Heading into their final three weeks of play and knowing that an NCAA Tournament berth was an impossibility this year, head coach Rita Stubbs and her players started looking at the end of the 2023 season differently. It was no longer just about this year. It became a sort of preseason for 2024.
“I think that if this entire group came back, we would have a totally different look going into the season,” Stubbs said. “Like, if we were to start now, which has been our goal is to play this last four weeks, was to treat it like preseason.