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Providence Recruiting Update: National Prep Invitational at Rhode Island College

The National Prep Invitational will be played at nearby Rhode Island College starting on Thursday with games running through Sunday afternoon. The Providence coaching staff is expected to spend plenty of time taking in the action at RIC over the next few days. There are more than 15 recruits that Providence is involved with from the classes of 2016, 2017 and 2018 that are expected to play in this event. Cox Hub will be streaming 9 games from the NPSI between Thursday and Saturday. The games that will be streamed can be found at this link and they are in bold with an asterisk below.

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Providence Recruits Playing in Hoop Dreams Magazine Prep Classic

Providence coaches have had a number of good local opportunities to check in on some of their New England area prep recruits and another one presents itself this weekend at Bunker Hill Community College. Fourteen schools will play nine total games from noon on Saturday to 4:30pm Sunday and a handful of Friar recruits are playing in those games.

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Providence Recruiting Update: National Prep Showcase Will Attract Friar Staff

The annual National Prep Showcase will be in New Haven, CT this weekend beginning with a 10:30am tip between Notre Dame Prep and Fork Union Military Academy. The Providence staff will take the trip down 95 South — watch out for night construction! — to attend the event hosted by the New England Recruiting Report. Of particular interest to Ed Cooley and his staff is a big man from a different military academy.

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Providence Recruiting Update: Big Man Search Going South

When I last posted a recruiting update 7 days ago it was on the heels of Providence hosting their annual Late Night Madness festivities. The Friars had top big man target Sedee Keita in town for his official visit that weekend  and made their big push to get the Delaware native to commit before leaving campus. That big push didn’t yield a commitment and soon after Keita left Friartown a bevy of new names emerged with Providence interest or offers. The spigot of new names is still open. Adam Finkelstein reported on Tuesday that Keita has transferred back down to 22ft Academy — the South Carolina school he attended last year prior to coming back to New England at Putnam Science Academy.

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Providence Recruiting Update: Late Night Madness is Here

Brisk mid-October temperatures are heading for the Northeast this weekend but the temperature inside Alumni Hall on Providence College’s campus figures to be red-hot. Senior Associate Athletic Director Steve Napolillo and Ed Cooley have managed to keep the bar high for Providence’s Late Night Madness festivities that will kick off at 8pm on Saturday with the introduction of the men’s and women’s basketball teams by broadcasting legend Bill Raftery. Doors open at 6pm for those students with season tickets and all other students can enter at 6:45pm. The event is open only to Providence College students. Ludacris will perform around 9pm. Cox Hub will have free live streaming of Late Night Madness from 8pm-9pm.

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