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Ruane Friar Development Center

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When I was a student at PC one of the things I looked most forward to after classes were over for the day was heading over to Alumni Hall to play some pickup basketball. I always got a kick out of playing on the same court that I saw so many times on TV growing up as a Friar fan.

Times were different back then. There was one basketball facility shared by everybody, including students, the men and women’s basketball teams, and even the baseball team during the winter.

How the times have changed. New facilities are springing up throughout the campus. Someone who has not been to PC in fifteen or twenty years would hardly recognize it. Providence College has done a remarkable job improving the facilities on campus.

One thing that has not changed through the years is PC’s commitment to fielding a top college basketball team. Four years ago when head basketball coach Ed Cooley was hired he proclaimed that he was going to rebuild the program “brick by brick”.

After four years all Friar fans will agree that Cooley has succeeded in rebuilding the house brick by brick. The Friars have been to two straight NCAA Tournaments and are currently the 14th ranked college basketball team in the country.

Today Coach Cooley got even more bricks to work with as PC announced that it will construct the Ruane Friar Development Center in what will be one of the biggest additions to a campus that has undergone several changes over the past few years.

The Ruane Friar Development Center will include a two court basketball practice facility, athletic department offices, an athletic training room, a new PC Basketball Hall of Fame, and a dining room.

This new facility is the biggest thing that can be done to help the basketball program stay on an even footing with the schools in the power football conferences.

It is a great day for the Friars and a long way from the days when the basketball team had to share their practice facilities for student pickup games.

Here is today’s press conference at Providence College:

2 Comments

  1. Jack O'halloran

    December 15, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    GO FRIARS !

  2. Mark Kendrick

    December 16, 2015 at 12:03 am

    This will help with recruiting and thus help in keeping Cooley

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