CINCINNATI --- It was another long night at the Cintas Center for Providence College on Wednesday.
And if this is the sort of treatment the Friars can expect to receive in Big East road games this season, it could quickly turn into a long 2016-17 campaign.
No. 17 Xavier used suffocating defense to mount a first-half run and caught fire from the field in the second half while rolling to an 82-56 victory.
Providence has lost all four games in program history in this building and is now 0-3 in true road games this season. Another contest at nationally-ranked Butler awaits on Sunday, and it will not be a very happy start to 2017 if the Friars can't find a way to compete against the iron of a conference that currently boasts four teams in the top 10 of the RPI.