With the holidays behind us, students soon returning to campus and the ACC slate fully underway, we are officially back. Unfortunately, the return to play has not been very kind to the Eagles. Since dismantling an overmatched Lehigh team over break, they lost two heartbreaker swing games to Wake Forest and Syracuse (the latter of which was maybe the worst game of basketball I’ve seen from BC) sandwiched around a victory against Georgia Tech that required turning around a 13-point deficit. Let’s get into it:
- The defense is losing its grit:
Three years into Earl Grant’s tenure, the mantra “gritty, not pretty” has become his teams’ calling card and the basis around which BC plays.