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://www.launchpass.com/pcbb1917/discord

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 sharing era. Join the Discord https://pcbb1917.com/discord

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 This Guy? Join the Discord https://pcbb1917.com/discord

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 segment, Remember This Guy? Join the Discord https://pcbb1917.com/discord

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.com/discord

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 the Discord   pcbb1917.com/discord

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 to take from the 1-1 trip to New Jersey, how the rotation is shaping up and a look ahead at the final stretch of non-conference games in December.

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 schedule when it comes out in a week or two. 

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 providing insight and perspective on the Providence program from when he joined Tim Welsh's staff in 1998 to 2018 with the Friars coming off a fifth straight trip to the NCAA Tournament.   http://coachbobwalsh.com/   @CoachBobWalsh

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 about the impact that Isaiah Jackson and Alpha Diallo have had this season, especially in Big East play.   Enjoy!

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 game against Creighton. We finished by revisiting an earlier podcast discussion from November: Rodney Bullock. Oh, and Emmitt Holt is back in school and Providence is now 1-0 with him back around the team. Enjoy!

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 things up by previewing DePaul and Butler and threw in a quick gambling segment at the end of the show. Enjoy!

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 @BWMcGair03 @ChrisGrenham #pcbb #gofriars

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 and the gang looks ahead to Providence's next game on Sunday against Stony Brook. @pcbb1917 @BWMcGair03 @ChrisGrenham #pcbb #gofriars

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 appearance for the Rider game. Oh and a special shoutout to Doug Doughty of the Roanoke Times. Keep being you, Doug. @pcbb1917 @BWMcGair03 @ChrisGrenham

Welcome to the inaugural episode of the Providence Friarcast, presented by pcbb1917.com. Mike Hopkins, the founder of pcbb1917.com, is joined by Brendan McGair of the Pawtucket Times and Chris Grenham of BigEastCoastBias.com to discuss Providence basketball. In this episode Mike, Brendan and Chris talk Providence's 2K Classic win at MSG and the guys preview the Friars' next two games against Belmont and Boston College. Chris was also joined by BarstoolReags, the college basketball writer at barstoolsports.com. Happy Thanksgiving!

Mike Hopkins (@pcbb1917) and Brendan McGair (@BWMcGair03) recap Providence's 1-1 start, what is up with Rodney Bullock's struggles and discuss the upcoming 2K Classic at Madison Square Garden.     Want your name to be mentioned in the credits of a future podcast? Check out the Patreon account at https://www.patreon.com/pcbb1917

Mike Hopkins is joined by Chris Grenham to preview Providence's 2017-18 season. Topics discussed include the 2018 recruiting class signing their NLI's, recap of Providence's 3 exhibition games, Emmitt Holt's status, expectations for the three freshmen this season and a preview of Providence's opening night opponent, Houston Baptist.

Mike Hopkins of pcbb1917.com and Brendan McGair of the Pawtucket Times preview Providence's First Four game in Dayton against USC in the NCAA Tournament. Zach Helfand of the Los Angeles Times joins to give some insight on USC.

Mike Hopkins of pcbb1917.com and Brendan McGair of the Pawtucket Times recap Providence's 7 games in November and then preview the Friars' in-state rivarly matchup with URI on Saturday, December 3rd.

Alex Abrami of the Burlington Free Press joins Mike Hopkins and Brendan McGair to preview Providence's season opening game against the Vermont Catamouts on Monday, November 14th at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. Mike and Brendan discuss the current state of the Friars and some recruiting news from the early signing period on November 9th.

Brendan McGair of the Pawtucket Times joined the podcast to recap Providence's 87-69 exhibition game win over Carleton University on October 29th. Brendan and I run down each player's performance and discuss the game overall. We finish the episode by reacting to clips from Ed Cooley's postgame media session.

In this episode of the Friartown Fan Voice Podcast I give an update on the 2018 and 2019 recruiting that Ed Cooley and his staff have been doing of late and the big-time visit from top-10 recruit in 2018, Khavon Moore. I also give a preview of Providence's exhibition matchup against Carleton University and give my prediction for Providence's starting lineup.

Hear audio from Ed Cooley, Kyron Cartwright, Rodney Bullock, Ryan Fazekas and Isaiah Jackson from this year's Big East media day at Madison Square Garden.