After the 3-0 loss to North Texas State ended the Huskers 2022 softball season with a 41-16 record and the school’s first Big Ten Conference championship, we trudged over to the press room where the Mean Green’s coach and a couple of his players quickly popped in for a few questions then raced off to rest for a matchup with Oklahoma St. the next day. (They would lose 2-0.)
The wait would be much longer for the Huskers who remained on the field for 20 or 30 minutes. They weren’t avoiding the press or bemoaning their loss to a team they had beaten 3-0 the previous day.