Eagles and No. 3/4 Michigan State Meet On Thanksgiving Day

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BC OPENS WOODEN LEGACY AGAINST #3/4 MICHIGAN STATE
• Boston College will take on #3/4 Michigan State on Thanksgiving Day in the opening round of the 2015 DIRECTV Wooden Legacy.
• The game will be televised on ESPN2 and can be heard on the radio on WEEI 850 AM and bceagles.com.
• Boston College has started the season 3-0 for the first time since 2008. It hasn't been 4-0 since 2007.
• The Eagles beat Harvard on Sunday, 69-56.
• Michigan State is 4-0 and most recently defeated Eastern Michigan, 89-65, on Monday night.
• The Spartans defeated then-#4 Kansas on November 17 in Chicago, 79-73.

SECOND HALF SURGE LEADS BC PAST HARVARD
• Freshman Matt Milon scored a team-high 16 points off the bench to lead BC to a 69-56 win against Harvard on Sunday afternoon at Conte Forum.
• Milon went 5-for-7 from the field and 4-for-6 from beyond the arc.
• Graduate student Eli Carter scored all 15 of his points in the second half. He also had five assists, three rebounds and two steals.
• Freshman Ervins Meznieks chipped in with 12 points and two assists off the bench. He was 3-for-5 from 3-point land.
• Senior Dennis Clifford had a career-high 12 rebounds.
• Boston College scored the first eight points of the game over the first 5:10. Freshmen A.J. Turner and Milon both hit 3-pointers in that span.
• Harvard responded with the next eight points to tie it up.
• BC led, 16-13, but the Crimson scored the final seven points of the half in the last 4:03 to take a 20-16 halftime lead.
• The Eagles started the second half with a 12-4 run to take a 28-24 lead. Carter had eight of the 12 points.
• Harvard scored the next five points to regain the lead, but a 12-2 BC run over the next 3:15 made it a 40-31 Eagle lead with 12:07 left. Milon hit a pair of 3-pointers in that spurt.
• Harvard pulled it to within five points, but the Eagles pulled away down the stretch.

CARTER MAKES INSTANT IMPACT
• Graduate student Eli Carter leads the Eagles in scoring by averaging 18.7 points per game.
• He has scored 15 or more points in all three games.
• The Paterson, N.J., product also ranks second on the team in assists (10) and third in rebounding (4.3).
• He has also gotten to the foul line more than anyone else.
• Carter ranks fifth in the ACC in scoring and eighth in steals (1.67).

HERE'S TO YOU
• Freshman Jerome Robinson has had a solid start to his collegiate career.
• He leads the team in assists (11), and ranks second in scoring (13.3) and rebounding (4.7).
• The Raleigh, N.C., product also leads the team with seven steals.
• Robinson is shooting .533 (16-for-30) from the field and he ranks third in the ACC in steals (2.33).

THE BIG MAN
• Senior Dennis Clifford has been producitve on the glass this year, securing at least nine rebounds in each game.
• It is the first time in his career that he has three-straight games of nine or more rebounds.
• The Bridgewater, Mass., product had a career-high 11 rebounds against Central Connecticut and then set a new career high with 12 vs. Harvard.
• Clifford ranks fifth in the ACC in rebounding (10.7).

MILON AND MEZNIEKS SPARK BC WIN AGAINST HARVARD
• Freshmen Matt Milon and Ervins Meznieks had their best games of their young careers on Sunday against Harvard.
• The two combined for 28 points off the bench, going 8-for-12 form the field and 7-for-11 from 3-point land.
• Milon, who is third on the team in points (9.7), scored a team-high 16 points and went 3-for-5 from long range.
• He leads the ACC in 3-point percentage (.636).
• Milon is shooting .714 (10-for-14) on the year and is .636 (7-for-11) from beyond the arc.
• Meznieks had 12 points and two assists vs. the Crimson, going 3-for-5 from three. He is fourth on the team in points (8.3) and is also shooting well. So far, he is .571 (8-for-14) from the field and .500 (6-for-12) from beyond the arc.
• He ranks eighth in the ACC in 3-point percentage (.500).

Eagles and No. 3/4 Michigan State Meet On Thanksgiving Day

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Players Mentioned

Eli Carter

Dennis Clifford

Ervins Meznieks

Matt Milon

Jerome Robinson

A.J. Turner