Boston College women’s basketball will travel to Texas for a Thursday evening game against SMU, scheduled for 7:30 p.m. ET.
The Eagles are coming off an 82-70 loss to Miami. In that game, Lily Carmody led the team with 21 points, while Kayla Rolph contributed 15 points. Amirah Anderson and Erin Houpt added 14 and 12 points respectively. Houpt made three of her four attempts from beyond the arc.
A victory would give Boston College a record of 5-24, end their current 20-game losing streak, secure their first ACC win of the season, and mark consecutive wins over SMU.
Erin Houpt was named to the Midseason Watch List for the 2026 State Farm College Slam Dunk & 3-Point Championships. She is shooting 45.6 percent from three-point range this season and is among only seventeen players nationwide making at least 45 percent on at least ninety attempts. She ranks fourth among active career leaders in three-point percentage at 42.8 percent and leads in effective field goal percentage during conference play among those averaging at least 4.5 shot attempts per game.
Houpt is also one of four active players with career marks of at least forty percent from deep, ninety percent from the free-throw line, and two hundred made three-pointers.
Lily Carmody has been performing well recently, averaging nearly sixteen points per game on more than fifty-three percent shooting during her recent stretch of games. She has scored in double figures in four out of her last five games, including eighteen points against Florida State and twenty-one against Miami—the highest two-game total for any Eagle this season.
Carmody is one of three ACC players averaging twelve or more points per game on fewer than ten shots per contest.
Jocelyn Grier has provided significant scoring off the bench with two hundred sixty points this season, ranking third in the ACC among reserve players.
Boston College set a program record earlier this year by hitting sixteen three-pointers in a single ACC game against NC State.
For Thursday’s matchup, key factors include whether Boston College can capitalize on turnovers by SMU—whose opponents average nearly twenty points off turnovers in conference play—and if they can limit SMU’s offensive rebounds; SMU grabbed fourteen offensive boards in its recent win over Pitt.
SMU comes into the contest after narrowly defeating Pitt, led by Zahra King’s twenty-five points and Sahnya Jah’s fifteen-point effort with nine rebounds. King averages almost fifteen points per game this season on forty-five percent shooting. The Mustangs are ranked third in steals per game within the ACC and fifth in forced turnovers.
This will be just the fourth meeting between Boston College and SMU; BC holds a two-to-one advantage after winning last year’s matchup at home. Thursday’s contest marks their first meeting ever played in Dallas.
After facing SMU, Boston College will return home Sunday to play Wake Forest at noon.
