For the past 11 years, Boston College watched postseason basketball without competing in it. The Eagles witnessed champions earn crowns and visited arenas proclaiming prizes awarded to the teams ending their respective seasons with wins. They didn't sniff the opportunity to do that at Conte Forum, and as the years rolled on, they were left to wonder about that feeling as classes graduated without ever competing for championship glory.
The decade-plus felt like the drought was impossible to break, but on Thursday night, the interminable impossibility becomes reality when Boston College hosts Maine in the first round of the WNIT.