First and foremost, I’d like to preface this article from a fan’s perspective. The Providence Friars are now 20-2 on the season, and the date is February 6th, 2022. The most recent time this team has even seen a 20-win season was during the 2017-2018 campaign, when Kyron Cartwright led the Friars to the BIG EAST Tournament championship game. And even then, it took the Friars until the BIG EAST Tournament quarterfinals (March 8th, 2018) to even reach win number twenty – in an overtime thriller against Creighton, mind you.
That season saw the Friars go 21-14 overall, with a first-round NCAA tournament exit at the hands of Texas A&M.