NEWTON, Mass. (Interstat) — Holy Cross will visit Boston College on Monday for a women’s NCAA Division I basketball game at Silvio O. Conte Forum. The Crusaders will be the visiting team, while the Eagles will be the home team. Both programs enter the matchup with 0-0 season records.

Boston College will look to establish early control at home in a game that pairs two programs from the commonwealth. The Eagles are coming off their most recent result, a 90-65 loss at Syracuse on March 1. Boston College will aim to use the home court and a fresh season to set a stronger tone. The Eagles’ schedule includes several regional matchups, and the meeting with Holy Cross offers an early chance to build momentum before a busy stretch of nonconference play.

Holy Cross also enters with a clean record after its most recent result, an 83-48 loss at Michigan on March 20. The Crusaders will be on the road again for the visit to Conte Forum, giving them an early test away from home. Holy Cross will seek to regroup and produce a more balanced effort against a Boston College team that will have the advantage of playing on its home floor.

The matchup will feature two teams still shaping their identities at the start of the season. Boston College and Holy Cross each have 0-0 records, so the outcome Monday will give one program its first win and leave the other seeking its first victory. The Eagles and Crusaders will both look to set a defensive tone, limit turnovers and find consistent scoring in a setting that could favor the home side. Boston College will try to use its home court to dictate pace, while Holy Cross will attempt to settle into the game and compete on the road.

Silvio O. Conte Forum in Newton will host the contest, with Boston College serving as the home team. The game is part of the women’s NCAA Division I schedule and will bring the Crusaders and Eagles together for an early-season matchup. Both teams have upcoming schedules filled with regional and nonconference opponents, but the focus will be on the meeting Monday and the opportunity to start the season with a positive result. Holy Cross will face Dartmouth, Harvard, Brown, Bryant, Richmond, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Western Kentucky and Saint Joseph’s in its upcoming schedule. Boston College’s coming schedule features Harvard, Massachusetts-Lowell, Providence, Merrimack, Massachusetts, Northeastern, College of Charleston, BYU, Indiana and Virginia.

Interstat’s game simulator projects a final score of Holy Cross 63, Boston College 57.