Friar Starting Five: Saturday Edition

Anything interesting going on in Friartown today? Just kidding. Here are links to five topics of interest to Friar fans as they get ready for Xavier tomorrow and the halftime ceremony retiring the jerseys of Joe Hassett and Kevin Stacom. 

1. Tomorrow at halftime of the Xavier game Joe Hassett and Kevin Stacom get their jerseys retired and lifted to the rafters at the Dunkin Donuts Center to join the other Friar greats. Here are some links to articles on both Joe and Kevin.

Friarbasketball.com’s Craig Belhumeur on Joe Hassett

Friarbasketball.com’s Craig Leighton on Kevin Stacom

The Providence Journal’s Kevin McNamara on both Joe and Kevin

And here is an interview ABC6’s Ken Bell did with Joe Hassett on having his jersey retired at the Dunk.

2. The PC Hockey Friars started off a very important weekend with a 5-4 come from behind win against UMass Lowell at Schneider arena. You can read more about it here, here, and here.  You can also watch highlights of the game below:

3. Ever watch all these basketball highlight videos out there and wonder wouldn’t it be great if there was a highlight video of the entire history of PC basketball from Ernie D. all the way through Bryce Cotton? Here you go. This 35 minute video from Bad Marvin’s Time Machine is absolutely awesome!

4. Here is an interesting article on 2015 commit Ryan Fazekas who is playing at Marquette High School in Michigan City, Indiana. Bonus points to the first person who knows who the last player from Michigan City, IN to play for PC.

5. And finally here are some links to previews for tomorrow’s game against Xavier

Friarbasketball.com

Cincinnati Enquirer 

GoXavier.com

GoLocalProv

Bannersontheparkway.com

Wonder what Xavier fans are saying about the game? You can check here and here. Of course you can always see what PC fans are saying at Scoutfriars.com, friartownhoopproboards.com, Friarbasketball.com forums, and at Friarbasketball.com’s Facebook page.

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