I see lots of love for the Utep Miners. Don't get me wrong, I think they are a decent team, and I love Character down low. However, I am baffled by how quickly everyone is dismissing Butler like they are some sort of shitty team. Butler beat some good teams this year, and they played a tough nonconference schedule. Utep's big nonconferemce victory was Oklahoma. Butler was nothing sort of dominant in conference play. Utep lost twice to Houston. Really, Houston??? I am not saying that I think Butler is the play of the day or anything, but I really think people are jumping on Utep's bandwagon way too fast. Butler has been a solid program for the past decade, and Conference USA flat out blows in my opinion.
Butler -2.5