- The list of 2015 College Basketball Free Agents (immediately eligible transfers) continues to grow. Check out my list here.
- DraftExpress.com – Jonathan Givony – Kris Dunn NBA Draft Scouting Report and Video Breakdown
- Cox Hub – New England Recruiting Report – Should Kris Dunn Go Pro?
- WEEI.com – John Rooke – Thinking Out Loud: Providence Not Tough Enough for NCAA Tournament Success
- Zagsblog.com – Adam Zagoria – St. John’s Parts Ways With Steve Lavin
- Herald Argus – Aaron McKrell – Blazers prepare for title game with quiet practice
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#pcbb Links of the Day 1/14/15
- ICYMI – Providence Basketball All Business for St. John’s
- ICYMI – How Providence Can Boost Their RPI Today 1/13/15
- ICYMI – Ed Cooley to be Assistant on Billy Donovan’s Staff of USA U19 Team
- ICYMI – Opening Line: Providence -2.5 vs St. John’s 1/14/15
- ICYMI – Providence Expected to Watch 2016 Guard Trent Forrest
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – PC’s size has been a big factor in early season success
- NY Post – Howie Kussoy – St. John’s finds itself in a familiar, unfortunate hole
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – Preview Capsule: St. John’s at Providence
- Friars.com – Men’s Basketball – Kris Dunn Named ECAC Division I New England Player of the Week
- Arthur ’63 & Patricia Ryan made a historic gift of $5 million towards the construction of the Providence College School of Business‘ new facility which will now be named the Arthur & Patricia Ryan Center for Business Studies.
http://nypost.com/2015/01/13/st-johns-finds-itself-in-a-familiar-unfortunate-hole/
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#pcbb Links of the Day 10/30/14
- Providence Journal – Bill Reynolds – PC’s Kris Dunn ready to put the pain behind him
- FriarBasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Discounted Tickets to PC vs. Miami
- CBS Sports – Jon Rothstein – 2014-15 College basketball preview: 20 under-the-radar freshmen
- White & Blue Review – Tom Nemitz – 2014-15 Creighton Men’s Basketball Opponent Preview: Providence
- South Orange Juice – Chris McManus – 2014-15 Seton Hall Basketball Preview Series: Providence Friars
- Scout Friars – UltimateCranston – The Roles of Harris and Desrosiers ($)
- Syracuse.com – Patrick Stevens – Preseason bracketology: Projected No. 12 seeds for the 2015 NCAA tournament
- Big East Coast Bias – Robert O’Neill – St. John’s F Keith Thomas ruled academically ineligible for 2014-2015 season
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Providence Big East Schedule Review: Part II
This is Part 2 of a 3 part series giving my impressions of Providence’s Big East schedule in 6 game blocks. This second block looks at games 7-12 from 1/22/15 through 2/11/15. My evaluation of each 6 game block will take into account a few factors: road trips/travel, potential fan attendance/games over school breaks, opponent’s schedule around time of PC game and other factors.
Game 7: vs. Xavier
- Where: Dunkin’ Donuts Center – Providence, RI
- When: 1/22/15 7:00pm
- How: Fox Sports 1/WEEI 103.7 FM
- Last season’s final RPI: 47
- Last season’s final Kenpom rating: 59
This will be the first home game for the Friars where the students are back from break. Hopefully that means the student section will be full and rocking. What else is there to do on a Thursday night in January? Xavier loses Semaj Christon to the NBA and Justin Martin to transfer but they have an impressive recruiting class coming in including incoming freshman Larry Austin who had Providence as one of his final schools before selecting the Musketeers the weekend he was scheduled to visit Friartown. For Xavier, this game comes in the middle of arguably the toughest stretch of their conference schedule as they will be coming off games at Butler and Villanova with Marquette at home between this game in Providence and that game in Philadelphia. Xavier struggled on the road in the inaugural season in the Big East with a 2-6 record. The Musketeers play on the road in 3 of the 6 games leading to their trip to Providence.
Xavier will likely be somewhere in the 3rd-6th range along with Providence in terms of conference standings by the time March 8th rolls around so this game could make a big difference to both teams in the final league standings. Providence is coming off a trip to Omaha and should be at least 4-2 in league play entering this matchup. Xavier may end up being 4-2 as well based on how their first 6 games look right now. This game is the beginning of a pretty tough 6 game block which will include a trip to Cincinnati for the rematch on February 7th.
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Providence Big East Schedule Review: Part I
This is Part 1 of a 3 part series giving my impressions of Providence’s Big East schedule in 6 game blocks. This first block looks at games 1-6 from 12/31/14 through 1/17/15. My evaluation of each 6 game block will take into account a few factors: road trips/travel, potential fan attendance/games over school breaks, opponent’s schedule around time of PC game and other factors.
Game 1: vs. Creighton
- Where: Dunkin’ Donuts Center – Providence, RI
- When: 12/31/14 7:30pm
- How: Fox Sports 1/WEEI 103.7 FM
- Last season’s final RPI: 10
- Last season’s final Kenpom rating: 24
This is a cool move by the Big East/Fox to have a primetime rematch of the Big East Tournament Championship game from last March. Some of the key players that made last year’s final game so exciting have graduated, namely Doug McDermott and Bryce Cotton. Having said that, this should be a solid conference opener for the Friars. Creighton is in rebuilding mode as they lost more than just Dougie McBuckets from last season’s team that finished 2nd in both the regular season (behind Villanova) and the Big East Tournament. The Friars will have 9 days between their last non conference game against Miami (FL) on December 22nd at the Barclays Center and this first Big East contest on December 31st. I’m sure there will be time spent with family for Christmas but there is also going to be plenty of time for Ed Cooley and his staff to scout and install a Creighton-specific gameplan. The Bluejays still have some talented players on the roster but they are going to be somewhat young and inexperienced overall and this is a game Providence should be favored in and I would expect them to win. The crowd will be interesting to see as it’s a bit of a late start on New Year’s Eve but I would expect the building to be loud either way because people will probably start the partying early that day.
Providence will get Creighton twice during this first 6 game block with game two coming at the always full CenturyLink Center in Omaha.
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#pcbb On: Providence’s Out of Conference Schedule for 2014-2015
It’s officially the offseason now. March Madness has come and gone. Connecticut is the national champion.
The focus for fans now turns heavily to recruiting, discussing potential starters/lineups for their team next season, how many minutes and points per game and rebounds per game, etc. a kid they have never seen play before will have and, finally, who they will be playing out of conference (OOC). For Providence, recruiting means filling out their remaining 2 spots for the 2014 class with a focus on 5th year transfers and junior college players who can contribute immediately next season. Potential starters/lineups likely can’t be determined for the Friars until they have another guard in hand for 2014 and at some point in the coming weeks, I’ll enter the fray on that discussion with my own thoughts on that topic. For now though, my focus is on the OOC schedule that PC has lined up for next season.
As I mentioned in my piece reviewing the Big East’s first season with the current configuration, one of the big keys for maintaining the strength of this updated version of the Big East is for teams to play a strong OOC schedule. The reality is that most years won’t provide the opportunity to play a top 25 ranked opponent every week like the prior version of this conference did many years. My guess is that most years there will be about 2-3 teams in the top 25 with the potential for a great year having 50% of the league ranked. The 2013-2014 season saw the Big East have an OOC strength of schedule ranked 7th in the country. They likely need to be top 5 every year in that category. Things are off to a solid start with Creighton reportedly having agreed to a home and home series with Oklahoma beginning in Omaha next season. Also, it was reported over the weekend that St. John’s and Duke will restart their series on January 31, 2015 at Madison Square Garden after a two year hiatus. The Johnnies also will head to the Carrier Dome this season to take on former conference rival Syracuse in December 2014.
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First Season In the Books: How Did The Big East Do?
Rewind to Big East media day, October 16, 2013. Val Ackerman, the Big East’s new commissioner said the following to the media: “There’s no doubt the eyes of the basketball world and the eyes of others in college sports are definitely on the Big East.”
How true those words would be. And not surprisingly, the “eyes of the basketball world” were quick to be negative. Without the backing of ESPN, the Big East was constantly knocked and, even when good things happened, not given its full due. It was not an ideal first season for this new basketball-centric league. Marquette and Georgetown were picked 1 and 2 in the Big East Preseason Coaches’ Poll. Many thought that it was crucial for Marquette, a team that has had a good run of success since joining the conference in 2005, and especially Georgetown, a school that was a big part of the original Big East’s foundation, to be successful both in the conference and nationally. Injuries and lack of on court chemistry seemed to do in both the Golden Eagles and Hoyas as the teams would finish 6th and 7th after 18 regular season games. Only two teams were ranked heading into the Big East Tournament and there was a concern that those two teams might even be the only schools to make the NCAA Tournament.
You Only Get One First Impression
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