Butler's Big Dance: The Team, the Tournament, and Basketball Fever
"You probably feel you have read the Butler story told in every hue possible, but you haven't. You have primarily read sports writers... In this book, Susan S. Neville, a native Hoosier and a professor of creative writing at Butler, elevates the chronicle to new heights." —Indiana Magazine of History"After reading [Butler's Big Dance], I feel like I experienced the campus excitement all firsthand. I greatly appreciate [Neville's] efforts to put that atmosphere into words." —Brad Stevens, Butler University Men's Basketball Coach"Neville is well-positioned to tell this tale, given she's a native Hoosier and a Butler prof—and one of Indiana's finest writers. There will be other books about the Dawgs' battle with Duke, filled with stats and jargon; this work is about how it felt to be here." —NUVO"Neville gives us an excellent sense of what it's like, as she notes, to be living inside a national myth.... As a personal yet wide-ranging investigation of Hoosier Hysteria, Butler's Big Dance will resonate with almost any longtime Bloomingtonian who remembers the joyous surges of energy that have accompanied IU's spate of prolonged tournament runs in the past several decades." —Bloom"[A]n original book both gentle and bold... containing many passages worth perusing." —Indianapolis Business Journal