PORTLAND, Ore. – Mike Meek admits that it's hard not to compare year one to year two. That's understandable. Meek and the Portland Pilots women's basketball team set expectations sky high by surprising everyone in 2020, winning the WCC Tournament and earning the Pilots a bid to the NCAA Tournament. For a team that had been picked to finish last in the WCC and had finished 10th four of the past five seasons before the 2019-20 season, it's fair to say it was a shock that Portland was the team that finished on top.
It was even more shocking when the coronavirus pandemic stopped everything, robbing the Pilots of their chance to partake in the Big Dance.