Eagles Host Harvard Sunday Afternoon

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BC-HARVARD MEET ON SUNDAY
• Boston College will host Harvard on Sunday at 12:30 p.m. inside Conte Forum.
• The game will be televised on ESPNU and can be heard on the radio on WEEI 850 AM and bceagles.com.
• Boston College snapped a six-game losing streak against the Crimson with a 64-57 overtime win last season in Conte Forum.
• The Eagles have started 2-0 for the first time since the 2009-10 season.
• Harvard is 1-2 in its first three outings and most recently lost to UMass at home on Tuesday, 69-63.

CARTER, ROBINSON LEAD THE WAY AGAIN AGAINST CENTRAL CONNECTICUT
• Graduate student Eli Carter led Boston College with 18 points and five assists as the Eagles beat Central Connecticut, 82-57, on Thursday night.
• Carter scored 16 of those points in the second half.
• Freshman Jerome Robinson filled the stat sheet up again with 15 points, four rebounds, four assists and three steals. He was 7-for-11 from the field.
• Freshman Matt Milon scored 11 points, going 3-for-5 from beyond the arc.
• Senior Dennis Clifford recorded nine points and nine rebounds.
• Central Connecticut led for the bulk of the first 13 minutes and had a 20-17 lead at the 8:42 mark.
• Boston College then went on a 16-2 run over 4:33 to take a 33-22 lead with 3:23 left in the half. Milon capped the run with consecutive 3-pointers.
• The Eagles took a 45-33 lead into halftime, outscoring CCSU 28-13 in the final eight minutes.
• Boston College held a 55-45 lead and then went on a 21-1 run over 10 minutes to build a 76-46 advantage with 5:45 left in the game.
• CCSU was held scoreless for nearly eight minutes during that stretch.

LAST TIME vs. HARVARD
• Olivier Hanlan had game highs with 17 points and eight rebounds as Boston College beat Harvard in overtime, 64-57, on January 14, 2015 at Conte Forum.
• Patrick Heckmann added 14 points, including nine in the overtime period.
• Dennis Clifford recorded his first career double-double, going for 13 points and 10 rebounds.
• Aaron Brown added 12 points, seven rebounds and four assists.
• With the lead at 15-8, the Eagles went on a 10-2 run to make it a 25-10 advantage with 8:07 left in the half. Brown had matched Harvard as a team with 10 points for the first 12:04 of the game.
• BC took a 30-19 lead into the locker room.
• Harvard started the second half by scoring the first five points to make it a 30-24 game, but BC responded with five of its own to push the lead back to 11 points.
• The Crimson then went on a 15-4 run over a span of almost nine minutes to tie it up, 39-39, with 6:54 left. It was the first tie since 2-2.
• Harvard took its first lead of the game, 43-41, with an Evan Cummings dunk at the 5:23 mark.
• The teams traded buckets down to the end of regulation. Brown hit a layup with 19 seconds left to send the game into overtime.
• With Boston College holding a 56-54 lead in overtime, the Eagles went on a 6-1 run to take a 62-55 lead with 17 seconds left. Heckmann had five of the points in that span.

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Players Mentioned

Aaron Brown

Eli Carter

Dennis Clifford

Olivier Hanlan

Patrick Heckmann

Matt Milon

Jerome Robinson