USC had a chance to upset Ohio State but couldn't quite pull it off.

Mike Terry: "With all the progress the USC women's basketball team has made the past year and a half, the Trojans still haven't defeated a good team when the game was there for the taking."

Coach Mark Trakh: "We're getting there. There were a lot of things that were encouraging. They're a darn good team and we were right there in the last two to three minutes."

The Trojans did a decent job containing Jess Davenport, who had 15 points on 4 for 11 shooting. "She had a workman like basketball game," said OSU coach Foster. "She got a lot of rebounds, affected a lot of shots, and made a lot of good passes. She showed today that she's not a one-dimensional player, that she can affect the basketball game without having to score a ton of points."