Pre-season
Recruiting classes
Preseason watch lists
Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.Preseason All-American teams
Preseason polls
Pac-12 media days
Source:Early-season tournaments
All usually scheduled non-conference basketball tournaments were cancelled due to COVID-19 pandemic.Pac-12 Preseason All-Conference
;First Team ;Second Team ;Honorable Mention * James Akinjo (ARIZ, PG) *Midseason watch lists
Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.Final watch lists
Below is a table of notable year-end watch lists.Regular season
The schedule was released in late October. Before the season, it was announced that for the seventh consecutive season, all regular season conference games and conference tournament games would be broadcast nationally by CBS Sports, FOX Sports, ESPN Inc. family of networks including ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, and the Pac-12 Network.Records against other conferences
2020–21 records against non-conference foes as of (January 19, 2021): Regular seasonRecord against ranked non-conference opponents
This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP poll): ''Team rankings are reflective of AP poll when the game was played, not current or final ranking.'' ''†denotes game was played on neutral site''Conference schedule
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.Points scored
''Through March 22, 2021''Rankings
Head coaches
Coaching changes
There were no coaching changes during the 2020 off-season.Coaches
''Note:'' Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Overall and Pac-12 records are from time at current school. ''Notes:'' * Overall and Pac-12 records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2019–20 season. * NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only. * NCAA Final Fours and championship include time at other schools.Post season
Pac-12 tournament
Oregon State won the conference tournament from March 10–13, 2021, at the T-Mobile Arena, Paradise, Nevada. The top four teams had a bye on the first day. Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary. Arizona announced a self imposed post season ban for the 2020–21 NCAA season, which includes the Pac-12 tournament.NCAA tournament
Five teams from the conference were selected to participate: Colorado, Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA and USC. While the highest seed was Colorado at No. 5, two teams—USC and Oregon State—advanced to the Elite Eight, and UCLA made it to the Final Four. ''^ VCU withdrew from the tournament due to positive COVID-19 test, resulting in Oregon advancing to the round of 32 via no contest.''National Invitation Tournament
No teams from the conference were selected to participate:Postseason records against other conferences
2020-21 postseason records against non-conference foes as of (April 4, 2021): Regular season ^ ''Totals do not include the Oregon no-contest due to VCU withdrawing due to COVID-19 or the result of the Oregon vs. USC Sweet 16 matchup.''Awards and honors
Players of the Week
Throughout the conference regular season, the Pac-12 offices named one or two players of the week each Monday. width=100, Utah ! style= width=135, Michael O'Connell ! style= width=100, Stanford , , - , Feb. 8 ! style= width=135, Evan Mobley ! style= width=100, USC ! style= width=135, Evan Mobley (5) ! style= width=100, USC , , - , Feb. 15 ! style= width=135, Johnny Juzang ! style= width=100, UCLA ! style= width=135, Evan Mobley (6) ! style= width=100, USC , , - , Feb. 22 ! style= width=120, Noah Williams ! style= width=120, Washington State ! style= width=135, Azuolas Tubelis ! style= width=100, Arizona , , - , Mar. 1 ! style= width=145, McKinley Wright IV (4) ! style= width=75, Colorado ! style= width=135, Azuolas Tubelis (2) ! style= width=100, Arizona , , - , Mar. 8 ! style= width=145, Chris Duarte (2) ! style= width=75, Oregon ! style= width=135, Evan Mobley (7) ! style= width=100, USC , , -Totals per school
All-Americans
* Evan Mobley, USC, Second team ( AP, ''Hoophall awards
* Jerry West Award – Chris Duarte, OregonAll-District
The United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) named the following from the Pac-12 to their All-District Teams: ;District VIII All-District Team ;District IX Player of the Year All-District Team TheConference awards
Voting was by conference coaches.Individual awards
All-Pac-12
;First Team * ‡ Pac-12 Player of the Year * †††three-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree * ††two-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree * †two-time All-Pac-12 honoree ;Second Team ;Honorable Mention *All-Freshman Team
†Pac-12 Player of the Year ‡ Pac-12 Freshman of the Year ;Honorable Mention * Marcus Bagley (ASU, SG) * Josh Christopher (ASU, SF) * Dishon Jackson (WSU, C) * Ziaire Williams (STAN, SF)All-Defensive Team
*†Pac-12 Player of the Year *‡Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year *††two-time Pac-12 All-Defensive Team honoree ;Honorable Mention * Warith Alatishe, (OSU, PF) * Bryce Wills, (STAN, PG) * McKinley Wright IV, (COLO, PG)All-Academic team
''The Pac-12 moved to seasonal Academic Honor Rolls, discontinuing sport-by-sport teams, starting in 2019–20.'' *‡ indicates player was Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year *††two-time Pac-12 All-Academic honoree *†††three-time Pac-12 All-Academic honoreeHome game attendance
The Pac-12 announced October 29, 2020 that fans would not be allowed to attend any team home games until at least January 2021 due to theReferences
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