SAN ANTONIO — Aari McDonald watched the video once, again, then again.
She turned to the people around her—teammates Sam Thomas and Cate Reese and head coach Adia Barnes—to confirm that they had picked up on what she had: “I didn’t see any red.”
The Arizona senior was correct. The NCAA’s official women’s basketball Twitter account had just released a Final Four hype video with … only three teams. The Wildcats’ red uniforms were conspicuously absent. (The NCAA later deleted the post after being called out.) For a team that has been crowded out by other, flashier narratives so far in this tournament, this was both par for the course, and an extra jolt of motivation.