INDIANAPOLIS — Darnell Archey of Butler missed a foul shot Saturday, ending his NCAA Division I record of 85 consecutive free throws.
The miss came with 3:42 left in the second half against Youngstown State. Until then he had made every free throw since Feb. 8, 2001, a span of 56 games.
"Once I missed, it kind of hurt," Archey said after a 64-60 win.
"I wanted to get 100. I kind of didn't react to it for a while, for 10 or 15 seconds. Then I looked up and thought, 'It's over. We've got a game to win,"' he said. "So I just tried to pick up the pressure on defense, and I think we responded we pretty well."
Archey hit his first 44 foul shots this season, including the first on a two-shot foul Saturday. His second shot bounced off the right side of the rim.
"I think I was a little winded this time," Archey said. "We had been playing for five, six, seven straight minutes. The first one went in, but I think I kind of lost focus maybe on the second one. It came up short.
"I didn't really get a lot of arch on it. I didn't get my legs into it like I did on my previous free throw or on my jump shots," he said.
Immediately after the game, at the urging of teammate Joel Cornette, Archey came back on the court and hit a ceremonial free throw as players from both teams applauded and the Hinkle Fieldhouse crowd of 7,268 chanted, 'Ar-chey, Ar-chey."
"I appreciated that," Archey said. "It's kind of hard to put into words. I'm an emotional guy and it kind of helped me through that missed shot there."
The 6-foot-1 senior guard did not become a starter until this season.
Two weeks ago, he broke the previous Division I record of 73 in a row set in 2000-01 by Villanova's Gary Buchanan. The all-division record is 94 by Paul Cluxton of Division II Northern Kentucky in 1996-97.