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Depth, competitiveness has made Big East one of the top conferences in college basketball

Providence Journal | January 23, 2016

Related Topics: Big East Conference, Ed Cooley, Big East Conference (1979–2013), Basketball

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  • PHILADELPHIA — It’s not easy and it’s certainly not fun but every Big East basketball coach has a stretch like the one Ed Cooley and his Providence Friars are navigating right now.
    The Friars are in snowy Philadelphia this weekend waiting to take on fourth-ranked Villanova. The game was scheduled for Saturday but was pushed to Sunday at 1 p.m. at the Wells Fargo Center due to the East Coast blizzard. That’s given the Friars an extra day to both prepare, and ponder, a date with a team that’s won its last 22 games against conference competition.
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