The Boston College Eagles is the name of the men's and women's basketball team at Boston College, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
The Boston College men's basketball team has its origins in 1904, and the squad has played, through the 2008-09 season, 71 seasons of hoops. In 1904, a men's varsity team was sanctioned and on December 26 of that year BC played its first-ever game, losing 8–6 to Battery H of Navy, and won its first-ever game that...
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The Boston College Eagles is the name of the men's and women's basketball team at Boston College, in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, USA.
The Boston College men's basketball team has its origins in 1904, and the squad has played, through the 2008-09 season, 71 seasons of hoops. In 1904, a men's varsity team was sanctioned and on December 26 of that year BC played its first-ever game, losing 8–6 to Battery H of Navy, and won its first-ever game that season against Tufts, 23–17, in Medford. Basketball, not a popular sport at the turn of the 20th century, suffered through years of weak fan support and only lasted three initial seasons before being dropped. A brief revival in the early 1920s brought the men's team back, but it was dropped again following the 1924–25 season. Finally, following World War II when the sport began to really take off in the United States, the basketball team became permanent in the 1945–46 season.
In 1963, BC hired Boston Celtics legend Bob Cousy as head coach,...
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