Matt Palumbo Promoted to Assistant Coach for the Providence Friars

Kim English has promoted Special Assistant to the Head Coach, Matt Palumbo, to an Assistant Coach for the Providence Friars. Palumbo's previous team contributions included scouting, practice, workouts, analytics, video, report preparation, game strategy, and player development. https://twitter.com/PCFriarsmbb/status/1808873490872754178 If, like me, you witnessed the player development of Devin Carter into a first round NBA Draft …

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Former Friar Isaiah Jackson Named Head Basketball Coach of Ridgeview High School

Former Providence Friar Isaiah Jackson announced that he has officially been named the Head Basketball Coach of the Ridgeview High School Panthers. Ridgeview High School is located in Orange Park, FL https://twitter.com/jacksonisaiah44/status/1798000557980111259?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet Jackson graduated from The Villages Charter High School in The Villages, FL in 2014, where during his Senior season, he led the team …

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Happenings Around Friartown

I go on vacation for one week without my computer for the first time in I don't even know how long and obviously, there are roughly 1,000 things happen within that time. I wanted to write some individual articles about some of these happenings because a couple of them were some pretty big news, but …

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Rich Barron Becomes the Third George Mason Player to Follow Kim English to Providence

With the Friars in dire need of some shooting to add to their rotation for the upcoming season, Rich Barron answers the call to fill the void and officially commits to transferring to Providence. https://twitter.com/richardbarron_/status/1643024175769042945 I'm going with Rich instead of Richard based on his personal twitter even though all the scouting sites and such …

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George Mason Transfers Justyn Fernandez & Josh Oduro Follow Coach English to Friartown

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 …

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Providence College Hires Kim English to Lead the Friars into the Next Era of Basketball

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 …

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2021 Forward Rafael Castro Names the Friars in His Final 6 Schools

The Friars have been making the cut for a number of 2021 targets these days and we can officially add 2021 Forward Rafael Castro to the list. https://twitter.com/theylovecastro/status/1302411254947078145 Bryce Hopkins, Kuluel Mading, Legend Geeter, Darius Johnson, & Breon Pass all currently have Providence included in their final list of schools at the moment. It's only …

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