Ben Bentil was named Big East Player of the Week for the second time this season following a week in which he averaged 25.5 points/game, 10.0 rebounds/game and led the Friars to a 2-0 record. The first win of the week came at home against Butler — a top 20 team at the time — and win two of last week was Providence’s thrilling overtime upset of the top 5 Villanova Wildcats. Bentil scored a game-high 31 points in that victory and grabbed 13 rebounds. Bentil leads the league in scoring (19.8 points/game) and is 5th in rebounding (8.2 rebounds/game). Continue reading Ben Bentil Named Big East Player of the Week for Second Time
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Kris Dunn Named to Big East Weekly Honor Roll
Kris Dunn was named to the Big East Weekly Honor Roll after hitting the game-winner at the buzzer at Creighton on Tuesday night. Dunn averaged 18.0 points/game and 6.5 rebounds/game in two games last week. Being named to the weekly honor roll is no solace for Dunn or Providence after the Friars dropped a home game against Seton Hall on Saturday. Dunn fouled out in that Seton Hall game with a little more than 3 minutes left as Providence was attempting to mount a comeback against the Pirates.
The rest of the Big East weekly awards are as follows:
Big East Player of the Week: Trevon Bluiett (Xavier)
Big East Freshman of the Week: Edmond Sumner (Xaver)
Big East Honor Roll: Isaiah Zierden (Creighton), D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera (Georgetown), Kris Dunn (Providence), Isaiah Whitehead (Seton Hall) and Ryan Arcidiacono (Villanova).
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Kris Dunn Named Big East Player of the Week for Third Time
The Big East Player of the Week honor is staying in Friartown as Kris Dunn was named POW a week after Ben Bentil was given the same weekly award. This is Dunn’s third time being named the Big East’s Player of the Week after the Providence junior was named the award winner in week’s 1 and 3 of the season. Dunn was also the league’s preseason Player of the Year. Dunn averaged 23 points/game, 8 rebounds/game, 7.5 assists/game and 2.5 steals/game in Providence’s 2-0 start in Big East play.
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Ben Bentil Named Big East Player of the Week
Ben Bentil has been on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll twice this season, but he has now moved up the list and was named Big East Player of the Week on Monday. Bentil had a career-high 32 points in Providence’s lone game last week at UMass. The Providence sophomore also had 12 rebounds, marking his 3rd double-double of the season. Bentil is currently leading the league in scoring (18.8 points/game) and is 6th in rebounding (8.0 rebounds/game). He is having a breakout season alongside Kris Dunn and is arguably as big a reason for Providence’s 12-1 start and top 10 national ranking as Dunn at this point in the season. Bentil winning this award snaps a 3 week streak of Butler players taking home the weekly honor.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 12/22/15
- ICYMI – Friars Win: UMass 66, (10) Providence 90
- ICYMI – Weekly College Basketball Polls Update: December 21st
- ICYMI – Ben Bentil Named to Big East Weekly Honor Roll for Second Time
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – PC 90, UMass 66: Friars hit Top-10, then blow out Minutemen
- Friarbasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Friars, Bentil Make Statement at UMass
- Cox Hub – Kris Dunn Returns in Friars’ Dismantling of UMass
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – PC Journal: Friars continue their rise through rankings
- Cox Hub – Friars Look the Part of Top 10 Team in Win Over UMass
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – PC’s Ed Cooley: ‘I love this team’
- Woonsocket Call – Brendan McGair – No. 10 Friars power past UMass
- Ed Cooley’s post-game press conference with Junior Lomomba, courtesy of Brendan McGair:
- Friarbasketball.com – Craig Leighton – Here and There in Friartown
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Ben Bentil Named to Big East Weekly Honor Roll for Second Time
Ben Bentil has landed on the Big East’s Weekly Honor Roll of players that had good weeks, but not good enough to be the Player of the Week. That honor goes to a Butler Bulldog for the third straight week with Roosevelt Jones being named this week’s Big East Player of the Week after his 19 point and 11 rebound effort against then 9th ranked Purdue helped Butler to the win.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 12/8/15
- ICYMI – Thoughts from the Road: All-Time Classic Game for Friars and Rams
- ICYMI – Weekly College Basketball Polls Update: December 7th
- ICYMI – Ben Bentil Named to Big East Weekly Honor Roll
- ICYMI – Providence College Announces Partnership with City’s Recreation Department for Junior Friars Program
- ICYMI – Providence’s Game Against Boston College In Jeopardy Because of Chipotle?
- BigEastCoastBias.com – Christopher Novak – Ben Bentil wins the Big East Coast Bias Player of the Week award
- Washington Post – Matthew Giles – Five budding college hoops stars that can carry their teams to March Madness glory
- CBSSports.com – Jon Rothstein – Observations: Bobby Hurley has Arizona State on right track
- Forbes.com – Jason Belzer – The Most Powerful People In College Sports
- Video of Ed Cooley from Monday’s media availability, courtesy of Brendan McGair:
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