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Providence Sending Four Players to 2016 Big East Media Day

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The Big East will hold their annual Media Day on Tuesday, October 11th  at Madison Square Garden. All ten member schools send their head coach and usually a few players to NYC each year to hear Big East Commissioner Val Ackerman give her “State of the Big East” speech and meet with the media ahead of the upcoming season. Providence will have four players in attendance this year, the league announced today via the Big East Men’s Basketball Twitter account. Juniors Rodney Bullock and Kyron Cartwright  will be joined by sophomores Ryan Fazekas and Isaiah Jackson as Providence’s player representatives.

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Providence Player Evaluations: Rodney Bullock is Returning Leading Scorer

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At the suggestion of Twitter follower Chip Scutari, I’ll be profiling each returning Friar player, as well as, the new faces in Friartown for the 2016-17 season. Providence currently has 11 scholarship players rostered for next season.

Rodney Bullock

  • RS Junior
  • 6’8 225 lbs
  • 2015-16 Stats: 35 games played, 32.8 minutes/game, 11.4 points/game, 6.8 rebounds/game, 1.3 blocks/game, 3FG 34/101 (33.7%), Win Shares 3.1
2015-16 Season Recap

In his third year on Providence’s campus, Rodney Bullock finally got to play his first year of basketball for the Friars. Bullock missed the 2013-14 season due to suspension and the 2014-15 season due to a torn ACL suffered in October of 2014. Bullock certainly got off to a fast start with 20 points and 6 rebounds on 8/14 shooting in the season opener against Harvard. Bullock scored in double-figures in his first four games and averaged 18.8 points/game in that 4-game stretch. Then Bullock had four straight games where he failed to reach double figures. Next four games? Back to double figures. After that he was much more up and down on a game-by-game basis.

Bullock’s first season on the floor for Providence was positive, overall. However, he had some of the inconsistent play you would expect from a rookie. He scored in double figures in half of Providence’s 18-game Big East slate but also scored 8 or less point in 8 Big East contests. Bullock’s biggest highlight will be his backdoor layup from a Drew Edwards in-bounds pass to beat USC late in Providence’s first round NCAA Tournament game, but the larger picture is that he showed flashes of real scoring ability, while lacking consistency.

What He Needs to Work on in the Offseason

The best way to sum up what I believe Bullock needs to work on is the phrase “killer instinct”. Bullock seemed to have his best games when he was involved early on and playing with a confidence and swagger. In games where he didn’t score or perform well, he often appeared physically overmatched at the 4 spot and never seemed to be able to get going. Bullock will be relied on heavily next season as the team’s leading returning scorer so, he will need to find that confidence and swagger more consistently.

Outlook for Next Season

Bullock will be looked to as a team leader next season despite only having one full season of college basketball under his belt. With Ben Bentil staying in the NBA Draft, Bullock will become a larger part of Ed Cooley’s offense. Bullock will hope to do his best Bentil impersonation as the scoring load will fall squarely on his shoulders, at least early in the 2016-17 season.

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Rodney Bullock Named to Weekly Big East Honor Roll

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Week 2 of the Big East Weekly Awards were released on November 23rd and Providence was represented again. A week after Kris Dunn was named the Big East Player of the Week it was Rodney Bullock that received accolades from the league. Bullock joined Roosevelt Jones (Butler), Isaac Copeland (Georgetown), Desi Rodriguez (Seton Hall) and Trevon Bluiett (Xavier) on the week 2 Honor Roll. Josh Hart (Villanova) was named Player of the Week and Yankuba Sima (St. John’s) was named Freshman of the Week.

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Providence’s Cooley Confirms Bullock Lost for the Season

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Ed Cooley confirmed to The Providence Journal’s Kevin McNamara that Rodney Bullock has torn his ACL and will be out for the entire 2014-15 season. While this hurts for a myriad of reasons, not the least of which is that Bullock will now have to sit for a second straight season at Providence, as long as Ben Bentil gets cleared by the NCAA Clearinghouse it will soften the immediate blow as Cooley will still have depth in the frontcourt. The injury occurred during one of the team’s first few  practices of the season on Sunday, October 5th.

Cooley’s comments from McNamara’s article:

“I feel awful for Rodney. It’s very unfortunate,” Cooley said. “He’s had a rough go of it here but he’s committed to working on his academics and rehabbing and coming back with us next year.”

Bullock was slated to be a solid contributor this season and put up impressive numbers during the Friars’ Italy trip, albeit against lesser competition. It’s good to hear that Bullock will stay at Providence and if he gets approved for a medical redshirt he would essentially join the class of 2015 recruiting class which would mean that class now contains 4 members and the 2014 freshman class contains 5.

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Redshirt Freshman Bullock Injures Knee

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It’s getting to be that time again. The time that makes Friar fans cringe. It’s time for that other shoe to drop. The last few years any hope for the advancement of the basketball program would inexplicably get derailed or at least delayed by some ruling from the NCAA Clearinghouse or an injury to a key player or some off the court issue. Snake bitten is a term that a lot of fans have taken to using on message boards to describe the lack of luck that followed this program around during the offseasons. Just during Ed Cooley’s time at Providence we’ve seen the following:

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