Every team in college sports wants to win a national championship. But the Washington University women’s volleyball team is one of the few that would actually consider anything else a disappointment. Coming off of a heartbreaking national semifinal loss to Emory University last year at the Wash. U.

BLOOMINGTON, Ill. — After a third appearance in the championship game in four years, Jaimie McFarlin and the veteran Washington University women’s basketball team would not be denied. “Even when I was shooting those last free throws, I was thinking [that] it’s still not over.”