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Jamel Thomas Leads Friars to Sixth Straight Win
6/21/1999 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
December 5, 1998
PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Senior Jamel Thomas and freshman Sean Connolly combined for 48 points and Thomas turned in his third double-double of the season as the Providence College Friars jumped out to an early lead and never looked back in an 81-60 win over crosstown rivals, Brown.
Thomas equalled a season high with 30 points and added ten rebounds while Connolly had a career high 18 points on seven-for-11 shooting from the floor. Both had four three-pointers in the game with Thomas getting his on his first four shots of the night. Llewellyn Cole was also in double figures for the Friars with 10 points off the bench.
Brown got 16 points from Kamal Rountree, 11 from Travis Brown and ten from Patrick Nee as the Bears fall to 0-8 on the season. The win was the Friars' sixth in a row which improves PC to 6-2 on the year. It is the Friars longest winning streak since January of 1997 when that team won six straight twice on the way to the Elite Eight.
Brown opened the game in a zone and Thomas came out shooting drilling three straight three pointers for a quick 9-2 lead. Connolly followed with his first three, Cole scored on a layup, Thomas hit his fourth three and Connolly followed with his second to make it 20-8 with 10:42 left in the first half.
The lead would get as high as 24 points and the teams went into the intermission with PC on top, 42-23 and Thomas had 22 points to pace the Friars' first half attack.
Providence would lead by as many as 27 (81-54 with 3:06 left) and coasted to the 81-60 final score. Justin Farley and Lou Cole combined for 18 points of the bench with 11 rebounds. Farley had eight points and six boards while Cole was scoring ten with five rebounds.
The Friars shot 50% for the game (30 of 60) and made nine of 26 threes (34.6%). Brown shot just 42.3% (22-52) and made five of 18 threes for a 27.8% efficiency.
Providence opens the BIG EAST schedule on Tuesday, December 8th when Notre Dame comes to town for a 7:30 p.m. game at the Providence Civic Center.
FRIAR NOTES....PC has now won seven straight in the series against Brown and leads the all-time series, 83-24...PC is 31-3 in the last 34 games played between the two schools...Jamel Thomas' 22 first half points were a career best for him in one half...He has now scored 1,513 points and is just seven behind John Thompson (1,520) for ninth and 20 behind Austin Croshere (1,523) for eighth all-time...PC had 22 assists in the game with John Linehan and Corey Wright leading the way with five each...PC had its largest rebounding margin of the season against Brown pulling down 37 to 27 for the visiting Bears....
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