 The loss snapped Butler 's 25 @-@ game winning streak , the longest in school history . Butler became the smallest school to play for a National Championship since Jacksonville in 1970 . Stevens became the second @-@ youngest head coach to coach in the NCAA National Championship Game , behind Branch <unk> who led the Indiana <unk> to the 1940 National Championship at age 31 . Stevens was named as both a Hugh Durham and Jim <unk> Award <unk> for the third consecutive year , losing to Mike Young and Jamie Dixon respectively . He was also a <unk> for the <unk> Prosser Man of the Year Award , which was won by Bob <unk> . 
