Butler adds SLU Home and Home beginning in 2017

[Muskie]

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Butler and Saint Louis will begin a home-and-home series next season at Hinkle Fieldhouse, per a source. Return game at SLU in 18-19.</p>&mdash; Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) <a href="https://twitter.com/JonRothstein/status/859502030766977029">May 2, 2017</a></blockquote>
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Starts at Hinkle in 2017 and ends in St. Louis the following year.

[XMuskieFTW]

St. Louis was terrible last year. Have a 4 and 3 star coming in this year so hopefully will improve, but I don't really understand this scheduling for Butler.

[Chalmers0]

St. Louis was terrible last year. Have a 4 and 3 star coming in this year so hopefully will improve, but I don't really understand this scheduling for Butler.

I believe SLU also had 3 or 4 higher level transfers (definitely solid A10 level guys) including Javon Bess from MSU who sat out last year. Ford is having no issues on the recruiting trail and I'm sure that will at least make them competitive and a solid game numbers wise for Butler.

[X-band '01]

A more notable home-and-home that was announced recently was Gonzaga/Creighton. I believe the first game will be in Spokane this upcoming year.

[xubrew]

St. Louis was terrible last year. Have a 4 and 3 star coming in this year so hopefully will improve, but I don't really understand this scheduling for Butler.

I don't either. I don't think there is a big downside to scheduling it, but I don't see an obvious upside either other than it being a winnable road game. Then again I wasn't all that big on their series with Northwestern and that turned out to be pretty good.

[D-West & PO-Z]

SLU also has a top 10 overall recruit committed in the 2018 class. PF, Carte'Are Gordon.

[D-West & PO-Z]

#52 and #87 recruits (ESPN rankings) in 2017.