Category: Big East News
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As I did my final NCAA prediction ballot yesterday, for the first time since I started doing this, I had no confidence in my results. The final number of missing three teams (Michigan St, Florida Atlantic, and Virginia) doesn’t sound bad, but it’s more than that. The reality is that there are 32 automatic bids,…
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Final Thoughts of Ed Cooley The first true conversation I had with Ed Cooley was during the spring of 2011, shortly after he had been named the new coach of the Friars. Every Saturday evening, my then 10-year-old daughter used to take a walk through the campus, and just happened upon him near the Slavin…
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Today is the day. Ed Cooley returns to the city of his birth to face the wrath and ire of Providence Friar fans who used to worship and adore him. It’s been rightly mentioned in some other articles this week that there is a statue that was put up a few years ago when the…
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When I checked into the palatial pcbb1917.com offices to spread some holiday cheer, I made the suggestion that someone should write up a list of Christmas gift wishes for each of the Big East teams. The entire staff began shutting down their computers or claiming to have imminent meetings or important calls to make. Then…
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If it has not been clear yet, I am a diehard fan of college basketball. I saw my first Friars game at Alumni Hall, and used to take the bus (#26) to the Civic Center by myself in the 1970s. I managed to be lucky enough to see the Friars beat top-ranked Michigan in the…