Northwestern baseball needed one final comeback to capture a Big Ten Tournament title and extend its season. After finding ways to rally all week (and weekend) long, the Wildcats simply ran out of gas on Sunday afternoon.
The fifth-seeded Iowa Hawkeyes (38-20, 15-9 Big Ten) were too much for seventh-seeded Northwestern (27-30, 13-11), jumping out to a 5-0 lead in the first inning and never looking back in a 13-4 victory in the championship game.
The Wildcats’ season is almost certainly over after failing to receive the automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Still, Sunday afternoon’s disappointing result should take nothing away from their enthralling cinderella run in Bloomington.