Butler and Boise State will meet in the quarterfinals of the inaugural College Basketball Crown – a single-elimination, 16-team tournament in Las Vegas; the event is founded by AEG and FOX Sports. Butler enters the match-up following an 86-84 win over Utah in the opening round; Boise State defeated George Washington in Monday play.
 
Butler (15-19) vs. Boise State (25-10)
College Basketball Crown Quarterfinals
Wednesday, April 2 • 7PM ET / 4PM PT
MGM Grand Garden Arena • Las Vegas
 
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• Butler and Boise State have only played once previously; Butler posted a 70-56 win last season in Orlando as part of the 2023 ESPN Events Invitational.
• Pierre Brooks II scored 25 points (including 20 in the second half) in last year's win over Boise State. Butler's defense limited Boise State to only 32-percent shooting; Tyson Degenhart was the only Bronco in double figures with 12 points.
• Brooks led the way with 22 points in Monday's win over Utah. He scored 17 points in the second half including the game-winner with three seconds remaining.
• Butler overcame an 11-point second half deficit in the win over Utah. It marked the first game this season that Butler has won after trailing at the half (now 1-13).
• Butler is 10-0 this season when scoring 80 or more points.
• Butler was without All-BIG EAST forward Jahmyl Telfort in Monday's win over Utah; he will not play in the College Basketball Crown as he turns his attention to preparing for his upcoming professional career.
• Freshman Evan Haywood made the first start of his Butler career against Utah. He scored nine points on three first-half three-pointers.
• Kolby King (12), Andre Screen (10) and Landon Moore (7) combined for 29 bench points for Butler in the win over Utah. The 29 bench points was the second-best output of the season for Butler, which utilized 31 points from reserves in the Nov. 29 win over Mississippi State to win the Arizona Tip-Off.
• Butler made a season-best 13 three-pointers in the win over Utah, including four from Brooks. The Bulldogs attempted 32 three-pointers, which was also a season-high.
• Monday's contest against Utah was the first game for the Bulldogs since March 13 when they fell to top seed St. John's in the quarterfinals of the BIG EAST Tournament.
• Butler is shooting 36.8 percent from three-point range on the season, which is among the Top 40 nationally; on the other end of the court, the Bulldogs defend the three-point line well, allowing opponents to hit only 31.4 percent of their attempt from behind the arc (which is 61st nationally).
• Butler ranks tenth in the country, committing only 13.5 fouls per game. 
• Finley Bizjack added 16 points for the Bulldogs in the win over Utah; it was his 17th double-figure scoring output of the season.
• The 22 points by Brooks Monday served as his tenth 20-point game of the season; he also went over 1,000 points in his two seasons at Butler (now with 1,010 as a Bulldogs in addition to 131 points scored in his two seasons at Michigan State).
• Patrick McCaffery is shooting 41.1 percent from behind the arc this season. McCaffery has hit multiple three-pointers in 21 games.
• Andre Screen ranks eighth in the BIG EAST at 1.29 blocks per game; his 6.0 rebounds per game are 11th in the conference.
• Butler committed only one turnover in the regular season finale at Creighton March 8. Villanova also had only a single turnover in their Dec. 21 game at Creighton. Prior to the two occurrences this season, the last BIG EAST team to have only one turnover in a game was Louisville, which had one turnover Feb. 7, 2007 against Georgetown (Rick Pitino was the coach of that Louisville team).
• The Bulldogs defeated Northwestern and No. 25 Mississippi State in taking the Arizona Tip-Off title over Thanksgiving.
• Butler has played in two events in Las Vegas previously: the 2016 Continental Tire Las Vegas Invitational and the 2021 Maui Invitational (which was played in Las Vegas that year due to the COVID-19 pandemic).
• Butler won the 2016 Las Vegas Invitational, posting wins over Vanderbilt and Arizona.
 
Series: Butler Leads, 1-0
Only Meeting: Nov. 26, 2023; Butler, 70-56 (in Orlando, Fla., as part of the ESPN Events Invitational)