It wasn't suppose to be this way for the Central Michigan women’s basketball team.
After an historic season for the program, going 23-7 and 15-3 in the Mid-American Conference to be crowned as the outright regular season MAC champions for the first time in 32 years, this team could seemingly do no wrong.
But sports aren’t always fair, and neither is life for this team right now.
As the No. 1 seed in the MAC tournament this year, CMU was looking for redemption from a season ago, when the Chippewas lost in overtime in the conference title game to Buffalo.