In another installment of a yearly tradition dating back to the 2008-09 season, Boston College will meet Harvard Wednesday night on Conte Forum in this year’s playing of the Allston-Brighton Derby.
It’s hard not to look at the Harvard game each year with expectation. With BC playing a local foe, it’s not difficult to look through the prism of local bragging rights.
If the intrigue of proximate familiarity isn’t enough to intrigue, perhaps recent history will. Harvard has been a difficult opponent to beat recently, sweeping the Donahue era, only to lose some ground during the current Jim Christian regime.