- ICYMI – Thoughts from the Road: Friars Ice Cold at Home, Fall to Xavier
- Woonsocket Call – Brendan McGair – Friar Film Review: Xavier’s 1-3-1 zone defense frustrated Providence
- Full game replay, courtesy of FriarTV:
- CBSSports.com – Matt Norlander – Providence falls to Xavier; the Friars’ fatal flaw could be the long ball
- Zagsblog.com – Adam Zagoria – Providence’s Bentil Enters 2017 Mock Draft
- ScoutFriars.com – Richard Coren – Cold-shooting Friars fall to Xavier
- TodaysU.com – Dan Stack – Xavier makes case as Big East’s best after win at Providence
- Highlights from Fox Sports:
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Thoughts from the Road: Friars Ice Cold at Home, Fall to Xavier
This Thoughts from the Road is brought to you by the energy inside the Dunkin’ Donuts Center and is fueled by Dunkin’ Donuts iced coffee…a lot of it.
- The Dunkin’ Donuts Center was absolutely rocking. The fans piled in early and were raring to go — no doubt after having a few pregame beverages — well before the opening tip. This was the loudest I have ever heard the Dunk. A particular shoutout to the lady sitting over my left shoulder who made Craig Leighton and I a little more deaf than when we entered the arena. Ed Cooley has been longing for a crowd like that and it was clear after the game that it hurt him to disappoint the 12,804 fans in the building.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 1/26/16
- ICYMI – Thoughts from the Road: Friars Shock Wildcats in Snowy Philadelphia
- ICYMI – Ben Bentil Named Big East Player of the Week for Second Time
- ICYMI – Opening Line: (10) Providence +0.5 vs (7) Xavier 1/26/16
- ICYMI – Kris Dunn Named to Midseason Watch List for Oscar Robertson National Player of the Year Trophy
- ICYMI – Weekly College Basketball Polls Update: January 25th
- ICYMI – Former Friar Bryce Cotton Heading to China, Will Reportedly Sign with Xinjiang
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara – Bentil’s breakout season hits high note with 31-point, 13-rebound showing vs. Villanova
- Cox Hub – Vin Parise – Two Top Tens Tangle as Friars Host Musketeers
- Friarbasketball.com – Kevin Farrahar – Ben Bentil is blowing up in his sophomore season
- Cox Hub – Daniel James – Five Fouls with Xavier Basketball
- Providence Journal – Kevin McNamara, Bill Reynolds & Bill Koch – Pick and Pop Podcast College Hoops Podcast: Friars’ big win, Rams’ foul trouble
- Cincinnati.com – Shannon Russell – Providence’s Successes a Dunn Deal
- Cox Hub – Anthony Finucane – Road Warriors: A Look at the Friars’ Dominance on the Road
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Thoughts from the Road: Friars Shock Wildcats in Snowy Philadelphia
This Thoughts from the Road: Snowed in Philadelphia Edition is brought to you by Katie cooking great meals that included bacon and Ben coining the phrase “Deep Fryahs”. It’s fueled by the wings at McMenamin’s.
- That was a hell of a Big East battle. The game started slow with the teams combining for a 2/10 shooting start and a 2-2 tie with 16:54 left in the first half. One thing that struck me while watching the teams answer each other and seesaw the lead back and forth over the course of 45 minutes of game action was that the refs didn’t seem to be involved. For me to not even notice Tony Chiazza until the second half is telling. Providence was only whistled for 4 team fouls and Villanova 6 in the first 20 minutes of the game. You read that correctly: neither team got into the bonus in the first half. That’s pretty amazing with the way referees are making themselves household names these days.
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#pcbb Links of the Day 1/21/16
- ICYMI – Thoughts from the Road: Friars Defend Home Court, Sweep Butler
- I updated the Providence All-Time Stats records page to reflect Kris Dunn climbing up the lists.
- FriarTV has synced up the last 4:19 of Providence’s win over Butler with the radio call of John Rooke and Joe Hassett:
- TodaysU.com – Dan Stack – Kris Dunn Provides Providence with Intangible Leadership
- ScoutHoops.com – Highlights: 2016 Darius Hicks
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Thoughts from the Road: Friars Defend Home Court, Sweep Butler
This Thoughts from the Road: Home Command Center Edition is brought to you by Jamie Luckie’s whistles and is fueled by Gatorade and some Pepperidge Farms Goldfish.
- This game was a Big East battle. Not exactly a “classic” Big East battle in the sense that the stops weren’t as frequent as they would have been in the slug it out Big East. But I would argue this is the new kind of classic. A game where the lead see-saws back and forth and big time players make big time plays. The last 10 minutes of game action had the Dunk rocking and each team’s key players rose to the occasion at different times. Roosevelt ones made a layup at the 12:54 mark to put Butler up by 6 — the largest lead of the game by either team. From there, Providence went on an 8-0 run and the final 11:22 featured 4 ties and 5 lead changes. Ben Bentil scored 8 of Providence’s 21 points in the final 12 minutes, Dunn handed out some key assists and banked in the game-winning 3-pointer and Kellen Dunham and Jones were heavily involved in Butler’s side of things. In short, it was a fun game to watch, despite all the whistles.
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Thoughts from the Road: Friars Fall Flat at Home Again
This Thoughts from the Road is brought to you by Ed Cooley’s postgame disgust and is fueled by pre-game chicken parm at Anthony’s and postgame buffalo chicken pocket at East Side Pocket.
- This is a pretty simple game to sum up. Providence got killed on the glass, got beat too often for dribble penetration, gave up too many points in the paint and shot the ball horrifically for a third straight game. Pretty easy to figure out this loss. What isn’t so easy to figure out is: how does Ed Cooley fix it?
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