Joanna Bernabei-McNamee understood that this season centered around shifting and growing her Boston College women's basketball program. The center-based, run-and-gun offense first installed during the team's breakout to national tournament contention found new life in the aftermath of Emma Guy's graduation and departure, but remaining malleable to roster changes was a hallmark of the sixth-year head coach's regime.
She was flexible enough to ensure square pegs and round holes blended into new shapes, but nothing deviated from the pillars and values initially installed during the Eagles' pre-Covid era. Toughness and grit could vacillate between players recruited to perform at certain positions, but the current era's climate required BC to break cleanly from its past reputation.