Some personal news: After 30+ years this is my last week
@ProJo
. Thank you to my bosses/comrades, plus all the coaches and athletes who’ve made the job (mostly) a dream come true. Welcome opportunity to explore different challenges, some sporting, some not. Stay safe & healthy.
Hearing that both Bryce Hopkins and Devin Carter intend to return to Providence and play for new coach
@Englishscope24
Details on NIL being worked out.
Awaiting word on talented big Rafael Castro
Disastrous day in Big East, a 14-win team (Seton Hall) can’t get in.
Neither can Rick Pitino and St. John’s.
And Providence has most Quad 1 wins (6) not to get in.
Some News – I’m Back!
Jumping back into sports media world during a pandemic at a new web site. My own site, for lovers of college basketball and R.I. sports. Try it, you'll like it.
Gotta love
@GoodmanHoops
v.
@stoolpresidente
but all I can say is I pick Providence over Georgetown/DC every day, all day.
The traffic sucks/politicians are slime/no beaches.
See you
@The_AMPPVD
Outpouring of love and admiration for this
@PCFriarsmbb
team is unlike I’ve witnessed in 30 plus years. Special group of young men, will be greatly missed .
Sad to report that my friend Bill Reynolds passed away this morning. This is a remembrance from a few years ago, the themes still ring true.
#RIP
Shooter
English: ‘It was incredible. It felt like a mid-season SEC game at Tennessee or a January Big 12 game at Missouri. I’ve never seen a crowd like that for opening night in my 14 years of college basketball.’’
Att: 11,069
This is not just about what our team is doing, this is about our College, our City and our State! Another amazing night at the Dunk’ in which OUR fans, especially the students, helped us get a W. THANK YOU! See you Tuesday, we got a BIG one!😉
Final tweet of the day. My heart aches for one of the all-time great basketball guys, a Saint of a Man. If you can spare a prayer tonight, Tom Konchalski could use one. He will love you back.
Kim English: "If we had trades in college basketball, there's not another guard in the country I'd trade Devin Carter for."
@kingcarter2225
goes for career-hi 31pts, 13 rebs, 4 steals
Ed Cooley: “We’re not a pretty team. I don’t coach pretty teams, that’s not our style. We’re gritty, we’re nasty, we’re ugly. We’re not trying to go to the prom and become prom kings. We want to be the ugliest but we want to be the most successful."
NEWS: Saint Joseph’s transfer center Christ Essandoko, a 7-foot freshman, has committed to Providence, he tells
@On3sports
.
Averaged 8.2 points and 5.6 rebounds per game this season.
Providence recruiting near & far but I keep hearing that defensive dynamo Oswin Erhunmwunse (Putnam, CT) and wing scorer Joson Sanon of Fall River both like the Friars and are thinking of reclassifying into 2024 Class.
Providence announces C Nate Watson returning for 5th season. Best
@BIGEASTMBB
Big ‘I wanted another opportunity to compete for a BIG EAST title and make a run at the NCAA’s with my teammates.’’
Ed Cooley: “As we move on, I want everyone to know how proud I am of our team and what they accomplished,” he said. “We have some great memories and our five seniors will be remembered for their late-season run and how they grew as leaders."
@PCFriarsmbb
Things happen but the Mountain West needs Utah St to save its bacon tonight. Six bids for these guys? San Diego St survives but Boise loses in First 4, New Mexico gets hammered, Colorado State ripped by Texas and Nevada chokes big-time vs. Dayton.
Six-bids? Mistake.
NET Strength of Sked:
SHall (33), SJU (34), Prov (36) - All OUT
MWest: SDState (25), Boise (51), Col St (60), Nevada (88), Utah St (90) - All IN as at-larges.
Moral of story: Play weaker foes and improve analytics, W/L record
Wherever I turn here in the Windy (and yucky) City I see
@PCFriarsmbb
fans. Hotel lobby, lunch spot, gym. (Actually I walked by the gym, didn’t enter 😉)
#pcbb
Wesley Cardet, Jr., commits to Providence, via
@TheFieldOf68
Seen as top wing scorer in Big East, avg 18 ppg for his uncle Gerald Gillion at Chicago St.
‘I feel I’m one of the top 2-way guards in the country.’
Ed Cooley, on 5 men of color still dancing: 'We have to be guardians of the game...we need more AD's and search firms to recognize us. We need to continue to fight for equality.'
Friartown, we got Stonehill on Tuesday at 5 pm. It’s support like this that makes the AMP the best home court in college basketball. Us We Together Family Friars
Providence's selling point to NCAA committee:
Quad 1 wins. Now up to 6, two on the road and 1 neutral.
What Bubble teams can boast three Q1A wins? (2 Creighton/1 Marq) ?
Pretty funny/interesting that nearly every game I turn on I spot a former Providence recruit who chose to go ‘big time’ and now barely play…..And yet the Friars are
#17
in the country . Amazing that playing time isn’t
#1
reason to pick a school for all kids.
Have thought all season that if this Providence team can get to 11 Big East wins it will be in NCAA's. Giant step tonight with Road win at Xavier.
Contributions up and down lineup (Ticket block, Castro 6 rebs, Barron three 3's, Pierre 17 pts, ect.)
Now 9-7 with 4 games left