Jim Christian touted the depth of his Boston College basketball team during his preseason media day appearance, but an overall inability to witness practice first-hand cast healthy skepticism among college basketball experts. It wasn't necessarily meant as a knock against BC as much as it was an open-ended question with an unknown answer.
Nobody knew what to expect out of BC and the team's opening games only made it tougher to predict the first results. The COVID-19 pandemic shredded every team's non-conference schedule, but the Eagles wound up in the 2K Empire Classic at Mohegan Sun's Bubbleville as part of a star-studded field.