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I wish I could agree with you, TrojanTim, but with the major exception of Nadia's injury this is still the team that was in position to get a NCAA birth three weeks ago. Our injuries were bad but this is nothing like what the University of Arizona faced earlier this year when they could only dress six players. I can't buy the argument that all we need to do now is rest. Our next game is eight months away. There is plenty of time for rest. There is also our responsibility to our conference. Continually declining invitations to the WNIT is not going to create opportunities there for Pac 10 members in future years. The Pac 10 has fewer teams in postseason play this year than any other "major" conference. Stanford, one could argue, was dissed by getting a number 2 seed. Declining invitations to postseason play does not help our conference nationally. Florida Gulf Coast University will be hosting South Florida in this years WNIT. Newspaper reports indicated they submitted a $30,000 guarantee to the organizing committee to host a first round game. South Dakota State University, who beat USC last season, submitted a $25,000 guarantee. I personally do not believe USC would ever guarantee such an amount to host a first round game. I would suggest the men's team would not face a similar problem. All one needs to do is read the Appeals Court ruling in Stanley v. U.S.C. and Garrett to understand how Mike Garrett's athletic department really feels about women's basketball. For example: "According to USC, the reason that women's basketball does not generate the same amount of revenue as men's basketball, and that the women's coach is not under the same pressure as the men's coach, is that there simply is not a sufficient spectator or media market for women's basketball games." USC, which won that case, used that argument to justify the salary differential between the men's and women's head coaches. I'd suggest that applies to other aspects of the programs as well and indicates the lack of commitment I referred to earlier. Stanley did not argue Title IX. If the men accept a future NIT bid and the women continue to decline WNIT bids then I hope somebody brings USC to court to force compliance with the statute. I recognize that injuries are an issue as was our 4 game losing streak. Might I suggest the best tonic for the way our season ended might have been a winning first round game at the Galen Center in the WNIT. Sadly, we'll never find out.