There sure were some anxious moments surrounding the Providence program last spring as head coach Ed Cooley flirted with leaving the Friars for Michigan while there was speculation that Alpha Diallo, the Providence’s All-Everything guard/forward, would forego his senior season and enter the NBA draft. But Diallo stayed, same with Cooley and now the work at hand for the duo and the rest of the Friars is to get back on track after they saw their streak of five straight seasons of reaching the NCAA Tournament ended by an 18-16 year and an NIT bid last year.
“We’ve talked about that a little bit,” Cooley said.