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[QUOTE="freescooter, post: 3741160, member: 1023"]
First of all PC wasn’t even in a conference until the Big East. So they wouldn’t have lots of championships. Secondly, they were college basketball in New England from the 50s through the 70s. They played the national schedule and played it to win while the Yankee Conference teams were the equivalents of the current MAAC ON THE NATIONAL scene. At various times others made runs, Holy Cross in the Cousy as player era and a bit later. BC in the Cousy as coach era and a bit later. But throughout Providence was the program they had to beat. Plus they were NIT Champs when that, not the NCAA was considered the more prestigious title. Teams, especially eastern ones, often chose the NIT over the NCAA if they got invites to both. PC won it twice and got to the Finals at least one other time maybe twice. I read somewhere that Cousy’s BC team one year choosing the NCAA tournament because they thought it would be easier to make a run than the NIT.

I don’t think much of PCs program any more. They will and do struggle to seriously compete at a national level.  But historically they were New England basketball
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