KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The ball felt good leaving Anna Gret Asi’s hands.

But a broken play ended Oklahoma State’s broken season, as Asi’s shot hit off the back of the rim and bounced away as the Cowgirls fell 68-66 to TCU in the Big 12 women’s basketball tournament Friday at T-Mobile Center.

In a hushed locker room after the game, Asi described her and her teammates as “devastated.”

“This group has gone through so much in this, not even a year, nine-10 months,” Asi said. “Just devastated. Sad.”

There will be no continuation of the season for the Cowgirls, whose season ends 14-16.

Oklahoma State coach Jacie Hoyt said her team had talked before the tournament and made the decision to decline any possible postseason bid.

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“I wouldn’t even want to,” Hoyt said. “We wanted to limp through the finish line. That was the goal and we kind of did it today.

“We’ve got to get healthy. I don’t know if the kids are going to need surgery or not but we’ve got three kids — Anna Gret, Rylee (Langerman) and Praise (Eghareyba) — who are all going to have to have some serious rehab or surgery or something to help them through what they’ve been playing through so we’re not going to put them through that.”

Friday, the Cowgirls were without Eghareyba.

“I’ve never as a head coach gone through even close to the adversity that we went through this year,” Hoyt said. “We had injury after injury. …

“It just never stopped from literally the first game of the year to the last game of the year,” Hoyt added.

The Horned Frogs (20-10) will take on top-seeded OU at 1:30 p.m. Saturday in the quarterfinals.

Here are three other takeaways from the loss:

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Final shot set for Quincy Noble

The final play didn’t go the way the Cowgirls were hoping.

With 3.3 seconds left, TCU committed the last in a series of fouls to shorten the game.

Unsurprisingly, Hoyt drew up a play for Quincy Noble.

Noble had scored 19 of her 26 points after halftime and helped the Cowgirls battle back from a big deficit.

“The plan was to get it to Q and for Q to drive left and get a layup,” Asi said.

So instead of going to Noble, the ball went to Asi near the baseline.

“I thought Anna Gret could’ve shot it right when she got it, but I think she was still trying to maybe get the ball back to Q,” Hoyt said. “Just a broken play. One of those things that I don’t feel like it was anyone’s fault. It was just good defense by TCU.”

Asi had an opening for a brief moment and the shot looked like it had a chance off her fingers.

“I felt pretty good about it, I’m not going to lie, but unfortunately didn’t go in,” Asi said.

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Cowgirls close big gap with run

Trailing 44-32 early in the third quarter, Hoyt decided to lean heavily on a smaller lineup.

“Which doesn’t make sense when you’re playing against someone who’s 6-7 (TCU’s Sedona Prince),” Hoyt said. “We had to play that way at the beginning of the year when Hannah (Gusters) wasn’t eligible and Praise was hurt. So that was nothing new for us. We just felt like our activity could bother Sedona and it did.”

Prince finished with 13 points but was just 5 of 15 from the field.

“Defensively we were able to get what we wanted and then offensively we were able to get 3s off of that,” Hoyt said. “We were able to space the floor, get 3s for their 2s. It was heart. It was all heart. You’ve got Stailee (Heard), a freshman, down there battling with Sedona. It was pure heart that allowed us to go on that run.”

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Anna Gret Asi tweaks ankle

With the shot clock ticking down in the closing seconds of the third quarter, Asi let a desparation 3-pointer fly.

The ball bounced off the backboard and in, capping a 13-0 run that put the Cowgirls ahead for the first time since midway through the second quarter.

But Asi landed awkwardly on her left ankle and hobbled to the bench.

Asi re-entered the game less than a minute into the fourth.

“Anna Gret, whether people realize it or not, she’s played hurt all season long,” Hoyt said. “She’s got a bone spur, she’s got plantar fasciitis, I think she tweaked her ankle on that play. She’s just a competitor. She wants to win. She wants to be there for her teammates. I think that’s what we saw in that response in the fourth quarter.”

Asi had three of her five assists in the fourth.

This article originally appeared on Oklahoman: Oklahoma State women's basketball falls to TCU in Big 12 Tournament