Recruiting News

2016 Wenyen Gabriel Commits to Kentucky

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Wenyen Gabriel has announced his decision and the fast-rising forward from New Hampshire committed to John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats. Gabriel was down to a final 5 of Connecticut, Duke, Kentucky, Maryland and Providence and had taken visits to Maryland and Kentucky before shutting down his recruitment and announcing his commitment on ESPN’s Recruiting Nation with Adam Finkelstein. Gabriel — who attends Wilbraham and Monson Academy and ran with the Mass Rivals on the adidas Gauntlet series — was a top target for Ed Cooley and the Providence staff but, as was the case with the class of 2015’s top Friar recruiting target Donovan Mitchell, Gabriel blew-up in the spring and summer to rise all the way to the top 20 in the class of 2016 rankings, according to 247sports.com’s composite national rankings.

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Kris Dunn

Providence Athletics to Launch Kris Dunn Microsite on October 1st

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Providence College Athletics sent out a release on Wednesday that they will launch a Kris Dunn microsite at 10am on October 1st as part of Friars.com. The site will feature information about Dunn and be updated as the 2015-16 season goes on. This is a welcome sign from Providence Athletics as they have sometimes struggled to market and publicize their star players.

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Friartown Fan Voice Podcast

Friartown Fan Voice Podcast – Episode 1 – 9/30/15

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It’s finally here! The first episode of the pcbb1917.com Friartown Fan Voice podcast has been recorded, uploaded and turned loose on the public! I focused primarily on recruiting in this first episode and also answered some submitted questions by you, the fans. I hope you enjoy this one and I plan on doing a couple more before the season begins in mid-November. This should be available in iTunes shortly so keep an eye out for that so you can subscribe and be automatically notified when a new episode is uploaded.

You can submit your own questions and comments that could be answered on a future podcast by calling the Friartown Fan Voice podcast voicemail line at 516-500-PCBB or 516-500-7222, emailing me at mhopkins@pcbb1917.com, tweeting at me @pcbb1917, commenting on the Facebook page or directly in the comments section of this post.

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2016 Guard Shamorie Ponds to Stay Home at St. John’s

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Decision day is here for Shamorie Ponds as the 2016 guard from Brooklyn held a press conference at his high school this afternoon to announce his college commitment. As expected Ponds announced he would be staying home to attend St. John’s. Ponds becomes Chris Mullin’s first top-50 recruit. Possibly more important than that is the fact that he is the first top NYC recruit Mullin has convinced to stay home and play for the hometown Red Storm. Mullin is hoping to convince Rawle Alkins to do the same. Ponds visited Creighton, St. John’s and Providence before deciding to commit. His commitment gives the Big East their 6th 4-star recruit to go along with 1 5-star pledge in the class of 2016 and he is the second highest ranked prospect committed to a Big East program so far for 2016 behind Villanova pledge Omari Spellman, according to 247sports.com.

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