- Cox Sports – Daniel James – Friar Season Finale at Creighton Marks Endings and Beginnings
- FriarBasketball.com – Craig Leighton – Creighton 88 Providence 73
- Attleboro Sun Chronicle – Friars back on the bubble with loss
- Projo – Jim Donaldson – If Friars want to dance, they HAVE to beat St. John’s
- Projo – Kevin McNamara – Big East tourney carries a lot of weight this year
- GoLocal Prov – John Rooke – Friars crunched by Creighton, McDermott 88-73
- Friars.com – Bryce Cotton Named First Team All-BIG EAST, Kadeem Batts Named Second Team
- Arizona Daily Star – Former Palo Verde star Cotton on list of elite Tusconans
- Bleacher Report – Ranking the Best College Basketball Careers Among Current Seniors
- Projo – Jim Donaldson – It’s time to stop this kind of madness
Tag Archives: Bryce Cotton
All-Big East Teams Announced
ALL-BIG EAST FIRST TEAM
*Doug McDermott, Creighton, F, Sr., 6-8, 225, Ames, Iowa
Markel Starks, Georgetown, G, Sr., 6-2, 175, Accokeek, Md.
*Bryce Cotton, Providence, G, Sr., 6-1, 165, Tucson, Ariz.
D’Angelo Harrison, St. John’s, G, Jr., 6-4, 204, Missouri City, Texas
James Bell, Villanova, G, Sr., 6-6, 220, Orlando, Fla.
*Semaj Christon, Xavier, G, So., 6-3, 190, Cincinnati, Ohio
ALL-BIG EAST SECOND TEAM^
Kellen Dunham, Butler, G, So., 6-6, 185, Pendleton, Ind.
D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera, Georgetown, G, So., 6-3, 218, Indianapolis, Ind.
Davante Gardner, Marquette, F, Sr., 6-8, 290, Suffolk, Va.
Kadeem Batts, Providence, F, Sr., 6-9, 245, Boston, Mass.
Fuquan Edwin, Seton Hall, F/G, Sr., 6-6, 215, Paterson, N.J.
JayVaughn Pinkston, Villanova, F, Jr., 6-7, 240, Brooklyn, N.Y.
BIG EAST HONORABLE MENTION
Ethan Wragge, Creighton, F, Sr., 6-7, 225, Eden Prairie, Minn.
Ryan Arcidiacono, Villanova, G, So., 6-3, 195, Langhorne, Pa.
Darrun Hilliard, Villanova, G, Jr., 6-6, 215, Bethlehem, Pa.
Matt Stainbrook, Xavier, C, Jr., 6-10, 263, Bay Village, Ohio
BIG EAST ALL-ROOKIE TEAM^
Andrew Chrabascz, Butler, F, Fr., 6-7, 225, Portsmouth, R.I.
Billy Garrett, Jr., DePaul, G, Fr., 6-5, 194, Chicago, Ill.
Tommy Hamilton IV, DePaul, F, Fr., 6-10, 284, Chicago, Ill.
Deonte Burton, Marquette, F, Fr., 6-4, 230, Milwaukee, Wis.
Rysheed Jordan, St. John’s G, Fr., 6-4, 185, Philadelphia, Pa.
Jaren Sina, Seton Hall, G, Fr., 6-2, 180, Lake Hopatcong, N.J.
Josh Hart, Villanova, G, Fr., 6-5, 202, Silver Springs, Md.
*Denotes unanimous selection.
^Due to a tie in the voting, an additional position was named.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 3/8/14
- #pcbb Game Notes & Preview – PC @ Creighton 3/8/14
- SI.com – Brian Hamilton – Bryce Cotton not taking breathers in quest to get Providence back to NCAA tournament
- Woonsocket Call – Brendan McGair – Fit as a Fiddle: PC’s training staff deserves props for keeping shorthanded Friars healthy
- Projo – Bill Reynolds – Ed Cooley’s a class act, on and off the court
- GoLocal Prov – John Rooke: Thinking Out Loud
- The Sun Chronicle – Peter Gobis – PC’s Cooley making a case for Coach of the Year
- CBS Sports – Providence at Creighton Preview
- Cox Sports – Cooley and Cotton Preview Finale at Creighton
- CBS Sports – Jerry Palm – Bracketology: Looking ahead and who bubble teams should root for
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Game Notes & Preview: PC at Creighton 3/8/14 #pcbb
Where: CenturyLink Center – Omaha, NE
When: 8:00pm
How: CBS Sports Network (Brent Stover and Pete Gillen) /WEEI 103.7 FM (John Rooke and Joe Hassett)
Game Notes
- The Friars and Blue Jays have met 11 times all time. PC has a 7-4 edge in the series but before this season, the two teams hadn’t played since November 25, 2000.
- Bryce Cotton leads the nation in minutes per game with 40.2. He is averaging a mind boggling 42.2 mpg in Big East contests. Anything less than overtime games is now “hurting” his average. Cotton needs 28 minutes tomorrow to break Billy Donovan’s single season record of minutes played (which Cotton already tied once, 1,234 minutes) and only 6 minutes to break the career record for minutes played of 4,128 held by Donnie McGrath. He also has a really good shot at the single season record for minutes played/game held by Jimmy Walker (39.7 mpg during 1966-1967 season). He is 10th in the nation in points per game at 21.7, 11th in the nation in total points scored at 651, T-17th in the nation in assists per game at 5.9 and T-7th in the nation in Free Throws made at 192. Cotton is now in 5th place all time on the PC scoring list with 1,863 career points in a Friar uniform. He surpassed the great Marvin Barnes for 5th all time by hitting a pair of free throws early against Marquette on Tuesday. He also is playing in his 126th game tomorrow which will break Dickey Simpkins record of 125 career games played as a Providence Friar. There are more records he is close to or may break but there just isn’t enough time in the day to list them all here.
- Bryce Cotton is 2nd in the Big East in scoring (21.7 ppg) and Doug McDermott is 1st (25.9 ppg).
- Bryce Cotton is 1st in the Big East in assists (5.9 apg) and Austin Chapman is 3rd (4.3 apg).
- Kadeem Batts is 4th (7.6 rpg) and LaDontae Henton is 5th (7.3 rpg) in the Big East in rebounds while Doug McDermott is 6th (7.2 rpg).
Continue reading Game Notes & Preview: PC at Creighton 3/8/14 #pcbb
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#pcbb Links of the Day 3/7/14
- CollegeBasketballTalk.NBCSports.com – Terrence Payne – Bryce Cotton, Providence’s marathon man, looking to lead the Friars on a run to the NCAA tournament
- Cox Sports – “The Friars are Back!”
- CoachBobWalsh.com – Set Your Defense
- PlaceToBeNation.com – Welcome to Friartown, Section 103: Providence vs. Marquette – 3/4/14, A Video Essay
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Thoughts About Last Night #pcbb
What can you say about the 2013-2014 Providence College basketball team? In September if you told people this team would be the team to win 20 games for the first time in 10 years, people probably would have thought that was reasonable. On December 11th, people would have told you 20 wins was a pipe dream. That was the day it was announced that Kris Dunn would need a second surgery and his season would be cut short again by a freak accident in the RIC exhibition game. The Friars’ record on that day was 8-2 but it might as well have been 2-8. Spirits were down. Expectations were adjusted. But then something started happening. The Friars went down to Queens after an overtime loss at UMass followed by a double overtime loss at home against Seton Hall then a road drubbing by Villanova by 30 and they fought. They fought and clawed their way to a double overtime road win. Those are the kinds of games PC fans are used to losing. But Bryce Cotton is on a mission. It’s clear now. He wants to be on that Blue Carpet in a couple weeks. That win at St. John’s began a 5 game winning streak, the kind of streak that hadn’t happened in, you guessed it, 10 years.
20 wins is an impressive accomplishment by this group. They have the smallest bench in the country and Cotton is now averaging 40.2 minutes per game, leading the world as Coach Cooley likes to say. They lost 3 players before the season even really began, including 2 who would have been key contributors in Dunn and Brandon Austin. And yet, here they are. 20 wins and knocking on the door of the NCAA tournament for the first time since Ryan Gomes’ junior season.
Cotton passed Marvin Barnes for 5th all time on PC’s scoring list by hitting a pair of free throws early. He has already cemented himself as one of the greatest Friars of all time. His jersey will hang in the rafters at the Dunk one day and his name will don the PC Hall of Fame in the near future. Whatever happens on Saturday in Omaha or next week at MSG, this has been my favorite season as a Friar fan. I’m so glad I was able to be there last night to see Cotton, Batts, Bancroft, Goldsbrough and Kofane on their Senior Night. This is a special group and I just hope the rest of the country gets to see how special they truly are by dancing on that Blue Carpet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVMtt_atixw&sns=em
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Calling All Students: Get to the Dunk for Senior Night: T-shirts Given Out To First 1000 Students at Tonight’s Game
PC Athletics announced on Twitter that the first 1000 students at the Marquette game tonight would receive either a Cotton or Batts shirt for Senior Night. This is a nice touch by PC and I really hope the students show up in force, not just for Cotton and Batts, but for all the great Seniors on this team.
For those interested in seeing the design of these shirts, here are the images courtesy of the designer, Bryan Molloy Design:
pcbb1917.com - Providence College Basketball 