Indiana women’s basketball made its deepest run ever in last season’s NCAA tournament, reaching the Elite Eight before falling to Arizona. But despite that program breakthrough, the team was far from satisfied.
“It hurt,” guard Ali Patberg says. “We lost, and none of us are good losers.”
Patberg, a sixth-year senior at the time, was faced with the decision of whether she would use her last year of eligibility or move on from college hoops over half a decade after she started.
But Patberg justified her decision quite easily.
“I love to win,” she says.