Kaylah Ivey hit an unlikely snag before her junior season at Boston College.
She'd joined a national championship contender at the height of COVID-19's overall impact on college athletics, but she'd muscled through two seasons of playing the backup role to the Eagles' star guards. She'd been, in many ways, groomed to assume the starting role, and she began filling shoes by slowly moving into a featured position. The sporadic player from the pandemic-impacted season of 2020-2021 was on the floor for the closing minutes of BC's run through the WNIT in 2022, and she'd been the player who nailed Cameron Swartz with a pass that left the senior sharpshooter with an opportunity for a last second three-point attempt to tie the Eagles' Quarterfinal loss to Columbia.