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  • The Friars' Kris Dunn, shoots over the Rams' Nicola Akele (45), in the annual PC-URI game last December in Kingston. The Providence Journal, files/Glenn Osmundson

  • Journal Sports Writer Follow @kevinmcnamara33
    Posted Aug. 16, 2016 at 9:46 PM

    PROVIDENCE, R.I. — The questions come nearly every day and in all the familiar places.
    Fans want to know the skinny while cooling at the beach, chasing balls on the golf course and waiting for a seat at a restaurant. Friends and strangers make conversation around the questions of the summer of 2016: How good can the Rams be, and how far will the Friars slip?