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

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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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Game Notes & Preview: Providence vs. Stonehill (Exhibition) 10/31/15

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Where: Dunkin’ Donuts Center – Providence, RI

When: 2:00PM

How: Audio Only on Friars.com (John Rooke and Joe Hassett)

Game Notes

  • Providence is 67-39 all time in exhibition games including 18 straight wins at home. Their last exhibition game loss was in 2007 against Siviglia Wear Teramo while the team was in Italy.
  • Stonehill was 19-10 last season including a 14-7 record within Northeast-10 conference play. They return 4 of their 5 top scorers from a season ago, including starers Ryan Logan (13.7 ppg) and Carter Smith (13.4 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 prior to last season’s exhibition game was in 2010 while he was the head coach at Fairfield. The Skyhawks beat Cooley’s Stags squad 61-60.
  • Providence defeated Stonehill last season, 93-49, in exhibition action on November 8, 2014.
  • Stonehill’s first official game of the season will be played on November 13th against Post University as part of the Stonehill Tip-Off Classic.
  • Providence begins their 89th season of basketball against Harvard at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on November 14th. Click here for Providence’s full 2015-16 schedule.

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General News

Kris Dunn Named to 2016 Bob Cousy Award Watch List

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The preseason honors and attention hasn’t slowed down for Providence’s Kris Dunn. After being named the #1 player in college basketball in 2015-16 by CBS Sports on Monday, Dunn was named to the preseason watch list for the 2016 Bob Cousy Award — given to top point guard in college basketball each season. Dunn joins 19 other players on the preseason watch list. He was also on the in-season watch list last season announced on February 20th, along with 16 other players. Utah’s Delon Wright won the award in 2015. No Providence player has ever won the award that was established in 2003 with Jameer Nelson of St. Joseph’s winning the inaugural award.

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Kris Dunn Named to Big East All-Tournament Team

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Despite a disappointing last-second loss to Villanova in the semi finals of the Big East Tournament Kris Dunn put on a show this week at Madison Square Garden. Dunn averaged 19.5 points, 10.0 assists, 5.5 rebounds and 2.0 steals in Providence’s two Big East Tournament games this week. That performance was good enough to land Dunn on the All-Tournament team.

Joining Dunn on the All-Tournament Team are Darrun Hilliard (Villanova), Dylan Ennis (Villanova), Jalen Reynolds (Xavier) and D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera (Georgetown). Villanova’s Josh Hart was awarded the Dave Gavitt Trophy as the Big East Tournament’s Most Outstanding Player.

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Providence’s Dunn, Villanova’s Arcidiacono Share Big East Player of the Year Award

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Ed Cooley has stated from day one in Providence that Friartown is a family. Well apparently there’s plenty of sharing that happens in the Friartown family as Kris Dunn was named the Big East’s Co-Defensive Player of the Year on Monday by the league’s coaches and on Wednesday the Big East announced that Dunn would share the Big East Player of the Year Award with Villanova’s Ryan Arcidiacono.

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