In the season's first upset, Washington knocked off #14 Minnesota.

The Huskies used a variety of players to outhustle the short-handed Gophers squad. "This is a new era," said Breanne Watson. "Giuliana was awesome. But it's awesome that there's not one person you can go to. That's one of our threats. You don't know where we're going to go."

Without McCarville, the Gophers squad got rattled and kept throwing the ball away. "They pressured us a lot," Jamie Broback said. "Obviously there's a lot we can get better at."

This was a game that had me worried. The problem is that a game like this -- even though it's November, even though it's an away game, even though it's without Janel -- counts as much as any other in the RPI. It can really hurt you when seeding time comes in March.