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2018-19 BOSTON COLLEGE MEN’S BASKETBALL RECORD BOOK media information MEDIA/PHOTO CREDENTIALS PRESS FACILITIES BOSTON COLLEGE ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS All requests for working press and photo credentials for Boston College provides wireless access (login required) Address: 238 Conte Forum, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 2018-19 Boston College home basketball games should be throughout the arena and ethernet access in the Conte Phone: 617-552-3004 made at least two days prior to the game in question. Forum Media Suite. Website: bceagles.com Athletics Twitter Feed: @BCEagles Please direct all credential requests to Mike Laprey. The Pregame notes, team rosters and game programs will be Basketball Twitter Feed: @BCMBB preferred method of request is email - [email protected]. distributed at courtside and/or in the Media Center prior to Basketball Instagram Feed: @BCMBB Please include your name, affiliation, address, phone each game. Complete statistical information, including play- number and email address on all requests. by-play, halftime and final box scores, are provided in the Conte Forum Media Suite. MIKE LAPREY, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR (MBB CONTACT) All credentials should be picked up at the press will call table [email protected] | (O) 617-552-2193 | (C) 401-829-3747 outside the first floor elevator on the south side of Conte LOCKER ROOM POLICY Forum. JASON BAUM, ASSOCIATE AD/COMMUNICATIONS The Boston College men's basketball locker room is closed [email protected] | (O) 617-552-0504 | (C) 201-966-6338 for all interviews. Post-practice availability will be held on Baseline space for photographers is first-come. Select the Power Gym or Conte Forum court, while post-game games will have assigned spaces. press conferences will be held in the Conte Forum media STEPHANIE TUNNERA, ASSISTANT AD/COMMUNICATIONS suite. ALASTAIR INGRAM , ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR Working space on press row is allotted on the following basis: (1) daily newspaper writers covering for next- BRENDAN FLYNN, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR day publication; (2) sports editors of newspapers in WEB INFORMATION KATIE PEVERADA, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR New England; (3) Internet writers for sites affiliated with Boston College game notes, releases, statistics, and game BRIANNA FOLEY, COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT established, nationally-recognized media outlets; (4) recaps are available to members of the media at BCEagles. SPENCER NATZKE, COMMUNICATIONS ASSISTANT official school student daily newspaper; (5) approved com. To get on the Boston College men's basketball media special coverage; (6) press and TV working photographers; email list, please send a note requesting addition to Mike ABBEY MILLER, DIGITAL MEDIA ASSISTANT (7) weekly press representatives; (8) radio personnel Laprey - [email protected]. for broadcast originations; (9) non-originating radio representatives of AM news stations. Visiting freelance Information about Boston College and the other 15 ACC writers and photographers will be considered on a game- institutions is available at TheACC.com. by-game basis as space permits. There are two Twitter sites — @BCEagles and @BCMBB — PARKING that might be of interest. The former provides frequent news and notes on each of the school’s 31 varsity programs, while Media parking is located in the Beacon Street parking the latter focuses solely on the men’s basketball program. garage. You should request your parking at the same time you request your game credential. If you cover the team on a regular basis, you can apply for a season parking pass. Otherwise, your name will be on the day-of-game media parking list. INTERVIEW POLICIES All interviews with Boston College basketball student- boston college img sports network athletes or coaches must be arranged through the athletics communications office. IMG College, the exclusive radio rights holder for Boston College Athletics, produces home and away broadcasts for Boston College men's basketball. Student-athletes are not to be called or contacted via text message on their cell phones, nor should they be Entering his ninth season, Jon Meterparel will serve as the Eagles’ play-by-play voice. He is joined courtside by Danya contacted via email or social media. Any such requests will Abrams, who is entering his fifth season. Boston College fans can listen to the IMG Sports Radio Network on Flagship be declined. Players have been asked to politely decline station WEEI 850 AM, globally on Sirius/XM Satellite radio. Additionally, all games are streamed live over the internet, free interviews that have not been cleared with the BC athletic of cost, via BCEagles.com and the TuneIn app. communications office. Meterparel has spent 14 seasons as the voice of Boston College football and is also entering his eighth season calling MEDIA OPPORTUNITIES Boston College basketball. The Weston, Massachusetts, native began his career at WFNZ in Charlotte, North Carolina. Head coach Jim Christian and selected student-athletes He spent 12 years as a member of the Dennis and Callahan show on Sports Radio WEEI in Boston from 2000-12. are available following most practices. Please contact Meterparel called Harvard University football on TV and Harvard basketball on radio. He was also the voice of the New Mike Laprey to set up a time to speak with a specific England Revolution. For his work on BC football, he was named the Lindsey Nelson Northeast Sportscaster of the Year student-athlete or coach. Additionally, the ACC will hold a in 2007. Jon and his wife, Heather, are the proud parents of sons Ben and Nick. weekly teleconference with its men's basketball coaches. Transcripts are made available through the ACC. Please Abrams was a three-time All-Big East and NABC All-District I selection and is one of just six players in Big East history contact Brian Morrison at the ACC for the call-in information. to have recorded more than 2,000 points (2,053) and 1,000 rebounds (1,029). He ranks seventh on the Eagles' all-time scoring list and third on the all-time rebounding list, and ranks second in free throws made (698) and ninth in field goals made (671). In 122 collegiate contests, he scored in double figures 101 times, including six 30-point contests. He was BOSTON COLLEGE IMG SPORTS NETWORK inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Athletic Hall CITY CALL LETTERS FREQUENCY of Fame in 2010. Upon graduating from The Heights with Boston, Mass. WEEI 850 AM a Bachelor's degree in sociology in 1997, Abrams spent 12 Boston, Mass. WMKK 93.7 FM seasons playing professionally in Greece (three seasons) Nationwide Sirius/XM Radio and Spain (nine seasons) where he averaged over 14 Nationwide TuneIn App points and six rebounds per game during his career. 2.