Whenever someone asks me if Providence is going to be good this season my answer always involved some form of “they’ll go as far as Kris Dunn can take them.” Dunn is the reigning Big East Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year and he is poised to have a monster season — one that is likely to be his final in a Friar uniform. Heading into this campaign there was expected hype around Dunn. He has been named to some preseason All-American teams by various publications and is likely to be the coaches’ pick for preseason Big East Player of the Year at the league’s media day in mid-October. One of the publications that included him on their First Team All-American squad was the famed Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook. On Tuesday their editor-in-chief Chris Dortch announced they would be naming Dunn as their Preseason National Player of the Year when the 35th anniversary edition of Blue Ribbon in a few weeks.

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