Coach Summitt responded yesterday to the CWA report. She called it a "huge mistake."

“I think it will set women’s basketball way back,” Summitt said. “If you look at having male practice players – males are stronger, quicker, faster – to challenge us in practice and I’m sure a lot of other coaches in Division I would agree it has done nothing but help us improve our game.”

Maria Cornelius also points out the Committee's dubious understanding of real-world basketball practices:

The male practice players are used to make everyone better, from the starters to the substitutes. The committee seems to think only the starters are getting the practice repetitions. An efficient and well-managed practice means every player on the roster will rotate in. In this case the committee appears to be trying to legislate competence.