KYRON CARTWRIGHT SCORED 17 POINTS AND MADE FIVE ASSISTS, RODNEY BULLOCK ADDED 16 POINTS WITH 10 REBOUNDS, AND PROVIDENCE PULLED AWAY LATE TO BEAT XAVIER 75-63 ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
TRAILING BY TWO AT HALFTIME, CARTWRIGHT TIED IT AT 33 WITH A TIP-IN AND PROVIDENCE LED 37-36 ON HIS JUMPER. XAVIER'S KAISER GATES TIED IT AT 39 WITH A 3-POINTER BEFORE PROVIDENCE PULLED AHEAD 47-41 AFTER JALEN LINDSEY HIT TWO 3S AMID AN 11-2 RUN. BULLOCK HIT BACK-TO-BACK JUMPERS AND THE FRIARS LED BY NINE AFTER ISAIAH JACKSON'S LAYUP, BY 13 AFTER WHITE'S CONSECUTIVE LAYUPS, AND BY 18 AFTER JACKSON'S JUMPER WITH 2:51 TO GO.
LINDSEY ADDED 13 POINTS WITH THREE 3-POINTERS FOR THE FRIARS (16-11, 6-8 BIG EAST), WHO WERE OUTREBOUNDED 44-29 BUT SCORED 18 POINTS OFF OF 17 XAVIER TURNOVERS. RASHID GASTON SCORED 19 POINTS AND GRABBED 14 REBOUNDS FOR XAVIER (18-8, 8-5), WHO HAVE LOST TWO STRAIGHT.