2021–22 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball season explained

2021–22 Pac–12 women's basketball season
Color:	193980
Color Text:	FFFFFF
League:	NCAA Division I
Sport:	Basketball
No Of Teams:	12
Tv:	ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, Pac-12 Network
Season:	Regular season
Season Champs:	Stanford
Season Champ Name:	Regular season champions
Mvp:	Cameron Brink & Haley Jones, Stanford
Mvp Link:	Pac-12 Conference Women's Basketball Player of the Year
Finals:	Pac-12 tournament
Finals Link:	2022 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament
Finals Champ:	Stanford
Finals Runner-Up:	Utah
Finals Mvp Link:	Most Outstanding Player
Finals Mvp Name:	Tournament MVP
Seasonslistnames:	Pac-12 women's basketball
Prevseason Link:	2020–21 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball season
Prevseason Year:	2020–21
Nextseason Link:	2022–23 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball season
Nextseason Year:	2022–23

The 2021–22 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball season began with practices in October followed by the 2021–22 NCAA Division I women's basketball season which started on November 9. Conference play began on December 31. This is the tenth season under the Pac–12 Conference name and the 36th since the conference first sponsored women's sports, including basketball, in the 1986–87 school year.

The Pac-12 tournament took place from March 2–6 at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Paradise, Nevada.

Pre-season

Recruiting classes

Rankings! Team! ESPN !Signees
style= width=75	Arizona	—
style= width=90	Arizona State	―
style= width=85	California	―
style= width=75	Colorado	-
style= width=75	Oregon	―
style= width=90	Oregon State	―
style= width=75	Stanford	-
style= width=75	UCLA	-
style= width=75	USC	―
style= width=75	Utah	―
style= width=75	Washington	-
style= width=100	Washington State	-

Preseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

Wooden^[1]	Naismith^[2]	Lieberman^[3]	Drysdale^[4]	Miller^[5]	McClain^[6]	Leslie^[7]	Wade^[8]
Cameron Brink – Stanford Mya Hollingshed – Colorado Lexie Hull – Stanford Haley Jones – Stanford Taylor Jones – Oregon State Charlisse Leger-Walker – Washington State Charisma Osborne – UCLA Te-Hina Paopao – Oregon Alissa Pili – USC Nyara Sabally – Oregon	Cameron Brink – Stanford Lexie Hull – Stanford Haley Jones – Stanford Taylor Jones – Oregon State Charlisse Leger-Walker – Washington State Nancy Mulkey – Washington Charisma Osborne – UCLA Alissa Pili – USC Nyara Sabally – Oregon Sam Thomas – Arizona	Gina Conti – UCLA Dru Gylten – Utah Te-Hina Paopao – Oregon	Taylor Chavez – Arizona Lexie Hull – Stanford Charlisse Leger-Walker – Washington State Charisma Osborne – UCLA Sydney Parrish – Oregon	Haley Jones – Stanford Sam Thomas – Arizona	Cameron Brink – Stanford Taylor Jones – Oregon State Alissa Pili – USC Nyara Sabally – Oregon	Fran Belibi – Stanford Nancy Mulkey – Washington Bella Murekatete – Washington State	Cameron Brink – Stanford Haley Jones – Stanford Charlisse Leger-Walker – Washington State Charisma Osborne – UCLA Nyara Sabally – Oregon

Pac-12 Media days

The Pac-12 will conduct its 2021 Pac-12 media days at the Pac-12 Studio, in San Francisco, California, on October 13, 2021 (Pac-12 Network).^[9]

The teams and representatives in respective order were as follows:

Pac-12 Commissioner – George Kliavkoff
Deputy Commissioner and Chief Operating Officer(MBB) – Jamie Zaninovich
Arizona –
Arizona State –
California –
Colorado –
Oregon –
Oregon State –
Stanford –
UCLA –
USC –
Utah –
Washington –
Washington State –

Women's Basketball Preseason Poll (Coaches)
Place	Team	Points	First place votes
1.	! style= width=75	Stanford	121	11
2.	! style= width=112	Oregon	108	1
3.	! style= width=75	UCLA	101	--
4.	! style= width=75	Oregon State	86	--
5.	! style= width=75	Arizona	83	--
6.	! style= width=75	Washington State	70	--
7.	! style= width=75	Colorado	65	--
8.	! style= width=75	Arizona State	47	--
9.	! style= width=75	USC	45	--
T10.	! style= width=75	Utah	25	--
T11.	! style= width=75	Washington	25	--
12.	! style= width=75	California	16	--

Source:^[10]

Women's Basketball Preseason Poll (Media)
Place	Team	Points	First place votes
1.	! style= width=75	Stanford	312	26
2.	! style= width=112	Oregon	275	--
3.	! style= width=75	UCLA	250	--
4.	! style= width=75	Oregon State	236	--
5.	! style= width=75	Arizona	215	--
6.	! style= width=75	Washington State	178	--
7.	! style= width=75	Colorado	142	--
8.	! style= width=75	Arizona State	129	--
9.	! style= width=75	USC	125	--
T10.	! style= width=75	Utah	66	--
11.	! style= width=75	Washington	60	--
12.	! style= width=75	California	40	--

Source:^[11]

Pac-12 Preseason All-Conference

Name	School	Pos.	Yr.	Ht.	Hometown (Last School)
Taylor Jones	Oregon State	Jr.	F	6'4	Forney, TX (Dallas Christian School)
Talia von Oelhoffen	Oregon State	So.	F	5'11	Pasco, WA (Chiawana HS)
	Stanford	So.	F	6'4	Beaverton, OR (Mountainside HS)
	Stanford	Sr.	F	6'0	Spokane, WA (Central Valley HS)
	Stanford	Jr.	G	6'1	Santa Cruz, CA (Archbishop Mitty HS)
Te-Hina Paopao	Oregon	So.	G	5'9	Oceanside, CA (La Jolla Country Day School)
Alissa Pili	USC	So.	F	6'0	Anchorage, AK (Dimond HS)
Mya Hollingshed	Colorado	Sr.	G/F	6'3	Houston, TX (Bellaire HS)
	Oregon	R-Jr.	F/C	6'7	Liberty Hill, TX (Texas)
Endyia Rogers	Oregon	Jr.	G	5'7	Dallas, TX (USC)
Charisma Osborne	UCLA	Jr.	G	5'9	Moreno Valley, CA (Windward School)
Sam Thomas	Arizona	GS.	F	6'0	Bloomfield Hills, MI (Centennial HS)
	Arizona	Sr.	F	6'2	Cypress, TX (Cypress Woods HS)
Nyara Sabally	Oregon	Jr.	F	6'5	Berlin, Germany (Rotteck Gymnasium)
Charlisse Leger-Walker	Washington State	So.	G	5'10	Waikato, New Zealand (St. Peter's School)

Honorable Mention: Kennedy Brown (OSU); Gina Conti (UCLA); Natalie Chou (UCLA); Dalayah Daniels (CAL); Dru Gylten (UTAH); Taya Hanson (ASU); Krystal Leger-Walker (WSU) Brynna Maxwell (UTAH); Nancy Mulkey (WASH); Jaylyn Sherrod (COLO); Anna Wilson (STAN).

Midseason watchlists

Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.

Wooden^[12]	Naismith^[13]	Liberman^[14]	Drysdale^[15]	Miller^[16]	McClain^[17]	Leslie^[18]	Wade
Cameron Brink – Stanford Haley Jones – Stanford Charisma Osborne – UCLA	Cameron Brink – Stanford Haley Jones – Stanford Charisma Osborne – UCLA Cate Reese – Arizona	None	Charlisse Leger-Walker – Washington State Charisma Osborne – UCLA	Haley Jones – Stanford	Cameron Brink – Stanford Nyara Sabally – Oregon	None

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

Team	Tournament	Finish
Arizona	Paradise Jam	1st
Arizona State	Cancún Challenge	T-3rd (Mayan)
California	Raising the B.A.R. Invitational	–
Colorado	Rocky Mountain Hoops Classic	–
Oregon	Battle 4 Atlantis	3rd
Oregon State	Daytona Beach Invitational	—
Stanford	Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo	–
UCLA	Gulf Coast Showcase	7th
USC	Cancún Challenge	T-2nd (Rivera)
Utah	Rainbow Wahine Showdown	–
Washington	Goombay Slapsh	–
Washington State	Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo	–

Records against other conferences

2021–22 records against non-conference foes as of (November 27, 2021):

Regular season

Power Conferences	Record
ACC	4–4
Big East	5–0
Big Ten	3–2
Big 12	2–2
SEC	1–2
Power Conferences Total	15–10

Other NCAA Division 1 Conferences	Record
American	1–4
America East	0–0
A-10	2–1
ASUN	1–0
Big Sky	7–0
Big South	0–0
Big West	10–1
CAA	0–0
C-USA	2–0
Horizon	0–0
Ivy League	1–0
MAAC	2–0
MAC	1–1
MEAC	1–0
MVC	0–1
Mountain West	5–0
NEC	0–0
OVC	0–0
Patriot	0–0
SoCon	2–0
Southland	0–0
SWAC	2–0
The Summit	1–1
Sun Belt	0–0
WAC	4–0
WCC	10–3
Other Division I Total	51–12
Division II Total	0–0
NCAA Division I Total	66–22

Post Season

Power Conferences	Record
ACC	0–0
Big East	0–0
Big Ten	0–0
Big 12	0–0
SEC	0–0
Power Conferences Total	0–0

Other NCAA Division 1 Conferences	Record
American	0–0
America East	0–0
A-10	0–0
ASUN	0–0
Big Sky	0–0
Big South	0–0
Big West	0–0
CAA	0–0
C-USA	0–0
Horizon	0–0
Ivy League	0–0
MAAC	0–0
MAC	0–0
MEAC	0–0
MVC	0–0
Mountain West	0–0
NEC	0–0
OVC	0–0
Patriot League	0–0
SoCon	0–0
Southland	0–0
SWAC	0–0
The Summit	0–0
Sun Belt	0–0
WAC	0–0
WCC	0–0
Other Division I Total	0–0
NCAA Division I Total	0–0

Record against ranked non-conference opponents

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

Date	Visitor	Home	Site	Significance	Score	Conference record
Nov 12		No. 22 Arizona†		Mammoth Sports Construction Invitational	61–59	1–0
Nov 14				–	56–61	1–1
Nov 20	No. 10 Louisville			–	53–61	1–2
Nov 21		No. 9 Oregon †	Imperial Arena ● Nassau, Bahamas	Battle 4 Atlantis	63–80	1–3
Nov 22	No. 9 Oregon	No. 23 South Florida †	Imperial Arena ● Nassau, Bahamas	Battle 4 Atlantis	62–71	1–4
Nov 25	No. 7 Stanford	No. 4 Indiana †	Baha Mar Convention Center ● Nassau, Bahamas	Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo	69–66	2–5
Nov 26		Arizona State †			52–62	2–6
Nov 26		No. 7 Stanford †	Baha Mar Convention Center ● Nassau, Bahamas	Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo	54–57	2–7
Nov 26		No. 16 Oregon State †		Daytona Beach Invitational	52–61	2–8
Nov 27		No. 9 Arizona†	Sports and Fitness Center ● Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands	Paradise Jam	80–44	8–7
Nov 27		No. 7 Stanford†	Baha Mar Convention Center ● Nassau, Bahamas	Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo	86–67	9–7
Nov 27		Washington State†	Baha Mar Convention Center ● Nassau, Bahamas	Baha Mar Hoops Pink Flamingo	34–62	9–8
Nov 27		No. 16 Oregon State†	Ocean Center ● Daytona Beach, FL	Daytona Beach Invitational	62–64	9–9
Dec 11	UCLA	No. 3 UConn†		Never Forget Tribute Classic	61–71	9–10
Dec 12	No. 23 Oregon State			–	52–56	9–11
Dec 18	Stanford			–	74–63	10–11
Dec 21	Stanford			–	61–65	10–12

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.^[19]

	style= width=75	Arizona	style= width=100	Arizona State	style= width=75	California	style= width=75	Colorado	style= width=75	Oregon	style= width=75	Oregon State	style= width=75	Stanford	style= width=75	UCLA	style= width=75	USC	style= width=75	Utah	style= width=75	Washington	style= width=110	Washington State
ASU	CAL	COL	ORE	OSU	STAN	UCLA	USC	UTAH	WASH	WSU -->	vs. Arizona	–	0–0	0–0	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	0–1
vs. Arizona State	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. California	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	1–0
vs. Colorado	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Oregon	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Oregon State	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Stanford	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. UCLA	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. USC	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0	0–0
vs. Utah	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0	0–0
vs. Washington	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–	0–0
vs. Washington State	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	0–0	–
ASU	CAL	COL	ORE	OSU	STAN	UCLA	USC	UTAH	WASH	WSU -->
Total	0–0	0–0	0–1	0–1	1–1	0–2	1–0	0–1	1–0	0–1	0–0	1–1

Points scored

Team	For	Against	Difference
style=	Arizona	1418	1113	305
style=	Arizona State	1160	1052	108
style=	California	1067	1009	58
style=	Colorado	0	0	0
style=	Oregon	0	0	0
style=	Oregon State	0	0	0
style=	Stanford	0	0	0
style=	UCLA	0	0	0
style=	USC	0	0	0
style=	Utah	0	0	0
style=	Washington	0	0	0
style=	Washington State	0	0	0

Through January 23, 2022^[20]

Rankings

		Improvement in ranking
		Drop in ranking
RV		Received votes but were not ranked in Top 25
NV		No votes received

Team	Poll	Pre	Wk 2	Wk 3	Wk 4
Arizona	AP	22	11	9	7
C	15	12^	11
Arizona State	AP	NV
C
California	AP	NV
C
Colorado	AP	RV
C
Oregon	AP	10	9	15	19
C	9	13^	16
Oregon State	AP	14	15	16	23
C	18	19^	21
Stanford	AP	3 (5)	7	7	4
C	2 (13)	5^	4
UCLA	AP	20	20	19
C	14	15^	23
USC	AP	RV
C
Utah	AP	NV
C
Washington	AP	NV
C
Washington State	AP	NV
C

Head coaches

Coaches

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

Team	Head coach	Previous job	Seasons at school	Record at school	Pac-12 record	Pac-12 titles	NCAA tournaments	NCAA Final Fours	NCAA Championships
style= width=75	Arizona	Adia Barnes	Washington (assistant)	6th	89–66	39–50	0	1	1	0
style= width=100	Arizona State	Charli Turner Thorne	Northern Arizona	25th	476–280	243–181	2	14	0	0
style= width=75	California	Charmin Smith	New York Liberty (assistant)	3rd	13–35	4–27	0	0	0	0
style= width=75	Colorado	JR Payne	Santa Clara	6th	72–75	25–63	0	0	0	0
style= width=75	Oregon	Kelly Graves	Gonzaga	8th	172–62	82–43	3	4	1	0
style= width=75	Oregon State	Scott Rueck	George Fox	12th	240–113	121–70	3	7	1	0
style= width=75	Stanford	Tara VanDerveer	Ohio State	36th	973–204	531–91	25	32	13	3
style= width=75	UCLA		Florida State (AHC)	11th	215–110	115–63	0	6	0	0
style= width=75	USC	Lindsay Gottlieb	Cleveland Cavaliers (assistant)	1st	0–0	0–0	0	8	0	0
style= width=75	Utah	Lynne Roberts	Pacific	7th	91–87	40–69	0	0	0	0
style= width=75	Washington	Tina Langley		1st	0–0	0–0	0	0	0	0
style= width=120	Washington State	Kamie Ethridge	Northern Colorado	4th	32–53	17–38	0	0	0	0

Notes:

Pac-12 records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2020–21 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

See main article: 2022 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament.

The conference tournament was played from March 2–6 at the Michelob Ultra Arena in Paradise, NV. 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.

NCAA tournament

See main article: 2022 NCAA Division I women's basketball tournament. Teams from the conference were selected to participate:

Seed	Region	School	First Four	First round	Second round	Sweet Sixteen	Elite Eight	Final Four	Championship
―	―	Stanford		―	―	–	–	–	–
	Bids	W-L (%):							TOTAL:

Women's National Invitation Tournament

Number from the conference were selected to participate:

See main article: 2022 Women's National Invitation Tournament.

Bracket	School	First round	Second round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		−	−	−	−	−
		−	−	−	−	−
Bid	W-L (%):					TOTAL:

Index to colors and formatting
Pac-12 member won
Pac-12 member lost

Awards and honors

Players of the Week

Throughout the regular season, the Pac-12 offices honor 2 players based on performance by naming them player of the week and freshman of the week.^[21]

Week	Player of the Week	School	Freshman of the Week	School	Ref.
Nov 15	style=	Cate Reese	style=	Arizona	style=	Jayda Curry	style=	California	^[22]
Nov 22	style=	Nyara Sabally	style=	Oregon	style=	Jayda Curry (2)	style=	California	^[23]
Nov 29	style=	Cameron Brink	style=	Stanford	style=	Jayda Curry (3)	style=	California	^[24]
Dec 6	style=	Natalie Chou	style=	UCLA	style=	Gianna Kneepkens	style=	Utah	^[25]
Dec 13	style=	Charlisse Leger-Walker	style=	Washington State	style=	Jenna Johnson	style=	Utah	^[26]
Dec 20	style=	Haley Jones	style=	Stanford	style=	Jayda Curry (4)	style=	California	^[27]
Dec 27	style=	Evelien Lutje Schipholt	style=	California	style=	Gianna Kneepkens (2)	style=	Utah	^[28]
Jan 3	style=	Haley Jones (2)	style=	Stanford	style=	Kiki Iriafen	style=	Stanford	^[29]
Jan 10	style=	Jaylyn Sherrod	style=	Colorado	style=	Rayah Marshall	style=	USC	^[30]
Jan 17	style=	Cameron Brink (2)	style=	Stanford	style=	Jenna Johnson (2)	style=	Utah	^[31]
Jan 24	style=	Charisma Osborne	style=	UCLA	style=	Gianna Kneepkens (3)	style=	Utah	^[32]
Jan 31	style=	Cameron Brink (3)	style=	Stanford	style=	Gianna Kneepkens (4)	style=	Utah	^[33]
Feb 7	style=	Cameron Brink (4)	style=	Stanford	style=	Jayda Curry (5)	style=	California	^[34]
Feb 14	style=	Jordyn Jenkin	style=	Washington	style=	Gianna Kneepkens (5)	style=	Utah	^[35]
Feb 21	style=	Johanna Teder	style=	Washington State	style=	Rayah Marshall (2)	style=	USC	^[36]
Feb 28	style=	Charisma Osborne (2)	style=	UCLA	style=	Jenna Johnson (3)	style=	Utah	^[37]

Totals per School

School	Total
style= width=125	Utah	8
style= width=125	Stanford	7
style= width=125	California	6
style= width=125	UCLA	3
style= width=125	USC	2
style= width=125	Washington State	2
style= width=125	Arizona	1
style= width=125	Colorado	1
style= width=125	Oregon	1
style= width=125	Washington	1
style= width=125	Arizona State	0
style= width=125	Oregon State	0

All-Americans

See main article: 2022 NCAA Women's Basketball 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 IXPlayer 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

Coaches

Award	Recipient(s)
2022 Pac-12 Women's Basketball Individual Awards
Player of the Year	Haley Jones, Stanford
Coach of the Year	Tara VanDerveer, Stanford
Defensive Player of the Year	Cameron Brink, Stanford
Freshman of the Year	Gianna Kneepkens, Utah
Scholar-Athlete of the Year	Lexie Hull, Stanford
Most Improved Player of the Year	Jordyn Jenkins, USC &<br>Bella Murekatete, Washington State
Sixth Player of the Year	Quay Miller, Colorado

Media

Award	Recipient(s)
2022 Pac-12 Women's Basketball Individual Awards
Player of the Year	Cameron Brink, Stanford
Coach of the Year	Kamie Ethridge, Washington State
Defensive Player of the Year	Cameron Brink, Stanford
Freshman of the Year	Jayda Curry, California
Most Improved Player of the Year	Jordyn Jenkins, USC
Sixth Player of the Year	Quay Miller, Colorado

All-Pac-12

First Team

Name	School	Pos.	Yr.	Ht.	Hometown (Last School)
Cameron Brink	Stanford	F	So.	6−4	Beaverton, Ore. (Mountainside HS)
Mya Hollingshed	Colorado	F	R-Sr.	6−3	Houston, Tex. (Bellaire HS)
Lexie Hull	Stanford	G	Sr.	6−1	Spokane, Wash. (Central Valley HS)
Jordyn Jenkins	USC	F	So.	6−2	Kent, Wash. (Kentridge HS)
Haley Jones‡	Stanford	G	Jr.	6−1	Santa Cruz, Calif. (Archbishop Mitty)
Gianna Kneepkens	Utah	G	Fr.	5−11	Duluth, Minn. (Duluth Marshall HS)
Charlisse Leger-Walker	Washington State	G	So.	5−10	Waikato, New Zealand (St. Peter's School Cambridge)
Jade Loville	Arizona State	G/F	Sr.	5−11	Scottsdale, Ariz. (Skyline HS)
Charisma Osborne	UCLA	G	Jr.	5−9	Moreno Valley, Calif. (Windward School)
Te-Hina Paopao	Oregon	G	So.	5−9	Oceanside, Calif. (La Jolla Country Day School)
Cate Reese	Arizona	F	Sr.	6−2	Cypress, Tex. (Cypress Woods HS)
Endyia Rogers	USC	G	Jr.	5−7	Dallas, Tex. (Bishop Lynch HS)
Nyara Sabally	Oregon	F	R-Jr.	6−5	Berlin, Germany (SLZB)
IImar'I Thomas	UCLA	F	Gr.	5−10	Oakland, Calif. (Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep)
Talia von Oelhoffen	Oregon State	G	Fr.	5−11	Pasco, Wash. (Chiawana HS)

‡ 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

Honorable Mention:

Jayda Curry, (CAL, G)
Krystal Leger-Walker, (WSU, G)
Kennady McQueen, (UTAH, G)
Quay Miller, (COLO, C)
Nancy Mulkey, (WASH, F)
Jordan Sanders, (USC, F)
Sam Thomas, (ARIZ, G/F)
Haley Van Dyke, (WASH, F)

All-Freshman Team

Name	School	Pos.	Ht.
Jayda Curry	California	G	5−6
Jenna Johnson	Utah	F	6−2
Gianna Kneepkens‡	Utah	G	5−11
Rayah Marshall	USC	G/F	6−4
Kindyll Wetta	Colorado	G	5−9

† Pac-12 Player of the Year‡ Pac-12 Freshman of the Year

Honorable Mention

Izzy Anstey, (UCLA, F)
Kiki Iriafen, (STAN, F)
Greta Kampschroeder, (OSU, G)

All-Defensive Team

Name	School	Pos.	Yr.	Ht.
Cameron Brink‡	Stanford	F	So.	6−4
Lexie Hull	Stanford	G	Sr.	6−1
Sam Thomas	Arizona	G/F	Gr.	6−0
Kindyll Wetta	Colorado	G	Fr.	5−9
Anna Wilson	Stanford	G	GS	5−9

† Pac-12 Player of the Year
‡Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year
†† two-time Pac-12 All-Defensive Team honoree

Honorable Mention

Taya Corosdale, (OSU, G/F)
Mael Gilles, (ASU, F)
Krystal Leger-Walker, (WSU, G)
Rayah Marshall, (USC, G/F)
Leilani McIntosh, (CAL, G)
Nancy Mulkey, (WASH, C)
Charisma Osborne, (UCLA, G)
Helena Pueyo, (ARIZ, G)
Jordan Sanders, (USC, F)
Maddie Scherr, (ORE, G)
Haley Van Dyke, (WASH, F)

Scholar Athlete of the year

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 honoree

National awards

2022 WNBA draft

Round	Pick	Player	Position	Team	School/club team
1	5	Nyara Sabally	F	New York Liberty	Oregon
1	6	Lexie Hull	G		Stanford
1	8	Mya Hollingshed	F		Colorado

Home game attendance

Team	Stadium	Capacity	Game 1	Game 2	Game 3	Game 4	Game 5	Game 6	Game 7	Game 8	Game 9	Game 10	Game 11	Game 12	Game 13	Game 14	Game 15	Game 16	Game 17	Game 18	Total	Average	% of Capacity
style= width=75	Arizona	McKale Center	14,644	6,154	6,261	6,787	7,037	8,884	7,378	7,099	7,103	10,413†	7,505	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		74,621	7,462	50.95%
style= width=100	Arizona State	Desert Financial Arena	14,100	7,343†	4,111	2,795	1,700	1,530	0	0	2,190	2,201	2,640	2,912	–	–	–	–	–			27,422	2,492	17.68%
style= width=75	California	Haas Pavilion	11,858	1,591	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
style= width=75	Colorado	Coors Events Center	11,064	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
style= width=75	Oregon	Matthew Knight Arena	12,364	7,436	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–
style= width=75	Oregon State	Gill Coliseum	9,604	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–
style= width=75	Stanford	Maples Pavilion	7,233	2,696	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–				–	–	–
style= width=75	UCLA	Pauley Pavilion	13,800	1,363	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–
style= width=75	USC	Galen Center	10,258	1,147	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–			–	–	–
style= width=75	Utah	Jon M. Huntsman Center	15,000	1,732	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–			–	–	–
style= width=75	Washington	Alaska Airlines Arena	10,000	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–		–	–	–
style= width=120	Washington State	Beasley Coliseum	11,671	713	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Total		11,800																			102,043	4,859	41.17%

Bold – At or exceed capacity
†Season high

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