- ICYMI – Kris Dunn is Blue Ribbon’s Preseason National Player of the Year
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – PC’s Kris Dunn tabbed preseason National Player of the Year by Blue Ribbon
- BustingBrackets.com – Chris Godfrey – Recruiting: Four-Star Guard Shamorie Ponds Deciding Between Three Big East Rivals
- Rivals.com – Eric Bossi – Four-Star Shamorie Ponds in decision making mode
- Scout.com – Rob Harrington – Creighton, Providence and others are tracking shooter Marquis Godwin
- AlthonSports.com – David Cox – Ranking the Big East Basketball Coaches for 2015-16
- ESPN.com – Adam Finkelstein – Best of the Northeast showcases: Chyree Walker plays way onto ACC radar
- Cox Hub – Sheila Sullivan – Friar Freshman Bryan Lemos Prepares for the NCAA Hockey Season
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Providence Recruiting Update: Class of 2017 Phones Ringing
June 15th at 12:00am marks the first time that coaches can directly contact members of the class of 2017 — rising high school juniors. Ed Cooley is in Colorado Springs for the USA Basketball U19 training camp but he and his staff still managed to work the phones and reach out to a number of prospects. The Friars have a commitment in the class of 2017 already with Javon Taylor verbally pledging to Cooley at Providence’s elite camp in August of 2014. With Taylor on the books Providence currently has 2 open scholarships for the class of 2017 that number is likely to change with the transfer epidemic that is happening around college basketball.
Let’s take a look at some of the new and notable names that heard from the Friars on June 15th.
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Fan Poll: Confidence Level in Landing 2015 Justin Robinson
With 2015 point guard recruit Justin Robinson‘s final official visit schedule for October 3rd and 4th to UNLV, I thought it would be good to get a gauge on where Friar fans stood in terms of their confidence level that Providence will ultimately get a commitment from Robinson on October 12th – his birthday. Vote in the poll and stay tuned for a post where I’ll detail the pros and cons of Robinson’s final 4 schools.
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2015 PG Justin Robinson Will Announce Commitment on October 12th
Marcus Helton of DMVElite.com was the first to report that 2015 point guard recruit Justin Robinson was down to a final 4 and would make his announcement on October 12th. The final 4 will be the 4 schools where he will have taken official visits: Maryland, Providence, UNLV and Virginia Tech. Robinson had previously been scheduled to visit Creighton this past weekend but cancelled the visit on September 22nd after Creighton got a commitment from another 2015 point guard.
The significance of the October 12th date is that is the day Robinson turns 17. This means his announcement will come nearly a full week after his final visit to UNLV finishes on October 4th. There have been rumors swirling that Robinson is essentially down to two schools: Providence and Virginia Tech. Providence has been recruiting Robinson the longest of any of the 4 remaining coaching staffs and was the first high major to offer the left handed lead guard back in February of this year. Virginia Tech was Robinson’s first official visit back over Labor Day weekend while Providence had Robinson on campus from September 19th through the 21st along with 2015 commits Ryan Fazekas and Drew Edwards.
To see Justin Robinson’s Friar Crystal Ball prediction page, click here.
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2015 PG Recruit Justin Robinson No Longer Visiting Creighton
Creighton had offered three point guards in the last month leading up to Justin Robinson’s scheduled visit to Omaha for the weekend of September 26th. One of those offers was handed out to 2015 Marlon Stewart while Stewart was on an official visit to Creighton on September 20th. On Monday he announced his commitment to the Blue Jays. There was some discussion that Creighton may view Stewart as more of a combo guard and that they may still be pushing hard for Robinson but that either isn’t the case or Robinson wasn’t buying that as Roundball Rundown Report Director & East Coast Contributing Editor for NY2LA Corey Evans reported that Robinson would no longer visit Creighton this weekend as previously scheduled.
It’s unclear if Robinson will try to add a 5th visit to his docket with UNLV currently scheduled to now be his 4th official visit on October 3rd. Before setting his five official visits Robinson had cut his list to 6 schools with Temple not making the official visit cut. So far Robinson has visited Virginia Tech, Maryland and Providence.
More details may be revealed in the coming days. Stay tuned here and on Twitter at @pcbb1917.
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#pcbb Weekly Recruiting Update 9/19/14
After the last couple of weeks being pretty quiet after the commitment of 2015 guard Drew Edwards this upcoming weekend is a big one in Friartown. Not only will Edwards be taking his official visit to Providence this weekend but he will be joined by the first player to commit to Ed Cooley in the class of 2015, Ryan Fazekas. But the most important visitor this weekend and a player that Edwards and Fazekas will try to help recruit is 2015 point guard recruit Justin Robinson. This will be Robinson’s 3rd official visit with the first two being at local schools Virginia Tech and Maryland. Robinson plans to take his other two visits after this weekend in Providence but Ed Cooley and the Friar Faithful are hoping that Robinson will give Cooley a commitment before returning home on Sunday.
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#pcbb Weekly Recruiting Update 9/12/14
The last week has been pretty quiet on the Providence recruiting front. We haven’t heard about any other players scheduling visits to PC but there have been some Friar recruits who have given their pledges elsewhere. None are earth shattering and some didn’t ever get an official offer from Ed Cooley but commitments are happening fast and furious all over college basketball. Providence currently has 2 open scholarships for the 2015 class with an eye on point guard Justin Robinson to fill one and possibly bank the other to save for a transfer or Spring addition.
Robinson is on his second of five scheduled official visits this weekend. His first visit during Labor Day weekend was to Buzz Williams and Virginia Tech while visit two is taking place at Maryland. Visits 3 through 5 are scheduled thus: Providence 9/19-9/21, Creighton 9/27-9/28 and UNLV 10/3-10/4. I think some people are discounting UNLV and Creighton because Robinson has played his recruitment fairly close to the vest.
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