BOSTON UNIVERSITY TERRIERS 3-5 (0-0 Patriot)
Last Season: 12-19 (5-13 PL, 8th); Postseason 1-1 Patriot League Tournament, No postseason
Massey 301 (UNC 22); NCAA NET 266 (UNC 13); Torvik 287 (UNC 10)
Sunday noon’s game is against the Boston U. Terriers at Carmichael. BU is 3-5 on the season, and is not ranked. Carolina is AP 11 and Coaches 10. For this game, UNC is a huge favorite: 44 points favorite according to Massey, 33 points by Nolan and 41 points according to Torvik. BU and UNC have never played.
Wikipedia advises readers not to confuse Boston U with Boston College. OK then. Boston U. is a private school in Fenway, south of the Charles. It has a sprawling campus and has about 38,000 students neatly divided 50-50 between undergrads and grads. They have 13 women’s sports, with one of the best-regarded being ice hockey. It was founded by the United Methodists but is no longer directly affiliated. Research is important and indeed, one researcher was Speech Professor Alexander Graham Bell. More recently, it is the alma mater of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the administration’s favorite Democrat.
Boston College we know much more about, since we play them every year since they joined the ACC. It is in Chestnut Hill and has 15,000 students, 60% undergrads. BU and BC play often in WBB, 28 meetings I think, with BC leading 16-12. BC was founded by the Jesuits.
BU dropped football in 1997 and has focused attention on the Olympic sports. However, for BU fans who crave a football fix, they can cross the Charles, visit Chestnut Hill, and leave an offering at the statue of Doug Flutie.
The Terriers opened the season with a home loss to Quinnipiac 55-65, then another home loss to Dartmouth 50-52. BU then grabbed a win with Beantown rival Northeastern 61-57. A trip to West Haven netted a win 65-58 with New Haven. The winning streak was short-lived as a loss at the Ivy’s Brown followed 54-57. A home game with UMass Lowell was a 50-47 win, but the last two games, home with Bryant 56-83 and away with Maine 45-54, were losses.
Boston did lose its leading scorer but otherwise returned 13 letter-winners including 4 starters. Starting every game so far is Bella McLaughlin, a 5-8 junior PG (7.4 ppg/3.6 rpg) who is the team leader in assists and steals. Size is provided by Estonia’s Anete Adler, a 6-5 senior C (12.2/5.0). Audrey Ericksen, a 6-0 junior G (6.8/3.6) is a two-year returning starter and a three-point threat (44.4%) She is from Cary.
Allison Schwertner, a 6-3 sophomore F (5.2/5.1) started the first seven games but was 6th player in the Maine game. The previous 6th player was Russia’s Anastasiia Semenova (5.4/4.0) who was promoted to starter against Maine. She was on IR last season. Yes, the double “ii” in Anastasiia is correct. For the last six games, the final starter has been Icelander Hildur Gunnsteinsdóttir, a 5-10 sophomore G (5.4). She too can be a three-point threat: .462 ranking 5rth in the Patriot. (I assume here that most fans know that the “dóttir” ending just means “daughter”, in this case the daughter of Gunnstein.)
Three other players will see time. These are Inés Monteagudo Pardo, a Spanish 5-11 junior G (4.8 ppg), Taylor Williams, a 5-8 sophomore G (1.8 ppg), and Rose Azmoudeh, a 5-9 sophomore G (4.4 ppg). Rose is a transfer from Austin Peay. Her name notwithstanding she is from Long Island.
BU has injuries as well, and since no one thinks it important to report on this we have no idea if Inez Gallegos, a 6-0 sophomore F, Aoibhe Gormley, a 5-8 junior G, or Aina Crane Torres, a 6-0 junior G, will or can play. Gormley was a regular last season as the backup PG.
We do know that Sisi Bentley, a 6-0 junior F who started 19 games a year ago, returned for game 6. Last year she was one of the team’s leading rebounders and a 50% shooter from the floor.
The five players rounding out the 15-woman roster have accumulated 19 minutes of action, total. Thirteen of those minutes were against Bryant when that game had gotten away from the Terriers, If we see them in the UNC game hopefully it will be for the same reason.
BC is not a high scoring team (54.5 ppg) but they have decent numbers on 3-pointers, 33.6% on 46 of 137. Carolina by comparison scores 79.4 ppg and is at .353 on threes (84 of 238). Most other stats favor UNC, except FT% (surprise, surprise) .635 for UNC and .673 for BU.
The Head Coach is Melissa Graves, in year #5. Her record is 76-59. They are also 44-28 in Patriot competition. She was Patriot COY in 2023. Graves is a former assistant at Wake Forest and before that at Yale. She is a Notre Dame graduate where, as Melissa d’Amico she played Center for HOF coach Muffet McGraw. In that capacity she scored 6 points against UNC in the 2007 NCAA. It would seem LaToya Pringle Sanders had the better of that with a 10/11 double-double. Hope Melissa isn’t bearing a grudge.
In Carolina’s most recent game, UNC had two bad quarters, 2nd and 3rd, in which they were outscored by 22 points, erasing a 5-point 1st quarter lead. Of course, BU is not Texas. Still, 20 turnovers and 2-11 on threes, usually Tar Heel strengths, were too much. Nothing like that is expected on Sunday. Also, it will be Carolina’s home game so the officiating is likely to be a bit “different”.
On a website the following was posted: UNC HAS LOST SEVEN CONSECUTIVE GAMES TO TOP FIVE OPPONENTS!!! I’m not sure of the message there. The opponents were South Carolina, once in the SEC/ACC Tournament, once in the NCAA, and once in an exhibition game; UConn twice in a home-and-away, UCLA and Texas. Is UNC not to play teams ranked above them?
The game is 12:00 EST. The ACCN has the broadcast with GoHeels providing a radio option through On Demand.
Last Season: 12-19 (5-13 PL, 8th); Postseason 1-1 Patriot League Tournament, No postseason
Massey 301 (UNC 22); NCAA NET 266 (UNC 13); Torvik 287 (UNC 10)
Sunday noon’s game is against the Boston U. Terriers at Carmichael. BU is 3-5 on the season, and is not ranked. Carolina is AP 11 and Coaches 10. For this game, UNC is a huge favorite: 44 points favorite according to Massey, 33 points by Nolan and 41 points according to Torvik. BU and UNC have never played.
Wikipedia advises readers not to confuse Boston U with Boston College. OK then. Boston U. is a private school in Fenway, south of the Charles. It has a sprawling campus and has about 38,000 students neatly divided 50-50 between undergrads and grads. They have 13 women’s sports, with one of the best-regarded being ice hockey. It was founded by the United Methodists but is no longer directly affiliated. Research is important and indeed, one researcher was Speech Professor Alexander Graham Bell. More recently, it is the alma mater of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC), the administration’s favorite Democrat.
Boston College we know much more about, since we play them every year since they joined the ACC. It is in Chestnut Hill and has 15,000 students, 60% undergrads. BU and BC play often in WBB, 28 meetings I think, with BC leading 16-12. BC was founded by the Jesuits.
BU dropped football in 1997 and has focused attention on the Olympic sports. However, for BU fans who crave a football fix, they can cross the Charles, visit Chestnut Hill, and leave an offering at the statue of Doug Flutie.
The Terriers opened the season with a home loss to Quinnipiac 55-65, then another home loss to Dartmouth 50-52. BU then grabbed a win with Beantown rival Northeastern 61-57. A trip to West Haven netted a win 65-58 with New Haven. The winning streak was short-lived as a loss at the Ivy’s Brown followed 54-57. A home game with UMass Lowell was a 50-47 win, but the last two games, home with Bryant 56-83 and away with Maine 45-54, were losses.
Boston did lose its leading scorer but otherwise returned 13 letter-winners including 4 starters. Starting every game so far is Bella McLaughlin, a 5-8 junior PG (7.4 ppg/3.6 rpg) who is the team leader in assists and steals. Size is provided by Estonia’s Anete Adler, a 6-5 senior C (12.2/5.0). Audrey Ericksen, a 6-0 junior G (6.8/3.6) is a two-year returning starter and a three-point threat (44.4%) She is from Cary.
Allison Schwertner, a 6-3 sophomore F (5.2/5.1) started the first seven games but was 6th player in the Maine game. The previous 6th player was Russia’s Anastasiia Semenova (5.4/4.0) who was promoted to starter against Maine. She was on IR last season. Yes, the double “ii” in Anastasiia is correct. For the last six games, the final starter has been Icelander Hildur Gunnsteinsdóttir, a 5-10 sophomore G (5.4). She too can be a three-point threat: .462 ranking 5rth in the Patriot. (I assume here that most fans know that the “dóttir” ending just means “daughter”, in this case the daughter of Gunnstein.)
Three other players will see time. These are Inés Monteagudo Pardo, a Spanish 5-11 junior G (4.8 ppg), Taylor Williams, a 5-8 sophomore G (1.8 ppg), and Rose Azmoudeh, a 5-9 sophomore G (4.4 ppg). Rose is a transfer from Austin Peay. Her name notwithstanding she is from Long Island.
BU has injuries as well, and since no one thinks it important to report on this we have no idea if Inez Gallegos, a 6-0 sophomore F, Aoibhe Gormley, a 5-8 junior G, or Aina Crane Torres, a 6-0 junior G, will or can play. Gormley was a regular last season as the backup PG.
We do know that Sisi Bentley, a 6-0 junior F who started 19 games a year ago, returned for game 6. Last year she was one of the team’s leading rebounders and a 50% shooter from the floor.
The five players rounding out the 15-woman roster have accumulated 19 minutes of action, total. Thirteen of those minutes were against Bryant when that game had gotten away from the Terriers, If we see them in the UNC game hopefully it will be for the same reason.
BC is not a high scoring team (54.5 ppg) but they have decent numbers on 3-pointers, 33.6% on 46 of 137. Carolina by comparison scores 79.4 ppg and is at .353 on threes (84 of 238). Most other stats favor UNC, except FT% (surprise, surprise) .635 for UNC and .673 for BU.
The Head Coach is Melissa Graves, in year #5. Her record is 76-59. They are also 44-28 in Patriot competition. She was Patriot COY in 2023. Graves is a former assistant at Wake Forest and before that at Yale. She is a Notre Dame graduate where, as Melissa d’Amico she played Center for HOF coach Muffet McGraw. In that capacity she scored 6 points against UNC in the 2007 NCAA. It would seem LaToya Pringle Sanders had the better of that with a 10/11 double-double. Hope Melissa isn’t bearing a grudge.
In Carolina’s most recent game, UNC had two bad quarters, 2nd and 3rd, in which they were outscored by 22 points, erasing a 5-point 1st quarter lead. Of course, BU is not Texas. Still, 20 turnovers and 2-11 on threes, usually Tar Heel strengths, were too much. Nothing like that is expected on Sunday. Also, it will be Carolina’s home game so the officiating is likely to be a bit “different”.
On a website the following was posted: UNC HAS LOST SEVEN CONSECUTIVE GAMES TO TOP FIVE OPPONENTS!!! I’m not sure of the message there. The opponents were South Carolina, once in the SEC/ACC Tournament, once in the NCAA, and once in an exhibition game; UConn twice in a home-and-away, UCLA and Texas. Is UNC not to play teams ranked above them?
The game is 12:00 EST. The ACCN has the broadcast with GoHeels providing a radio option through On Demand.
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