The Boston College women’s basketball team played its first game of the season tonight, defeating Lafayette by a score of 85-55. Here are some key takeaways from BC’s opening matchup…
The Eagles got off to a slow start: Things looked dicey for the Eagles early in the game. They started out by missing a pair of free throws, and in the first quarter they went 4-for-17 from the floor and 1-for-4 from the charity stripe. Lafayette led 14-9 after the first 19 minutes of play, and BC led by just 5 points at halftime. Hopefully the slow start was just the Eagles shaking off the offseason cobwebs and not a sign of things to come, because they can’t count on making up the difference in the second half once they start playing tougher opponents.