The final 5 players who will be considered for the 2015 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award were announced Monday. The finalists are T.J. McConnell (Arizona), Tyus Jones (Duke), Kevin Pangos (Gonzaga), Delon Wright (Utah) and Fred VanVleet (Wichita State).
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With the league season officially over as of March 7th the Big East has announced the end of season awards. Two Friars were unanimous selections to the All-Big East First Team and its no surprise who those two Friars are. LaDontae Henton and Kris Dunn were unanimous selections despite not being on the First Team in the preseason. Henton was on the Second Team and Dunn was nowhere to be found in the preseason. Villanova’s Darrun Hilliard was the only other unanimous selection to the First Team.
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With LaDontae Henton being named to the watch list of the inaugural Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award earlier this week another Providence Friar is getting some recognition by the Naismith Hall of Fame. Kris Dunn has been named as one of 16 finalists for the Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award which is presented by College of Holy Cross.
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Kris Dunn has been named Big East Player of the Week for the second time this season. The first time was 3 weeks ago. Dunn’s 2nd honor marks the 4th time this season a Friar has received this honor with LaDontae Henton being named Big East POW on November 24th and January 26th.
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The Big East conference announced their weekly honors on Monday, January 12th and Providence’s Kris Dunn was named Big East Player of the Week.
Dunn averaged 20.5 points/game, 7.5 assists/game, 5.5 rebounds/game and 40.5 minutes/game in Providence’s 2 wins last week. Dunn was a catalyst in both games, including scoring 20 of his career high 25 points in the second half of a road win at Butler. Dunn also scored 8 of Providence’s 10 points in overtime in their win against Georgetown on Saturday.
Dunn is off to an impressive start to the Big East season and is leading the league in assists and steals and those marks are good for 5th (assists) and 9th (steals) nationally. This is the first time in his career Dunn has been named Big East Player of the Week. Dunn becomes the second Friar named the league’s Player of the Week with LaDontae Henton receiving the honor on November 24th.
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During his radio show last night hosted by John Rooke at Whiskey Republic in Providence, Ed Cooley indicated that both redshirt sophomore Kris Dunn and freshman Jalen Lindsey were on crutches Monday following ankle injuries suffered during the team’s win over Notre Dame on Sunday at Mohegan Sun. Cooley also told the listeners that Dunn and Lindsey would have MRI’s and X-Rays done Tuesday morning to see the extent of the injuries.
Cooley had media availability Tuesday afternoon prior to the team’s practice and he gave an update on each player and the news is not good. The Providence Journal’s Kevin McNamara is reporting that Cooley indicated each player’s injury is severe enough that they both may miss the next two games which are at home against Yale Friday and at Rupp Arena against Kentucky Sunday.
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Friar fans can stop holding their breath. Kris Dunn has been cleared for full contact and went through a full team workout on Wednesday without any issues. The news was reported by ESPN’s Jeff Goodman who also spoke with Dunn and Ed Cooley after Wednesday’s workout. “Physically, it felt great. I’m just glad to be back on the court,” Dunn said. Dunn also mentioned he is 80 percent back. Cooley told Goodman that he expects Dunn to be ready and playing for Providence’s season opener against Albany on November 15th. This will also be the night the Big East Tournament Championship banner will be raised to the rafters of the Dunkin’ Donuts Center.
Replacing Bryce Cotton’s scoring and leadership is one of the keys for Providence being able to make a return trip to the NCAA Tournament but arguably even bigger than that is Kris Dunn’s health. Friar fans saw that even a less than 100% healthy Kris Dunn can make a difference in a game. The one game that sticks out in my mind from last season is the Vanderbilt game in the Virgin Islands where Dunn played 31 minutes and did a little bit of a everything to help the Friars defeat the Commodores, 67-60. That Vanderbilt game would be Dunn’s 2nd of 4 games played last season before having to shut it down and have surgery. The positive of this shoulder injury is that it was a totally different injury in the same shoulder and he didn’t simply reinjure the surgically repaired area. Cooley has dubbed it a “freak injury.”
Dunn will be the key to Providence’s season. If he can stay healthy and knock of the rust in the early non-conference schedule I like the possibilities for the 2014-15 Friars. Adding Kyron Cartwright and Tyree Chambers to the 2014 recruiting class gives Providence some backup and insurance behind Dunn in case something happens but Dunn’s dynamic playmaking ability on both offense and defense is something that can’t be replaced by players on the current roster.
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