2018 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament explained

The 2018 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament presented by New York Life was the postseason tournament that ended the 2017–18 season of the Pac-12 Conference. The tournament was held at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington from March 1–4, 2018. Regular-season champion Oregon won the tournament and with it the automatic Pac-12 berth in the NCAA tournament.

Seeds

Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order:

Record between the tied teams
Record against the highest-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the seedings as necessary
Higher RPI

Seed	School	Conf (Overall)	Tiebreaker
1	Oregon	16–2 (27–4)
2	Stanford	14–3 (20–9)
3	Oregon State	14–4 (23–6)	1–1 vs. UCLA, 1–1 vs. ORE
4	UCLA	14–4 (23–6)	1–1 vs. OSU, 0–2 vs. ORE
5	California	11–7 (20–9)
6	Arizona State	10–8 (19–11)
7	USC	9–9 (19–10)
8	Utah	8–10 (17–12)
9	Colorado	5–13 (14–15)
10	Washington State	3–14 (10–19)
11	Arizona	2–16 (6–23)
12	Washington	1–15 (7–21)

Thursday-Sunday, March 1–4, 2017

The top four seeds received a first-round bye.

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
First Round – Thursday, March 1
1	1	11:30 AM	8 Utah vs. #9 Colorado	P12N	3,532
1	2	2:00 PM	5 California vs. #12 Washington		3,532
2	3	6:00 PM	7 USC vs. #10 Washington State		3,157
2	4	8:30 PM	6 Arizona State vs. #11 Arizona		3,157
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 2
3	5	11:30 AM	1 Oregon vs. #9 Colorado	P12N	4,852
3	6	2:00 PM	4 UCLA vs. #5 California		4,852
4	7	6:00 PM	2 Stanford vs. #7 USC		4,741
4	8	8:30 PM	3 Oregon State vs. #6 Arizona State		4,741
Semifinals – Saturday, March 3
5	9	6:00 PM	1 Oregon vs. #4 UCLA	P12N	6,889
5	10	8:30 PM	2 Stanford vs. #6 Arizona State	P12N	6,889
Championship Game – Sunday, March 4
6	11	6:00 PM	1 Oregon vs. #2 Stanford	ESPN2	5,387
Game Times in PT.

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