Providence Friars
21-14 - 6th in Big East2024 Schedule
Your guide to all the personnel changes for the top conferences and programs, including transfers, recruits and NBA draft decisions.
The last time anyone saw an NCAA basketball three-peat the heroes were John Wooden, Bill Walton and the UCLA Bruins. Enter the current UConn Huskies.
Providence guard Devin Carter is declaring for the NBA draft.
With all three Big East teams into the Sweet 16, UConn coach Dan Hurley says the conference should have had more teams in the tourney.
— Claudell Harris Jr. scored 17 points, including a go-ahead 3-pointer with 52.1 seconds left, and Boston College knocked off Providence 62-57 on Tuesday night in the NIT.
The Big East said it is "very disappointed" over the conference's historically low number of schools selected for the NCAA tournament.
First-year St. John's coach Rick Pitino told the NIT selection committee that the team didn't want to play in the also-ran event. Oklahoma and Pitt also said they didn't want to take part.
In a span of 48 hours, bid thieves changed everything for the 2024 field. March, it seems, came early, and will have a new quartet of teams on edge.
Is UConn the overall top seed? Who will be the fourth 1-seed? Where does all the bid stealing leave the final field? We have a lot of questions for the selection committee.
— Facing a raucous crowd that made it feel like a road game and a fired-up bunch of Providence Friars, Kam Jones, Oso Ighodaro and No. 10 Marquette responded with the poise of a champion.
Big East Standings
TEAM | W | L | GB | OVR |
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UConn | 81.4 | - | 3 | 37 |
Marquette | 78.1 | 8.5 | 10 | 27 |
Creighton | 80.4 | 9.5 | 10 | 25 |
Seton Hall | 73.8 | 10.5 | 12 | 25 |
St. John's | 78.8 | 13.5 | 13 | 20 |
Providence | 72.4 | 13.5 | 14 | 21 |
Villanova | 70.2 | 16 | 16 | 18 |
Butler | 77.1 | 15.5 | 15 | 18 |
Xavier | 75.9 | 18 | 18 | 16 |
Georgetown | 70.8 | 24 | 23 | 9 |
DePaul | 64.7 | 30 | 29 | 3 |
2021 Team Leaders
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