HOUSTON (AP) -- Butler coach Brad Stevens loves an underdog, whether it's his team back in the Final Four or Connecticut making an unprecedented five-games-in-five-nights run through the Big East tournament.
Wait, what?
A Big East team as an underdog? Tiny Butler cheering for big, bad UConn?
Welcome to the bizarro world of college basketball in 2011 – a sport where not only is anything possible, but where nothing quite makes sense.
Butler and Connecticut will meet Monday in the national title game - the eighth-seeded Bulldogs trying to finish the deal after coming oh-so-close last season and the third-seeded Huskies talking about shocking the world with their 11th straight victory after a regular season that foreshadowed none of this.
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