Coach Kim English is making his presence felt immediately since becoming the new Providence Friars basketball coach. It hasn't even been a week and he's been across the country recruiting players, offering prospective players in both the 2024 and 2025 classes, meeting with the current Friar players, and everything between. To kick things off with …
The Providence Friars have their guy. Following the unexpected and messy departure of Ed Cooley to Georgetown, new Athletic Director Steve Napolillio was faced with the biggest decision he may have to make for his entire career and he is very aware of the pressure that comes with it. https://twitter.com/MHershgordon/status/1637913052048769026 Nap went out and got …
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 …
Continue reading Ed Cooley Slinks to Georgetown and Tarnishes His Legacy on the Way Out
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 …
Continue reading The College Basketball All-Hate Team 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 …
Continue reading My All-Big East Team & Year End Award Selections for 2022-2023
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 …
Continue reading Bryce Hopkins Unanimously Selected to First Team All-Big East
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Game Recap: Noah Locke Catches Fire as Providence Beat DePaul 75-64
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 …
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 …
The Morning Hangover 