Posts Tagged “basketball”

March Sadness

Posted on March 24, 2013 by Katie

This past week I have been unable to blog as much as usual for only one reason: March Madness, which I have now decided to name March Sadness because of Butler’s recent loss. I was fortunate to be able to go to both Butler games held in Lexington this past week.

To describe Thursday’s game vs Bucknell in one word would be excitement. I had never been to a March Madness game so it was awesome to see the team I love play in that kind of atmosphere. In typical fashion, Butler gave me a heart attack for most of the game, but we still got the win, which was exciting. The moment the buzzer went off I knew that I would be back in Lexington for Saturday’s game vs Marquette.

Driving down on Saturday to Lexington was nerve racking to say the least. I could not stop thinking about the game, and on top of that we had to sit through an entire game before we even watched ours. We played well. I am in no means disappointed in our team. It was just a really good game all around. Some of the calls I find debatable, but what’s done is done. It is really hard to talk about the outcome of that game considering how close it was.

As I usually try to do I think of the positives that come from losing the game to Marquette. For one, my grades will go back up. Two, I will not be focused on attending games anymore, instead just watching them. Three, I will be saving a ton money by not traveling to follow the team everywhere they go.

So I guess now I’m cheering on Louisville, because while in Lexington their fans always said they would be cheering for us. Plus even though I didn’t really know him a guy on the Louisville team went to my high school, so why not have them go all the way? Either way I’m still a proud Bulldog!

Tagged: basketball, Bucknell, butler, Louisville, March Madness, Marquette, Rupp Arena | Leave a comment

I Have To Keep Reminding Myself

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Katie

This past Sunday was the best Sunday, besides the Super Bowl, of the year. It was Selection Sunday. The Sunday where teams get to see if they are going to the big dance AKA March Madness. Butler got picked with a 6th seed in the East region. To say I am excited is an understatement.

Right now I am struggling with the fact that I go to Butler for an education and not for Butler basketball. I have to keep reminding myself that during March Madness school still comes first. Even though I think that professors should still cancel classes when Butler is playing. Just a thought. Thankfully my crazy week was before Spring Break so there is not much going on for me this week, which is awesome!

This Thursday I will be going to see the dawgs play Bucknell in Lexington, Kentucky! I’m so excited that I get to experience this! Another thing I have to keep reminding myself of is: ONE GAME AT A TIME. I can’t imagine if I can’t focus on things how the actual team is focusing.

I will apoligize in advance that my blogs for the next couple weeks will most likely be March Madness blogs. However, I will try my best to make sure that I stick in a few non basketball blogs. Below is a video just to get you pumped for March, as if you already were not excited.

Tagged: basketball, Bucknell, Bulldogs, butler, Kentucky, March Madness | 8 Comments

Pinch Me I’m Dreaming

Posted on March 4, 2013 by Katie

This weekend was insane, and made me just that more happier that I am at Butler. On Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, my sorority had initiation ceremonies! Our main ceremony was on Saturday where we initiated 55 new girls, our largest pledge class ever in Indiana Gamma chapter! It was so exciting that I could finally call my littles my sisters! I was even more excited to give them more gifts!

More gifts for my littles on initiation day!

While this is not exciting I guess it is newsworthy, my roommate and I started our cleanse yesterday! How the cleanse works is three days of drinking natural juices. We chose V8 vegetable juice and V8 fusion since there is no artificial flavoring or high fructose corn syrup. Then two days of fruits and veggies. Then one day of anything but meat, and then I can finally go back to normal. Last night was a definite struggle to stay on this cleanse. Let me explain.

Last night with College Mentors for Kids I was able to go to the Bulls vs Pacers game. We were so blessed to be able to sit in the Indianapolis Power and Light suite! Unfortunately for me that meant having to sit in front of a nacho bar and desserts galore, but I didn’t cheat so I was proud of myself! Being able to watch the game from amazing seats I think helped distract me enough from the food.

PACERS GAME!

I was able to go on the court at halftime, which was amazing. Indianapolis Power and Light as well as the Pacers Foundation donated $10,000 to College Mentors for Kids! Myself and four other College Mentors for Kids staff members were able to help accept the check at halftime! It was awesome! We were also able to see the Bulls team come into the tunnel while we were exiting the tunnel! It was awesome!

On the court at halftime!

I’m so grateful for all the experiences I’ve had at Butler, and to think it’s only my sophomore year!

Tagged: basketball, butler, College Mentors For Kids, Indiana, Indianapolis Power and Light, Initiation, Pacers, Pi Beta Phi | 30 Comments

Just A Walk Around Pi Phi

Posted on February 7, 2013 by Katie

Living in a house with 50 some girls can be very interesting. It’s 50 plus personalities, and all types of craziness. I have to admit though that I am typically one of those that is adding to the craziness. None of our rooms have locks, so even if your door is closed you will usually be hearing knocks or if you are like me just busting into rooms with no knocks… I’m sure people love me for this. Two seconds ago I walked into room 00 and two girls were sleeping on the floor… typical.

Two things that have made me laugh while walking around Pi Phi today are sloths and the tinder app. There is a girl in our house named Katie or KTP who finds the most ridiculous YouTube videos. Recently she found a video about baby sloths taking baths. Her and Ellen, another Pi Phi, find this to be the most hilarious thing in the world, and get very loud when watching this video. While I will admit this is pretty cute and funny, it is not everyday you see people laughing about sloths… Here’s the video. Enjoy.

The second thing I discussed that’s been going around the Pi Phi house and campus is the iPhone app, Tinder. The Tinder app is extremely creepy. Basically it’s an app that shows pictures of people in your surrounding area and you decide if you like them or not. If you like them then it’s a match and you can talk on the app through an instant messenger type of text. You only see your matches and never know if anyone did not like you anything like that. Sometimes it can get creepy, because you see people you know and then it gets awkward. A sister in our house actually met one of her matches last night on a date, so we kind of gave her a hard time, but it is so much fun!

Basically if this blog explains anything it just shows that there is never the same thing in the house ever. There is something always going on or something ridiculous being discussed. Until then the sloth and tinder I guess will be in my mind for the rest of the day!

One last thing! As many of you know I love Butler basketball and you should too! If you do support Butler basketball you should definitely vote for Andrew Smith for the Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award! Click here to vote for him! You can vote once everyday!!!

Tagged: Andrew Smith, basketball, butler, Pi Phi, Sloths, Tinder | 5 Comments

The Most Amazing Game

Posted on December 16, 2012 by Katie

Unless you live under a rock you probably have heard that the Butler Bulldogs took down number one Indiana University in basketball yesterday. Instead of doing my typical blog about how much I’m proud to be a dawg, and how the game was so amazing, and how I cried, bruised my wrist (by hitting that instead of clapping my actual hand), hugging everyone after we won, and just smiling instead of yelling through the streets of Indy; I thought instead I would explain some things about what others have been saying about the game.

#1. We are not LUCKY.
It makes me laugh that everyone continues to say we got lucky against IU. That is not what happened. I won’t even go into consideration with the refs. Take out the refs. Look at the fact that a number one team with players considered as “all stars”, not only went to over time with us, took out three of our players from fouling out, and never got over a 6 or 7 point lead over us. Not to give respect to Indiana University, there fans have been waiting long enough for their comeback, but we did not get lucky. Yes in certain shots we got lucky, but our team works just as hard as IU does. Our team has players who have keys to Hinkle, because they put in the work on the court when no one is even there.

#2. Alex Barlow: Walk On.
I think Chase Stigall said it perfectly in the press conference after the game yesterday. He said something along the lines of I hate when people say he’s a walk on, he’s a player. I couldn’t agree more. Yes Alex Barlow was a walk on, but you can tell that he is not a walk on to Stevens he is a player, and many should realize that. Last year Barlow hardly ever played. This year I have gone to see him go from hardly ever playing, to play in games for a little bit, to starting in games, and to now making a game winning shot. Just like an article on CBS Sports said this is typical Stevens in winning bringing someone no one knows to make the shot. This is not typical Stevens, that’s just The Butler Way.

#3. It’s fine, you can still call us UNDERDAWG.
It’s fine go ahead and continue to call our team the underdawg, the Cinderella story, or the upset team. We have seen amazing wins all through two final fours and recently when beating UNC. We are used to being called the underdawgs, but in our mind we our top dawg, and we will battle until we win. The basketball team yesterday believed in themselves, they didn’t go in there with a cocky demeanor, they didn’t think they are “definitely” beating them, but they knew they had the ability to beat them. That’s the way it should be, no team should go into the game with the mind set “we are done, it’s the number one team” All teams should think “I’ve got this.”

In reality here’s a mini paragraph of what this post was going to be until I thought I should probably stop my obsession. I cried when we won. I also hugged everyone around me. I sang the Butler war song with alumni. I also left with my wrist already turning purple, and my throat hurting from yelling. Dawg Pound cheered Boiler up, to thank the Purdue student fan section for cheering us on as well. This may be a little harsh, but I couldn’t help smiling at seeing the faces of the IU fans after we won. Being from Indiana, especially going to a high school where majority of people go to IU, I couldn’t help but smile, because after hearing so much trash talking, I have kept quiet this whole time. I wanted things to play out on the court, words mean nothing, but action means everything. GO DAWGS.

Tagged: basketball, Bulldogs, butler, CBS Sports, Indiana University | 2 Comments

Proud To Be A Dawg

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Katie

If you have not been watching the Maui Invitational you are missing out on what the Dawgs do all the time, give their fans heart attacks. You are also missing out on amazing shots like Rotnei Clarke’s shot that blogger Andrew talked about. No matter what though the Dawgs are playing amazing, and as usual we were considered the underdawg, but we proved that wrong once again.

Many of the students know at Butler that the nation considers ourselves as a Cinderella story, but we don’t see ourselves like that. There is no miracle in what we do, it’s what we do as dawgs. We fight til the end whether it’s in our athletics or our academics. This may sound extremely cheesy to you if you aren’t a Butler student or alumni, but I’m pretty sure if you looked at my Twitter right now we are all passionate about Butler. It’s awesome that the Maui Invitational can bring the nation to see once again that while we maybe underdawgs we fight all the way to the end.

I can’t wait until the dawgs are back home so that I can cheer front row in Dawg Pound, cheering in my living room isn’t working out too well… my mom asked me to calm down and then started complaining in Japanese… Whoops.

While you can see the actual shot on Andrew’s blog, check out this video of fan reaction!

Tagged: basketball, Butler Bulldogs, Dawgs, Maui Invitational | 11 Comments

24 Hours Of Amazing

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Katie

Pretty much all day I’ve been trying to watch basketball. Of course the 24 hours of college basketball would be on the day that I have a speech to give and also the day I am crazy busy. Because of those reasons unfortunately I have not been able to watch as much as I would like to, but I’m fully prepared to watch Butler play Xavier. It should be on right now, but currently ESPN is in the final minute of the Detroit vs St. John’s game, which this minute is turning into 2 hours it seems like.

Obviously I am prepared for a Butler win tonight against Xavier. If anyone knows Xavier and Butler have had a rivalry for quite some time now and it hasn’t always been pretty, but I won’t go into that. Typically I would travel to the close games for Butler, but because I have to give a speech today I really had no choice but to stay home for this one.

If there’s one thing that probably frustrates professors is how all of sudden everyone becomes sick on basketball days. Typically students will skip class to watch the game or even go to the away game, but with the latest conference switch many teams Butler will be playing will be far away, so maybe this can change the whole sickness of Butler students on game day.

All I can say is if I over blog about Butler basketball I apologize. It’s seriously my favorite time of year.

What I got to saw this past weekend!

Tagged: 24 Hour Kickoff, basketball, Butler University, espn, Game day | 3 Comments

Can You Hear It?

Posted on October 24, 2012 by Katie

This Saturday is finally the end to my countdown. The countdown of Butler basketball. Not to sound like a crazy person, but I seriously wait for basketball season every year.

Butler basketball will be a little different this year. As many of you know we moved to the A-10 conference (Atlantic 10). Our schedule is harder than before and we have a lot of new talent that we have to look forward to! This Saturday is just an exhibition game vs Marian, but either way it just means that we are finally starting basketball season.

For me college basketball is awesome, I like it a lot better than NBA. Now that college basketball is starting up I can not only focus my time on the Colts in the NFL, but with Butler basketball. This year I am on street team for Dawg Pound, which basically means I inform people about games and get them hyped, so I will be in the front row for all the games to hype people up, which I’m really excited about!

Get ready to hear the yelling and chanting coming from Hinkle, it’s finally the time for me to lose my voice every game. LET’S GO DAWGS!

To keep you excited here’s a clip from Homecoming of the Bulldog Pageant!

Tagged: A10, basketball, Bulldogs, butler, Dawg Pound, Hinkle | 8 Comments

Can You Believe?

Posted on April 18, 2012 by Katie

It’s April 18th and in only one week I will be officially done with my freshman year of college. Yes I will still have another week of finals, but my classes will be done! It’s crazy to think of all the things I have experienced this year, and since we all know I love doing lists I thought I would do another one.

Here my top 5 best experiences for my freshmen year:

1. Orientation Week
To this day I still remember everything about that week. There’s people you meet that week that will become your best friends, but if not your best friends just a familiar face that you see around campus. Being the crazy social person I am I went to literally every event possible, and I suggest you do the same. Get close to the people in your unit! Don’t be shy! It’s college and while you may be nervous and scared everyone is going through the same thing as you.

One of the first events with my unit!

2. CONCERTS.
I can’t believe all the concerts I was able to go to while being here. I got to see The Fray, Mac Miller, Chris Brown, Kelly Rowland, and Tyga. As I’ve mentioned it’s amazing to live in the city. No matter where the venue is you are always so close. The only bad thing about being so close means it’s so tempting to go to each and every concert! This Saturday at Butler we are having DEV and many other bands, which is awesome!

Mac Miller and I at the Murat downtown!

Chris Brown!

3. My Sister’s Wedding
I was so grateful to be apart of my sister’s wedding as a bridesmaid, and see her on a day that she will remember for the rest of her life. My sister was so pretty on her day! I also loved it because I was able to see family that I normally do not get to see. On top of that I got to spend this time with some of my best friends, and people who I love. It can’t get better than that.

Me, my sister, and mom

4. Recruitment Week
This week was possibly the most exhausting, emotional, and stressful week, but it was also one of the best weeks. After all the craziness and seeing girls cry over houses I can honestly say everything works out. Everyone is happy with the house they are in and I love every single one of my sisters. I hope that everyone at least tries recruitment week. For guys it’s easy, but girls do not be afraid. It’s such a great experience, and plus now I have the best Greek family! Not to confuse with my actual sister in Greek life you get a family too! Below is a picture of my big sis, and my big bro!

My Big Sis

My Big Bro!

5. My First Official Basketball Season As A Bulldog
Although I had watched the bulldogs in previous years this was my first time being able to be the crazy students in the Dawg Pound cheering them on. We may not have had a winning season, but it was so much fun. I will not forget the crazy games, and how intense we would get to the point of losing or voices, or the time my car got broken into and I still managed to attend a game. I cannot wait until the next season comes.

Butler vs Purdue. We won!

6. Super Bowl Week
Ok I know I only said 5 things, but how can I not say Super Bowl week?! That was the most insane week ever. I will admit I skipped some classes just to experience Super Bowl week. The amount of famous people I was able to meet and see was crazy. Shaking hands with Jimmy Fallon, hugging Pat McAfee, seeing Hall of Fame players, and all the events. It was such an eventful week and I hope Indianapolis gets to have it again!

Colts Punter Pat McAfee throwing the arrow for Pi Phi!

The numerals in downtown Indy!

6.5. Blue 3!
I give Trip a half because he’s still a baby. Getting this new mascot doesn’t take away from Blue 2! We take crazy pride in our mascots here. Seeing them around campus is like seeing a celebrity. They are probably two of the most well taken dogs I know. Watch out America, you’ll get to know Trip soon enough just like you met Blue2.

Welcome home Trip!

7. DECLARATION
I finally declared. I thought I would be on the sophomores waiting until last minute to figure everything out! I’m so excited and thrilled for what’s in store for me. I can’t wait to take more and more Strategic Communication classes. Even though I may not be Exploratory anymore I still want to be able to help those you are and the incoming freshman! You may think you’ll never figure it out, but my major was right in front of me the whole time!

Strategic Communications Major!

Obviously I had many experiences just to keep it down to five! I am can’t wait to see what is in store next year, but no worries this year still isn’t over. All of you can expect a blog about my stressful life right before finals.

Tagged: basketball, Butler University, Chris Brown, Freshman Year, Mac Miller, Orientation Week, Pi Beta Phi, Recruitment Week, Super Bowl | 1 Comment

It’s The Most Wonderful Time of The Year

Posted on March 15, 2012 by Katie

Today is the start of March Madness. Even though Butler did not make the tournament this year I still had this slight urge to put them to the final four, just kidding.

I love this time of year. This is why I love college basketball so much. There are always crazy games, upsets, and amazing games/shots that people talk about the next day. It’s different this year, because before I was usually in school during March Madness so I would always beg my teachers to let us watch in class or sneak peeks at my phone to see scores. Now being on Spring Break I can watch all the games I want. However, I do miss the crazy bracket tournaments we would have in my classes such as yearbook!

My final four picks for this year are Kentucky, Ohio State, Missouri, and Kansas. I have Ohio State and Kentucky going to the finals. I am not going to say I am a pro at making brackets, but the first time Butler went to the finals I had them going to final four! Shocking, I know. I am sure by the time this is all over my bracket will be so messed up, but it doesn’t matter because this is what I wait for all college basketball season, and in two hours it is finally here!

Tagged: basketball, Brackets, butler, March Madness, NCAA, university | 1 Comment

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