CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. -- The game was over.
Blake Wesley had given Notre Dame a two-point lead. Thirteen seconds remained in the second half. The Purcell Pavilion crowd was rabid, and the first place Fighting Irish anticipated a raucous celebration. Boston College had been plucky and feisty, but the upstart Eagles were about to befall their fate.
It bore repeating in the moment: the game was over.
Until it wasn't.
Makai Ashton-Langford's coast-to-coast, fastbreak drive off the inbounding pass was as true as any of the Eagles' previous 32 made field goals, and that Joyce Center crowd went curiously quiet as the BC bench replaced its cheers with its own shouts.