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I want to issue an apology to the members of the Butler Basketball team, the university, and most importantly my cousin Dani. At the start of this tournament I picked UTEP to beat Butler in the first round in an article that was more wrong than President Obama's bracket.
I wasn't high on Butler just because I didn't know how they would handle true competition outside of the Horizon League. I've liked the school, liked their style of play, and even tried trading Todd Lickliter, Iowa's entire roster, one hundred dollars, and 200 Hawks Nest T-shirts to Butler just for Brad Stevens. But for some reason that first round, I feel in love with a trendy pick instead of looking at the bigger picture.
Then last weekend something happened. Before someone could even mutter the name Blue, I realized I had made a mistake of astronomical proportions; I should have never bet against them.
