BC Upsets UNC, NESN Upsets Superfans

Last year Tyrese Rice singlehandedly almost brought down North Carolina scoring a career-high 46 points at home. Tonight, Rice, didn't have to carry the load (although many Superfans like to swallow loads) in Chapel Hill as the Eagles pulled off the biggest upset of the young college basketball season beating the top-ranked Tar Heels 85-78.

My favorite part of the game came with about 90 seconds left to play and UNC was trying to mount a comeback. Down 6, UNC grabbed an offensive board and was fouled. After that NESN randomly cut to commercial and decided to return to the action with seven seconds left. Can you just picture a room full of "Superfans" giving each other reach-arounds wondering what happened to the game? The trailer for The Unborn ran several times during this break and I don't know one person who plans on seeing this piece of shit but if there's a group of people who would...it's a room full of Superfans.

Rice led the Eagles tonight with 25 points and 8 assists while Rakim Sanders chipped in with 22 points, 6 rebounds and 7 steals. Mr. October himself, Reggie Jackson, provided a spark off the bench dropping 17 points on Psycho T and the rest of the Heels.

The Eagles are now 13-2 (1-0) on the season and host Harvard (minus Method and Red) before getting back into ACC action. The Eagles dropped a tight contest on a neutral site against now 9th ranked Purdue and lost on the road against a mediocre St. Louis squad. So where does this leave the Eagles? At 13-2 and this road win against top-ranked UNC the Eagles seem to be building a solid Tourney resume. My bet is that BC finishes 9-7 in the ACC 22-9 overall, which should land them somewhere around a 6 seed making this squad ripe to be upset in the first round of the tourney. I almost like it even more when the Superfans are given hope and then it's ripped right out of their ass.

So let's see...the Pats weren't in the playoffs this weekend, douchebag Phillip Rivers won, the Cardinals and Eagles advanced, Celtics lost to the Knicks and BC upset UNC. Can 2009 get any worse?