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PC Lacrosse To Play St. John’s On Fox Sports 1 At 6pm Today

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The PC Lacrosse team will take on St. John’s tonight at 6pm on Fox Sports 1. The game is the first ever college lax game to be shown on FS1 and will be the only regular season Big East game to be televised on the network. FS1 will also show the Big East Championship game on May 3rd.

The two Big East foes will faceoff on the new Ray Treacy Track Complex field. The first 200 students in attendance will get a tank top. Who doesn’t love tank tops?

PC is 3-6 so far on the season and 0-1 in conference play, falling to Rutgers on 3/15 by the score of 12-6. The Friars 3 victories have come against Vermont, Boston University and Fairfield. PC is coming off a heartbreaking defeat at home against the #12 ranked Bryant Bulldogs.

St. John’s is 5-3 on their season so far and 1-0 in the conference with their Big East win coming at home against Georgetown. The Red Storm are riding a 3 game winning streak which includes their victory over the Hoyas followed by two wins against Long Island opponents with a home win against Hofstra and a road win at Stony Brook.

 

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#pcbb Links of the Day 3/14/14

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Links of the Day

#pcbb Links of the Day 3/13/14

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Game Previews & Recaps

Game Notes & Preview: PC vs St. John’s 3/13/14 #pcbb

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Where: Madison Square Garden – New York, NY

When: 2:30PM

How: Fox Sports 1 (Justin Kutcher and Tarik Turner) /WEEI 103.7 FM (John Rooke and Joe Hassett)

Game Notes

  • The Friars and Red Storm have met 5 times all time in the Big East Tournament. PC has a 3-2 edge in the series but the two teams haven’t met in the Big East Tournament since March 6, 1996. The only other time they met in the 4 vs. 5 game, 4 seed PC took down the 5th seeded Redmen, 80-51, on March 5, 1987. I think 1987 was a pretty good year for PC.
  • Bryce Cotton leads the nation in minutes per game with 40.1. He is averaging a mind boggling 41.9 mpg in Big East contests. Cotton played a total of 754 minutes in the 18 league games this season which gives him 2,385 career Big East minutes played. That number is good for 5th all time in Big East history and 2nd all time for the Friars in the Big East behind Vincent Council’s 2,498 Big East minutes played which is good for 2nd all time in Big East history. Despite the Friars double digit defeat in Omaha on Saturday, Cotton was able to rack up a few more PC all-time records. Saturday’s game was his 126th career game as a Providence Friar. That passes Dickey Simpkins and his 125 career games for most games played all time at PC. He is now the sole owner of the single season minutes played record, passing Billy Donovan and his 1,234 career minutes played in his senior season. Additionally Cotton now owns the record for minutes played in a career, passing Donnie McGrath and his 4,128 minutes played. On the season, Cotton is 9th in the nation in points per game at 21.7, 11th in the nation in total points scored at 674, 21st in the nation in assists per game at 5.9 and 8th in the nation in Free Throws made at 198. Cotton remains in 5th place all time on the PC scoring list with 1,886 career points in a Friar uniform. He surpassed the great Marvin Barnes for 5th all time by hitting a pair of free throws early against Marquette last week.
  • Bryce Cotton is 2nd in the Big East in scoring (21.7 ppg) and D’Angelo Harrison is 3rd (17.6 ppg).
  • Bryce Cotton is 1st in the Big East in assists (5.9 apg) and Rysheed Jordan is 12th (3.1 apg).
  • Kadeem Batts is 3rd (7.7 rpg) and LaDontae Henton is 5th (7.3 rpg) in the Big East in rebounds while Jakarr Sampson is 8th (6.1 rpg).
  • Line opened at PC +5.5

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Opening Lines

#pcbb Opening Line: PC +5.5 vs St. John’s 3/13/14

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Line opened with Providence as a 5.5 point underdog which isn’t all that shocking since this is a home game for the Johnnies. Kenpom sees the final score as 71-65 in favor of St. John’s.

General News

Around the Big East Last Night #pcbb

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St. John’s lost to Xavier last night at Madison Square Garden and their tournament hopes are rapidly declining. They may regret that 0-5 conference start even more if 1 win is the difference between NCAA and NIT. It looks like they will have to make a big time run in the Big East tournament if they want to dance on the blue carpet this year. Xavier got a career night out of freshman Jalen Reynolds. If he can play like he did last night down the stretch and through the Big East tournament, Xavier is a totally different team.

DePaul snapped a 10 game losing streak by beating embattled Seton Hall in Chicago. Seton Hall is such an enigma, similar to St. John’s, in that the roster is full of talented players but they haven’t been able to put things together consistently. The Pirates have dealt with a rash of injuries and suspensions and it will be interesting to see if they come out to play on Friday night against the Friars after losing to a perennial Big East doormat. It also looked like Fuquan Edwin may have injured his thumb which could play a factor on Friday. He finished the game but never looked comfortable after the injury occurred.

Just one game in the Big East tonight as Butler will travel to Villanova.

Ed Cooley

Coach Cooley Postgame Press Conference #pcbb

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