This week is Heights week here at BC, should be fun, 7 games in 7 days, ending with the ESPN and College Gameday crew on Saturday when UNC rolls into town. Of course I can’t make it to all the games, because of the whole school work thing, but I’m looking forward to in nonetheless.
Last night the men’s hockey team had the Beanpot finals at the Boston Garden v.2.0. It was a great game, with BU winning 2-1 in overtime. It was certainly a game which most of the BC faithful felt cheated afterwards. BU out shot BC 12-9 in the first period and went up 1-0, but BC was just physically dominating their Commonwealth Ave. rivals. The Terriers slowed down considerably in the second, and BC played an impressive period out shooting BU 13-6, but couldn’t slip one past John Curry. Really, though, we knew that it was only a matter of time. BC was pounding BU mercilessly into the boards and Curry was the only thing keeping them from dominating the scoreboard too.
Nathan Gerbe tied it up and the crowd was going nuts, BU looked like they wanted to be curled up on the couch with some chicken soup in hand instead of taking another hit from Brian Boyle (he’s 6’7” 250). BC is just dominating at this point, physically beating BU and peppering Curry, who wont let another one by. But BC is hungry, and is creating opportunity after opportunity.
Everything was going in BC’s favor as overtime started…and then… after 5 minutes of BC dominating the OT, BU snakes a pass out of a faceoff and puts one right past the unsuspecting Cory Schneider glove side. Game over. BU wins. Shock and disgust ensues.
I can still barely bring myself to write about it today.
The sporting equivalent I could think of was Ali using the rope-a-dope tactic on Foreman or Frazier (I’m only I read about this in books) and BC was playing Foreman in this case, just trying to kill BU, tiring itself out, and having that one lax moment that BU/Ali pounces upon (this could be a terrible analogy but work with me). BC took something like 39 shots to BU’s 23, and in the final two periods and overtime the margin stretches 30-11. Curry won the MVP, a very deserving honor. Just incredible, unbelievable really.
That’s all for today, Duke basketball tomorrow, hopefully a good one.


Dave