Chante Stonewall and Deja Church each scored 16 points to lead four players into double-figure scoring and No. 18 and top-seeded DePaul clobbered Providence 97-59 in the Big East Conference tournament quarterfinals on Saturday.
Kelly Campbell had a triple-double, Sonya Morris scored 21 points and Big East-leader and No. 11-ranked DePaul bounced back from its lone conference defeat with a 93-71 victory over Providence on Sunday.
Sonya Morris scored 21 points, Dee Bekelja added 20 points and No. 16 DePaul beat Providence 80-67 on Friday night.
Selena Lott scored 19 points, Isabelle Spingola had 17 and No. 13 Marquette beat Providence 80-57 to win the outright Big East regular-season championship on the final day of league play Sunday.
After 16 years as St. Bonaventure's head coach, Jim Crowley is moving to Rhode Island to be in charge of the Providence women's basketball team.
Using Strength of Record rankings and BPI, we look at the accomplishments of the most likely contenders for top seeds in the NCAA tournament.
The Providence Friars lose a lot, but they still have Kris Dunn and that may be enough to get them back to the NCAA tournament.
Eamonn Brennan discusses a technical foul and homecourt advantage that helped Dayton beat Providence
Here's a look at the Providence Friars and their chances of making it back to the NCAA tournament again in 2016.
NBC Sports Network verbally offered the Big East between $20 million to $23 million a year for six years to acquire the league's media rights, sources told ESPN.
The Big East is hoping to resolve its divorce with the seven departing Catholic-based basketball schools within the next few weeks in time for a summer 2014 departure, according to a source.
Geno Auriemma isn't broken up about the breakup of the Big East. In fact, he said Tuesday he wished the seven Catholic schools that decided to leave could exit the conference immediately and blamed the conference's flux on their past voting decisions.
| TEAM | CONF | GB | OVR |
|---|---|---|---|
| UConn | 17-0 | - | 20-1 |
| Marquette | 14-3 | 3 | 17-4 |
| DePaul | 11-4 | 5 | 14-6 |
| Seton Hall | 11-5 | 5.5 | 13-6 |
| Villanova | 9-5 | 6.5 | 14-5 |
| Creighton | 6-7 | 9 | 7-10 |
| Providence | 4-10 | 11.5 | 6-13 |
| St. John's | 4-11 | 12 | 7-13 |
| Georgetown | 2-13 | 14 | 2-13 |
| Butler | 2-15 | 15 | 2-16 |
| Xavier | 1-8 | 12 | 4-9 |
