I know our strength of schedule isn't great, so it's a bit harder to accurately gauge how good we are. However, through 14 games, I think I can confidently say we are a good team, at least good enough to make some noise in the tournament. I just worry that there's a bit of my own bias in there. This team is not perfect by any stretch of the imagination. They went through periods today where they hardly resemble the team that got to this point, especially at the end. Goodwin in foul trouble affected us. But most importantly, the free throw shooting .... I'm not sure if it's just me watching only USC and thus have no point of reference, OR if we truly are poor free throw shooters if you compared us to rest of Pac-12. It just seems like we miss an awful lot of important free throws.

I would also argue that Arizona and UCLA haven't played anyone either - their marquee wins over Michigan and Villanova don't look as impressive today as they did at the time. I hope the team re-groups, as it's still early and there's still two more important games this week and not a lot of time to dwell on this loss. I still think the Pac-12 title goes to one of us, UCLA or Arizona.