0-19! BC ends perfectly awful ACC season with 88-66 FSU loss

WASHINGTON (AP) — Florida State coach Leonard Hamilton can empathize with Boston College's Jim Christian, whose Eagles wrapped up the first 0-19 season in ACC men's basketball with a conference tournament loss to the Seminoles.

"I went back to my office one day, sat down, turned all the lights out and just started crying," Hamilton said with a chuckle.

Boston College's historically bad season came courtesy of a freshman-filled roster that lost some key players to injuries at various points.

[...] the Eagles are only the sixth ACC men's basketball team to go winless — and first since Maryland went 0-14 in 1986-87, the season after Len Bias' death.

No one had managed to lose 19 of 19 games in the league; the ACC went to an 18-game conference regular season in 2012-13.

In the only other ACC game Tuesday, Maverick Rowan made a career-high six 3s and finished with 24 points to lead North Carolina State past Wake Forest 75-72.

Against Florida State, Boston College senior center Dennis Clifford had 15 points and nine rebounds before fouling out with 9½ minutes left.