Ed Cooley Slinks to Georgetown and Tarnishes His Legacy on the Way Out

It's official. Ed Cooley will be the next coach of Georgetown basketball. It was hard for Providence fans to see Ed Cooley heading to any other job other than staying with the Friars until he wanted to eventually make his transition to the studio or announcer's table but to do so in the manner he …

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The College Basketball All-Hate Team for 2022-2023

Here are some of the previous season College All-Hate Squads. I haven't been able to put a team together for every season but I think I want to give Jim Boeheim a Lifetime Achievement Award (even though he was the Coach of the 2015-2016 Team) for being such a blow hard over such a long …

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My All-Big East Team & Year End Award Selections for 2022-2023

As usual, in order to hold myself accountable, I list where I had all the players selected to my end of the season team's, in my pre-season awards. I'll have some hits and I'll definitely have some misses. To start off, two of my pre-season first team selections (Jared Bynum & Caleb Daniels), didn't even …

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Bryce Hopkins Unanimously Selected to First Team All-Big East

The Big East came out with their end of the season All-Big East first and second teams today and Byrce Hopkins was named as one of the 6 members of the first team. There were only two unanimous selections to the first team, Hopkins and Marquette's Tyler Kolek. I'm really surprised that Souley Boom from …

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Happenings Around Friartown

Happenings Around Friartown While the Providence Friars basketball season is right in the thick of the 2022-2023 schedule, it seemed like a good time to shed some light on some other news and accomplishments that are happening around Friartown. 1) Julian Gressel ('16) gets the call up to the US Men's National Team Julian Gressel …

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Game Recap: Noah Locke Catches Fire as Providence Beat DePaul 75-64

Providence Friars 75 (15-5) DePaul Blue Demons 64 (9-11) When Noah Locke was struggling to make threes on a consistent basis, I said at the time that there was going to be 1 or 2 games that Noah Locke's shooting was going to win it for the Friars. Even when I made that statement, I …

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Providence Lands First Commit of the 2024 Class, Top-100 Combo Guard Kayvaun Mulready

Before I get into everything about the newest basketball commit to the Providence Friars, Kayvaun Mulready, let me just put this quote from him to Friartown out there... “I’m coming to win a championship. If that’s their goal, tell the fans that I’m your guy.” - 2024 Commit Kayvaun Mulready If you were putting together …

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Game Recap: Noah Locke Steps Up in a Big Way as the Friars Hold Off St. John’s 83-80

Providence Friars 83 (14-3) St. John's Red Storm 80 (11-6) Stop me if you've heard this one before, but the Friars are once again off to their best start of conference play in their program's history. First it was when they were 4-0, then it was when they were 5-0, and now they are officially …

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Game Recap: Bryce Hopkins Drops 27 on #4 UConn’s Head to Defeat the Visiting Huskies 73-61

Providence Friars 73 (13-3) #4 UConn Huskies 61 (14-2) The UConn Huskies returned to The Dunk/AMP for the first time since 2013 and were met with a hungry Providence Friars team awaiting their long anticipated arrival. The Huskies, fresh off their first loss of the season at Xavier, traded punches with PC for the first …

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Game Recap: Friars Start Off Big East Play 4-0, Taking Down DePaul on the Road 74-59

Providence Friars 74 (12-3) DePaul Blue Demons 59 (7-8) The Providence Friars swept their 2 game road trip by manhandling both Butler and DePaul back-to-back. With the two wins in the past week, the Friars improved to 4-0 in Big East conference play for the first time in program history. The team has gelled together …

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