Editor’s note: This article is part of the Bracket Central series, an inside look at the run-up to the men’s and women’s NCAA Tournaments, along with analysis and picks during the tournaments.
Conference tournament week is special. Teams just completely forget who they are or redefine themselves on the fly in hopes of a late push to the tourney, and I love that.
Boston College staged an incredibly improbable comeback in the first round of the ACC tournament against Syracuse. Oh, and that was the same Syracuse team BC lost to by 25 points last weekend to close the regular season, I might add.
Watch Dontavia Waggoner, who finished with a career-high 32 points as well.
MY GOODNESSS 😳
📺 @BC_WBB x @accnetwork pic.twitter.com/0P4mTjk3hM
— ACC Women’s Basketball (@accwbb) March 5, 2025
This is what March is about, the unexpected spectacular.
Though the Eagles fell to North Carolina the next day, they gave the Tar Heels one heck of a fight, dragging the game into deep waters. For about 24 glorious hours, Boston College found another gear and played some of its best basketball of the season.
In these back-against-the-wall moments of March, we get the full-circle moments of a 30-plus-game journey for teams, which spiderweb into over 100 games for those senior classes that…
