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Kris Dunn is Blue Ribbon’s Preseason National Player of the Year
Whenever someone asks me if Providence is going to be good this season my answer always involved some form of “they’ll go as far as Kris Dunn can take them.” Dunn is the reigning Big East Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year and he is poised to have a monster season — one that is likely to be his final in a Friar uniform. Heading into this campaign there was expected hype around Dunn. He has been named to some preseason All-American teams by various publications and is likely to be the coaches’ pick for preseason Big East Player of the Year at the league’s media day in mid-October. One of the publications that included him on their First Team All-American squad was the famed Blue Ribbon College Basketball Yearbook. On Tuesday their editor-in-chief Chris Dortch announced they would be naming Dunn as their Preseason National Player of the Year when the 35th anniversary edition of Blue Ribbon in a few weeks.
With all of this hype comes a need to additional focus and Dunn recently told Brendan McGair of the Woonsocket Call “when people see me I’m still going to be the same person … goofy, smiling, laughing and humble. I have a great support system at home. We know the objective is to stay focused and respect the process. That’s all you can do. You can’t let anything else stand in your way.” Ed Cooley was quoted in the same piece, saying “I think Kris has blocked all of it out. He’s just trying to have the best possible year he can have.” He now has even more hype and noise to block out but if Providence has any chance of making a third straight NCAA Tournament appearance — something the program hasn’t done since the 1973-74 season –Dunn will have to live up to that same hype.
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