Ball State Women's Basketball's season ends with second round WNIT loss to Memphis
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“This will be a team that I remember forever,” Brady Sallee said.
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“This will be a team that I remember forever,” Brady Sallee said.
It was the bottom of the 13th inning. Four and a half hours had passed since the 1 p.m. start time.
Following Ball State Women's Basketball's loss to Bowling Green in a semifinal Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament contest March 10, heads hung low as the Cardinals dream of winning the conference championship was over. However, head coach Brady Sallee stressed that didn’t mean there wasn’t still something to play for.
March 7-11, news editor and Ball State Women's Basketball primary beat reporter Kyle Smedley, visual and photo editor Amber Pietz, associate photo editor Jacy Bradley, Ball State Men's Basketball primary beat reporter Derran Cobb, Ball State Women's Basketball secondary beat reporter Elijah Poe, Ball State Men's Basketball secondary beat reporter Zach Carter and student photographer/journalist Brayden Goins, traveled to cover the men's and women's Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament contests in Cleveland.
CLEVELAND –– Ball State Women’s Basketball family members, new university director of athletics Jeff Mitchell, Ball State donors, the Ball State Code Red dance team, Ball State cheerleaders, and more, met across the street from Rocket Mortgage Fieldhouse for a “Pregame Party” around 10:30 a.m.
CLEVELAND–– Audrey Spencer doesn’t remember much about Ball State Women’s Basketball’s triumph over Bowling Green in the 2009 Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament championship game. She knows she didn’t score any points and that it was a close game, but she doesn’t remember many specifics about the gameplay itself.
CLEVELAND–– “We’re a family, we’re ready for this and we were ready today,” redshirt senior Anna Clephane said.
After starting the season losing 3-of-4 games to Charlotte (5-6), Ball State Baseball has won six of its last eight.
After Ball State Women’s Basketball’s loss to Bowling Green March 1, the Cardinals were locked in as the No. 3 seed of the Mid-American Conference (MAC) women’s basketball tournament March 8, 10-11, in Cleveland. A win or a loss in their final regular season game didn’t matter as far as the standings went.
“Not again!”
After being the first team to clinch a spot in the Mid-American Conference (MAC) Tournament, Ball State Women’s Basketball is now locked in at the No. 3 seed. With two games to go, Bowling Green and Ball State were in second and third place in the Mid-American Conference (MAC), respectively.
Going into the 2023 season, expectations were high for Ball State Baseball. After winning the regular season Mid-American Conference (MAC) Championship and losing in the MAC Championship Tournament Final in 2022, the Cardinals were projected to win the conference in 2023, according to the MAC Preseason Coaches Poll.
As is a postgame standard at Worthen Arena, a head coach and two players sit behind a folding table with a black placemat over it, four Aquafina water bottles placed in front of them and a Ball State University Athletics banner behind them during the Cardinals’ press conference.
Competitive. Hardworking. Accountable. Prideful. Tough. Invested. Selfless.
“We got a big dose of humble pie right there,” Ball State Baseball head coach Rich Maloney said.
“We lost a tough road game,” Ball State Women’s Basketball head coach Brady Sallee said following the Cardinals’ 84-77 loss to Northern Illinois.
Despite numerous accomplishments heading into his 18th season as head coach of Ball State Baseball, reigning Mid-American Conference (MAC) Coach of the Year Rich Maloney has never made an NCAA Regionals appearance at Ball State. The last time the Cardinals achieved that mark was in 2006 when Maloney was manning the Wolverines at the University of Michigan in the same tournament.
For 10 minutes and 31 seconds, Ball State Women’s Basketball held Akron to just two points. From the 5:05 mark in the first quarter until the 5:36 mark in the second quarter, the Cardinals went on a 17-2 run.
The last time Ball State Women’s Basketball and Kent State squared off in Worthen Arena, the result, and more impactfully, the atmosphere, was completely different. In the previous meeting, Ball State’s post-game thoughts weren’t on the result, but on the health of Anna Clephane. The Cardinals lost that game 54-51, and in the process, they lost one of their best players for the rest of the season with an ACL injury.
When Deb Huston was growing up in Muncie, Indiana, oftentimes, someone not related to her would eat dinner and stay overnight in her family’s house. From a young age, Huston’s parents were doing what they could to help at-risk members of the community.
