Athletics
Butler University's athletic teams, known as the Bulldogs, compete in the NCAA Division I Atlantic 10 Conference and compete at the Football Championship Series level in the Pioneer Football League. In the past decade, Butler teams have captured 26 conference championships (in four different leagues). The Bulldogs have made appearances in NCAA National Championship Tournaments in men's and women's basketball, men's soccer, volleyball, men's cross country, lacrosse, and baseball. Butler won the James J. McCafferty trophy, awarded annually by the conference for all-sports excellence based on conference championship points, seven times, including three-straight from 1996-97 to 1998-99 and back-to-back years in 2001-02 and 2002–03, 2006–07, and 2009-10.
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