There is still this little thing called the game. It’s tonight. It’s at Providence. Frankly, I’m not sure of my status by then. There’s a hideous bug running through the household. It has laid-out everyone in its path, and I’m next. I’m just trying to get stuff done before I end up passed out on the bathroom floor.

Later today, I’ll have the results of a Q&A with Friarsblog.com.

For Providence, it is about facing the #1 team.  A team that sure seems scary when someone else writes about them.

No one seems to be giving Providence much of a chance despite being above .500 in the conference. Perhaps that is because they just have won and lost the games that were expected.

Throughout the Big East schedule, the Friars have fought through a remarkably predictable, and frustrating, series of results. Providence has beaten the teams it’s supposed to beat and has lost to the teams that are rated higher. The lone exception was an upset of No. 15 Syracuse last month.

Throw out that win over the Orange and the Friars haven’t surprised anyone else. They certainly threw scares into both Marquette and Villanova, but couldn’t close the door in either game. An opportunity to beat back a surging Notre Dame team on Saturday was also lost with the Irish draining 13 3-pointers and running past the Friars, 103-84.

The problem is that if PC continues to follow this expected form, the Friars’ season will end in three weeks without an NCAA Tournament berth. Even a spot in the National Invitation Tournament is far from assured.

Asked about his teams’ inability to spring another major upset, especially on its home court, coach Keno Davis agreed that the season has played out unconventionally.

“It’s easy to go through your schedule and say these are the games you should win and these are the games you’re probably going to lose. It rarely works out that way,” the first-year PC coach said. “It just for some reason has for us this year.”

Just one of those oddities of absolutely no oddity.

It’s senior night for the Friars. Time to honor some players that have shown flashes individually, but never put it together as a team.

The point is, you can make a case for all of them individually.

But collectively?

Collectively, it gets more complicated.

Their legacy figures to be that they underachieved.

But is that accurate?

You look at some of the individual seniors — Efejuku and McDermott — and I can’t help but think that they have been players that most teams would want to have. McDermott has battled against bigs his whole career in the Big East and held his own. Efejuku can be inconsistent, but so clearly has some talent. Same with a junior like Sharaud Curry.

Back to Pitt, is it any surprise that part of how Sam Young snapped out of his slump was to hit the gym a little harder.

So when Young went 2 for 11 from the field against Notre Dame on Jan. 31 to prolong a two-week slump, you knew where to find him. At Petersen Events Center, morning, afternoon and night.

It’s no surprise Young is shooting 60.6 percent from the field in the past six games.

Young was asked how he made the turnaround. He gave an answer training camp football fans will appreciate: “Three-a-days,” he said.

As long as the knees stay strong.