Hey, did you watch your sixth-seeded women’s and men’s basketball teams lose to double-digit seeds who played multiple games in as many days today? Well, I did!

There’s not going to be a lot of analysis in this post. More venting than anything else.

To start, the App State Women’s Basketball team, lost to a Marshall team that was playing its fourth game in four days. This is despite the Mountaineers having the last week off.

The Apps briefly led in the first quarter, but the Herd was way ahead for most of the second half. This ends the WBB season at 13-17 overall and on an eight-game losing streak. The team has gone 1-9 since February started.

With nine seniors/grad students, the team could look much different in Alaura Sharp’s second season. It seemed Sharp was trying to build off the heavy upperclassmen team in her first season. I expect this team to look very different in the fall.

Then to the men. A team that had a decent shot at a Sun Belt regular season championship ends on a four-game losing streak and 1-5 to close. The lack of consistent scoring outside of Myles Tate and CJ Huntley killed the team in the end.

Losing to an Old Dominion team playing its third game in three days is brutal for Dustin Kerns, who a year ago was hoisting a regular season championship. Then the Arkansas State semifinal happened. Then the Wake Forest NIT ref job. Then almost everyone left.

At a certain point, when you have so many players leave after a championship season, you can’t rebuild it all just like that.

Kerns deserves some of the blame for this. It’s his team and in the end, the offense became one-dimensional. Free throws again were an Achilles heel. It’s not been a this-player or that-player thing. Free throw woes are a Coach Kerns thing.

Now you wonder who in the world will score next season. You hope the portal fairy treats App State well, but you hope this is like two seasons ago (minus the internal strife) leading up to a successful 2025-26.

Of course, with a 17-14 record, there’s a chance of playing in a pay-for-play tournament. We won’t know that for another week-plus. And at this point, would we be looking forward to it?

On the bright side, we don’t have to watch the Sun Belt’s abhorrent attempt at basketball production, having remote announcers in New Orleans calling games in Pensacola who constantly complain about players shooting early in the shot clock.