Butler has earned a trip home for the Final Four. Gordon Hayward made a driving layup with under a minute to go, and the fifth-seeded Bulldogs used the same tenacious defense they exhibited all game in the closing seconds to knock off second-seeded Kansas State , 63-56, in the West Regional final today in Salt Lake City. Hayward finished with 22 points to lead Butler (32-4), which won its 24th straight and will play Michigan State or Tennessee next weekend.
The Bulldogs head to the Final Four in Indianapolis, only 5 miles from their campus, where parts of the underdog classic Hoosiers were filmed. Butler advanced by stifling K-State stars Denis Clemente and Jacob Pullen all game. Clemente finished with 18 points, all but two in the second half, but missed a critical free throw in the closing seconds. Pullen was just 3 of 12 from the field and turned the ball over twice with the Wildcats behind by four and under 30 seconds left. (More NCAA men's basketball tournament stories.)
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