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Thoughts from the Road: Friars Win Season Opener with Dunn & Bullock

This is the inaugural 2015-16 edition of “Thoughts from the Road” and even though I’m getting this done a little later than I wanted I’m just glad to be talking about actual basketball games again.

  • Kris Dunn is really good.

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Game Notes & Preview: Providence (0-0) vs. Harvard (0-0) 11/14/15

Where: Dunkin’ Donuts Center – Providence, RI

When: 7:00PM

How: Fox Sports Networks (Don Orsillo & Tarik Turner)/WEEI 103.7 FM and Friars.com (John Rooke and Joe Hassett)/FriarTV

Game Notes

  • Providence is 77-11 all time in regular season opening games, including an 80-8 record in home openers.
  • Providence is 5-0 all time against Harvard with the first game being played on January 20, 1932. The Friars are 2-0 against the Crimson at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center with the wins coming in back-to-back seasons (2006 and 2007).
  • Providence is 128-49 all time against teams from the Ivy League
  • Providence defeated Harvard, 93-70, in their last game on November 24, 2007.
  • Providence begins their 89th season of basketball

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Preseason Bracketology All the Rage This Week

After 7 months of “way too early” preseason projections it’s now pretty timely to be making preseason projections — if for no other reason than the preseason ends tonight. This week has seen lots of different publications come out with their preseason bracketology — something that people might argue is still way too early — and there has been a bit of a dichotomy about where Providence stands in regards to the NCAA Tournament following the 2015-16 season. It appears that dichotomy stands between the human based projections and those generated by data and computer programs.

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