Boston College comes into Thursday’s game 8-17 overall, 3-8 in the Atlantic Coast Conference and 0-6 on the road this season. The Eagles have lost seven of the last eight, with the lone win in that stretch coming over Florida State last Wednesday. Matt Humphrey, a 6-foot-5 junior guard, leads the team in scoring with 10.4 ppg, and has attempted a team-high 139 3-pointers, connecting on 43 of them (.309). No team in the conference has attempted more threes than BC (540), and the Eagles rank sixth in the league in 3-point FG percentage (.341).
Freshman forward Ryan Anderson is BCs top rebounder with a 6.8 per-game average, and is also chipping in 9.9 points per game. Another freshman, 7-foot center Dennis Clifford, joins Anderson in the frontcourt and is averaging 9.2 ppg.
In all, Boston College has nine freshmen on its roster, and four were in the starting lineup last time out: Anderson, Clifford, and guards Jordan Daniels and Lonnie Jackson
