More and more accolades are being heaped onto Providence’s star players. USBWA released their 2015-16 All-District Teams on Tuesday and Kris Dunn was named the District I Player of the Year. Ben Bentil was on the All-District I Team. District I is made up of schools in Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and Connecticut. Full disclosure, I am a USBWA member and voter.
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Providence Offers 2017 PF/C Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree
Not to be deterred by recent misses with members of Team Final, the Providence coaching staff extended a scholarship offer to 2017 PF/C Dhamir Cosby-Roundtree, per his Twitter account. Cosby-Roundtree ran with Team Final’s U16 team on the Nike EYBL circuit this spring and summer.
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ESPN’s Joe Lunardi Releases His Preseason 2015-16 Bracketology
Early August means preseason bracketology, because why not? ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has released his preseason bracket and the Big East has 5 teams in the field of 68. The Friars are not currently one of those 5 but they are right on the cusp, according to Lunardi. The ACC leads the way with 9 teams in the field followed by the SEC, Pac 12, Big 12 and Big Ten getting 6 teams each. The American (4) and Atlantic 10 (2) are the other multi-bid leagues in Lunardi’s bracket.
Here are the notable Big East results from Lunardi’s preaseson bracket:
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#pcbb Links of the Day 4/24/15
- ICYMI – Providence Recruiting Guide to the 2nd April 2015 Live Evaluation Period
- ICYMI – Report: Fordham Transfer Eric Paschall Expected to Commit to Villanova
- Cox Hub – New England Recruiting Report – Five Things We Learned From The Northeast Hoops Festival
- FriarBasketball.com – Craig Belhumeuer – Kris Dunn Reactions
- Bleacher Report – Jonathan Wasserman – Providence’s Kris Dunn Making Risky to Pass on 2015 NBA Draft
- RIPR.org – Mike Szostak – Returning To PC Is The Smart Move For Kris Dunn
- Friars.com – Former Friar Hal Gill Announces His Retirement From The NHL
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Report: Fordham Transfer Eric Paschall Expected to Commit to Villanova
So much for taking that Providence visit. Fordham transfer Eric Paschall is expected to announce a commitment to Villanova on Friday, per a report by Adam Zagoria. Paschall got permission to contact school following the firing of Fordham coach Tom Pecora. Since that time Paschall and his father Juan have visited Villanova and Florida and the elder Paschall told me no decision would be made until they visited Providence. Apparently something changed on that front. Bob Simon going to Alabama may have played a role but I’ve been told that Cooley also has a good connection with the Paschall’s, so it was a little puzzling to me that a visit never happened.
Paschall was the Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year in his only season at Fordham and will have to sit out the 2015-16 season at Villanova, per NCAA transfer rules. He will have 3 years of eligibility remaining with the Wildcats and will only turn 19 this November. This is a very good pickup for Jay Wright and the year off should allow Paschall to develop him body and game to get ready for the jump up to the Big East in 2016-17.
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Eric Paschall Cuts List to Final 5, Will Visit Providence
Update 4/17: Jon Rothstein is reporting that Paschall will not visit Providence this weekend as planned.
Fordham freshman has cut his final list of schools down to 5, including the school he is currently enrolled at in Fordham. The others on the list are Florida, Kansas, Providence and Villanova. Paschall has visited Villanova and Florida and is scheduled to visit Providence this weekend, per a tweet from Jon Rothstein.
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Providence Will Get Visit From Fordham Transfer Eric Paschall
Fordham freshman Eric Paschall visited Villanova on April 1st and is now reportedly going to visit Florida the weekend of April 11th, per a tweet from CBS Sports’ Jon Rothstein. Rothstein’s tweet does mention that Providence is “in [the] mix” but there has been no concrete date mentioned for a visit to Friartown. Eric’s father Juan confirmed to me that there is no date set right now but he did tell me that “we will not make any decisions until we visit Providence though.”
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