CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- Jaeden Zackery walked into the postgame press conference on Tuesday and absentmindedly looked at the laptop on the table in front of him. A Zoom meeting was up and running to allow outside media to ask questions alongside the reporters who attended Boston College's 70-63 win over Notre Dame in person. He looked directly into the camera and shifted his eyes to the meeting, and without thinking, he did something that even he had no idea he did.
He adjusted his hair.
The move went unnoticed by the participants, but Zackery's simple move and smile illustrated the difference between a player who struggled against Syracuse and the one who scored 18 points in 37 minutes against one of the Eagles' biggest conference rivals.