Where: Prudential Center – Newark, NJ
When: 7:00pm EST
How: FS1 (Tim Brando & Jim Sparnarkel)/WEEI 103.7 FM and Friars.com (John Rooke and Joe Hassett)/FriarTV
Continue reading Game Notes & Preview: Providence (19-8, 7-7) at Seton Hall (19-7, 9-5) 2/25/16
Providence travels to Newark to take on the Seton Hall Pirates on Thursday, February 25th. The Friars are looking to avoid being swept by Seton Hall after the Pirates won at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on January 16th. The Friars are 13-13 ATS this season and the Pirates are 17-8 ATS this season. Providence opened as a 5.5 point underdog against Seton Hall.
Opening Line |
Providence +5.5 |
Opening O/U |
142.5 |
Opening Moneyline |
Prov +155/SHU -175 |
UPDATE 2/25/16, 10:15am: The line has moved to Providence +3.5 or +4 at most books. The total came out at 142.5 and the moneyline opened as Providence +155/Seton Hall -175.
Stay tuned for updates as the line moves.
Follow me on Twitter @pcbb1917
Six of the ten teams in the Big East have four games left. The remaining four teams have three games left. The bottomline is that the regular season comes to a conclusion on March 5th with all ten teams in action and the likelihood is that many of the Big East members will still be jockeying for final seeding position for the Big East Tournament that begins on March 9th at Madison Square Garden. I’ll be doing this “Seed Watch” post regularly over the next eleven days and there will be more detail about tiebreakers and scenarios as the season gets closer to a conclusion. For now, I’ll give you the Big East Tournament bracket as it would be today and what a win for certain teams this week means for the seeding outlook.
Continue reading Big East Tournament Seed Watch 2/23/16
Week 16 of the college basketball polls have been released and Providence has dropped out of the AP Top 25, while remaining in the USA Today Coaches’ Top 25 after an 0-1 week that included a road loss at Xavier. The Friars are now 7-7 in Big East play and will travel to New Jersey for a Thursday night game against Seton Hall before returning home to take on DePaul at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on Saturday. This breaks a 12 week streak of Providence being ranked in the Top 25 of the AP Poll, the longest such streak since the 1977-78 Friars were ranked for 13 consecutive weeks in the AP Poll. The Friars moved from 23rd to 27th in the AP Poll and from 20th to 24th in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll this week.
Continue reading Weekly College Basketball Polls Update: February 22nd
pcbb1917.com - Providence College Basketball 