Eagles Head To Virginia On Thursday

CHESTNUT HILL, Mass. - The Boston College women's basketball team have a two-game road trip to start on Thursday at Virginia (8-14, 2-7). The Eagles (14-8, 3-6 ACC) will return on Friday and head to No. 15/14 Syracuse (17-4, 6-2 ACC) on Sunday for a 2 p.m. tip. Both games can be viewed via the ACC Network Extra.

BC VS. VIRGINIA
- This will be the 22^nd game between BC and UVA.
The Cavaliers lead the overall series, 16-5.
- BC lost to Virginia, 68-57, at Conte Forum in the 2017-18 season. Milan Bolden-Morris had 14 points in the loss.
- Since joining the ACC, Boston College is 5-14 against Virginia.
- The Eagles last defeated Virginia on Feb. 6, 2014 at Conte Forum (69-65). Virginia has won the last five meetings.

ACC ACTION
- Freshman Makayla Dickens seemed to turn it up right as ACC play began. The first-year guard is leading BC in scoring (14.3 ppg.), rebounds (6.5 rpg.) and assists (4.4 apg.) against conference teams.
- Dickens is the second highest scoring freshman in the conference, while shooting 40 percent both the floor and the three-point arc.
- Junior Taylor Ortlepp is the Eagles second leading scorer against ACC teams at 13.3 points per game. She is shooting 43 percent from the floor and 37 percent from the three-point line.
- Dickens and Ortlepp have combined for 53 of the Eagles 72 three-pointers against ACC teams.
- The Eagles are averaging 72.7 points per game and 33.7 rebounds a game in the conference.
- BC is shooting 42.9 percent from the floor as a team, third best behind Notre Dame (51.6%) and Louisville (45.7%).
- The Eagles are also third in the conference in assists (144 – 16.0 apg.) and free throw percentage (75.6%).

PROBABLE STARTERS
PROBABLE STARTERS
- Jr., F - Georgia Pineau
- Jr., G - Taylor Ortlepp
- Jr., F - Emma Guy
- So. G – Sydney Lowery
- Fr. G – Makayla Dickens

ABOUT THE EAGLES
- BC is ranked 24^th in the country in scoring offense (77.5 ppg.) and assists per game (16.9 apg.). The team is still in the Top 20 in offensive rebounds per game (19.0 rpg.).
- Freshman Makayla Dickens has scored in double-figures in 15 games this season.
- Sophomore Sydney Lowery has started the last two games for the Eagles. She is averaging 30.5 minutes, 9.5 points and 4.0 rebounds in those games. She has played in 50 career games and has 12 starts.
- Junior Georgia Pineau is just four rebounds from 500 career boards. She has 222 assists, which 26^th on the all-time program list. She is eight on the all-time list for blocks with 83.

HISTORY LESSON
- Former Eagles center Jamie Cournoyer '01 scored a career-high 33 points, the most by a Big East women's player that season, going 13-for-16 from the field as No. 19 Boston College beat Seton Hall, 78-58. The Eagles finished that 1999-00 season with a 26-9 overall record and went 12-4 in the conference.

UP NEXT
- Boston College will play No. 15/14 Syracuse on Sunday at 2 p.m. Fans can view both games via the ACC Network Extra.
- The Eagles will return home to host No. 4/4 Notre Dame on Wednesday, Feb. 13 at 7 p.m.

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Players Mentioned

Milan Bolden-Morris

Makayla Dickens

Emma Guy

Sydney Lowery

Taylor Ortlepp

Georgia Pineau