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
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
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 …
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 …
Providence Friars 72 (11-3) Butler Bulldogs 52 (8-6) Devin Carter has officially arrived and the rest of the Big East needs to be put on notice. Carter scored a game-high 21 points and did so in just about every single way you can score in a basketball game. Whether it was in transition, posting up, …
Providence Friars 103 (10-3) #24 Marquette Golden Eagles 98 (9-4) The Dunk AMP, where ranked teams go to die. In what was the game of the season so far, the Providence Friars battled against the #24 Marquette Golden Eagles through two overtimes, finally standing victorious on a hostile home court. Over the last 9 years, …
Providence Friars 71 (9-3) Seton Hall Pirates 67 (7-5) For the second year in a row, the Providence Friars started out their Big East Conference slate with a road win, this time beating Seton Hall in New Jersey. The Friars went into the half trailing by 9 but exploded at the start of the 2nd …
Providence Friars 99 (7-3) Manhattan Jaspers 59 (3-5) A win is still a win, but this Manhattan team has been in a pretty rough spot this year. Just two weeks before the season started, their head coach was fired and their best player, the conference pre-season player of the year, subsequently transferred to West Virginia. …
Continue reading Game Recap: Friars Trounce a Wounded Manhattan Team 99-59
Providence Friars 100 (3-0) Stonehill Skyhawks 76 (1-3) This matchup was particularly special for Ed Cooley as a 1994 graduate from Stonehill, a 3-time team captain of the basketball team, and a 2019 inductee into the school's Hall of Fame. Stonehill is in their inaugural season as a Division I basketball team but appear as …
Continue reading Game Recap: The Friars Crack Triple-Digits Against Stonehill, Winning 100-76
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