LOS ANGELES - When Stanford took the floor for its final six minutes of warm-up before the game Thursday night, Anthony Goods led the charge. The Cardinal had their sharpshooter back, but it wasn’t enough to remove the lingering doubt surrounding the team’s tournament hopes.

Stanford bowed out of the Pac-10 tournament with a semifinal round exit, falling to USC 83-79 in overtime.

Gabe Pruitt, who led the Trojans with 17 points, sealed the game with a steal and lay-up with 32 seconds left to put USC ahead 78-73. The Trojans tightened up their defense in the extra session, holding the Cardinal 10 points on 4 of 11 shooting.

Goods didn’t start, but led all scorers with 19 points. The sophomore, seeing his first action since a Feb. 11 high ankle sprain, missed two free throws with 30 seconds left that would have put Stanford up four, and had a potential game-winning jumper blocked in the final seconds.

“I wasn’t really tired,” Goods said. “I just didn’t make plays.”

Nick Young hit a three pointer with 10 seconds left to force the overtime, capping an 18-9 Trojan run in the final eight minutes. “It was kind of nervous,” the junior forward admitted. “But I had to make a big shot. It was the perfect moment for me.”

Not so much for the Stanford faithful, who now anxiously await Sunday’s announcement of the NCAA tournament selections. Neither coach, however, considered the Cardinal to be a team on the “bubble.”

“We’re not a program that makes excuses,” head coach Trent Johnson said of his squad’s opening the season without freshman forward Brook Lopez, and ending without Goods. “When you look at the full body of work, it would be hard for me to say that these guys don’t deserve to play in the NCAA tournament.”

“We’ve had opportunity to take it out of the judges’ hands, and we haven’t done that,” he added.

USC head coach Tim Floyd was quick to echo Stanford’s praise.

“We beat an NCAA tournament team tonight. It’s ridiculous for anyone to start that ‘bubble’ talk,” Floyd said. “I think that they’re a team you shouldn’t even talk about being on the bubble.”

Stanford also is unsure of the immediate future of Lawrence Hill, who took a hard charge with 3:02 left in overtime. The sophomore forward was diagnosed with a right hip/lower back contusion and post game X-ray results were not immediately available.

The Card were sluggish early, and the Trojans raced out to an early 10-3 lead in the first five minutes, thanks to the strong play of Young and Pruitt. Young scored 11 points in the first half, sporting a fade away jumper that was impossible for Stanford to stop.

But the Cardinal came roaring back, finishing the opening stanza with a 16-11 run on a flurry of outside jumpers and taking a 42-31 halftime lead. Goods led Stanford with 12 first half points, while freshman guard Landry Fields chipped in 10 on perfect 4-for-4 shooting from the field.

Both teams traded baskets to start the second half. The Trojans finally got the hometown crowd on their feet with a short run to get back within three, at 54-51, halfway through the period. A Daniel Hackett three-pointer, following a Taj Gibson block on Brook Lopez on the other end, brought the Trojans within two. Then Pruitt hit a three to tie the game at 59 with five minutes left.

USC outscored the Cardinal 38-27 in the second half, and took a 30-21 rebounding advantage in the second half and overtime.

“We had opportunity down the stretch to put the game away,” Johnson said. “We didn’t make the necessary plays.

“You can’t fault our effort; the kids were out there trying to make plays,” he added. “We just let it slip away.”