Just like in my 2024–2025 year-end awards (which, I might add, I was the first to release), the two lone freshmen on this year's Providence Friars team have been named to the Big East All-Freshman Team. Joining the Friars’ duo are UConn's Liam McNeely (Freshman of the Year), Creighton's Jackson McAndrew, Georgetown's Thomas Sorber, and …
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Per usual, some of my pre-season picks were a little off. I'm not going to count the Bryce Hopkins First Team All-Big East pick against me (how big of myself) since injuries should be taken into account. The best players in the conference all took a big step forward and although Kadary Richmond made a dramatic impact …
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Big East Media Day for the 2024-2025 basketball season was held at Madison Square Garden on today and with it, the announcement of the preseason Big East awards and conference rankings. The Providence Friars checked in at number 6 in the preseason standings and although preseason projections and prognostications don't really mean all that much, …
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With the 13th pick in the first round of the 2024 NBA Draft, the Sacramento Kings select...Devin Carter, from Providence College. https://twitter.com/NBA/status/1806138715900645459 For the first time in 8 years, the Providence College Friars had a player selected in the NBA Draft. The last year that saw some Friars selected was in 2016 when Kris Dunn …
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The 2021-2022 college basketball regular season has come to an end and as we look forward to chaos at Madison Square Garden and March Madness, we need to give some Big East players kudos for their play this season. This may have been the hardest season yet to pick which players went on which teams …
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#11 Providence Friars 72 (24-3) Creighton Bluejays 51 (19-9) It was going to be hard for Creighton to go on the road to beat Providence without stud Freshman point guard Ryan Nemhard anyway, but do try and do so on Senior Night at The Dunk with the Friars first ever Big East regular season championship …
The NCAA College Basketball season gets underway tomorrow, so now is as good a time as any to drop in with my pre-season selections for my All-Big East Teams and individual award winners. You can pick apart my selections as you please but I'm just happy that we have College Basketball back in our lives. …
Continue reading My Pre-Season Big East Men’s Basketball Awards for 2021-2022
We've come to the end of a unusually unique Big East basketball season, with teams, coaches, and players having to continually deal with the uncertainty of schedules and opponents through the year. With some teams and players getting the chance to actually participate in more basketball than others due to the circumstances surrounding COVID-19, it …
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Here are my Pre-Season picks for the Big East last season: 2019-2020 Pre-Season All-Big East Picks. Here is what the actual team ended up being compared to where my pre-season pick had them. 1st Team Markus Howard (Marquette) - 1st Team Myles Powell (Seton Hall) - 1st Team Paul Reed (DePaul) - 2nd Team Alpha …
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Here are my Pre-Season picks for the Big East last season: 2018-2019 Pre-Season Big East Team picks. Here is what the actual team ended up being compared to where my pre-season pick had them. 1st Team Markus Howard (Marquette) - 1st Team (Player of the Year) Jessie Govan (Georgtown) - 2nd Team Shamorie Ponds (St. John's) …
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The Morning Hangover 