The 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Championship Game was the title game of the 2011 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament and it determined the national champion for the 2010-11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The 2011 National Title Game was played on April 4, 2011 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, and featured the 2011 West Regional Champions, #3-seeded Connecticut, and the 2011 Southeast Regional Champions, #8 seeded Butler.

For the 1st time since the 1989 National Championship Game, neither a #1 or a #2 seed participated in the National Championship Game.

Butler had made it back to the National Championship for the second year in a row after losing their best player and eventual NBA star Gordon Hayward of the Utah Jazz. They were able to come back into the post season trying to play the cinderella team that they were the previous year. They were seeded as the #8 spot when in fact they had played and won in some very important games that impressed the college basketball sports world. The Butler basketball team was able to pull off upset after upset, game winning shot after game winning shot.Matt Howard made the game winning free throw against The University Pittsburgh after they were losing by one and Matt was fouled 86 feet away from the basket. That wouldn’t be the final of their close calls for this tournament, nor was it their first. Their first game they won by two points, then the close call with Pittsburgh, followed up by an exciting game which led to overtime against Florida in which Butler was able to come out victorious with the win.

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