Had we stayed up to watch West Coast hoops on Monday night, we would have seen a corker: Ashja Jones finished a neat layup (assist: Whalen) that gave the Sun the last lead in a back-and-forth game.

Lauren Jackson led all scorers by a lot, but the rest of her team combined to shoot 16-47 (34%).

By the way, does Seattle have the best online presence, or what? Jayda blogs games, Kevin blogs games, the fan forum is at least as active as any of them, and then there are the separate, doubly attractive,official and unofficial Storm blogs.

The Sun continue their West Coast swing tonight when they visit the Merc, who seem just as surprised to be doing badly as some fans are to see the Sun doing well. "They're winning the games we're not," Diana says.

Ketia Swanier tells Nutmeg State reporters that she likes coming off the bench for a winning team: "It's not as hard as it was [at UConn] when I was expected to do things right away."