Daniel James

Any fan of a Big East basketball team signs up for a roller coaster ride that starts at the end of December and goes throughout the first few weeks of March, wrapping up at Madison Square Garden. During that time there are emotional highs of knocking off ranked conference opponents, and the lows of...

Xavier may have given the Friars a run for their money in the paint, but at the end of the day it was the Friars who ate the heartiest on the stat line, beating the Musketeers 81-72. Xavier not only ate Providence’s lunch in the paint, they had a buffet. The fifth-ranked Musketeers made...

The Providence Friars are 1-1 in Big East play. Splitting the road trip that spanned from Queens to Omaha leaving Friar fans feeling emotional highs and lows, and there’s been plenty to discuss. The conversation, however, has been almost about two different teams. The team that dismantled St. John’s with a high octane offense that...

I don’t get to see as many games live as I used to, so when I had the chance to drive down to Mohegan Sun to see the Friars play the Houston Cougars I didn’t hesitate. There were two trains of thought going into this game: the first was that the Friars, despite injuries, would...

So, the Providence Friars did it. After a week of rest and recuperation from injuries, tough outings, and a 7-3 record, the Friars overcame Stony Brook’s onslaught of 3-point shots to win their eighth game. The win came on a pair of last-second free throws from Rodney Bullock, who went 2-2 and sealed a...

As it turns out, the Friars may be in a tougher situation than originally anticipated. Providence, which was selected fourth in the Big East preseason and an anticipated Sweet 16 program, may not be who they were thought to be. Since the beginning of the season the Friars have struggled with the exception of a few...

In the 1-1 effort this week from the Providence Friars, something has seemed abundantly clear: this team lacks an identity. Head Coach Ed Cooley said as much himself after the Rider game, talking about the lack of grit that this team is currently playing with, noting that until the mental and physical toughness is there...

Who's the strongest collegiate Women's Basketball team in Rhode Island? While fans of all four DI teams could make cases for their program, this weekend the discussion will be taken onto the court as the four DI women's basketball teams of Rhode Island compete in the Rhode Island Tip-Off Tournament. Now in it's second year,...

Welcome to Friar Weekly! This week I take a look at the two vastly different wins PC earned over Belmont and Boston College, how PC’s ugly win over Belmont indicates a culture change, my plea for Dajour Dickens to be ready, and discuss how much I love Twitter fights between PC and URI fans! First...

I have been playing video games my entire life. I can't even begin to tell you how many times I've saved Princess Peach from the clutches of Bowser, freed the land of Hyrule from Ganon, and liberated Raccoon City from a massive zombie outbreak. Growing up, however, I was told that these games were largely...