If you need a refresher:
This was Gomes’ junior year at Providence, and the second consecutive season that he returned to his home state to lead an upset of Connecticut. Providence was 12-3 entering this game against #4 Connecticut (the eventual national champions), and very well could have been 14-1 if not for buzzer beater losses to Texas and Rutgers earlier in January.
This game came two weeks after PC’s loss to Rutgers, but the Friars had bounced back, winning at Seton Hall and versus West Virginia, Villanova, and Loyola-Chicago in consecutive games.