1. If your erection lasts for more than four hours, Brad Stevens may know how to help. Prior to becoming a college basketball coach, Butler coach Brad Stevens worked for Indianapolis-based drug company Eli Lilly, makers of Cialis. That Stevens worked for Eli Lilly was no surprise, given that he played high school basketball in lily-white Zionsville and then played in college at (mostly) lilly-white DePauw. The Kevin Bacon department reports that Zionsville is also the hometown of Colorado Avalanche defenseman John-Michael Liles and Cleveland Indians pitcher Tom Mastny. And while we're at it, other DePauw graduates include the chick who started Angie's List, Brad Brownell (coach of the evil Wright State Raiders, one of Butler's 3 losses this year), and Steve Hollar (who played the guy who was benched for violating Norman Dale's four-passes-until-you-shoot rule in Hoosiers). Coach Stevens is only the second drug-selling coach to take his team to the NCAA tournament, however. And the first coach to do it, Kevin Mackey with Cleveland State in 1986, also lives in Indianapolis as a scout for the Pacers. Doses! One for 2, three for 5! More »
We're not sure why this video affected us so much when we watched it last night — it's actually quite silly. But in a tournament that has offered us so few upsets, and little opportunity for the little guy smacking it to the big guy, we couldn't help but find ourselves a little inspired to see a Butler fan, in the house where Hoosiers was filmed, praying for the Bulldogs to beat defending champion Florida (and that Joakim Noah twerp). It's the quiet in this video that works best, we think.
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1. A.J. Graves lays more pipe than you do. Butler's 6-1, 155 lb. Emo-bang wearing A.J. Graves lays pipe all summer long at his family's plumbing business in Switz City, Indiana. A.J. was all-state at White River Valley H.S. in 2004 and finished two votes behind North Central's A.J. Ratliff in voting for Indiana's Mr. Basketball. He wasn't recruited by any of the major programs and chose to follow his brothers Andrew and Matthew to Butler, choosing the Bulldogs over Indiana State, Xavier, Bradley and SIU. A.J. led Butler to the preseason NIT championship this year, beating Notre Dame, Indiana, Tennessee, and then, after shrooming the night before with Josh Heytvelt, beating Gonzaga in the final. At that time, Butler's R.P.I. was 1. Because A.J. is widely regarded as the best looking Graves brother, we could totally see him laying lots of pipe, even without the plumbing thing.
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