Until Tuesday night’s blowout loss at Villanova, Carson Desrosiers had started every single Providence College basketball game this season, his final in a Friar uniform. The 5th year senior 7-footer missed that Villanova loss due a knee injury suffered during Providence’s blowout win at DePaul on February 18th. At the time the injury didn’t look all that serious as Desrosiers ended up returning to action later in that same game.

Four days later – and two days prior to the Villanova game – would be the first inkling of an issue when Kevin McNamara of the Providence Journal reported on his Twitter account that Desrosiers knee was bothering him and his “status for [the] Villanova game [is] unclear.” Desrosiers missed the game, Providence got smoked on Villanova’s Senior Night and the latest news from Ed Cooley is that Desrosiers still hasn’t returned to practice as of Thursday. That news was first reported by Brendan McGair of the Woonsocket Call.

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