When you're out of games to play, the wait to see whether you're selected for an at-large spot in the NCAA tournament is a special kind of purgatory.
For members of the University of Wisconsin softball team, it was two days caught in the middle of hopes to take the field again and the realization that the season might be over.
Between a loss in the Big Ten Conference quarterfinals on Friday night and the NCAA selection show on Sunday night, some Badgers players tried to keep up with what was happening in other leagues to understand their odds.