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>> Six Pac-12 teams are ranked in the latest AP Top-25 poll: No. 2 Stanford, No. 5 USC, No. 7 UCLA, No. 13 Oregon State, No. 18 Colorado, and No. 22 Utah. >> Stanford is ranked in the top 10 of the AP poll for the 500th time in 861 total polls since 1976-77, and it’s the third program to reach that 500 mark. >> The Pac-12 has now had five different teams in the top five at some point this year (Colorado, Stanford, UCLA, USC & Utah) which is a new single-season high for any conference (per Across the Timeline). >> USC has its best banking since it was ranked No. 4 on Feb. 8, 1994.
>> NET rankings (through games 3/3): No. 4 Stanford, No. 6 UCLA, No. 9 Utah, No. 13 USC, No. 18 Oregon State, No. 19 Colorado, No. 25 Washington State, No. 36 Arizona, No. 41 Washington, No. 62 California, No. 95 Oregon and No. 112 Arizona State.
>> Colorado’s Jaylyn Sherrod has been named the Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Scholar-Athlete of the Year for the 2023-24 season.
>> Five Pac-12 teams were among the NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee top-16 reveal on Feb. 29: No. 1 seeds Stanford (No. 3) and UCLA (No. 4), No. 2 seed USC (No. 8), No. 3 seed Oregon State (No. 12) and No. 4 seed Colorado (No. 13).
>> The league’s All-Conference awards were announced on Tuesday, as voted on by the league’s 12 head coaches. Stanford’s Cameron Brink has been voted the 2023-24 Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Player of the Year in addition to being named the Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year for the third-straight season. USC’sJuJu Watkins was selected the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, Oregon State’s Timea Gardiner has been chosen as the league’s Sixth Player of the Year, Stanford’s Kiki Irirafen is the Pac-12’s Most Improved Player of the Year, and Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer claimed John R. Wooden Pac-12 Coach of the Year honors.
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2023-24 Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Performance Awards, presented by Nextiva
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