In any other year, Fresno State’s first WAC women’s basketball title would be the No. 1 highlight.

On Dec. 5, the same day as closing arguments in the sex discrimination trial of former women’s basketball coach Stacy Johnson-Klein, the Bulldogs lost at Loyola Marymount to fall to 0-6.

Two of the Bulldogs’ best players — Tierre Wilson and Erica Henry — had given heartfelt testimony during the trial. Henry at one point was moved to tears.

But the Bulldogs of coach Adrian Wiggins changed once the trial ended. They won 22 of their next 26 games to make “The Dance” — the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament — for the first time in school history.