GEORGE TOWN, Grand Cayman -- Oops, they did it again.
It was hard to envision how Boston College could produce an encore to Monday night's overtime win over Missouri state. The pure drama generated by first blowing an 11-point lead before coming-from-behind to erase a six-point deficit in the game's extra time was something out of a script writer's dream.
Yet as time wound down in the second half of Tuesday's championship game against Boise State, the Eagles found themselves punching with their basketball lives backed into a corner. Their foul shooting mysteriously disappeared into the island's tradewinds in the final two minutes, and with 12 seconds remaining, a kicking foul swapped a 60-59 lead for a 61-60 deficit after Alvaro Cardenas made both of his double bonus free throw attempts.