Senior guard Madi Story embraces head coach Angel Elderkin after winning the WBI championship.
After junior point guard Ashley Polacek hit back-to-back threes late in the fourth quarter to extend the App State lead to 23 points, the Mountaineer fans inside Holmes Convocation Center realized what was happening. They cheered loudly in appreciation as App State (22-14) went on to claim its second Women’s Basketball Invitational Tournament championship with a 76-59 win over the North Texas Mean Green (18-16).
“You don’t cry because it’s over, you cry because it happened,” an emotional head coach Angel Elderkin said postgame.