In what would be the final game of her senior season, Lauren Gilbert only scored once. Coming off a six-goal performance in the quarterfinals, the Oregon native found herself in foul trouble and lacked her usual offensive spark against No. 3 Syracuse in the Final Four. Without an extra year of eligibility because of COVID-19, that heartbreaking 21-13 loss would have been her last game in a Northwestern uniform.
After the dust settled, Gilbert alongside teammates Jill Girardi, Ally Palermo and Brennan Dwyer announced they would all return for a fifth and final year.
Two-hundred-and-fifty days after the defeat in Towson, Gilbert was out for revenge.