Boston College women’s basketball will host Wake Forest on Sunday at noon for its final home game of the season, which will also serve as Senior Day at Conte Forum.
The Eagles recently ended a 20-game losing streak with a 77-59 victory over SMU in Dallas. Lily Carmody led the team with a career-high 27 points, making 11 of her 19 field goal attempts, grabbing five rebounds, and recording three assists. She was perfect from the free-throw line, going 5-for-5. Amirah Anderson contributed 14 points and seven rebounds, while Erin Houpt added another 14 points by converting seven out of eight free throws. Jocelyne Grier came off the bench to score 12 points. Kayla Rolph led Boston College in rebounding with eight boards, and Athena Tomlinson had five assists. The Eagles scored 51 points in the second half and finished with a shooting percentage of 51.4 percent from the floor.
A win against Wake Forest would improve Boston College’s record to 6-24 and mark consecutive ACC victories for the team. It would also be their fourth straight win against Wake Forest at Conte Forum and their sixth win in eight recent meetings against the Demon Deacons.
Lily Carmody is one of only two players in the ACC averaging at least 12.5 points per game while taking fewer than ten shots per contest. Erin Houpt is just eight points away from reaching 1,000 career points. Seven games this season have seen a player come off Boston College’s bench to score at least fifteen points, including Jocelyne Grier who leads all freshmen in bench scoring within the league.
The matchup will focus on whether Boston College can capitalize on turnovers by Wake Forest; opponents have averaged twenty points off turnovers when defeating Wake Forest this season. Carmody has been performing well lately, averaging nearly eighteen points per game in February while maintaining high shooting percentages both from the field and free throw line.
Wake Forest enters Sunday’s game with a record of 13-14 overall and has lost its last three games after falling to Notre Dame by a score of 78-54. In that loss, Emily Johns led her team with thirteen points off the bench while Oliver Grace contributed nine points and seven rebounds. Grace averages a team-best thirteen-and-a-half points per game on nearly sixty percent shooting from the field this season; Milan Brown leads Wake Forest in rebounding.
Wake Forest ranks sixth in conference field goal percentage at just under forty-five percent—also placing them among the top fifty teams nationally.
Boston College holds a historical record of nine wins and fourteen losses against Wake Forest but has won five out of their last seven encounters—including three consecutive victories at home.
After Sunday’s home finale, Boston College will finish its regular season next weekend on the road against Syracuse.
