By Sam Robb O’Hagan WORCESTER, Mass. — As all 13 players and seven staff members wearing scarlet and white trudged off the Hart Center floor Sunday, all they left on the court behind them was every last thing they had to give. When BU head coach Melissa Graves stood at the dais after the 61-55 […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Let’s get this out of the way first — BU looked like a champion. Any way you slice it. It was ruthless, it was dominant, it played flat-out ridiculous defense, it had the best player on the court. Truly extraordinary, not least when you remember that the Terriers walked into this […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan When the game-winning layup fell through on Monday night, Brianna Finch turned to Jamie Insel and made sure she got her praise. Fist pumps, a pat on the back, the whole thing. Like some of Caitlin Weimar’s teammates would when they greeted her at midcourt moments later, Finch roared in Insel’s […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan BOSTON — Miles Brewster leaned back in his seat on the bench, some dozens of feet away from the free throw line where Lehigh’s Tyler Whitney-Sidney had just drained the shot that finally ended it. There would, for real this time, be no tomorrow. BU’s senior guard held a rubber band […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan The tallest mountains have the steepest cliffs, and never has BU looked worse under Melissa Graves than in the performance that followed Saturday’s long-awaited summit of Holy Cross. Actually, the Terriers have never looked worse under both their current third-year head coach and the three-year coach that preceded her, because before […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan BOSTON — We are 17 games in, and it may be time to declare the first truth about this always-changing Patriot League season. There just might not be anything anyone can do about Caitlin Weimar. Holy Cross is the defending-champion. It entered Case Gym atop the standings, where it had sat for […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan BOSTON — There were flowers, there were tears. There was a career milestone. There was an offensive explosion in the first half, there was a near-crisis in the second. There was Domino’s Pizza. But in the end, there was Anthony Morales and Miles Brewster, doing what they do best on their […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan BOSTON — It just had to happen like this, right? Nothing has been stable here. BU has been really good, then really bad. It’s been tantalizing, but only as much as it’s been frustrating. And the Terriers have been entertaining, only as much as they’ve been absolutely, totally and completely bewildering. […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan It would not be a stretch to say that Aoibhe Gormley, the freshman guard averaging under four points a game, was BU’s best player on Saturday. Yes, Caitlin Weimar finished with a 22-point double-double. Yes, fellow freshman guard Inés Monteagudo canned a go-ahead 3-pointer with under a minute to go that […]
By Sam Robb O’Hagan Melissa Graves’ word of the week in practice was composure, and as a dizzying 58-56 win over American highlighted, BU has got it in bunches. This was a total calamity. BU couldn’t box out at one end and couldn’t take care of the ball at the other, quite literally handing the […]