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Boston College Loses to Harvard, but Will It Affect Their Program?

 
If you like what you read here, check out more at my website Ballin' is a Habit !! So explain how this works to me. Boston College goes into Chapel Hill for their ACC opener and thoroughly outplays North Carolina, the No. 1 team in the country that was supposed to go undefeated, en route to an upset that vaults them from unranked to No. 17 in the land. Three days later, BC takes the court at home against Harvard, a school from the Ivy League...and loses? Wait, wait, wait, hold on a second. BC lost to Harvard? After beating UNC? Damnn... You know how people always talk about how one win can turn around a struggling program? Just that little bit of the national media's spotlight that comes with a big-time upset can get recruits to take notice of your school and say, "If I go here, then I will be ESPN and SportsCenter." Well, I hate to be the one to say this, but BC right now? They are a struggling program. And UNC? That was their win. BC was really good in the early 2000s, when they had the ... (link)

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