With over ten seconds remaining in Providence’s 92-81 home loss to St. John’s Ed Cooley left his team’s sideline to shake hands with Mike Anderson. With about five seconds still on the clock Cooley cut across the court and headed straight to his team’s locker room. Like the rest of us, he wasn’t interested in being a part of this one any longer.
You could say frustration has set in at Friartown, but it feels a bit more like exasperation at this point, “It’s like the tale of two games,” said Cooley of his team’s two most recent losses, “where we haven’t lost many games when we’ve given up 60 points, and we haven’t lost many games where we’ve scored 80 plus points.