You’re Going to Need a Bigger Boat: Devin Vanterpool Becomes the Latest Transfer to Commit to Providence

You can add Devin Vanterpool to the ever-growing list of fire transfer singings for Bryan Hodgson and the Providence Friars. Vanterpool became the fourth commit of the brand new Hodgson era in just five days (five commits if you want to include Ryan Mela announcing he's coming back for his Junior year). https://twitter.com/JoeTipton/status/2044193294402387983 Vanterpool adds …

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Happenings Around Friartown (April 2026)

There's been so much going on in Friartown that I had to combine it all into a single post in order to not keep posting for days on end. That's not even mentioning that the Men's Lacrosse team literally just won on an overtime goal while I was in the middle of writing this. 1. …

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Rich Barron Becomes the First Player of the Hodgson Era to Enter the Transfer Portal

The first domino to fall, following the hiring of Bryan Hodgson, is Rich Barron's announcement that he will be entering the transfer portal. Goodblum was his usual excellent reporting chimed in noting Barron's points per game this past season...you know, in a season he didn't actually play in. https://twitter.com/GoodmanHoops/status/2036957352000094496 Barron still has two years of …

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Bryce Hopkins & Christ Essandoko Find New Homes & PC Welcomes Daquan Davis & Cole Hargrove

Well, if you haven’t heard by now...Bryce Hopkins is officially a member of the St. John’s Red Storm. In-Conference transfers might be the new norm, but let’s be real, this one just hits a little different. Watching him suit up against the Friars next season? That’s gonna sting. First, Ed Cooley left. Now Bryce follows. …

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Game Recap: Bensley Joseph and #TheDuck Save PC From a Devastating Opening Season Loss to CCSU

I definitely wasn’t expecting heart-stopping moments this early in the season, but the Friars managed to keep my blood pressure sky-high throughout their opener against Central Connecticut State. A win is a win, no matter the margin (even if KenPom might disagree), but there were plenty of red flags in this underwhelming performance. The team …

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Four-Star Forward Jaylen Harrell Commits to Kim English and the Friars

Jaylen Harrell announced his commitment to the Providence Friars live on the On3 Recruits YouTube channel with On3's own Joe Tipton. https://twitter.com/TiptonEdits/status/1807917812524241374 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBMSqZXUmaE&ab_channel=On3Recruits The 2025 Forward and Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year who plays at CATS Academy selected the Friars over the likes of Rutgers, Xavier, Alabama, Virginia Tech, & Kansas. Harrell was originally …

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Wesley Cardet Jr. Becomes the Fourth PC Transfer for Next Season

In what has been an incredibly busy last couple of weeks for Kim English and his staff, Chicago State wing Wesley Cardet Jr. officially announced that he will be heading to Providence College to finish out his collegiate career. He will also be participating in NBA Draft workouts but it looks to be more so …

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Will McNair Jr. Leaves Providence Before He Really Arrived and Eli DeLaurier Raises His Hand to Take His Place

Out with the old, in with the new. Unexpectedly, at least to Friar fans, Will McNair Jr. ended his time with the Providence Friars before it ever really got started. https://twitter.com/JamieShaw5/status/1699181722007384349 But hey, at least he got a trip to Spain out of it. Apparently, if you want to believe the rumors, McNair decided that …

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Los Friars End Spain Trip on a High, Finishing 3-0 After Smashing the Catalonia All-Stars 98-50

Team1st Qtr2nd Qtr3rd Qtr4th QtrFINALProvidence Friars2628172798Catalonia All-Stars101691550 https://twitter.com/PCFriarsmbb/status/1694452170727555358 The Friars concluded their 3-game pre-season Spain trip with just about as convincing of a win that you could have, beating the Catalonia All-Stars by 48 points, nearing doubling them up to the tune of a 98-50 win. The Friars had a decent game from three-point land …

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Alpha Diallo Crushed it Representing Guinea in Pre-Qualifying Olympic Tournament in Nigeria

Alpha Diallo represented the country of Guinea, where he has also obtained citizenship, in the pre-qualifying Olympic games tournament in Lagos, Nigeria. Diallo competed for his ancestral homeland after previously representing the USA at the 2019 Pan American Games with fellow Friars David Duke Jr., AJ Reeves, Nate Watson, and Coach Ed Cooley. Since the …

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