Given the ending last season, it's tempting to dig into the record book to recall how the University of Wisconsin men's soccer team fared after its last NCAA Tournament appearance.
In 2017, the Badgers played in the national tournament for the first time since 2013 and only the second time since winning the program's only NCAA crown in 1995.
That 2013 team was star-driven, with defender AJ Cochran earning first-team All-American honors. Forwards Tomislav Zadro and Nick Janus joined him on the all-Great Lakes teams.
But all three were gone when the Badgers started the 2014 season ranked 21st in the country, only to have everything fall apart in a 3-12-3 campaign.