The Providence Friarcast

Providence College Athletic Director Steve Napolillo met with the media at 1:30pm ET on March 16, 2026 to discuss the ongoing national coaching search to replace Kim English as the leader of the Providence Friars basketball program. Brian Reddy had boots on the ground and got this audio for pcbb1917.com.    Want to talk search-szn-2026 or anything else PC basketball? Join is in the Discord: https:...

The Providence Friarcast returns this week with Mike Hopkins and Brian Reddy. The fellas are feeling philosophical with the season all but over and an eye turning towards the future and the transfer portal which opens a month from today. There are a couple potential portal targets mentioned in addition to the new version of the shiny practice facility for high major programs in the NIL/revenue sha...

The Providence Friarcast with Mike Hopkins, Brian Reddy and Brendan Desrochers talk a 1-1 week in the NYC metro area with a win at Seton Hall and a loss at MSG against St. John's. The fellas also preview the upcoming Pink Out game against Creighton at home and the road tilt at Hinkle Fieldhouse against Butler this weekend. The episode ends with the most buzzworthy segment on the internet: Remember...

The Providence Friarcast with Mike Hopkins, Brian Reddy and Brendan Desrochers recap the win over Georgetown on Saturday, preview the upcoming road games this week at Seton Hall and St. John's and give an update from the Portal Committee. The episode ends with the most buzzworthy segment on the internet: Remember This Guy? Join the Discord https://pcbb1917.com/discord

The Providence Friarcast with Mike Hopkins, Brian Reddy and Brendan Desrochers recap an 0-2 week on the road in the Big East, have a discussion about Kim English in year 2 and prepare for #TheReturn , Part II, with Georgetown coming to the AMP on Saturday. The episode ends with the most buzzworthy segment on the internet: Remember This Guy? Join the Discord https://pcbb1917.com/discord

The Providence Friarcast returns for an episode with Mike Hopkins, Brian Reddy and Brendon Desrochers. The fellas talk Providence's 2-0 stretch with wins over Butler and Seton Hall before previewing the upcoming road swing at Creighton and Villanova this week. There will also be a report from the Portal Committee on some names for Friar fans to watch and the show ends, as usual, with the hit segme...

The Providence Friarcast with Mike Hopkins, Brian Reddy and Brendan Desrochers recapped another 1-1 week with a win at DePaul and the loss at Mohegan Sun to St. Bonaventure. The fellas also get philosophical and give another state of the program, finishing off with the most buzzworthy segment on the internet: Remember This Guy? to finish off this week's episode. Join the Discord https://pcbb1917.c...

The Providence Friarcast with Mike Hopkins, Brian Reddy and Brendan Desrochers recapped #TheReturn and win against BYU and the road rivalry loss at URI, looked ahead to the Friars first Big East game against DePaul and a trip to Mohegan Sun this weekend to take on St. Bonaventure. Oh, and the most talked about segment on the internet returns with "Remember this guy?" to finish things off.   Join t...

Mike Hopkins, Brian Reddy and Brendan Desrochers were live on Monday night recapping the disaster in Battle 4 Atlantis, the latest on Bryce Hopkins, a rant on the online outrage, the NET debut and preview of BYU and URI. Join the Discord.

Providence is down in the Bahamas for their first ever appearance in the Battle 4 Atlantis. Mike Hopkins is joined by Brian Reddy and Brendon Desrochers to talk about the 5-0 start, why analytics are bull$hit and preview Providence's game against Oklahoma and the rest of the Battle 4 Atlantis event.   Join the Discord .

Providence is 5-1, likely to be 6-1 in November, to start their season with a road win in the Gavitt Games against Wisconsin, a neutral court victory over another Big Ten opponent in Northwestern in the Legends Classic at the Prudential Center in Newark, NJ and then fell to Virginia in the championship game Tuesday night to cap off a 5-1 start to their season. Mike discusses some of the positives...

Back after a 1,273 day hiatus, the Providence Friarcast returns on #Gameday2021 with Providence set to open the 2021-22 season at the Dunkin' Donuts Center against Fairfield. 

On this mid-May episode of the Providence Friarcast I was joined by one of the newest Friars, Kris Monroe. Kris and I talked about how the relationship between he and Coach Battle and Coach Cooley developed, his hidden talent and his plans for what number he'll wear next season. I also opened with some schedule talk, but Chris, Brendan and I will do a more in-depth episode on the non-conference sc...

The first offseason edition of the Providence Friarcast features Brendan, Chris and Mike wrapping up the 2017-18 season, giving their state of the program and talking scheduling tweaks to take Providence's resume to the next level. Mike was joined in the latter portion by former Providence assistant, Rhode Island and Maine University head coach Bob Walsh to discuss owning expectations and providin...

Providence earned their 5th straight NCAA Tournament bid on Sunday as a 10 seed in the West Region. The Friars will face 7 seed Texas A&M in Charlotte on Friday afternoon on CBS.

Providence ended their regular season on Saturday with a win over St. John's to improve to 10-8 in the Big East slate and the Friars head to MSG this week to take on Creighton on Thursday in the quarterfinals of the Big East Tournament. Brendan McGair joins me to discuss all of that and a little bit on PC's NCAA Tournament hopes.

The Providence Friarcast returns after a couple weeks off and we have the full crew of Brendan, Chris and Mike discussing the Friars' recent 3-game road trip at Villanova, Seton Hall and Marquette. There was also a recap of the Friars' win at home against Georgetown this week, a lookahead to their game on Saturday against DePaul for Alumni & Family Weekend at PC and we finished with a discussion a...

This episode of the Providence Friarcast features a recap of Providence's 2-0 MLK weekend in Big East play with the gang back together to discuss Providence's win over DePaul on the road and their home victory over Butler on Monday. We talked the mic'd up broadcast at DePaul on Friday, how Ed Cooley has been focusing on shutting down the opponent's top scorer and we previewed Providence's next gam...

This episode of the Providence Friarcast features a recap of Providence's 1-1 week in Big East play with their heartbreaking overtime loss at home against Marquette behind Markus Howard's 52 points and then the Friars' upset win against 5th-ranked Xavier on Saturday. I'm joined for this episode by my dad, a St. John's alumnus, and we talked PC vs Xavier and some general Friar talk. I finished thin...

In this episode the gang is back together after the holidays! Brendan, Chris and Mike discuss Providence's 1-1 start to Big East play and look ahead to the Friars Big East home opener against Marquette.

This week's episode of the Providence Friarcast features audio from Ed Cooley's postgame press conference after Thursday's Big East opening win at St. John's and then Chris is joined by Jon Nyatawa of the Omaha World-Herald to preview Providence's next league contest on New Year's Eve at Creighton on Sunday.

This week's episode of the Providence Friarcast features audio from Ed Cooley's postgame press conference on Sunday, a recap of the Tom Planek-led comeback against Stony Brook, a discussion about the good and bad of Ed Cooley playing or not playing some of the injured players against Houston and/or Sacred Heart and a look ahead to the Friars' game against Houston at Mohegan Sun. @pcbb1917 @BWMcGai...

This week's exam break episode of the Providence Friarcast features a discussion about Providence's issues and lack of identity through 10 games this season after needing overtime to beat Brown at home and then dropping a road game at UMass last time out. Mike, Brendan and Chris give their thoughts on what is ailing the Friars besides the injuries to Kyron Cartwright, Alpha Diallo and Maliek White...

This week's episode of the Providence Friarcast features a recap of Providence's win over Rider and loss at URI, as well as a preview of their next two games against Brown and UMass. Mike, Brendan and Chris discuss the poor second half defense against Rider, the lack of toughness and grit at URI and whether or not there will be another big celebrity sighting at the Dunk after Evander Holyfield's a...