As the nation’s attention turned over the last week toward March Madness, Western Kentucky’s basketball program sat home once again.
For the second straight year, the Hilltoppers came up one game shy of the Big Dance, losing 62-56 to Old Dominion on March 16 in the Conference USA title game. It followed a one-point championship game loss to Marshall in 2018.
Coach Rick Stansbury’s squad enjoyed marquee nonconference wins and earned a No. 2 seed to the C-USA tourney – the Toppers’ best in five years as a league member.
But WKU took 14 losses, including some bad ones.