How: Audio Only on Friars.com (John Rooke and Joe Hassett)
Game Notes
Providence is 66-39 all time in exhibition games including 17 straight wins at home. Their last exhibition game loss was in 2007 against Siviglia Wear Teramo while the team was in Italy.
Stonehill was 8-18 last season including a 5-16 record within Northeast-10 conference play. They only lost 1 player from last year’s team (Mitch Amelio) and return their top 2 scorers from a season ago: Ryan Logan (11.6 ppg) and Carter Smith (11.0 ppg).
Friar coach Ed Cooley is an alumnus of Stonehill from the class of 1994. He was a 3-time team captain for the Skyhawks. Cooley played in 107 career games while at Stonehill amassing 795 points and 594 rebounds good for averages of 7.4 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game for his career. He also was an assistant coach at Stonehill for the 1995-96 season under then-coach Dave DeCiantis.
The last time Cooley coached against his alma mater was in 2010 while he was the head coach at Fairfield. The Skyhawks beat Cooley’s Stags squad 61-60.
The last time Providence played Stonehill was in 2009. The Friars took that one 91-55.
Stonehill’s first official game of the season will be played on November 15th against Dominican College as part of the Assumption College Tip-Off Classic.
Providence will host a champions night for their first official game of the season against Albany at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on November 15th. Included in the festivities will be raising the 2014 Big East Tournament Championship banner to the rafters at the Dunk.
If you check out the top menu on this page you will see a tab called “FriarTV”. Within that tab you will see videos broken down by non conference and Big East games but there is also a page called “Non Game Videos”. This page houses videos ranging from the Cox Sports documentary, “Cooley” to recruiting videos. Yesterday, Providence College Athletics YouTube account uploaded two new videos and the links have been posted on this page. The first video is the intro video played at the Dunk on Senior Night when the basketball team took on Marquette. The second video is the intro video played at Scheider Arena prior to a PC hockey game.
The Providence Journal’s Kevin McNamara is reporting that the Dunkin’ Donuts Center has reached out to URI to let them know that they are interested in bidding for the A10 Conference Tournament that has now been displaced from the Barclays Center in 2017 and 2018 due to a deal with the ACC. The Dunk was a host of first and second round NCAA Tournament games in 2010 and they are reportedly trying to get first and second round NCAA Tournament games back. I think if they end up getting a crack at the A10 tournament, it will go a long way in getting the NCAA to consider them again to host first and second round games.
Providence has increased their hotel situations over the last few years and there is no shortage of great dining to be had (just ask Jon Rothstein). From my view, there is no reason the A10 or NCAA should overlook the Dunk. I know PC fans would love to have the NCAA tournament back at the Dunk and they might even stop in to watch some A10 tourney action for the right matchup.
The Friars and Wildcats have met 90 times all time. PC is 37-53 in those 90 meetings.
The first ever meeting was on February 15, 1926
Bryce Cotton leads the nation in minutes per game with 39.5. He is averaging 41.5 mpg in Big East play and has played every second of the last 10 games except for about the last 40 seconds on Saturday against DePaul. The last time he came out of a game before Saturday was against Villanova on 1/5/14, a game in which he played 38 minutes.
Bryce Cotton is 2nd in the Big East in scoring (21.2 ppg) and James Bell is 9th (16.1 ppg)
Bryce Cotton is 1st in the Big East in assists (5.8 apg) and Ryan Arcidiacono is 10th (3.7 apg)
Kadeem Batts is 4th (7.7 rpg) and LaDontae Henton is 5th (7.2 rpg) in the Big East in rebounds while James Bell is 10th (5.9 rpg)
The Friars and Blue Demons have met 11 times since DePaul joined the Big East with PC owning an 8-3 record
DePaul has won their last 2 times at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center
Bryce Cotton leads the nation in minutes per game with 39.5. He is averaging 41.5 mpg in Big East play and has played every second of the last 10 games. The last time he came out was against Villanova on 1/5/14, a game in which he played 38 minutes.
Bryce Cotton is 2nd in the Big East in scoring (21.2 ppg) and Brandon Young is 10th (15.0 ppg)
Bryce Cotton is 1st in the Big East in assists (5.8 apg) and Brandon Young is 8th (3.8 apg)
Kadeem Batts is 4th (7.6 rpg) and LaDontae Henton is 5th (7.2 rpg) in the Big East in rebounds while Tommy Hamilton is 16th (5.3 rpg)
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