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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 2023 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament, 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 Network, 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 K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate facilities and more athletic scholarships than Division II and Division III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition. This level was previously called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower-level College Division; these terms were replaced with numeric divisions in 1973. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two; the College Division members that offered scholarships or wanted to compete against those who did became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III. For college football only, D-I schools are further divided into the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheryl Miller Award
The Cheryl Miller Award is an award presented annually to the best women's basketball small forward in the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division I competition. It is named after Hall of Famer Cheryl Miller. While at Riverside (CA) Polytechnic High School, Miller set a single game scoring record of 105 points in a game in 1982. She was a four-time All-America, a three-time Naismith Player of the Year and a Wade Trophy winner while accumulating 3,018 career points at USC from 1982 to 1986. Miller is a 1984 Olympic gold medalist and was named the best college basketball player, both male and female, in 1986 by Sports Illustrated. Origin The Cheryl Miller Award was first presented in 2018, when WBCA and the Naismith Hall, in collaboration with ESPN, incorporated the Nancy Lieberman Award, presented since 2000 to the top NCAA women's point guard, into a new set of awards known as the "Naismith Starting Five". All five awards are presented at the WBCA convention (exc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Helena Pueyo
Helena Pueyo Melchor (born 13 February 2001) is a Spanish professional basketball player for Basket Zaragoza of the Liga Femenina de Baloncesto. She is also a player for the Spanish women's national team. She played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. Early life Pueyo was born in Palma on the island of Mallorca, Spain. She has a brother in Spain. She attended and trained at La Salle Palma. She played in the Spanish National Team as well as Liga Femenina 2 club Segle XXI before coming to the United States to play college basketball. She has a Bachelor's degree in nutritional science and a Master's degree in public health. College career Pueyo was recruited for "her size, shooting ability, the way she sees the floor and her versatility," according to Arizona coach Adia Barnes. At the time, she was considered one of the best European players in her age group. During her freshman year in the 2019–2020 season, Pueyo played in 29 games and started in one. She aver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaina Pellington
Shaina Pellington (born June 1, 1999) is a Canadian basketball player for the Arizona Wildcats of the Pac-12 Conference. She played for the Canada Women's National Basketball team. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She participated at the 2021 FIBA Women's AmeriCup. College She began her US college basketball career at the University of Oklahoma in 2017, playing there two seasons until transferring to the University of Arizona. After sitting out the 2019–20 season due to NCAA transfer rules, she became a key substitute for a Wildcats team that went on to narrowly lose in the national championship game to conference rival Stanford. Career statistics College , - , style="text-align:left;", 2017–18 , style="text-align:left;", Oklahoma , 31, , 20, , 27.3, , 49.2, , 0.0, , 59.1, , 2.7, , 2.2, , 0.8, , 0.1, , 2.9, , 13.1 , - , style="text-align:left;", 2018–19 , style="text-align:left;", Oklahoma , 23, , 12, , 23.3, , 41.1, , 13.7, , 60.6, , 3.6, , 2.8, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adia Barnes
Adia Oshun Barnes (born February 3, 1977) is an American basketball coach and former player. She is currently the head coach of the SMU Mustangs. She played at the collegiate level for the University of Arizona, and played seven seasons in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA) with the Houston Comets, Seattle Storm, Minnesota Lynx, and Sacramento Monarchs. She has played internationally with Dynamo Kyiv in Ukraine. Barnes has also served as a TV color analyst for Seattle Storm game broadcasts. Early years Barnes grew up in San Diego, California, and attended Mission Bay Senior High School in San Diego. She is the daughter of NFL player Pete Barnes. He and Adia's mother divorced when she was three. Over the course of her high school career, she amassed 1112 blocks, the most ever recorded by a female high school basketball player, 253 blocks ahead of second place Chris Enger. College At 5 ft 11 in, Barnes was not as tall as most post position players at the highly reg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Francisco, California
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of 2024, San Francisco is the List of California cities by population, fourth-most populous city in the U.S. state of California and the List of United States cities by population, 17th-most populous in the United States. San Francisco has a land area of at the upper end of the San Francisco Peninsula and is the County statistics of the United States, fifth-most densely populated U.S. county. Among U.S. cities proper with over 250,000 residents, San Francisco is ranked first by per capita income and sixth by aggregate income as of 2023. San Francisco anchors the Metropolitan statistical area#United States, 13th-most populous metropolitan statistical area in the U.S., with almost 4.6 million residents in 2023. The larger San Francisco Bay Area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cate Reese
Catherine Reese (born November 5, 1999) is an American professional basketball player for Kangoeroes Mechelen of the Belgian Women's Basketball League. She played college basketball for the Arizona Wildcats. A four-time All-Pac-12 selection, Reese helped the Wildcats advance to the national championship game as a junior and win the Women's National Invitational Tournament as a freshman. She attended Cypress Woods High School in Cypress, Texas, where she was rated a five-star recruit by ESPN and named a McDonald's All-American, and joined Arizona as the highest-rated recruit in program history. Early life and high school career Catherine Reese was born prematurely and was kept in an intensive care unit for three weeks because her lungs were not developed enough. She began playing basketball at age seven. Reese attended Cypress Woods High School in Cypress, Texas and became a starter in her freshman season in 2014 under coach Virginia Flores. As a freshman, she averaged 12.2 poi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianna Kneepkens
Gianna Kneepkens (born March 4, 2003) is an American college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins of the Big Ten Conference. She previously played for Utah Early life and high school career Gianna Kneepkens was born in Duluth, Minnesota to Donald and Betsy Kneepkens. The youngest of six siblings, Kneepkens grew up playing basketball against her five older brothers. She played for Marshall School in Duluth. As a varsity starter beginning in eighth grade, Kneepkens helped her team to two consecutive Minnesota State Tournament appearances. In her final high school game, Kneepkens scored 67 points, an all-time state record. She was named 2021 Gatorade Minnesota Girls Basketball Player of the Year, joining Paige Bueckers who won the award the year before. During her high school career, Kneepkens scored 3,704 points, which ranked fourth all-time in Minnesota state history at the time. She ultimately committed to playing college basketball for Utah. College career Freshman season Kn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haley Jones
Haley Jones (born May 23, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Dallas Wings of the WNBA. She played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal of the Pac-12 Conference, helping the team win the national championship in 2021 while being named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player. She was selected sixth overall in the 2023 WNBA draft by the Atlanta Dream. Early life Jones was born in Santa Cruz, California. She attended Archbishop Mitty High School in San Jose, where she was named the Naismith Prep Player of the Year and a McDonald's All-American as a senior in 2019. A five-star recruit, Jones was ranked the number one recruit in the 2019 class by ESPN. College career As a freshman at Stanford University in 2019–20, Jones averaged 11.4 points, 4.2 rebounds and 2.4 assists before suffering a season-ending, knee ligament injury. Jones returned to play in the 2020–21 season, averaging 13.2 points, 7.4 rebounds and 2.8 assists per game. She was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cameron Brink
Cameron Lee Brink (born December 31, 2001) is an American professional basketball player for the Los Angeles Sparks of the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA). She played college basketball at Stanford Cardinal women's basketball, Stanford. She attended Mountainside High School and Southridge High School (Beaverton, Oregon), Southridge High School, both in her hometown of Beaverton, Oregon, where she was a McDonald's All-American Game, McDonald's All-American and ranked the number three player in her class by ESPN. As a freshman at Stanford, Brink helped her team win the 2021 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament, national championship. In her sophomore season, she shared Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year, Pac-12 Player of the Year honors and led her team to the 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament#Final Four – Minneapolis, Minnesota, Final Four. As a junior, Brink received the WBCA Defensive Player of the Year award and be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lauren Betts
Lauren Marie Betts (born October 15, 2003) is a Spanish-born British-American college basketball player for the UCLA Bruins of the Big Ten Conference. She played for Grandview High School in Aurora, Colorado, where she was ranked as the number one recruit in her class by ESPN. Betts started her college career with the Stanford Cardinal before transferring to UCLA after one season. Early life and high school career Betts was born in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, and moved around the country during her childhood due to the basketball career of her father, Andrew. When she was in third grade, her family settled in the United States. Before focusing on basketball, Betts was involved in dance, swimming and soccer. She played for Grandview High School in Aurora, Colorado. As a freshman, Betts averaged 12.7 points, 8.6 boards and 3.9 blocks per game for the Class 5A runners-up. In her sophomore season, she averaged 17.8 points, 11.2 rebounds and 3.9 blocks per game, leading her team back to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fran Belibi
Francesca Belibi (born July 20, 2001) is an American former basketball player. She played college basketball for the Stanford Cardinal of the Pac-12 Conference where she won the NCAA championship in 2021. Prior to college, she drew national attention in high school for her dunking ability. In 2020, she became the eighth woman to dunk in a women's college basketball game. Early life Belibi was born in Kansas City, Kansas to Franck and Suzanne Belibi, who were born in Cameroon and moved to Belgium before coming to the United States. The family later moved to Centennial, Colorado. High school career Belibi started playing competitive basketball for the first time during her freshman year at Regis Jesuit High School. In 2017, she became the first girl to dunk in a game in Colorado high school history. In February 2019, she pulled off the first ever alley-oop dunk by a female in a high school game in Colorado. As a senior she averaged 21.8 points, 12.3 rebounds, 3.4 steals, 2.7 block ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
