Few college basketball teams are still playing in April. Illinois State University is one of only two institutions that can boast that it had both of its programs playing in the national semifinals. Connecticut, whose teams advanced to the NCAA Final Fours this weekend, is the other. While the ISU men bowed out of the semifinals of the NIT on Thursday, the Redbird women look to become just the third national champion in ISU athletics history, following the 1969 Division II baseball title and last season’s College Basketball Invitational Championship for the men.