PROVIDENCE -- The names just slip off the tongue -- Sean Connolly, Leland Anderson, Jamal Camah, Donta Wade, Donnell Allick, Leon Brisport. All former Friars with checkered pasts, undistinguished careers.

There are even names of most recent vintage, Anthony Ivory, Quinten Hosley, Gerald Brown, JaJuan Robinson -- more unfulfilled promises, hopes and dreams.

When the Providence College Friars were profiled in a preseason basketball expose about the rigors of recruiting by Sports Illustrated, little did coach Tim Welsh know that the inexact science of selecting players might eventually lead to his team's downfall this season.

Two players who were supposed to arrive on campus never did. Another pair left early in the season for personal reasons. Fourteen wins, four in the Big East Conference, banishment from the postseason tournament in the first round for the sixth time over seven seasons and no postseason appearance.