opponents.
 
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• Saturday's game against Houston began a five-game stretch that includes four Top 25 opponents (Wisconsin, Marquette and UConn follow Tuesday's NDSU game).
• Butler is 5-1 at Hinkle Fieldhouse so far this season. 
• Butler ranks 16th nationally, averaging 19.3 made free throws per game. The Bulldogs got to the line 22 times at Houston, making 16. The 16 made free throws were a season-low for the Bulldogs.
• Butler has shot at least 70 percent from the free throw line in each game so far this season. The Bulldogs went 20-for-25 from the line against Eastern Illinois Tuesday.
• Jahmyl Telfort leads the BIG EAST in both free throws made (49) and attempted (58), while his 84.5-percent accuracy is sixth in the conference.
• The Bulldogs rank 12th nationally in three-point percentage, making 40.4 percent of their attempts on the season.
• Butler has made at least nine three-pointers in five of the team's nine games this season, including in Saturday's loss at Houston.
• Patrick McCaffery is 16th nationally, making 49.1 percent of his three-point attempts on the season. He has hit multiple three-pointers in eight of the team's nine games, including five twice.
• Despite allowing Houston to shoot 53 percent from the field Saturday, Butler's field goal percentage defense still ranks 20th nationally as opponents have hit only 37.9 percent of their attempts from the field.
• McCaffery and Augusto Cassia each scored 11 points at Houston to lead the Bulldogs; for Cassia, it was the first time in his career that he has led the Bulldogs in scoring.
• Telfort, McCaffery, and Pierre Brooks II rank 1-2-5 in the BIG EAST in minutes played per game.
• Telfort's scoring average of 16.3 points per game is seventh in the BIG EAST.
• Andre Screen is ninth in the BIG EAST at 6.7 rebounds per game.
• 6-2 guard Kolby King has led the Bulldogs in rebounding in each of the last two games; he is averaging 5.1 rebounds per game in 19.9 minutes of play per game.
• Butler's Big 3 of Telfort, Brooks and McCaffery have scored 388 of the team's 664 points this season (58.4 percent of the team's output).
 • The Bulldogs defeated Northwestern and No. 25 Mississippi State in taking the Arizona Tip-Off title over Thanksgiving. Butler is 3-1 against power conference opponents so far this season (also defeating SMU) with a non-conference match-up with Wisconsin looming.
• The Arizona Tip-Off title was Butler's first in-season, multi-team event championship since the 2019 Hall of Fame Classic in Kansas City.
• Jahmyl Telfort earned Tournament MVP honors at the Arizona Tip-Off, averaging 23.5 points per game in the team's two contests. Telfort scored 23 in the win over Northwestern and then followed that with 24 in the championship game win over Mississippi State.
• Butler Bulldog great Shelvin Mack will be the FS1 analyst for Tuesday's game. In his three seasons at Butler, Mack scored 1,527 career points, leading the Bulldogs to the 2010 and 2011 Final Fours.
 
'Bout the Bison
• North Dakota State enters the game with a record of 7-4 and on a current four-game winning streak.
• Jacari White and Jacksen Moni combine to average 33.0 points per game; as a team, the Bison make 39.8 percent of their three-point attempts on the season.
• NDSU ranks fourth nationally, making 11.9 three-pointers per game; 54.8 percent of their shot attempts are from behind the three-point line, which is the highest percentage in the nation.
• One of NDSU's losses came against Illinois State, where former Butler assistant Ryan Pedon is the head coach.
• Butler and NDSU met as football opponents to open the 2019 season. The game was played at Target Field, home of the MLB's Minnesota Twins.