Last Sunday's ACC opening round game at Duke was supposed to herald the end of days for the 2023-2024 Boston College women's basketball season. The five-game winning streak that sent the Eagles into an 11-day break prior to the trip to Durham was a thing of the distant past compared to the more recent perception of an uphill battle associated with league play, and the Blue Devils returned Reigan Richardson and Kennedy Brown, who each had led different pieces of the dominant blowout from a year ago. Throw in the added transfer of former BC point guard Taina Mair, and the experts all predicted a crash back to earth for the gritty Eagles who destroyed UMass-Lowell, UMass, Siena, Stonehill and Bryant.
Eagles Emerge As Dark Horse Candidate After Gritty Duke Defeat
