It’s never too early to look at what’s to come. Over the next few weeks, we will give you a peek at what is ahead for teams in the Power 5 conferences and some other teams expected to be players on the national scene. Next up: Boston College Eagles.

Boston College achieved the wrong kind of perfection last season. Along with its football team going 0-8 in ACC play, it became the first Power 5 school to go winless in football and men’s basketball since TCU in 1976-77. The BC basketball team accounted for an 0-19 mark against ACC competition, which includes losing in the league tournament.

The Eagles were the first team to go winless in ACC play since Maryland in the 1986-87 season, but back then they played only 14 regular-season conference games. While the Terrapins were hampered by the fallout from the death of Len Bias, the Eagles’ decline began shortly after they inexplicably forced Al Skinner out in 2010.

The longest losing streak in Boston College history capped off its fifth straight losing season. The only other time that’s happened in program history was in the first five seasons of record, which began in 1904-05. That also includes the 1910-11 season when the team didn’t officially have a coach and three “seasons” that were fewer than 10 games.

They had a couple of near wins, one coming against the same North Carolina team that played for the national title. The Eagles led for 35 minutes only to watch the Tar Heels take the lead for good with 47 seconds left. The Eagles also led at N.C. State with 1.1 seconds left only to lose by allowing a layup on an out-of-bounds play under the basket. Those were the highlights in a season mainly marked by not-so-close games. BC’s average margin of defeat in league play was 16.6 points.

Given the lows of last season, there’s nowhere to go but up, right? That had to be the philosophy of coach Jim Christian, who played one of the youngest rosters in the nation last season. The Eagles played nine true freshmen during the course of the season, which tied Bradley for the second most nationally. Toss in redshirt freshman Idy Diallo, and the Eagles reached double digits.

The silver lining in playing a lot of freshmen a lot of minutes is watching them become sophomores with a lot of experience. Six of those freshmen were among the team’s top 10 scoring leaders, led by point guard Jerome Robinson, who averaged 11.7 points per game. Robinson will be one of the key players returning as the Eagles lose leading scorer Eli Carter and leading rebounder Dennis Clifford.

Boston College will continue to heavily rely on perimeter players to carry the offensive load. Only Duke and Syracuse attempted more 3-pointers in the ACC last season than the Eagles. They return their best two shooters in Matt Milon, who shot 49 percent from behind the arc, and Sammy Barnes-Thompkins, who was a 39 percent shooter from 3.

Christian went back where he found Robinson in the state of North Carolina to anchor BC’s recruiting class. Ty Graves, a 6-foot shooting guard from Greensboro, North Carolina, declined offers from several other ACC schools, including Virginia, to sign with the Eagles. Kyran Bowman originally committed to play football at North Carolina as a junior. The 6-foot-2 would-be wide receiver instead chose hoops and will join Graves at Chestnut Hill.

Based on their roster makeup, the Eagles don’t have an abundance of help in the post. Johncarlos Reyes, a 6-foot-10 forward, hopes to bounce back after a foot injury sidelined him for all but seven games last season. Diallo, a 6-foot-11 forward, appeared in 31 games, but only averaged about 10 minutes per game.

Graduate transfer Connar Tava missed all of last season at Western Michigan while recovering from a foot injury. Tava is an undersized power forward at 6-foot-6, but has a unique skill set. He led the Broncos in both rebounding and assists as a junior and was second on the team in scoring. Tava will be reunited with his former prep school teammate at the New Hampton (N.H.) School in rising sophomore forward A.J. Turner.

Christian also signed a couple of forwards he hopes can contribute immediately. Nik Popovic is a prototypical stretch-4 who is originally from Bosnia-Herzegovina and played on the under-18 Serbian national team. Small forward Mike Sagay, like Bowman, also played football and is somewhat of a late bloomer in basketball, but will bring some athleticism to the lineup.

Boston College hasn’t been to the NCAA tournament since the Skinner-led team in 2009. But its success can be measured in more ways than making a postseason tournament. Simply avoiding a sixth consecutive losing season would be a good start.