The Basketball season officially ended last Thursday for GW when the lady Colonials lost in the first round of the Women’s National Invitational Tournament. GW faced the Eagles from the Florida Gulf Coast University and lost in overtime by a final score of 94 to 97. The Eagles were the 2009 Atlantic-Sun conference champions. Florida Gulf Coast University was recently established in 1991, and its athletics program has competed in Division I for just two years. In 2008, their Women’s basketball program became the first team to qualify for the WNIT in its first season of Division I sports.
The future for the GW Women’s basketball program is hazy. After two consecutive appearances in the NCAA Sweet 16, the first round defeat in the WNIT is a sobering reminder of how much the team has been affected by Joe McKeown’s departure as well as veteran players being lost to graduation.
For the men’s team, this is the second straight year that they have failed to qualify for any post season play, leading many to question how much longer Karl Hobbes will be serving as head coach.
-Joe Lewis
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