According to Josh Graham on Twitter, the Providence mascot spent roughly five minutes staring at a wall after tonight’s loss to Kentucky.
Graham snapped a picture of the mascot and said, “with the lord as my witness, the Providence mascot was just outside the media work room staring at a wall for close to five minutes. I’m shaken.”
Here’s the picture:
With the lord as my witness, the Providence mascot was just outside the media work room staring at a wall for close to five minutes.
I’m shaken. pic.twitter.com/8StPc7TUyG
— Josh Graham (@JoshGrahamRadio) March 18, 2023
In case you’re asking yourself, “what in the heck is a Friar anyways?”
This from Wikipedia:
The nickname “Friars” dates back to 1929, when a Providence Journal article used the nickname in reference to the baseball team. Previously, the teams were variously known as “The Black and White” or “Dominicans.” The Friars nickname comes from the short-form nickname of the Dominican Order, the “Blackfriars.” There have been several versions of the Friar Dom mascot throughout the years, with the most recent dating to the 2000s. In 2017 the Friars reintroduced a costumed dalmatian mascot as a companion to Friar Dom; a prior version had existed in the late 1990s. Both are based on the traditional dalmatian mascot of both the college and the Dominican Order in general; dalmatians have been called “the watchdogs of the Lord.” The most recent live dalmatian mascot on campus was Friar Boy V, who died in 2004.
