#pcbb Links of the Day 5/8/14
- Friars.com – School Record Six Friar Programs Earn NCAA APR Public Recognition Awards
- The below is a must watch promo video for the Gavitt Tipoff Games:
- 2013-14 Providence College Hockey Highlight Video
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#pcbb Links of the Day 5/7/14
- ICYMI – Bryce Cotton to Work Out for NBA Teams This Week
- ICYMI – Photos and Videos: Gavitt Tipoff Games Announced
- FriarBasketball.com – Craig Belhumeur – Recruiting Update: Larry Austin
- FriarBasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Cotton’s Top 10 Games: #7 Turning it Around at Butler
- GoLocal Prov – Jack Andrade – RIC Basketball Coach Bob Walsh Accepts Maine Job
- FriarBasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Report: PC No Longer Recruiting Terrell, Austin to Visit
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Bryce Cotton to Work Out for NBA Teams This Week
Bryce Cotton has been working out constantly in Alumni Hall both with God Shammgod and against chairs.
He will begin working out for NBA teams over the next 6 weeks leading up to the NBA Draft in the hopes of hearing his name called. The Providence Journal‘s Kevin McNamara is reporting that Cotton will have his first 2 workouts this week when he will travel to Utah on Wednesday and Sacramento on Friday.
Utah has a bunch of young guards including Trey Burke and no coach at the moment but of their bevy of young guards only Burke, Diante Garrett and John Lucas III are point guards. Garrett is Burke’s backup but has a non-guaranteed salary heading into this upcoming season and Cotton could come in and compete for the backup job in Utah because Lucas III didn’t get off the bench in April for the Jazz and is on the wrong side of 30 for a rebuilding team. To top that all off, he has a non-guaranteed contract for next season so it wouldn’t be surprising if Cotton was brought in to try to win the backup role behind Burke if the Jazz don’t take a point guard in the 1st round. ESPN’s Chad Ford has the Jazz taking Kansas C Joel Embiid with the 4th overall pick and Louisiana-Lafayette PG Elfrid Payton with the 23rd overall pick. In addition to Cotton, the Jazz will host Taylor Braun, Stephen Holt, Akil Mitchell, Mike Moser, and Ronald Roberts Jr.
Sacramento has 5’9 Isaiah Thomas as their starting point guard so I guess they aren’t afraid to give a smaller guard a chance but I’m also unsure how Cotton fits here unless Thomas leaves as a restricted free agent this summer in which case Cotton could come in to backup 2nd year player Ray McCallum. Chad Ford’s latest mock draft has the Kings taking Oklahoma State PG Marcus Smart with the 7th overall pick so this may just be a way of posturing to lower Thomas’ asking price as a restricted free agent.
The NBA Draft lottery is May 20th and the NBA Draft is June 26th.
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Photos and Videos: Gavitt Tipoff Games Announced
Here is some video from the Big Ten Network, the Big East conference and there is a slideshow of photos from the Big East’s Facebook page:
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2014 USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team Training Camp Invites Announced
The invitees have been announced for the USA Basketball Men’s U18 National Team training camp which will be held in Colorado Springs from June 10th-19th. Ed Cooley is on Billy Donovan’s staff this year and the talent of the players invited to camp is impressive. 10 players are in the class of 2014 and all are already signed with their respective schools for next season. 11 players are members of the class of 2015 with 4 of them already verbally committed to schools. That leaves 7 uncommitted guys. Of those 7, PC has been mentioned with Isaiah Briscoe of Roselle Catholic (NJ).
It’s unclear if Briscoe will end up making the team as there are a lot of talented guards in training camp but at the minimum, this opportunity will give Cooley 9 days to coach Briscoe and start to build a relationship with the young man. He is currently ranked as the 19th best player in the class of 2015 by ESPN and Rivals while 247Sports ranks him at 17th best. Along with Providence, Briscoe claims offers from Arizona, Baylor, Cincinnati, Connecticut, DePaul, Florida, Florida State, Indiana, Miami (FL), Michigan, Ohio State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers, Seton Hall, SMU, St. John’s Syracuse, UCLA, Villanova and Virginia with interest from Kansas and Kentucky.
If that list appears daunting, it’s because it is. I would classify Briscoe as a long shot for PC but Ed Cooley has a real opportunity to build a relationship and give Briscoe a feel for how he would be coached by the Friar’s head man.
Opportunities like this one are why Cooley being involved in USA Basketball is so huge for himself and the Providence program. It gets his name out there and gives him a chance to coach some of the top talent in the USA while maybe even building a relationship with a recruit or two along the way.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 5/6/14
- ICYMI – Big East/Big Ten Challenge: What This Means for the Big East
- FriarBasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Bring in Minnesota for the Gavitt Tipoff Games
- Official Press Release about the Gavitt Tipoff Games – BIG EAST and Big Ten Establish Gavitt Tipoff Games to Begin in 2015
- Paint Touches – Andrei Greska – Gavitt Tipoff Games a boon for Big East, Big Ten and FS1
- Chris Torello posted a “Mini” FriarPOD last night. It’s 25 minutes long and he discusses recruiting for the remaining spots in 2014 as well as 2015. He also talks about the returning players and what he expects them to do this upcoming season.
- Former Friar Brandon Austin has reportedly been suspended from the basketball team at Oregon along with 2 other players and will leave the school after rape allegations
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