According to Friars.com, Ryan Gomes came back to PC’s campus for the first time in several years.

“All of these facilities are first-class,” Gomes said. “The lockerrooms, the offices, the Hallway of Legends, the sports medicine facility and the strength and conditioning complex have all been renovated and are state-of-the art. I wish I still had some eligibility left. This program has everything a player needs to get prepared for BIG EAST competition and the next level.”

Of course, if you are following Keno Davis on Twitter, you would have seen this yesterday.

So far, Keno has been posting some great stuff over on the Twitter to keep us Friar fans in the loop.

If any Friar fans still have any reserverations about this whole Twitter nonsense, here is a good reason to join — Coach Keno Davis has signed up!

Click here for his Twitter page and be sure to follow him!

Welcome to Twitter Keno, can’t wait to see how you use the service!

Crap, missed this one.  As part of their 65 chats in 65 days, Ryan Gomes answered people’s questions on Wednesday.

NBA’s 65 in 65: Ryan Gomes

Some PC questions made it in..

Steven (NJ): What is your favorite moment of your career?

Ryan Gomes: When we made it to the NCAA tournament in college and starting my first game in the NBA.

Ant Feds - New Haven: Go Friars! What about your Providence career has best prepared you for the NBA?

Ryan Gomes: I think just playing in the Big East. Playing against all these great teams and having good competition was good for me.

As you may have noticed, things have been pretty quiet around here since the end of the season.  It’s not that Friarblog has given up on his beloved Friars, it’s just that he is not accustomed to following college basketball in the month of May.  Recruiting is obviously the dominating talk in the spring/summer, so the information is limited for me.  Perhaps I can give a weekly update on that front?

In other big news, I FINALLY GOT A RYAN GOMES BOBBLEHEAD!!!  How you ask?  The wonderful world of Twitter.  I know Twitter is the latest buzzword that seemingly everyone is talking about, but every day I find another interesting use for it.  Friarblog has had an account since the beginning of the site (FOLLOW FRIARBLOG ON TWITTER), and during the season I interacted with a bunch of great Friar fans.  A few months ago, the PC Athletics office jumped into the world of Twitter and they have done an excellent job.  In addition to syndicating their newsfeed and promoting PC sports, they held a trivia contest throughout the month of April.  Every few days they gave a question about various PC teams and the answer was somewhere on Friars.com.  It was definitely fun, and at the end of the month I held on to the lead.  A few days later, I had a Ryan Gomes bobblehead on my front steps!  Twitter FTW.

What is Twitter?  It’s hard to pin down an exact definition, because there are so many ways to use.  It’s basically a messaging service with each message having a 140 character limit.  You can post from the web, your cell phone, a desktop app.  You can Interact with friends, live post during a game, promote something.  Also, with trends and search, you can see what others are talking about THIS SECOND.

If you are not on Twitter yet and want to get started here are a few quick tips:

1.  It helps if you start by following some people you know.  Most people sign up, post an update and just give up.  Start interacting with people from the get-go!

2.  Get a desktop app (I use Seesmic).  Using Twitter on the web is kinda clunky.  With a desktop app, you can automatically get updates and get notified when someone replies to you.

3.  Find people!  WeFollow is a Twitter directory so you can find users by categories.

So, If you are on Twitter, follow these guys!

* Friarblog - not much activity lately, but will rock out during the season!

* PCAthletics - official account of PC Athletics

* davidpean - My personal account.  I like TV and Baseball.  Yankees fans, hit me up! Red Sox fans, get bent! :)

* DunkinDonuts - just because!

LEAVE YOUR TWITTER USERNAME IN THE COMMENTS!

Alex Kellogg Leaves Men’s Basketball Team

Providence College men’s basketball coach Keno Davis announced today that student-athlete Alex Kellogg (Columbus, Ohio) has left the men’s basketball team. Kellogg, a sophomore, played in 19 games this season for the Friars.

“Alex is interested in pursuing other options,” Davis said. “He is a hard working young man who gave us a great effort on and off the court. He has a bright future ahead of him and we wish him the best.”

Well, not much of a surprise here, as Alex was probably not going to see much playing time next year.  Best of luck to the young man.

Not sure what this does to the whole scholarship situation.  Is it too late to get another player for next year?  Or will Keno just have to wait for the ‘10-11 season…Hey, Seth Curry is transfering! :)

H/T XSkiX598

Many scoffed at Keno Davis after reading this quote after the brutal 103-84 Notre Dame home loss.

“If we can somehow find a way to beat [Pittsburgh on Tuesday], people will probably forget about this game pretty quickly.”

Keno Davis via Projo.com

And forget we did.

Among all the amazing pictures fans sent in of “The Court Storm”, this screengrab from SNY is my winner for photo of the year (narrowly edging out the Female Friar Fanatic texting during foul shots).

Watching Jonathan Kale embrace Geoff McDermott in the sea of people definitely made my eyes water.

Without question, here is the video of the year.  Still gives me goosebumps.

Trying to think of all the best plays that occurred over the past 5 months is kind of difficult (especially since I can’t remember what I had for dinner last night).  What do you think the play of the year was?

I’ll throw some out off the top of my head

• McDermott’s two foul shots to beat URI
• Xavier’s nail in the coffin three against Pitt
• Curry’s threes againt Nova in the first loss
• Jeff Xavier’s three against Rutgers at Rutgers
• Last night Marshon had an awesome dunk after he got his own rebound
• There’s been a few good alleyoops to Brian McKenzie (!)

What does everyone think?  Anyone have a better memory than me?  Can we count the Pitt court storm as a “play”??

I will take some submissions and put up a poll.