Found January 11, 2012 on isportsweb.com: Yardbarker Blogger Network
College football ended Monday night, and we now turn to college basketball which leaves us with an undebatable National Champion.  The road to March Madness has started with conference play beginning in earnest.  I won’t begin conference previews for another couple weeks as we draw closer to March.  I did look last week at five teams looking to end droughts of making the NCAA Tournament.  This time I look at five teams who went last year that are now in danger of missing this year’s dance. Butler (9-8, 3-2 Horizon).  The Bulldogs under Brad Stevens have had an amazing run of making back-to-back National Title games coming up just short against national powerhouses Duke and Connecticut.  But, with the early defections to the NBA of Gordon Hayward and Shelvin Mack, Butler has struggled in the 2011-2012 season.  Butler has a couple of nice wins over Purdue and Stanford, but they are around .500 and also lost to in-state rivals Evansville and Ball St.  To make this year...
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