Providence College Athletics to Host NBA Draft Watch Party
Tuesday, June 14, 2016
Providence College athletics will host an NBA Draft watch party on Thursday, June 23 at 7:30 p.m. at G-Pub, located at 61 Orange Street in Providence.
The 2016 NBA Draft will be held at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Friars in the Draft
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Dunn is expected to be a top 6 draft pick, including some mock drafts who have him as high as 3, while Bentil is expected to be picked late in the first round or early in the second.
PC has not had two players drafted in the same year since Austin Croshere went 12ther and God Shammgod went 45th in the 1997 Draft.
Kris Dunn
This past season at Providence, Dunn averaged 16.4 points, 6.2 assists and 5.3 rebounds per game, leading the Friars to the second round of the NCAA Tournament as a redshirt junior.
Dunn has been named the Big East Player of the Year and the Defensive Player of the Year in each of the past two seasons.
The Friars went 23-10 overall this season, and 10-8 in the Big East, making the tournament for the third straight season.
Kris Dunn and PC basketball Head Coach Ed Cooley are expected to be at the Draft.
Ben Bentil
After averaging just 6.4 points per game as a freshman, Ben Bentil averaged 21.2 points per game overall and 22.9 points per game in conference play, making him the leading scorer in the Big East.
Bentil is the 7th Friar all-time to lead the league in scoring and the fourth Friar in the last six seasons to do it.
Bentil was named the Big East's Most Improved Player, joining Kadeem Batts (2013) and Herbert Hill (2007) as Friar recipients of the Big East Most Improved Player Award.
It is unclear as to if Bentil will be at the draft in Brooklyn.
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