#24 Providence Rolls DePaul 87-66
Sunday, February 28, 2016
The Providence College Friars (20-9, 8-8) defeated the (9-19, 3-13) DePaul Blue Demons 87-66 on Saturday afternoon at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. The Friars split the season series with DePaul.
"I'm really really proud of the group, I thought that was a must win for us. We haven't played well this month, we have definitely been sick. Rodney, Kris and Junior have been sick for about 2 weeks, just can't shake it. There is no question we have had opportunities and blown them, but today I thought we had a better focus, thought we got contributions from everybody. It was a really good team win," said PC Head Coach Ed Cooley after the game.
The Friars led 46-43 in the second half before going on a 14-4 run to go up 60-47 with 12 minutes to play. The run was capped off by a Ryan Fazekas three and a layup by Ben Bentil.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLASTDePaul did not get closer than 12 points the rest of the way as PC shot 49% from the field in the game.
Slow Start
With DePaul up 21-20, the Friars went on a 9-2 run to take a 29-23 lead with 5:32 to play in the half.
The Friars led by as much as 9 points, 39-30, in the first half before DePaul's Darrick Wood cut it to 6 with the game clock winding down.
PC took a 39-33 lead into the locker room.
The Leaders
Ben Bentil led the Friars with 28 points on 9 of 15 shooting, while Kyron Cartwright followed up with 16 and Jalen Lindsey added 14 for Providence
Next up
PC plays their final home game of the season on Wednesday, March 2 when they host Creighton. Game time is set for 9 p.m.
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