Eagles To Host Pittsburgh on Thursday Night

GAME INFORMATION
Pittsburgh (8-10, 0-5) at Boston College (12-5, 0-4)
WHEN: Thurs., Jan. 21, 2016
TIME: 7 p.m.
WHERE: Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill, Mass.
VIEW: BCEagles
PLAY-BY-PLAY: Bill Spaulding - Twitter/@BillSpaulding
COLOR: Kerri Shields (BC '13)

Boston College (12-5, 0-4) will host ACC foe Pittsburgh (8-10, 0-5) on Thursday night at 7 p.m. Fans can purchase tickets at the gate or online at bceagles.com. The game will also be streamed live at bceagles.com.

ABOUT BC

In the first four ACC games of the 2016, BC has played four ranked teams - RV/RV Virginia Tech, No. 15/19 FSU, No. 3/3 Notre Dame and No. 19/22 Duke.
The Eagles are coming off a tough loss at 19/22 Duke, 71-51, on Sunday afternoon. Junior Kelly Hughes shot 5-for-7 from the three-point arc and finished with a team-high 23 points. She notched her 1,000th career point in the third quarter on a three-pointer.
Senior Nicole Boudreau had three assists in the loss at Duke on Sunday. She now has 300 career helpers, which makes her the eighth player in program history to score 1,000 points with 300 or more assists.
The Eagles are currently ranked ninth in the country in field goal percentage (38.3%) and 35th in three-point field goal defense (26.9%). The team is also ranked 22nd in the country in scoring defense (54.4).
BC continues to share the ball as it ranks 21st in the country in assists. The Eagles are also 42nd in the country in field goal percentage.
Kelly Hughes ranks ninth in the country and second in the ACC in three-point field goals made (52) and 15th in the country and third in the conference in three-point field goal percentage (44.1%). Hughes is also 56th in the country and sixth in the ACC in three's attempted.
Rookie Mariella Fasoula is 23rd in the country and second in the ACC in field goal percentage.
BC went 12-1 in non-conference play, including an impressive 6-0 record in the month of December.
The Eagles have made at least one three-pointer in 254 consecutive games dating back to Jan. 13, 2008 against Yale.

PROBABLE STARTERS

Senior – Guard – Nicole Boudreau
Junior – Guard – Kelly Hughes
Senior – Forward – Alexa Coulombe
Sophomore – Guard – Martina Mosetti
Freshman – Center – Mariella Fasoula

BC vs. PITT

This is the 43 time BC and Pittsburgh will play. The Eagles hold a 25-17 edge over the Panthers.
Prior to the 2014 season BC and Pitt had not played since the 2005 season.
BC has lost the last two meetings. The Eagles had won 13 consecutive games against Pittsburgh before 2014.
This will be Pittsburgh's first time at BC since Jan. 19, 2005.
Last year Boston College lost, 78-70, at Pittsburgh. Brianna Kiesel scored 11 straight points in the final minutes of the game to seal the win for Pittsburgh. Kiesel finished with 29 points.

LAST 3 GAMES

Boston College is 1-2 in the last three games. The only win was against non-conference foe Yale while losing No. 3/3 Notre Dame and No. 19/22 Duke on the road.
In the last three games, BC is averaging 58 points per game while giving up 64.7 points.
The Eagles lost the battle of the boards, 87-97.
BC is averaging 17.7 turnovers in the last three games, but also 17.3 team assists.
In the three game run, Boston College is shooting 43.3 percent from the floor, 41.5 percent from the three-point arc.
Freshman Mariella Fasoula leads the Eagles in scoring over the last three games at 16.7 points per game. She is also shooting 60.5 percent and grabbing 6.0 rebounds in the run.
Junior Kelly Hughes is averaging 16.3 points, 4.7 rebounds and shooting 41 percent from the floor and 50 percent from the three-point arc.

FREE THROWS

The three players – Nicole Boudreau, Kelly Hughes and Emilee Daley - made 92 of the Eagles 106 three-pointers.
Alexa Coulombe has earned four starts this season. Against Yale, Coulombe had a career-high 12 boards. As a starter, she is averaging 23.8 minutes, 3.5 points and 4.8 rebounds a game. The senior forward has 81 career blocks which places her seventh on the all-time list.
Boston College has had 15 or more assists in 13 games this season. BC is fifth in the ACC and 32^nd in the country in assists per game at 17.1.

NEXT UP

Boston College will host Wake Forest on Sunday at 1 p.m. Pittsburgh will complete a two-game road trip at Virginia on Sunday afternoon.

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