2025 NCAA Tournament Day 2 Notebook: Bentley sets new standard in narrow loss

MANCHESTER, New Hampshire — The big storyline of the Boston College-Bentley result that kicked off today's tournament games was how effective the Falcons were at giving the Eagles all they could take, and playing the vast majority of the matchup on their own terms.

Over the last two seasons since coach Andy Jones took over, that's increasingly become the norm. The Atlantic Hockey winners have earned a lot of credit in the last few months of play in particular, and for a guy like captain Ethan Leyh, it's easy to see that continuing for many years to come.

He's been with the program for three years, saw what it was like before Jones took over, and the growth the team has enjoyed under the new stewardship, and he's dead-on convinced that the Falcons' first-ever NCAA tournament appearance this y