Just to add to the history between the two schools, outside the Big East there isn't any. PC wouldn't play UConn pre-Big East. Once in a while PC would beat UConn and it was national news. And once in awhile PC fans would throw a fake schlong on the floor. That never seemed to make the papers.
That’s true out trajectory seldom seemed to interface
Holy Cross was a bigger out of conferences game probably for both of us.
Then Providence had a peak with guys like Jonny Egan and Lennie Wilkins , Marvin Barnes, and Ernie Degregorio even making a final four
After UConn upset them in the ECAC tourney they only a few brief surges most notably under Rick Pitino with Billy Donavan
They were seldom a force in the Big East with even Perno Teams having some success.
They had some good players but success in the old Big East wasn’t an easy task.They also got up for UConn and scored some notable success angainst good UConn teams