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Boston College head coach Jim Christian, right, talks with John Cain Carney, left, during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against North Carolina in the second round of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, March 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Gerry Broome)
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Boston College completed an 0-18 ACC basketball season on Saturday afternoon with a listless 66-50 home loss to Clemson. The Eagles previously went 0-8 during the ACC football season including an especially ugly 3-0 home loss to a Wake Forest team that didn't win any other league games.
The last time a team from a major conference went winless in league play in both sports, TCU managed to go a combined 0-24 in the Southwest Conference during the 1976-77 school year. Georgia, in 1943-44, was the last member of a current power-five conference to pull off the same feat.
Boston College's dubious double is the latest embarrassment for an athletic department that has endured plenty of adversity in recent years.
Not since the 2008-09 school year have the Eagles been above .500 in both football and men's basketball. They've had three football coaches since Tom O'Brien's departure in 2006 and two basketball coaches since Al Skinner's firing in 2010.
Boston College's basketball woes this season were hardly a surprise. The freshman-laden Eagles lost their four leading scorers from last season's 19-loss team and have been forced to rely on volume-shooting graduate transfer Eli Carter and promising freshman Jerome Robinson.
The only silver lining for Boston College is that the woes of its football and basketball programs have not spread to its signature sport. The school's hockey team won a national title in 2012, made the Frozen Four again in 2014 and boast a 24-5-5 record this season.
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