Quickish reaction: Butler shocks the sporting world (again)

Quickish is a new quick-hit, real-time service that tips you off to the best analysis of the biggest stories in sports. From Quickish's editors, here is a selection of the best proclamations and exclamations coming off Butler's return to the Final Four:

Let's start with the first word:

*Who is cooler than Brad Stevens? Seemingly no one.
(ESPN's Chuck Klosterman)

#Realtalk
*What Butler has done is one of the greatest feats in college basketball history. If you don't love the Bulldogs, you don't love basketball.
(ESPN's Pat Forde)

How Butler Did It (Oof: Sorry)
*Butler outrebounded Florida, guarded ball screens better, stuck to game plan. Wins close ones. That's not just a team, its a great program.
(ESPN's Jay Bilas)

Gordon Who-ward?
*Butler reaching title game was incredible story. Losing lottery pick and returning to Final Four even moreso
(Yahoo! Sports' Dan Wetzel)

Superlative of the Month
*There has never been a two-year NCAA tournament run as good as Butler's.
(The Daily's Dan Wolken)

History Made?
*And by beating a No. 9 seed, a No. 1, a No. 4 and a No. 2, Butler survives the second-toughest gauntlet since 1985. Butler!
(WSJ's Ben Cohen)

More Brad Stevens Love
*John Calipari has 1 win vs higher seeded team in 13 NCAA tourneys. Brad Stevens has 5 in last 2 NCAAs
(NYT's Brett McMurphy)

And this:
*Someone should offer Brad Stevens one dollar more than the highest paid basketball coach in America. He'd still be underpaid.
(Clay Travis)

And this:
Stevens has shown he can lead a team to the Final Four with and without glasses. Not many coaches that versatile.
(SI's Stewart Mandel)

Aaand this (definitely this):
Here's my worst nightmare: Brad Stevens hangs around Butler for five years and then takes over for Coach K when he retires.
(Yahoo! Sports' Chris Chase)

Would YOU pick against 'em?
*All due respect to Kansas, but Butler might be the team to beat. Bulldogs impossibly keep finding ways to defeat more talented opponents.
(Yahoo! Sports' Brad Evans)

This is right
*The Butler Bulldogs, America's Team
(The Awl's Jim Behrle)

Worth noting: Gus!
Sadly, I think that was Gus Johnson's last game of the tournament. Thanks again Gus for making the Madness even crazier and fun to watch
(NBC News' Chuck Todd)

And, finally, with the last word, the biggest Butler news of all:

*I am pleased to announce that the NCAA has officially declared me FREE to attend the Final Four in Houston. #freeButlerBlue2 is retired!
("Butler Blue II," the team's bulldog mascot, via its Twitter feed.)

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