WCC women: St. Mary's falls in semi Per RealTimeRPI.com, the Gaels' RPI of 46 through Friday seemingly gives St. Mary's an outside chance at an NCAA Tournament bid, but a WNIT berth is more plausible. "[...] I think in the end, bad losses hurt you - and we took a bad one a few days ago" in the regular season finale against Pepperdine. Steve Kroner is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer.