A few days removed from Northwestern’s crushing super regional loss to Alabama, it’s time to dot the “i”s and cross the “t”s on this season of Northwestern softball and officially file it into the record books.
Diamond sports tend to be a numbers game. More than football, basketball or soccer, softball is comprised of individual matchups and analytic trends. For that reason (and because a more traditional post-mortem would just turn into a 2,000 word rambling rant about how much I adore this team), let’s use numbers to tell the story of the 2023 Northwestern Wildcats:
14-0: The Wildcats’ record at Sharon J.