New Generation Grabs First Brass Ring In First Round Win

For the past four years, Boston College women's basketball searched for the spark to carry the program back to the postseason. It relied on the team's experience in big moments and the learned, acquired database of disappointments and defeats that amassed along the way. Whether legitimate or existential, the Eagles knew they'd come close to the mountaintop over the past four years, and last year, their loss to Florida State in the ACC Tournament carried the withering knowledge that the dream of an NCAA Tournament likely died on the court in Greensboro two years after a world-changing pandemic robbed the era's foundational heroes of its initial opportunity.