Boston College coach Al Skinner had been warning his players all along. It showed they didn’t listen.
Jeremy Lin scored 27 points to lead Harvard to an 82-70 upset over No. 17 Boston College on Wednesday night, three days after the Eagles upset previously top-ranked North Carolina.
“I tried to pre-warn them,” said Skinner after one of the Eagles’ more disappointing regular season losses in many years. “We were capable of being this team and capable of being another team.”
The Eagles (13-3), who had their 10-game winning streak snapped, defeated the unbeaten Tar Heels 85-78 in Chapel Hill for one of the school’s biggest regular season wins to move into the Top 25.
“I told them its a short trip from the main house to the big house to the out house,” Skinner said.
