on february 26, 2010, butler traveled to valparaiso for their regular season finale. leading scorer gordon hayward was sidelined with lower back pain, but the team still won 74–69. in so doing, stevens broke the coaching record he had tied the prior week and butler completed an 18–0 undefeated conference schedule. it was butler's first undefeated conference record since joining the horizon league, and first since joe sexson led the 1978 team to a 6–0 record in the now defunct indiana collegiate conference. stevens earned his third straight regular-season conference championship.