"Amazing Grace" has been sung. The dirt has been thrown on the coffin.

The 2004-05 version of the Penn State women's basketball team is dead and gone, slain by the Lady Flames of Liberty.

Who?

Yeah, exactly.

The Lady Lions played like tired little kids who wanted to stay up past their bedtime (because that's cool), but ended up cranky, tired and in need of a blankie.

My heart goes out to Tanisha Wright and Jess Strom. They're so much better than this. I know that if given the opportunity, Penn State could have easily beaten Liberty at least seven times if the teams played ten games. That makes this loss' "Huh?" factor so much greater.

All week, the talk was about just how "legit" Katie Feenstra is, Liberty's 6-foot-8 giantess of a center.

Here's the deal. If I were 6-foot-8 and played women's basketball, I'd have a hard time not being called "legit". Poor Ashli Schwab can only raise her arms so high.

The truth is: Feenstra is no Shaq. She's not even a Yao. She was just Shawn Bradley on a rare good day.

Penn State coach Rene Portland put on her ballet slippers in the postgame press conference and danced around a definitive answer when asked if she thought Feenstra had been overlooked for All-America status.

"I don't really feel comfortable ... I've only seen her in the few games we have on film," Portland said. "We have played against good post players in our conference, and so, certainly I'm sure she's been looked at. But, umm, you know, I'm going to hesitate on that one, to be real honest."

Feenstra played well, but she didn't do it alone. The pixie-esque Allyson Fasnacht lit up Jess Strom for 18 points.

Fasnacht's points-per-game average prior to Sunday? Lower than Stretch-Armstrong could go playing limbo: 3.5 points-per-game. 3.5!!! Liberty plays in the Big South conference against Coastal Carolina and Radford. Who are these people?

How does Penn State, Penn State, let little Fasnacht put up 18 points?

A small part of me wants to feel happy for Liberty.

"This is got to be the No. 1 greatest win in our history, considering we've never been successful in the NCAA," Liberty coach Carey Green said.

But another part of me was punching myself in the face listening to these guys talk after the game. Liberty is an evangelical christian school founded by Jerry Falwell, the same Jerry Falwell who blamed the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on "the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and the lesbians ... the ACLU."

Apparently the Lord was responsible for the Lady Lions playing like junk.

"They were obviously not the Lions in there, so uhh, we're the Christians who were trying not to be eaten up by the Lions," Green said.

What could the Lady Lions have done to avoid all this, prayed, uhh, harder?

Penn State just looked straight-up unprepared. Nothing else can explain letting four players from a do-nothing conference score in double-digits. Feenstra: 22. Fasnacht: 18. Margeviciute: 18. Tharp: 15. Who are these people?

They're not All-American finalists or Wade trophy candidates, or [insert impressive statistic here] like Wright and Strom.

This is the women's game, too. Upsets don't happen. Only four times ever has a No. 13-seed downed a No. 4-seed.

No Big Ten Championship three-peat. No dancing in far-away, exotic Chattanooga, Tenn.

The countenance of the dozens of old-people in blue and white waiting for the game to end said it all: fat, bearded and frowning.