The end of the 2015-2016 Drake Women’s Basketball season had a familiar result: a loss to the Northern Iowa Panthers. But this particular defeat to the fellow Missouri Valley Conference team wasn’t in the league tournament. Instead, the two teams met in the second round of the Women’s National Invitation Tournament on Saturday, ending the Bulldogs’ season by a score of 64-58.
UNI was unsolvable to the Bulldogs. The Panthers were the only MVC team to beat Drake in both league games this year. Going into the postseason, UNI was the league champion while Drake finished a game behind in second place.