John Linehan Named to the Hartford Hawks Basketball Staff

The all-time steals leader in NCAA Men's Basketball History and Friar legend John Linehan has been named to the Hartford Hawks Men's Basketball staff for the upcoming basketball season. NEWS: Please welcome John Linehan - the NCAA's all-time steals leader - to the @HartfordMBB staff.https://t.co/BBb49RRsvQ pic.twitter.com/l7zBqSiFHH — Hartford Hawks (@HartfordHawks) July 7, 2017 Linehan moves from being an assistant …

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NBA Summer League Schedule for Former Friars

This is what they call the dog days of summer for sports.  You're basically relegated to baseball and the weekend gold tournament right now and waiting for some other sports to come back in the fall.  Thankfully, the off-season for the NBA has been bananas, so they haven't had much coverage fall off since the …

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Ryan Gomes Ranked the 4th Best NBA Draft Pick Selected at Number 50 by ESPN

With the NBA Draft tomorrow night, ESPN ranked the 5 best selections at each draft position (picks 1 through 60) based on total career win shares.  Now obviously, for some of the higher picks, the 5 guys are mostly Hall of Famers and because this list goes off of career win shares, a lot of the young …

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Bryce Cotton to Play with the Atlanta Hawks in the NBA Summer League

Bryce Cotton will once again be playing for the Atlanta Hawks in this summer's NBA Las Vegas Summer League.   Former NBA player Bryce Cotton (who spent last season in Australia) will play Summer League with the Atlanta Hawks, according to sources. — Alex Kennedy (@AlexKennedyNBA) June 17, 2017 Cotton was invited and played on the …

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Bryce Cotton Showing Off His Insane Hops and Dunking Skills Once Again

Bryce Cotton putting in off-season work. 😳 pic.twitter.com/YjVa7egAc3 — Perth Wildcats (@PerthWildcats) June 9, 2017 If you don't know...now you know. Cotton recently led the Perth Wildcats to their 8th League Championship, dropping 45 points in the title game (on just 17 shots), and was named the Grand Finals MVP.  Cotton turned down multiple NBA offers (most …

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Rodney Bullock Declares for the NBA Draft to Test the Waters with No Agent

Rodney Bullock is declaring for the NBA Draft, per ESPN, but will not be hiring an agent. Providence forward Rodney Bullock will declare for the NBA Draft, but will not sign with agent, source told ESPN. Testing waters. — Jeff Goodman (@GoodmanESPN) March 29, 2017 With the new draft rules allowing for college players to enter …

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Ben Bentil becomes the first Ghanian player to ever play in the NBA.

Bentil signed a 10-day contract with the Dallas Mavericks that just happened to fall in the window of Dirk Nowitzki scoring his 30,000th point to become just the 6th player in NBA history to achieve that feat.

Bryce Cotton wins the Australian League Championship with the Perth Wildcats

Cotton led the Wildcats to their 8th League Championship, dropped 45 points in the title game (on just 17 shots), was named the Grand Finals MVP.  Cotton turned down multiple NBA offers (most likely 10-day contracts) to head over to Perth  🎥WATCH🎥 @PerthWildcats Star Bryce Cotton was INCREDIBLE in the @NBL Grand Final Series Vs @illawarrahawks Including an EPIC game 3🔥🔥🔥🔥 pic.twitter.com/YgPmAF8TXk …

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Game Recap: PC Knocks Off #21 Butler at Home 71-65

Providence Friars (15-11) 71 #21 Butler Bulldogs (19-6) 65 Just what the doctor ordered. Not since the Friars beat a ranked URI team at home have the Friars come through against a ranked opponent this year.  They had lost 6 of their 7 games against ranked opponents this year (UVA, Creighton, Butler, Nova 2x, & Xavier) and were in desperate …

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Ben Bentil Selected #51 Overall by the Boston Celtics

With the 51st pick in the 2016 NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics select... Ben Bentil   Way to screw up the one video that I need to post for Ben Bentil getting drafted ya jerk.  You had ONE JOB! Ben Bentil had to wait around for almost the entire draft night but he ended up …

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