Prior to the season, I went to my good friend Doctor Strange and asked to borrow his Time Stone. I used it to analyze 14,000,605 possible outcomes for this women’s soccer season, and I found only one where I wasn’t writing this article. The fact that you are reading this means that, lamentably, that outcome did not occur and that the Wildcats lost in the NCAA tournament.

Before breaking that down, however, there is still one more victory to cover, so let’s skirt death for a little longer and recap that first.

Nov. 18 vs. Vanderbilt

Thanks to the way the tournament seeding broke down, Northwestern swapped the Evanston wind and cold for sunny Los Angeles skies.