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Sunday, March 17, 2024

GoLocalProv News Team

Sunday was a day of disappointment for the four Division I men’s basketball teams in Rhode Island.

PROVIDENCE COLLEGE

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Providence College, which lost on Friday night against Marquette, sealed its fate.

The Friars needed a run to the Big East tournament final to nab an NCAA bid.

PC now waits to learn who and where they play in the NIT.

BROWN UNIVERSITY

No one had a more painful Sunday than the Brown Bears, who were leading Yale in the Ivy League Championship by four with 15 seconds left, but failing to hit free throws in the final couple of minutes cost the Bears dearly.

Matt Knowling’s one-handed floater at the buzzer lifted Yale to a thrilling 62-61 victory over Brown in the championship game.

The shot and the win sends the Bulldogs to the NCAA Tournament as the Ivy League’s automatic qualifier. Yale is headed to March Madness for the third time in the last four seasons.

“I just wanted to put myself by the basket in case of a miss,” said Knowling, a senior. “We were trying to get a play for someone else, but they found me. I didn’t think I was going to be that open. I work on that shot every day. I didn’t overthink it, I just let it go and it went in.”

Yale trailed by six, 54-48, with three minutes remaining but rallied. August Mahoney hit a pair of three-pointers and Poulakidas drilled one to spark the comeback. Still, the Bulldogs were down six with 27 seconds remaining.

Brown finished 13-18 on the season.

UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND

It was painful for the URI Rams that #6 seed Duquesne, in the Atlantic 10 tournament, went on a run and won the conference championship.

URI finished 12-20 on the season

BRYANT UNIVERSITY

Bryant had lost the semis of their conference playoff to the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.

The Bulldogs finished 20-13 despite the coaching chaos, Jared Grasso’s resignation, and Phil Martelli, Jr.’s emergence.

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