Prince at a loss in Chicago Sky's lost season

There's no roadmap for this in Epiphanny Prince's glove box.

And right now, the Chicago Sky rookie guard feels lost.

She's never been down this road before. The road to nowhere.

That's where the Sky goes after tonight's season finale in Tulsa. Nowhere, as in nowhere in the postseason.

Disappointed in the shortcomings of an inconsistent season, and in the Sky's 78-71 loss to Connecticut in the last home game of the season Friday night at Allstate Arena, Prince sat in the locker room and told reporters she was at a loss for what to do now.

"This is my first time not making a postseason - ever," said Prince, who has tasted postseason success in high school, in college at Rutgers and in her winter off-season overseas. She did her best to help the Sky knock off Connecticut, scoring a team-high 19 points, including 3 three-pointers.

"It's hard right now," Prince said. "I don't think I'll even be able to watch (the WNBA playoffs on TV) because I'll be jealous that I won't be playing.

"I was just telling (Sky center Sylvia Fowles) the other day that it feels like I didn't make the NCAA Tournament."

And that indeed would be a shock to the system, considering Prince took perennially powerful Rutgers to a Final Four as a freshman.

Losing is not what Prince is used to, but the Sky (14-19) has gotten all too familiar with the feeling.

In 2006, the Sky opened shop with its inaugural season. And five years later, the franchise is still looking for its first playoff berth.

The Sky is the only team in the league to have never made the playoffs. The Tulsa Shock, which relocated from Detroit over the off-season, technically hasn't. But while in Detroit, the Shock won multiple WNBA championships.

"Ugh," said Fowles when asked to sum up the Sky's season.

Fowles, who put together an MVP-caliber season with 18 points and 11 rebounds per game, had 11 points against the Sun.

"This leaves a (bitter) taste in your mouth," she said. "This is my first year of being healthy and I came in working on a lot of things and I was looking forward to big things, but unfortunately we had setbacks. We've got to get it together and come back (next season) and start all over again."