LaDontae Henton had a rough game on his Senior Day against Butler to close out the regular season on Saturday. On Sunday he was recognized by the Big East coaches as being unanimously selected to the Big East’s First Team. On Monday Henton was named as a finalist for the inaugural Julius Erving Small Forward of the Year Award.
The finalists are: Stanley Johnson (Arizona), Justise Winslow (Duke), LaDontae Henton (Providence), Justin Anderson (Virginia) and Sam Dekker (Wisconsin).
The winner of the inaugural award will be presented at ESPN’s College Basketball Awards show on April 10th in Los Angeles.
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).
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.
With his initial 10-day contract set to expire at midnight on March 6th a report from Sportando indicates that the Utah Jazz will re-up Cotton for a second 10-day contract. Cotton only played in 1 game with the Jazz during the first 10 days and that was in a blowout win over Denver. In total he amassed 3 points, 2 rebounds, 1 assists and 1 steal in 6.9 minutes.
With Cotton signing his second 10-day deal the Jazz will have to sign him for the rest of the season if they want to keep him beyond this deal. Worst case scenario Cotton gets another 10 days practicing with an NBA club and another $29,843.
Until Tuesday night’s blowout loss at Villanova, Carson Desrosiers had started every single Providence College basketball game this season, his final in a Friar uniform. The 5th year senior 7-footer missed that Villanova loss due a knee injury suffered during Providence’s blowout win at DePaul on February 18th. At the time the injury didn’t look all that serious as Desrosiers ended up returning to action later in that same game.
Four days later – and two days prior to the Villanova game – would be the first inkling of an issue when Kevin McNamara of the Providence Journal reported on his Twitter account that Desrosiers knee was bothering him and his “status for [the] Villanova game [is] unclear.” Desrosiers missed the game, Providence got smoked on Villanova’s Senior Night and the latest news from Ed Cooley is that Desrosiers still hasn’t returned to practice as of Thursday. That news was first reported by Brendan McGair of the Woonsocket Call.
Marc Stein of ESPN is reporting that Bryce Cotton and the Utah Jazz are working on a 10-day contract to call Cotton up from the NBA D-League. Cotton has been playing with the Austin Spurs, an affiliate team of the NBA’s San Antonio Spurs. Cotton signed a partially-guaranteed 2-year contract with the Spurs after going undrafted in the 2015 NBA Draft and was then waived following training camp and assigned to Austin as an affiliate player.
LaDontae Henton has been named the Big East Player of the Week after a 22 point, 11 rebound performance in Providence’s win at DePaul in the Friars’ only action last week. Henton has now been named Big East Player of the Week three times this season while his teammate Kris Dunn has gotten the honor twice.
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