JJ Conroy
BeanTownSports Blog
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about Boston College basketball. As you may recall, I have said this is a program, that while it may improve, will NEVER contest for the top spots in the ACC. They simply can NOT compete with the likes of Duke, Syracuse, Florida State, Notre Dame, Pittsburgh, and Louisville. I would include North Carolina in this list, but they’re having an uncharacteristically disastrous season…but in the long-term they will consistently top the Eagles. Hell, you could even add Virginia and Georgia Tech to that list. And there will be years where the rest (NC State, Virginia Tech, Clemson, Miami, and Wake Forest) outdo BC. So like I said before the best they can be in the ACC is middle of the pack. If they want to be conference champs they need to drop down to a lower-tier conference. Maybe the Big East…or better yet, the Atlantic 10 where they could finish up towards the top.
So that brings us to this season, the first in the reign of their new coach Fred Aura. To be honest, they have definitely improved over where they’ve been for a number of years so I’ll toss a bone to Aura for that. BUT…they’re still in the middle of the ACC standings…tied tor 7th to be exact. And that’s even after surprising wins over top-25 ranked Notre Dame and Syracuse. Of course, those wins were home games for the Eagles.
But before you say “JJ, they’re 5-4 in the ACC and have won 3 of their last 4”, let me tell you something. This team has got its hands full for the rest of their schedule. The next 3 games are against non-worldbeaters to be sure…BUT…the first of those is against Virginia Tech who’s been playing way over the heads all season and has been in either 1st or 2nd place in the ACC every week. And all 3 of those games are road games for BC meaning they’re likely to go 0-3. Then they end the season by playing 5 of their final 8 conference games against top-25 ranked teams and they play one of the other 3 teams that aren’t in the top-25 on the road. So the best they’re likely to do is go 2-6 in those last 8 games. That means they’ll end the season with a 7-13 ACC record which will likely place them in the bottom third in the standings. Kind of BC’s lot in life in the ACC.
So Eagles fans, enjoy what you’ve had thus far. The Eagles are about to have their tail feather picked clean and plummet to the earth with a real hard landing like NASA’s first space launch in the early 1960s…a big crash and burn. So don’t book a flight south to watch them get roasted in their game at Virginia Tech later this week.
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