PC Suffers Brutal Loss, Blown Out by DePaul 80-63
Sunday, February 11, 2018
The Providence College Friars men’s basketball team played arguably its worst home game of the season on Saturday afternoon, getting blown out by DePaul 80-63 at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center.
The Friars shot 33% from the field and 10% from three, while turning the ball over 17 times in the game, leading to 16 DePaul points.
By comparison, DePaul shot 60% from the field and 44% from three.
GET THE LATEST BREAKING NEWS HERE -- SIGN UP FOR GOLOCAL FREE DAILY EBLAST"We did not play well in any phase of the game, for whatever reason we just didn't have it today. Hopefully, we do a better job of preparing for Villanova on Wednesday, I did not anticipate this, I thought we blew a great opportunity. Where we are in the standings and what we are playing for, just an unacceptable performance, disgusting performance, especially at home," said Providence College head coach Ed Cooley in his post game press conference.
The loss drops the Friars to 16-9 overall and 7-5 in the Big East, good enough for fourth place in the conference.
DePaul, who had lost six of their last seven games, is now 3-9 in the Big East and 10-14 overall.
Sloppy Play, Poor Shooting Costs Friars
Cartwright got a layup to go down to give Providence a 12-10 lead with 11:16 to play in the first half.
From that point, DePaul took advantage of PC turnovers to go on an 11-2 run to take a 21-14 lead with 7:21 to play following a Brandon Cyrus jump shot.
PC turned the ball over eight times in the first half, leading to 11 DePaul points.
Providence cut DePaul’s lead to four, 21-17, on an Isaiah Jackson three, but could not come up with a stop on defense.
The Blue Demons went on a 14-2 run to take a 35-19 lead with 2:30 left in the half.
DePaul would take a 40-25 lead into the half.
In the second half, it was more of the same as DePaul opened up a 20 point lead, 45-25, in the opening minute and would cruise from there.
DePaul would lead by as much as 31 points in the half before cruising to the 17 point win.
Next up
The Friars game against Villanova is set for Wednesday, February 14 at the Dunkin' Donuts Center.
Game time is set for 7 p.m.
DePaul goes into The Dunk and beats Providence by 17. As surprising a league result as I have seen in all my years covering college basketball.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) February 10, 2018
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