If you thought, after five years, it would be easier to put together an end-of-season pod; if you thought, after five years, we would keep things in the proper perspective, not get too up or down on the emotional roller coaster which is college sports; if you thought any of these things...you thought entirely and utterly inaccurately.

Because, dear FIBbers, there’s no getting around it: this one hurts. A lot.

But through the pain, through the sniffles and the hangovers, Free Ira Brown still manages to cobble, well, something together. In our last episode of the season, our heroes look back at Gonzaga’s loss to Texas Tech in the Elite 8 and try to figure out why a season with so much promise ended so abruptly.

Those stories, plus, we look ahead to who may or may not be coming back next year, what our starting lineup for the opening game might be and we try to figure out why this loss stings more than some of the others.

And finally, we try to remember it’s not all bad, as we realize, yes, Gonzaga may have lost but others have it worse.

All that and more on the season finale of Free Ira Brown, THE Gonzaga Hoops Podcast. Do commiserate with us one more time, won’t you?