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Recruiting News

#pcbb Weekly Recruiting Update 8/15/14

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The July live evaluation periods have come and gone and a lot of recruits have cut their lists down to more manageable figures. Some recruits have even already given commitments. Providence obviously got some good news last weekend after their Elite Camp on Saturday with two verbal commitments. The first was from a member of the class of 2017 (rising sophomores) in Javon Taylor. Taylor seems to have a good basketball pedigree and isn’t done growing.

The second commitment came from a member of the class of 2015. Alex Owens gave Ed Cooley his pledge after newly minted associate head coach Bob Simon worked tirelessly as the lead recruiter with Owens. Adding Owens to Ryan Fazekas has vaulted the national class ranking for the Friars to 19th according to the 247Sports Composite Team Ranking. CoxHub had the guys at New England Recruiting Report give a writeup on Alex Owens. It’s an interesting read. Owens is playing for USA South in the Nike Global Challenge in Chicago. His team won their first game against Pan Africa in overtime on Thursday but fell in game two against China Friday morning. Game three is Friday night at 9pm against USA East.

Nike Global Challenge USA South vs Pan Africa Box Score

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Recruiting News

Recruiting News: Scout.com Releases Updated Class Of 2015 Top 100 Recruit Rankings

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Scout.com updated their class of 2015 rankings Thursday. This is the first look at how where each player’s stock is at after the July live evaluation periods. Recent PC commit Alex Owens is not among the top 100 after falling out from #96 during the previous update but (get ready for that knife in your back to be twisted) Donovan Mitchell went from unranked to #20. One other note is that 42% of the top 100 is already committed.

To see the entire top 100, click here.

PC Recruits:

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#pcbb Links of the Day 8/14/14

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General News

The Italian Trip: Keep Up With PC in Italy

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I’ll pin this post to the top of the site and keep updating it as info becomes available about the progress of the trip. The schedule of games is as follows:

  • August 14th in Milan vs. Nelson Somma ASD 3pm EDT

Recap of game 1 with boxscore from Friars.com

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/7-things-we-learned-from-providences-win-over-nelson-basket

Player FGM-A 2PM-A 3PM-A FTM-A PTS
Kris Dunn 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0
Rodney Bullock 10/15 7/11 3/4 6/8 29
Casey Woodring 2/5 1/2 1/3 1/2 6
Ted Bancroft 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0
LaDontae Henton 9/14 8/10 1/4 5/6 24
Kyron Cartwright 4/7 3/3 1/4 4/4 13
Tyler Harris 5/9 5/7 0/2 11/14 21
Junior Lomomba 10/17 6/13 4/4 8/9 32
Carson Desrosiers 2/4 2/4 0-0 0-0 4
Tom Planek 1/3 1/3 0-0 4/6 6
Totals 43/74 33/53 10/21 39/49 135
58.10% 62.30% 47.60% 79.60%
Player Reb Off Reb Def Reb
Kris Dunn 0 0 0
Rodney Bullock 4 5 9
Casey Woodring 0 1 1
Ted Bancroft 0 0 0
LaDontae Henton 1 2 3
Kyron Cartwright 0 3 3
Tyler Harris 4 4 8
Junior Lomomba 2 3 5
Carson Desrosiers 2 9 11
Tom Planek 2 1 3
Totals 15 28 43
Player AST ST TO BS
Kris Dunn 0 0 0 0
Rodney Bullock 4 4 5 2
Casey Woodring 1 2 1 0
Ted Bancroft 0 0 0 0
LaDontae Henton 2 2 1 1
Kyron Cartwright 8 4 1 0
Tyler Harris 1 2 5 0
Junior Lomomba 3 2 5 0
Carson Desrosiers 5 3 1 5
Tom Planek 0 3 2 0
Totals 24 22 21 8
Player PF FPF EFF
Kris Dunn 0 0 0
Rodney Bullock 6 5 36
Casey Woodring 2 1 5
Ted Bancroft 0 0 0
LaDontae Henton 3 2 25
Kyron Cartwright 0 4 24
Tyler Harris 1 7 20
Junior Lomomba 2 4 29
Carson Desrosiers 2 2 25
Tom Planek 1 5 6
Totals 17 30 170
    • August 18th in Rome vs. Perugia

Friars Beat Tiber Basket 79-46 in Rome

Friars.com story with boxscore

  • August 19th in Rome at 1pm EDT

http://www.friars.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/082014aaa.html

Boxscore

With Ben Bentil and Paschal Chukwu having visa/clearinghouse issues and not making the trip and Jalen Lindsey being home in Tennessee with mononucleosis, the only member of the highly touted incoming freshman class that will compete in Italy is point guard Kyron Cartwright. Cartwright figures to play heavy minutes as the staff is being extremely cautious by not playing Kris Dunn as he continues to recover from his second shoulder surgery in 13 months. Aside from basketball there are a ton of cultural and education experiences planned. A good outline of those was done by Danny James over at CoxHub. You can find that by click this link.

If you are looking for updates on Twitter, the hashtag #CiaoFriars will be used heavily by CoxHub. The standard #pcbb will still be used as well so you can keep an eye on both. One emerging one so far has also been #pcbbDoesItaly so check that one too.

From Day 1:

http://instagram.com/p/rooYcbjRAj/

https://twitter.com/ShowTime_Dunn/status/499536273884053505

CoxHub.com – Friars in Italy: Day One

CoxHub.com – Daniel James – A Friar Fan’s Guide to Milan

From Day 2:

CoxHub.com – Friars in Italy: Day Two

http://instagram.com/p/rrZ4EFjRD9/

https://twitter.com/ShowTime_Dunn/status/499946365276143617

From Day 3:

http://instagram.com/p/ru9ye2DRM8/

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/the-friars-in-italy-day-three

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/a-friar-fans-guide-to-venice

From Day 4:

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/the-friars-in-italy-day-four

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/a-friar-fans-guide-to-florence

http://www.friars.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/081714aaa.html

From Day 5:

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/the-friars-in-italy-day-five

From Day 6:

http://www.friars.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/081914aab.html

From Day 7:

http://www.coxhub.com/articles/a-friar-fans-guide-to-rome

http://www.friars.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/082014aab.html

From Day 8:

https://twitter.com/ShowTime_Dunn/status/502181046964981760

The group flew out of Newark, NJ August 12th just before 6pm EDT after practicing near the airport. CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein took in the practice and had the following to say on Twitter:

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Recruiting News

Getting to Know 2017 Simon Wright

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With the Friars getting a recent commitment from a member of the class of 2017 in Javon Taylor, let’s take a look at another member of the rising sophomore class with a Providence offer: Simon Wright.

Providence was the first school to offer 2017 Simon Wright from Minnesota. Wright plays for the Howard Pulley (Nike EYBL) team on the grassroots circuit which is the same program that Providence recruits Alex Illikainen, Amir Coffey and Jarvis Johnson all play for. While Illikainen and Johnson are somewhat recent additions to the Howard Pulley program, Wright has “known Amir since I was in kindergarten. Him and my older brother have played on the same team since Amir was in 1st grade, and he is also my high school teammate.” Coffey is a member of the class of 2016.

Being a rising sophomore, Wright played mostly with the 15U Howard Pulley team during the AAU season but he did play up with the 17U EYBL team for two tournaments including the AAU Super Showcase in Louisville during the final July live period. “I feel my [AAU] season went really well. I played my best ball in July when it counted.” Wright has grown over the last year and tells me he is now 6’6 and 190 lbs and said “I see myself playing either the 2 or 3 [in college].”

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Alumni Events

A Great Weekend with Friends of Friar Basketball

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This past weekend I attended the 2nd Annual Friends of Friar Basketball Charity Golf Outing at the Cranston Country Club. After raising over $13,000 last year at the inaugural golf outing, the 2014 version appears to have been even more successful. The final numbers are not in as of this writing, but I was told that it should be somewhere between $13,500 and $15,000. That is especially impressive when you consider that the total cost of the outing is only $125! Another big part of this year’s success was the number of former players who attended. There were players from all era’s going back to the 1970’s like Nehru King and moving to present day with the likes of Ryan Gomes and Jeff Xavier.

The night before the golf was played Ed and Nurys Cooley hosted over 100 former players and, thanks to the FOFB board members, PC supporters at their lovely home for a BBQ. I was lucky enough to get invited and it was an amazing experience. Coach Cooley was thrilled to be hosting all the former players and spoke strongly about how the Big East Championship in 2014 wouldn’t have been possible without the players who came before last year’s team. Since Day 1 as the Friars’ head coach, Cooley has been a big proponent of welcoming former players back and trying make them feel welcome and part of the current program.

That’s also the mission of the Friends of Friar Basketball organization. On their website, the 501c3 organization says “our mission is to bring together members of the Friar Basketball family, including past players, coaches and supporters, to bolster the community within the Friar family through networking, mentoring, and charitable donations.” I would say that last weekend nailed all the check boxes.

The golf outing was very well run and all the players had a great day on the course and under the tent for dinner afterwards. It was awesome to witness the camaraderie that exists among all the former Friar players across all generations. I look forward to attending the 3rd annual event in August 2015.

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