"Just being able to be disciplined when you get to the paint, have discipline guarding the post on the other end, and then on your block-outs.
"It's not something that's foreign to us, but we hadn't seen it yet this season," Jordan said after the loss. Butler coach LaVall Jordan said his team needs to attack the basket more. The undersized Bulldogs took 30 of their 56 shots from beyond the arc and shied away from the paint. Butler never got closer than six points after the 18-minute mark of the second half. Ty Groce scored a season-best 15 points and grabbed eight rebounds in the loss, with Chuck Harris adding 13 points. The Bulldogs shot just 28.6 percent from the floor and were limited to only eight assists by the Spartans' defense in their worst home loss in 29 years. "The goal is to be better in December, January, and play our best basketball down the stretch.īutler travels to Las Vegas on the heels of a 73-52 home loss to Michigan State on Wednesday. "Those guys don't really know who we are yet - they're still learning," Sampson explained. Virginia never got closer than 11 points in the second half.Īs well as Houston has played through its first three games, Sampson said the Cougars are still learning to play together. Houston never trailed in the win over Virginia, jumping out to a 14-2 lead and forging a 36-23 advantage at the half. We had a plan and we did a nice job of executing it."
"Our kids played hard - we executed, we were unselfish - but I did not learn that (against Virginia)," Houston coach Kelvin Sampson said after the win. 25 Virginia 67-47 at home on Tuesday behind 19 points from Marcus Sasser, 18 by Kyler Edwards and a stifling defense that held the Cavaliers to 34.9 percent shooting from the floor and forced 17 turnovers. Houston heads to the desert after handling then-No. The winner of the first-ever meeting between the Cougars (3-0) and Bulldogs (3-1) will advance to face the Texas AM-Wisconsin winner on Tuesday. 15 Houston will to continue an impressive start to its campaign when it battles Butler on Monday afternoon in a first-round game at the Maui Invitational in Las Vegas.