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.
How: Audio Only on Friars.com (John Rooke and Joe Hassett)
Game Notes
Providence is 66-39 all time in exhibition games including 17 straight wins at home. Their last exhibition game loss was in 2007 against Siviglia Wear Teramo while the team was in Italy.
Stonehill was 8-18 last season including a 5-16 record within Northeast-10 conference play. They only lost 1 player from last year’s team (Mitch Amelio) and return their top 2 scorers from a season ago: Ryan Logan (11.6 ppg) and Carter Smith (11.0 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 was in 2010 while he was the head coach at Fairfield. The Skyhawks beat Cooley’s Stags squad 61-60.
The last time Providence played Stonehill was in 2009. The Friars took that one 91-55.
Stonehill’s first official game of the season will be played on November 15th against Dominican College as part of the Assumption College Tip-Off Classic.
Providence will host a champions night for their first official game of the season against Albany at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center on November 15th. Included in the festivities will be raising the 2014 Big East Tournament Championship banner to the rafters at the Dunk.
On June 18th, Brendan McGair of the Pawtucket Times tweeted that he was hearing PC would play Stonehill for one of the exhibition games this upcoming season. I was able to confirm that report and have added them to the 2014-15 schedule page that is linked at the top of the site.
Hearing that one of PC's exhibition games will take place against Stonehill. Makes sense since Ed Cooley is an alum.
The non-conference schedule looks pretty challenging overall and features a few interesting opponents at interesting venues like Kentucky at Rupp Arena, Miami at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Tipoff at Mohegan Sun. I’ll be doing an in-depth preview of each and every non-conference opponent as the season draws closer so keep an eye open for those previews which will most likely be done weekly beginning in the middle of August.
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