Portland Pilots confident its 2023 NCAA women’s basketball tournament won’t be the last: ‘A great first run’

It was an experience the Portland Pilots have wanted for three years. The result was not. Saturday night’s 85-63 loss to Oklahoma in the first round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament in Pauley Pavilion was not the happy ending the Pilots envisioned. After having its NCAA dreams dashed in 2020 because of the pandemic, Portland got its first taste of the tournament in 26 years. The Pilots got to live the high of being an NCAA tournament team on UP’s campus for more than a week, then went through...