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Report: Sacred Heart Transfer Cane Broome Visiting Providence

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A report surfaced around 5:30pm that Sacred Heart transfer Cane Broome is visiting Providence today. Broome later confirmed the report with pcbb1917.com. He specified the visit was unofficial. The 6’0 guard announced his intention to transfer via Twitter on March 17th from the NEC program after two seasons and 1,157 points scored in 62 games, good for a career average of 18.7 points/game. His scoring average during the 2015-16 was 23.1 points/game and he was named the NEC’s Player of the Year. The East Hartford, CT native attended East Hartford High School before finishing up at St. Thomas More. He ran with both the New England Playaz and Expressions Elite on the grassroots circuit.

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2016 Corey Manigault Expected to Get Release from Pitt, Friars Likely to be Involved

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On Monday, it was reported that Jamie Dixon would be mutually parting ways with Pittsburgh and that Dixon would be named the new head coach at TCU, his alma mater. The move comes as the annual coaching carousel is heating up across the country. Coaches changes are now a viable sector of college basketball recruiting and with Providence in need of size in their frontcourt, Ed Cooley will be looking at all avenues to fill that void.

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Providence Coaches Spotted at National Prep Championships

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The 2016 National Prep Championships are being held Tuesday and Wednesday at Albertus Magnus College in New Haven, CT and there are a good amount of Providence recruiting targets that are playing over the next two days. Adam Finkelstein already spotted Providence coaches at Albertus Magnus College and it was later learned that those coaches are Ed Cooley and Andre LaFleur. The question is, who is Providence there to see? Here are some answers.

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Recruiting News: Rivals Releases Class Of 2018 Top 75 Recruit Rankings

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Rivals released a Top 75 for the Class of 2018 on Friday and Providence has some of their targets on the list for this class that is made up of current high school sophomores. The list also includes some local New England prep products.

Providence Recruits in the Top 75:

  • #5 – Naz Reid – 6’9 PF – Roselle Catholic/Asbury Park, NJ
  • #24 – Isaiah Mucius – 6’7 WF – St. James School/Patchogue, NY
  • #25 – Jalen Smith – 6’8 PF – Mount Saint Joseph/Baltimore, MD
  • #32 – AJ Reeves – 6’3 SG – Brimmer and May/Roxbury, MA
  • #63 – Nate Laszewski – 6’7 PF – Northfield-Mt. Hermon/Avon, CT
  • #67 – Montez Mathis – 6’4 SG – Oak Hill Academy/Essex, MD

To see the entire Top 75, click here.

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Recruiting News: Rivals Releases Updated Class Of 2017 Top 150 Recruit Rankings

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Rivals has released an updated Top 150 for the Class of 2017 and Providence has plenty of recruits among the ranked, including newly committed big man Dajour Dickens. The Friars need to upgrade the talent on their roster and 2017 will be the best place to do it short of landing a big man in 2016 like Kalif Young, Darius Hicks or Cheickna Dembele.

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Providence Officially Lands Commitment from 2017 Big Man

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Providence got some good news on the recruiting front after another loss on the court when 2017 Dajour Dickens officially committed to Ed Cooley and the Friars. The news comes directly from Dickens himself this time after a false start report last Friday. Dickens is a Virginia native and stands at 6’11. He visited Providence for the Georgetown game on February 13th and evidently liked what he saw. Dickens is enrolled at Bethel High School and runs with famed grassroots program Boo Williams.

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Big Mystery: Cheickna Dembele No Longer Unknown

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Providence has been desperately chasing big men recruits since Paschal Chukwu transferred to Syracuse in May 2015 and Alex Owens failed to qualify that later summer. Ben Bentil has been forced to slide over the the center spot this season with little behind him in the way of backup. Bentil has obviously had a tremendous sophomore campaign, but he has had struggles on the defensive side of the floor at times and Providence has been vulnerable to teams that attack the rim. Those teams are met with little to no resistance en route to a layup and that’s a big problem for Ed Cooley. The search for a big man in the class of 2016 has taken Providence all over the country and, lately, even into Canada. The latest name to surface is a new name to just about everyone in the basketball recruiting world: Cheickna Dembele.

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