2022–23 Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Season

The 2022–23 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball season will begin with practices in October followed by the 2022–23 NCAA Division I women's basketball season which will start in November 2022. Conference play will begin in December 2022. This will be the eleventh season under the Pac–12 Conference name and the 37th since the conference first sponsored women's sports, including basketball, in the 1986–87 school year.

The Pac-12 tournament will take place in March 2023 at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Paradise, Nevada.

Pre-season

Recruiting classes

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

Preseason polls

Pac-12 Media days

The Pac-12 will conduct its 2022 Pac-12 media days at the Pac-12 Studio, in San Francisco, California, on October 25, 2022 (Pac-12 Network).

The teams and representatives in respective order were as follows:

* Pac-12 Commissioner – George Kliavkoff
* Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer (WBB) – Jamie Zaninovich
* Arizona – Adia Barnes (HC), Shaina Pellington & Helena Pueyo
* Arizona State – Natasha Adair (HC), Sydney Erikstrup & Jaddan Simmons
* California – Charmin Smith (HC), Jayda Curry & Kemery Martín
* Colorado – JR Payne (HC), Quay Miller & Jaylyn Sherrod
* Oregon – Kelly Graves (HC), Te-Hina Paopao & Endyia Rogers
* Oregon State – Scott Rueck (HC), Talia von Oelhoffen & Bendu Yeaney
* Stanford – Tara VanDerveer (HC), Cameron Brink & Haley Jones
* UCLA – Cori Close (HC), Charisma Osborne & Kiki Rice
* USC – Lindsay Gottlieb (HC), Rayah Marshall & Kadi Sissoko
* Utah – Lynne Roberts (HC), Gianna Kneepkens & Kennady McQueen
* Washington – Tina Langley (HC), Lauren Schwartz & Haley Van Dyke
* Washington State – Kamie Ethridge (HC), Charlisse Leger-Walker & Bella Murekatete

Source:

Pac-12 Preseason All-Conference

;Honorable Mention: Treasure Hunt (ASU); Evelien Lutje Schipholt (CAL); Rayah Marshall (USC); Leilani McIntosh (CAL); Kennady McQueen (UTAH); Quay Miller (COLO); Bella Murekatete (WSU); Kiki Rice (UCLA); Jaddan Simmons (ASU); Haley Van Dyke (WASH); Kindyll Wetta (COLO).

†''Sedona Prince suffered a season ending elbow injury on October 28th and chose to exhaust her remaining NCAA eligibility and pursue a professional basketball career.''

Source:

Midseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.

Final watchlists

Below is a table of notable year end watch lists.

Regular season

The Schedule will be 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 ESPN Inc. family of networks including ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, and the Pac-12 Network.

Early season tournaments

Records against other conferences

2022–23 records against non-conference foes for the 2022–23 season. Records shown for regular season only.

Regular season

Post Season

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll):

Pac-12/SWAC Legacy Series

On September 20, 2021, the Pac-12 and Southwestern Athletic Conference will debut the Pac-12/SWAC Legacy Series, an educational and basketball scheduling partnership between the two collegiate athletics conferences, to tip off the 2022–23 season. The Legacy Series will incorporate an array of educational opportunities for competing teams and student-athletes featuring expert speakers and prominent alumni, community engagement, campus traditions, historic site visits, and book/film discussions. The Pac-12 won every game in the series, finishing with a 6−0 record against the SWAC schools.

''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 February 27, 2023''

Rankings

Head coaches

Coaching changes

Coaches

''Note:'' Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Pac-12 records are from time at current school.

''Notes:''
* Pac-12 records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2022–23 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

The conference tournament will be played in March 2023 at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Paradise, NV. The top four teams will have a bye on the first day. Teams will be seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

NCAA tournament

Teams from the conference that will be selected to participate:

Women's National Invitation Tournament

Members from the conference that will be selected to participate:

Awards and honors

Players of the Week

Throughout the regular season, the Pac-12 offices will honor 2 players based on performance by naming them player of the week and freshman of the week.

Totals per School

All-Americans

All-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

Conference awards

The Pac-12 presents two separate sets of major awards—one voted on by conference coaches and the other by media.

Individual awards

Sources:

Coaches

Media
Sources:

All-Pac-12

;First Team

* ‡ Pac-12 Player of the Year
* †††† four-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree
* ††† three-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree
* †† two-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree
* † two-time All-Pac-12 honoree

;Honorable Mention
Jayda Curry, CAL; Dalayah Daniels; WASH; Frida Formann, COLO; Jenna Johnson, UTAH; Esmery Martinez, ARIZ; Leilani McIntosh, CAL; Kennady McQueen, UTAH; Bella Murekatete, WSU; Te-Hina Paopao, ORE; Lauren Schwartz, WASH; Tyi Skinner, ASU; Haley Van Dyke, WASH; Grace VanSlooten, ORE; Aaronette Vonleh, COLO; Talia von Oelhoffen, OSU

All-Freshman Team

† Pac-12 Player of the Year
‡ Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
;Honorable Mention
Lauren Betts, STAN; Timea Gardiner, OSU; Elle Ladine, WASH; Talana Lepolo, STAN; Astera Tuhina, WSU

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
Okako Adika, USC; Chance Gray, ORE; Charlisse Leger-Walker, WSU; Jelena Mitrovic, OSU; Jayda Noble, WASH; Charisma Osborne, UCLA; Jaddan Simmons, ASU; Kayla Williams, USC

Scholar Athlete of the year

''The Pac-12 moved to seasonal Academic Honor Rolls, discontinuing sport-by-sport teams, starting in 2019–20''

National awards

2022–23 Season statistic leaders

Team statistic rankings

2023 WNBA draft

Home game attendance

Bold – At or exceed capacity

†Season high

See also

*2022–23 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season

References

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