Ben Bentil has been on the Big East Weekly Honor Roll twice this season, but he has now moved up the list and was named Big East Player of the Week on Monday. Bentil had a career-high 32 points in Providence’s lone game last week at UMass. The Providence sophomore also had 12 rebounds, marking his 3rd double-double of the season. Bentil is currently leading the league in scoring (18.8 points/game) and is 6th in rebounding (8.0 rebounds/game). He is having a breakout season alongside Kris Dunn and is arguably as big a reason for Providence’s 12-1 start and top 10 national ranking as Dunn at this point in the season. Bentil winning this award snaps a 3 week streak of Butler players taking home the weekly honor.
The rest of the Big East weekly awards are as follows:
Big East Freshman of the Week: Edmond Sumner (Xavier) – 2nd week in a row
Big East Honor Roll: Geoffrey Groselle (Creighton), Billy Garrett, Jr. (DePaul), Henry Ellenson (Marquette), Josh Hart (Villanova) and Trevon Bluiett (Xavier).
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