Unfortunately, we all know what will.

7pm. ESPN News, if you dare.

Here is what is at stake.

Pitt has yet to lose to BC since joining the ACC. In fact, the last time Pitt lost to BC was in the Big East Championship game back in 2001. 11 straight wins for Pitt. Of course this team over the last two years has snapped winning streaks against Duquesne and Penn State, so…

This is some serious must-see TV.

For Pitt fans, the story of the day is the ESPN feature by Andrea Adelson. It’s an access piece — not a hit piece — surrounding the Miami game two weeks ago. I find it to be a fair piece. There is some sympathy and politely letting Head Coach Kevin Stallings claim he jumped without being pushed from Vandy. Overall it does capture things rather well.

Despite the understanding that this season would be difficult, the questions about Stallings and the program have only increased as the losses have piled up. Patience among the fan base, at least, seems to be wearing thin. Attendance is down precipitously. A team that had consistently averaged 10,000 fans since the Petersen Events Center opened in 2002 has an average attendance of 4,154 this season. Players walk the campus hearing fellow students criticize their team.

Athletic director Heather Lyke has said she will evaluate the entire program once the season ends, only adding to the uncertainty. Stallings came to Pittsburgh believing he would have as much time as he needed to build Pitt into a true ACC contender. But the athletic director who told him that, Scott Barnes, is gone, and that has left the Pittsburgh coaching staff in a precarious situation.

They have shielded their players from the negativity as much as possible, and Stallings has opted for more positive reinforcement. The way the season started was only a prelude for what was to come: an opening loss Navy in the Armed Forces Classic, then another home loss to Montana. Pitt lost by 31 to Penn State and has lost its ACC games by an average of 20 points. It has lost six of those by 24 or more, including its past three. Among the most glaring issues: Pitt has no physical presence inside, and its shooters are streaky and inconsistent.

In the subsequent games since, Stallings has not sounded quite so positive.

In a moment that seemed to embody Pitt’s woes of the past six weeks, Shamiel Stevenson inbounded a pass to Marcus Carr with 1:32 remaining in the first half, only for Carr to immediately step out of bounds and turn possession right back over to the Cardinals (18-8, 8-5).

“I don’t think that our guys are not getting better,” Stallings said. “I don’t think our guys are not playing hard. We’ve got some obvious weaknesses and those weaknesses are getting exposed a little bit. Some of those things, presently, we can’t do a whole lot about.”

The concerns that Stallings indirectly referenced — that youth has become an excuse or a crutch for a team that doesn’t seem to be improving — have grown over the past three games, contests that Pitt has lost by a combined 89 points.

It has become noticeable in press conferences. Very much a sense of feeling discouraged that the players also have been feeling.

Stewart said the team is starting to get discouraged while trying not to lose hope.

“Everybody’s — I wouldn’t say sad — but discouraged, I guess,” he said. “People might not think we have a chance, but we’re still going to go out there and play.

“I saw improvement before. I don’t think (Sunday) we made much improvement from the last game. When you lose that bad, you probably haven’t improved a whole lot.

“A loss is a loss, but when you lose like that at home it’s embarrassing.”

And on this kind of vibe, in comes the slowly improving Boston College. A team looking to finish above .500 over all (not in the ACC, goodness, no), for the first time since 2011. That completely seems like the blueprint Pitt fans want. I mean, I get for Stallings. Push that multi-year plan.

The constant over the past four seasons? Jim Christian is still the coach.

“What they had was young talent that was really inexperienced, and now that talent is starting to grow up a little bit,” said Pitt coach Kevin Stallings, who defeated Boston College last season, 83-72.

“They’ve done a great job of evaluating guys and developing them. Those guys are getting much, much better.

“You could see it coming. You could see they had talent and it was very, very young and it was going to require some patience.”

Speaking of patience, Stallings said that’s just one of the elements his team needs at the moment.

“It was obvious, when I took the job, that year two had a chance to be a tough year and it’s been even tougher than we anticipated. We’ve had to start over to some degree. When you do that, it doesn’t require patience, but it requires patience if you’re realistic about it.

“It requires patience of me, patience of my players and certainly those people around the program and our fans.

“It’s never built overnight. You just try to make good, long-term decisions and recruit the right kind of guys.”

Okay, let’s fire up the gallows humor and watch this game.