Basketball Title Game Goes to the Dogs

Jonathan

Monday night’s NCAA basketball championship game will feature two very different basketball programs as tiny Butler University will compete against perennial powerhouse University of Connecticut in a classic “David v. Goliath” matchup. The two teams have something in common, though; both teams have canine mascots.

Yes, it will be the Bulldogs of Butler, represented by Butler Blue II, against  the UConn Huskies, and their mascot, Jonathan.

According to WikiPedia,

All UConn huskies are named Jonathan in honor of Jonathan Trumbull, the last colonial and first state Governor of Connecticut…All but the first real husky mascot, a brown and white dog, have been solid white with one brown eye and one blue eye. The current Jonathan is Jonathan XIII; he is often seen greeting fans and eating dog biscuits at sporting events. Jonathan is one of the few university mascots in the nation to have been selected by students via a popular poll (in 1933). [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_the_Husky]

For more information about Butler Blue II, see our previous DogTipper post.

May the best dog win!

Photo credit: WikiPedia (under Creative Commons License).

About Paris Permenter and John Bigley

DogTipper publishers Paris Permenter and John Bigley are a husband-wife team of full-time writers. The couple has authored over two dozen books and 2,500+ magazine articles.

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