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Bryce Cotton, Player News

Bryce Cotton Back With Austin Spurs of NBA D-League

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Bryce Cotton is back in the NBA D-League after a stint with the NBA’s Phoenix Suns. The Austin Spurs put out a release to indicate that the former Providence guard will return to the team and wear number 7. Cotton was the third NBA D-League call up of the 2015-16 season. He was with the Suns for two 10-day contracts before being waived ahead of the league’s contract guarantee deadline. Cotton was with the Suns for a total of 24 games between November 25th and January 6th. He played in 3 total games with Phoenix, averaging 11 minutes/game and 1.3 points/game.

Cotton will join Austin as the team heads to California for games on Thursday and Saturday. Ironically, the team the Spurs will face on Thursday is the Bakersfield Jam. The Jam is the affiliate team of the Phoenix Suns. Cotton’s call up just before Thanksgiving was due to the Suns’ injury issues at the guard position, but he was waived because his contract would have become fully guaranteed for the remainder of the season if he was still on the roster on January 7th.

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Kris Dunn, Player News

Kris Dunn Named Sporting News Midseason First Team All-American

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Sporting News came out with their midseason awards on Tuesday and, to no one’s surprise, Kris Dunn found himself on the publication’s First Team All-American list. Dunn was also named a midseason First Team All-American by NBCSports.com and ESPN when they released their midyear accolades last week. Dunn was joined on the first team by Buddy Hield (Oklahoma), Georges Niang (Iowa State), Ben Simmons (LSU) and Denzel Valentine (Michigan State). Hield was Sporting News’ pick for midseason Player of the Year.

Dunn is currently leading the Big East in assists and steals and is second in the league in scoring behind teammate Ben Bentil. Dunn also ranks 7th nationally in assists and 2nd nationally in steals. The accolades for Dunn appear to just be getting started. He has the chance to be the first player in school history to be named National Player of the Year when the season is all said and done. He also has the chance to join an elite group at Providence of First Team All-Americans that includes Lenny Wilkens, Jimmy Walker, Ernie DiGregorio, Marvin Barnes and other Friar legends.

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National Polls

Weekly College Basketball Polls Update: January 11th

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Week 10 of the college basketball polls have been released and Providence has taken a predictable fall in both falls after their home loss to Marquette on January 5th in their only action last week. The Friars are now 2-1 in Big East play and they’ll travel to Omaha to take on the Creighton Bluejays on Tuesday night. This is the first time Providence has been ranked in the AP Poll for 7 straight weeks since the 2003-04 season when the Friars spent the final 8 weeks ranked in the AP Top 25. The Friars moved from 8th to 12th in the AP Poll and from 9th to 12th in the USA Today Coaches’ Poll this week.

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Bracketology/RPI

Bracketology Updated by ESPN and CBS Sports 1/11/16

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ESPN and CBS Sports have released updated brackets on Monday morning and we’ll continue to track the minutae of each bracketology update so you don’t have to. Joe Lunardi’s ESPN bracket and Jerry Palm’s CBS Sports bracket are in agreement on Providence’s seed line again, after their last joint update on January 4th also had the Friars on the same seed line. To see Lunardi’s Bracket Math entering last weekends action, click here.

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Ben Bentil, Kris Dunn, Player News

Kris Dunn, Ben Bentil Named to ESPN Midseason All-American Teams

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Apparently releasing midseason awards is something that’s happening this week. NBCSports.com released their midseason awards and midseason All-American teams on Wednesday. ESPN’s turn was Thursday. Jeff Goodman put out the ESPN awards and though he didn’t choose Kris Dunn for Midseason Player of the Year like Rob Dauster of NBCSports.com did, he did keep Dunn as a First Team All-American. Goodman also has Ben Bentil jumping into the mix as a Third Team All-American.

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