Heartbreak hit Arkansas State one round earlier than the past two years at the Sun Belt Conference women’s basketball tournament.
After dominating the league in the regular season, the top-seeded Red Wolves could not keep up with No. 4 seed Troy, falling 96-89 to the hot-shooting Trojans in the semifinals on Friday at Lakefront Arena.
Arkansas State (26-5), which lost late second-half leads in the 2014 and 2015 championship games, will have to wait three agonizing days to find out whether it receives an NCAA tournament bid for the first time in program history. This is the last chance for the Red Wolves’ five senior starters, including three-time Sun Belt Player of the Year Aundrea Gamble.