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NASSAU, Bahamas – The Boston College men's basketball team polished off its exhibition action with a 93-86 triumph over the NPBA All-Stars on Monday evening at the Kendal G.L. Isaacs National Gymnasium.

Junior forward Jordan Chatman led the Eagles with 28 points, including going 75 percent (6-of-8) from downtown and added five rebounds. The BC backcourt of sophomores Ky Bowman and Jerome Robinson dropped 19 and 17 points, respectively, and logged other significant figures. Bowman hauled in eight boards and doled out five assists with three blocks while Robinson collected six rebounds and dished out as many dimes, along with two swipes.

Freshman Steffon Mitchell gathered nine rebounds in back-to-back outings in the Bahamas while junior forward Johncarlos Reyes came away with nine boards himself in the victory.

All is well in the Bahamas. The BC basketball squad went down there and took care of business. They beat an entire country's All-Star team. Sounds like we have a real shot to compete in the ACC this year, right?

Unfortunately, when you take a closer look, you realize that it took Chatman lighting it up from three point land at a 75% clip to just barely edge out a team from the Bahamas that URI beat by 23 and NICHOLLS STATE beat by 9 earlier this summer. That's right, the same Nicholls State that finished 8th in the Southland Conference last year. And yes, the same Nicholls State team that beat us in the season opener last year.

There is an unbelievable amount of irrational optimism with Coach Christian and the team this year, but I think people are forgetting that BC is 2-34 in ACC play the last two years. That is a winning percentage of .056. We win ACC games 5.6% of the time. For every 10 ACC games we play, we win just over half of one game. It is legitimately difficult to be as bad as we have been. Christian has shown absolutely nothing to this point to earn the benefit of the doubt, and I think anyone pontificating that BC will go .500 in the toughest conference in the nation or will be a tourney bubble team is in for a rude awakening, 'mon.