The case of Beckett Brennan

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"All three should have been expelled. A sexual assault, a rape, is a rape," Joelle Gomez, who runs the San Joaquin Women's Center in Stockton, told Couric.

Gomez started counseling Brennan shortly after the board's decision. She doesn't believe college judicial review boards are equipped to handle such serious crimes.

"There's little to no transparency. There's little to no accountability. Certainly it does, in my opinion, favor the alleged perpetrator as opposed to the victim, again, who's really risking it all in making the report in the first place," Gomez said.

"You can almost hear the reaction of some people listening to this story. They might say, 'This girl had too much to drink. She went upstairs with these three young men willingly.' How do you respond to that?" Couric asked.

"None of us know how we're gonna react in a sexual assault. Yet it's pretty simple. Doesn't matter what time of day it was, who they were with, what they were wearing, how much they had to drink. But there is never an invitation for rape," Gomez said.

In June 2008, Beckett Brennan decided that the best way for her to move forward was to return to the university for the summer session. "I wanted my life back. I wanted to play basketball again. I wanted my friends," she explained.

But when she went back, she said it was completely different.

For one thing, the athletic director had banned the men's and women's teams from socializing. She was told the new rules were for her own protection, but says as a result, she was blamed and ostracized.

"It was kind of one of those situations where you felt like everyone on campus knew," Brennan said.

In October 2008, Brennan left the University of the Pacific for good. Three months later, Michael Kirby returned to the university and the Tigers starting line-up; the team's missing center, Michael Nunnally returned the following fall.

As for Steffan Johnson, three months after he was expelled from the university for sexual assault, he was given a full scholarship to the University of Idaho.

Head coach Don Verlin told a local newspaper he recruited Johnson after talking to the associate head coach from the University of the Pacific, Ron Verlin, who just happens to be his twin brother.

"Unbelievable to sit there and say 'Oh, wow, okay, well, we can use a guy like that.' 'Oh, he has a sexual assault and has been found guilty?' How in the hell do you end up at another university within three months?" Beckett Brennan's father Barry asked.

Beckett Brennan and her family are not giving up. They sued the school for violating her civil rights. Last fall, a judge ruled against them, and the Brennans are now appealing that ruling.