Burning Questions for Selection Sunday

 West Virginia’s coaches trust Da’Sean Butler with every last-second shot in every big game, but they don’t trust him with scissors. As their 6-foot-7 senior star stood on a ladder on Saturday night, contemplating which strand of net to cut as a prize for winning the Big East tournament, assistant coach Erik Martin yelled up to him, “Hey! Don’t cut your finger or something! Then we’ll all be crying.”

Their concern (or mock concern) is understandable. The Mountaineers wouldn’t have made it out of the Big East quarterfinals without Butler, much less won the tournament for the first time in school history. He beat Cincinnati on a last-second, banked-in three in the quarterfinals; beat Notre Dame by scoring 25 of WVU’s 53 points in the semis; and beat Georgetown by banking in a runner with 4.2 seconds left to break a 58-58 tie. Point guard Darryl Bryant grabbed Butler on the floor during the post-game celebration, and yelled to anyone within earshot, “This is the man right here! This is the man!”

Butler is not just the man in West Virginia; he’s the biggest star in the nation so far in March. When Ohio State’s Evan Turner, Butler’s old World University Games teammate and the likely Naismith and Wooden award winner, one-upped Thursday’s Cincinnati buzzer-beater by hitting a longer three to beat Michigan on Friday, he texted Turner to say, I hope you know I’m going to match it the next time I play. And Butler actually went and did it, too. Put the game in his hands, and he always delivers.

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