Friars beat Notre Dame

[Bill Marsh]

The Providence victory over Notre Dame yesterday is the kind of big out of conference win that the league needs to boost its RPI. Anyone who saw the game saw an incredible contest between 2 teams with no quit in them. Not only did this validate PC's 5-0 start but it showed us that ND has a good team this year as well.

Kris Dunn showed no signs of his past shoulder problems. What he did show is tremendous speed and the ability to break down an offense so he can get the ball to teammates where they can do the most damage. As long as he is healthy, PC is set at the point. Even more so because PC has decided to start unheralded freshman, Kyron Cartwright, in the backcourt with Dunn, giving them 2 ballhandlers. Cartwright looked good alongside Dunn.

PC'sother freshmen have also been looking good. Jalen Lindsey who has been lights out from 3 wound up on the sidelines injured. Hopefully it's nothing serious. Ben Bentil showed a high motor and will help the inside game off the bench as will Paschal Chukwu, giving them a 2nd big man behind Carson Desrosiers.

Saving the best for last, Ladonte Henton put on a show! Career high 38 points accounted for more than half the team's points. Put the team on his back and carried them to the victory, scoring 9 of the last 11 points. Became Cool Hand Luke, making clutch shot after clutch shot without showing the slightest sign of stress. A truly. Unbelievable performance. Tyler Harris backed him up with 13 (?) points showing that the Friars have a true 1-2 scoring punch.

This could be a very different Big East season if teams. Continue to step up like this.

[RedStormHoops]

Friars just looked like a team that knows exactly how to win games. This early in the year, with a PG who is playing his first games in college, the amount of composure they had down the stretch was so tremendous to me. Maybe it's because I've been watching St. John's coached by a buffoon their last few years, but it really impressed me to see how well coached they were.

This early in the year in close games like that, usually you see players looking around a little confused on what to do, providence didn't think twice about anything, the game management was top notch. And that's right after losing a star point guard who played 40 minutes a game.

They were even down 8 pretty late in this game, and they turned it around so damn quick. I'm pretty freaking envious of the composure they have, and wish my team was that efficient.

[marquette]

Friars looked great yesterday. The scary thing? They are still young and will only get better as the season goes on. I am not looking forward to facing you guys come conference play. Good luck and keep up the good work until then.

[Bill Marsh]

Friars looked great yesterday. The scary thing? They are still young and will only get better as the season goes on. I am not looking forward to facing you guys come conference play. Good luck and keep up the good work until then.

Let's hope that the friars have their hands full keeping up with everyone else in conference play. If that happens, this is going to be a very, very good league.

[MUPanther]

We needed to start another topic on this, when we had one going on PC big win.

[Bill Marsh]

We needed to start another topic on this, when we had one going on PC big win.

I don't see another topic on the big PC win.

[MUPanther]

It's ok, we were talking about it on Sunday on the Big East 11-23 games topic.

[Bill Marsh]

It's ok, we were talking about it on Sunday on the Big East 11-23 games topic.

I thought the game was big enough, the play exciting enough, and the accomplishment significant enough to warrant its own thread.

[Xudash]

Watched the last five minutes of the game.

Very impressed with how PC stayed focused and closed out the Domers.

I'm guardedly optimistic that the conference will have much less trouble getting 4 into the Dance - Villanova, Georgetown and Xavier - with Providence and Butler, in particular, sealing the deal for 4 and possibly 5.

Hell, early returns on the Hall and Creighton also show promise.

If the Big East holds serve with this season - at least 4 teams in again (hopefully at least Nova with a strong seed) - imagine where we go from here with the recruiting classes that are on board or coming into the conference from here.

Providence helped us to take one nice step along the way to a strong season.

Nova, we really need for you to keep an already poorly performing A10 in its place tonight.

[stever20]

Watched the last five minutes of the game.

Very impressed with how PC stayed focused and closed out the Domers.

I'm guardedly optimistic that the conference will have much less trouble getting 4 into the Dance - Villanova, Georgetown and Xavier - with Providence and Butler, in particular, sealing the deal for 4 and possibly 5.

Hell, early returns on the Hall and Creighton also show promise.

If the Big East holds serve with this season - at least 4 teams in again (hopefully at least Nova with a strong seed) - imagine where we go from here with the recruiting classes that are on board or coming into the conference from here.

Providence helped us to take one nice step along the way to a strong season.

Nova, we really need for you to keep an already poorly performing A10 in its place tonight.

Just laugh at your putting Butler in there. After what they were last year and the fact they haven't done anything this year special- way too early to put them in the same realm whatsoever as PC. If you want to put them in the same boat as the Hall and Creighton- yeah can maybe see that.

The thing isn't necessarily the getting 4 teams in. The problem last year wasn't getting 4 in but the fact that 2 of them were 11/12(pig) seeds.