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THIS WEEK

• With the regular season winding down, Pac-12 women's volleyball is set for its final two weeks of matches with this week’s calendar featuring a dozen contests. Conference teams will be in action Thursday, Nov. 17 through Sunday, Nov. 20 in week 13. 
• After extending its winning streak to 14 last weekend, No. 8 Stanford (20-4, 15-1) will finish out the regular season with a four-game homestand beginning this week as the Cardinal host Arizona State (11-17, 5-11) on Thursday, Nov. 17 at 7 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Bay Area) and Arizona (14-13, 4-12) on Saturday, Nov. 19 at 12 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Los Angeles).
• No. 12 Oregon (19-5, 13-3), riding a nine-match winning streak of its own and trailing the Cardinal by two games in the standings, will also be home for its final four contests, where the Ducks are a perfect 9-0 this season. Oregon will put that undefeated home record on the line starting this weekend against UCLA (14-11, 8-8) on Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Oregon) and a big showdown with third-place USC (19-8, 11-5) on Sunday at 12 p.m. PT live on Pac-12 Network and Pac-12 Los Angeles.
• Before their Sunday matchup with the Ducks, the Trojans will visit Oregon State (7-19, 2-14) on Friday, Nov. 18 at 6 p.m. (Pac-12 Insider).
• No. 21 Washington (18-8, 10-6) will welcome Colorado (17-9, 9-7) and Utah (15-12, 8-8) to Alaska Airlines Arena, facing the Buffs on Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Washington) and the Utes on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 12 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Washington).
• No. 25 Washington State, who is tied for third place with the Trojans, will take on the mountain schools in reverse order, playing Utah on Friday, Nov. 18 at 7 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Mountain) before wrapping up the weekend against Colorado on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 12 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Mountain).
• Other broadcasts this weekend include Arizona State at California (7-19, 0-16) on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 12 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Arizona, Pac-12 Bay Area) and UCLA at Oregon State on Sunday, Nov. 20 at 12 p.m. PT (Pac-12 Oregon).

TITLE-CLINCHING SCENARIOS 

• With four regular season matches remaining, first-place Stanford holds a two-game lead and controls its own destiny over the final two weekends. There are three scenarios in play this upcoming weekend for the Cardinal to clinch a share and/or outright:
  • If Stanford wins both and Oregon loses both, Stanford would be outright champions (up 4 with 2 to play).
  • If Stanford wins its next match and Oregon loses its next match, Stanford would clinch a share of the title (up 3 with 3 to play).
  • If Stanford wins both and Oregon loses one of its matches this weekend, Stanford would clinch outright (up 3 with two to play).

LAST WEEK

• No. 8 Stanford had a scare in Los Angeles on Wednesday, going down 0-2 before storming back to take the last three sets and the win over the Trojans on the road. The Cardinal wrapped up the weekend with a sweep at UCLA to make it 14 straight wins and 14 wins on the road, which is best in the nation. 
• Stanford’s 14-match win streak is tied for the second-longest in the country among Power 5 teams, trailing No. 7 Pittsburgh (18) and tied with No. 3 Wisconsin and No. 5 Ohio State. The Cardinal's winning streak is its longest since it won its final 17 matches in 2019 en route to the program's ninth NCAA title.
• No. 12 Oregon also found its winning streak in trouble early in the weekend after dropping the first two sets at Colorado on Thursday before rallying from 10 points down in the fourth en route to a five-set victory. The Ducks followed that up with a 3-1 decision at Utah for their ninth straight win. After the pair of wins to close out its road slate, the Ducks moved up two more spots in the AVCA rankings to No. 12 and have climbed five spots over the last three weeks. 
• While the Trojans let one get away against Stanford, they ended the weekend with a 3-2 win over California to remain in third place, now tied with No. 25 Washington State. Both now sit at 11-5 in conference play after the Cougars went 2-0 in Arizona, sweeping the Sun Devils on Friday and taking care of business against the Wildcats 3-1 on Sunday. While not yet eliminated from contention at four games back with four games to play, the chances for a title for both the Trojans and Cougars is slim in that Stanford would need to lose all remaining contests to make that a possibility; however, both squads still have plenty on the table as they vie for NCAA postseason bids.
• The 21st-ranked Huskies went 1-1 on the weekend, dropping a 3-2 match at Arizona and winning 3-2 at Arizona State to move to fifth in the standings at 10-6 in league play. 
• Four other Conference squads split their matchups last weekend - Arizona (W Washington, L Washington State), Colorado (L Oregon, W Oregon State), Utah (W Oregon State, L Oregon) and UCLA (W California, L Stanford).

RPI REVEAL

• Stanford remained at third as the Pac-12 highest ranked team in the most recent NCAA RPI report from Nov. 13, with Oregon moving up to 11th, USC at 21st and Washington 34th. Other Conference squads in the top 50 are Washington State (No. 38), Utah (No. 41 and Colorado (No. 48).
• Stanford is 14-1 on the road this season, which is the most in the nation in 2022, and is just one of four Power 5 teams with double-digit road victories.
• The NCAA DI women's volleyball committee revealed its first top 10 on Sunday, Oct. 2 and included a pair of Pac-12 teams in Oregon (7th) and Stanford (8th).
• The Pac-12 is one of three leagues with multiple programs in the initial reveal along with the Big Ten (4) and ACC (2).
• Stanford sits at eighth and Oregon sits at 10th in the committee’s latest rankings from Oct. 29.

FOUR IN AVCA TOP 25

• For the second straight week, four Pac-12 teams appeared in the latest American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Coaches Top 25 revealed on Nov. 14 in No. 8 Stanford, No. 12 Oregon, No. 21 Washington and No. 25 Washington State. 
• The Cardinal and Cougars stayed put, while the Ducks rose two spots to No. 12 and the Huskies moved from No. 20 to No. 21. The Ducks have climbed five spots in the polls over the last three weeks. 
• Washington State cracked the top 25 for the first time this season on Nov. 7, marking the Cougars’ first appearance in the poll since they finished the 2021 season at No. 23.
• USC and Colorado continued to receive votes with 14 votes and three votes, respectively.
• Washington is in the rankings for the 62nd consecutive poll (not including fall 2020), a stretch dating back to Nov. 5, 2018.

NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

• The Pac-12 has garnered two GameChanger/AVCA National Player of the Week awards by the American Volleyball Coaches Association this season. Stanford’s Kami Miner earned the honor on Oct. 25, while USC’s Skylar Fields picked up the award on Oct. 11.
• The CAA and SEC are the only other leagues with multiple national players of the week. Last year, the Pac-12 led all conferences with four.

SCHEDULE SPOTLIGHT

• Four of the nation's 20 toughest schedules belong to Pac-12 programs in Stanford (second), Oregon (11th), Utah (13th), USC (18th), a total which is third among all leagues (Big Ten/SEC - 5).
• The Cardinal went 3-3 in both Top 25 and Power 5 matches during a gauntlet non-conference slate with those six matches in succession from Aug. 30-Sept. 17. Other ranked victories for the Conference came from Colorado (3-0) and Washington (3-1) against then-No. 19 Illinois.
• Stanford's three ranked non-conference wins all came on the road - at then-No. 13 Florida (3-2), at then-No. 3 Minnesota (3-1), at then-No. 2 Nebraska (3-1).
• All of Stanford's losses have come against teams currently in the AVCA rankings (No. 1 Texas, No. 5 Louisville, No. 15 Penn State, No. 16 Oregon).

NUMBERS OF NOTE

• Washington's Ella May Powell, the NCAA's active leader in career assists, moved into third in Pac-12 history last weekend with 6,036 career assists. It's the most career assists for a Pac-12 player in 14 years, since UCLA's Nellie Spicer collected 6,000 from 2005-08. She trails record holder, Washington’s Courtney Thompson, who had 6,552 from 2003-06, and UCLA’s Erika Selsor (1998-01) who collected 6,234 during her Bruin career.
• Powell’s 159 career service aces rank 10th in Pac-12 history after the senior recently passed former Husky and current Arizona State head coach Sanja Tomasevic, who had 156 from 2002-05. She now sits behind California’s Brook Coulter (1996-99) and Arizona’s Kim Glass (2002-05), who are tied for seventh all-time at 162.
• Washington State's Magda Jehlarova is now third among active DI players in career total blocks (561) and is tied for 19th in Pac-12 history with USC’s Jasmina Marinkovic (1995-98).
• Oregon State's Izzi Szulczewski is one of 15 players in the country this season with multiple triple doubles. She had 11 kills, 12 assists and 22 digs on Sept. 10 against Portland and 12 kills, 22 assists and 13 digs on Sept. 16 against LSU. Szulczewski is the first in Pac-12 history with multiple triple-doubles in a season since Oregon's August Raskie in 2018 (2).
• Against Colorado on Sept. 30, USC's Mia Tuaniga put up 37 assists, had 10 digs, and served a USC-record 10 aces for her first career triple-double and first for the Trojans since Raquel Lázaro on Sept. 7, 2019 against Northern Iowa (36 assists, 16 digs, 11 blocks).
• The Pac-12 is one of two Power 5 leagues to have multiple players with triple-doubles this season (ACC).
• Tuaniga's 10 aces are the most in the NCAA season and tied with Stanford's Teresa Smith (vs. Illinois State, Oct. 19, 1986) for the second-most in Pac-12 history. Oregon's Lauren Westendorf has the league record of 12 from a match against Seton Hall on Sept. 18, 2004. It's a Pac-12 record for a Conference match, surpassing the nine from California's Gabrielle Abernathy (vs. Arizona State, Sept. 23, 2004) and Brook Coulter (at Oregon, Oct. 16, 1998).
• Oregon's Mimi Colyer set a new Pac-12 record after she picked up her seventh Freshman of the Week award on Nov. 14, breaking the old mark set by USC's Ebony Nwanebu in 2013. Stanford’s Elia Rubin has won the other five freshman honors in 2022 with Rubin and Colyer becoming the first to win five or more since 2015 (Hayley Hodson, STAN - 2015). 
• In Stanford’s 3-0 sweep of USC on Oct. 23, the Cardinal hit .605, its highest percentage since 2013 and the second highest mark in the NCAA in 2022.
• Cal’s Lydia Grote recorded a new Bear record with 94 attacks in a five-set loss to USC on Saturday, Nov. 12, which ranks fifth in a single match in Pac-12 history.

AMONG THE NCAA LEADERS - TEAM

• Stanford (.288, 11th), Washington (.298, 12th), Oregon (.287, 13th), and USC (.284, 14th) are all in the top 15 nationally in hitting percentage. 
• The Pac-12’s four teams in the top 15 are double the number of teams from any other league (WCC - 2).
• The Pac-12 also has two of the NCAA's top 15 when it comes to blocks per set in Colorado (2.82, 5th) and Stanford (2.70, 12th).
• In assists per set, Oregon is fifth nationally (13.50), Stanford is ninth (13.31), USC is 23rd (12.98) and Washington is 27th (12.87). The Pac-12’s four teams in the top 30 are the most of any conference.
• Oregon (14.33, 8th) and Stanford (14.23, 12th) are also two of the best when it comes to kills per set.

AMONG THE NCAA LEADERS - INDIVIDUAL

• Colorado's Meegan Hart is fifth (.429) and Washington's Marin Grote 10th (.416) in the country in hitting percentage, two of just 20 players at .400 or better.
• The Conference also boasts four of the nation's top 25 in assists per set - USC's Mia Tuaniga (11.15, 10th), Stanford's Kami Miner (11.15, 11th), Oregon’s Hannah Pukis (11.09, 13th) and Washington's Ella May Powell (10.81, 21st) - and one in the top 15 in blocks per set - Washington State’s Magda Jehlarova (1.41, 13th).
• USC's Skylar Fields is sixth in kills per set (5.08), while Utah's Madelyn Robinson sits in 15th (4.39). In points per set, Fields is eighth (5.48), and Stanford’s Kendall Kipp is 10th (5.14).

PRESEASON POLL REVISIT

• As league play continues, a reminder of the Pac-12 Preseason Coaches Poll order, which had the Huskies on top for the fifth time (2021, 2017, 2009, 2005).
• The preseason favorite has gone on to win the league title 21 times in the 36 years of Pac-12 women’s volleyball, including UW last season and in the Huskies' national championship season of 2005.

NONCONFERENCE WRAP

• Pac-12 programs closed non-conference play at 84-37 (.694), fourth-best among all leagues (Big Ten .729; Big 12 .734; ACC .706), and an improvement over last season's 78-36 mark (.684).
• With Stanford's victory at then-No. 2 Nebraska on Tuesday, Sept. 13, the Pac-12 moved to a combined 5-18 versus Top 25 opponents and 16-16 against Power 5 foes in non-league play in 2022 (8-5 vs. Big Ten; 4-4 vs. SEC; 3-3 vs. ACC; 1-4 vs. Big 12).
• The Pac-12 is one of four leagues with .500 or better non-conference records against Power 5 opponents (Big 12 .643; ACC .538; Big Ten .500).
• The Conference went 8-5 against the Big Ten in August and September, one of six winning records one Power 5 league had against another (ACC 7-4 vs. Big Ten; ACC 10-8 vs. SEC; Big 12 6-1 vs. ACC; Big 12 4-1 vs. Pac-12; Big Ten 10-1 vs. SEC).

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING

• Pac-12 institutions have won 17 of the 41 all-time NCAA championships in women’s volleyball, four more than the next closest conference (Big Ten), and four of the past 11.
• The Conference has had at least five teams earn NCAA Tournament bids in 23 consecutive seasons and eight postseason berths in five of the past nine tournaments.
• Four different Pac-12 teams have won at least one NCAA title (UCLA, USC, Stanford, Washington), double any other conference. The Big Ten (Nebraska, Penn State) and Big West (Hawaii, Long Beach State) are the only other leagues with multiple NCAA champions.
• Seven different Pac-12 programs have made NCAA semifinal appearances since 2001 and 14 of the past 21 NCAA championship matches have included at least one Pac-12 program.
• At least one Pac-12 team has played in 27 of the 41 NCAA title matches all-time, the most of any league. At least one Big Ten team has been in 22 NCAA finals all-time and a Big West team has played in the title match nine times.
• Five NCAA title matches have been between two Pac-12 teams (2002, 1994, 1992, 1984, 1981). The only other conference to have an all-conference NCAA title match is the Big Ten, which has done so three times (2021, 2013, 2000).
• A Pac-12 team has been one of the final four teams in all but five years of the NCAA tournament.
• Since 2010, the Pac-12 has the second-most NCAA Tournament berths of any league with 88.
• The Pac-12 has had 10 or more first, second and third-team All-America selections in 13 of the last 17 seasons. Thirteen former Pac-12 players have earned first, second or third-team All-America honors four times, while 27 players have earned All-America honors three times, with Ella May Powell (Washington) garnering her third nod last season.
• Since 1990, Pac-12 players garnered AVCA Player of the Year honors 15 times, including the seven of the last 12  - California’s Carli Lloyd (2010), USC’s Alex Jupiter (2011), Oregon’s Alaina Bergsma (2012), Washington’s Krista Vansant (2013), USC’s Samantha Bricio (2015) and Stanford’s Kathryn Plummer (2017 and 2018). Overall, the Pac-12 has produced 16 student-athletes that have won AVCA Player of the Year, the most of any league. Thirteen Big Ten student-athletes have earned the honor, along with 10 from the Big West and one each from the Big 12 and WCC.
• The Honda Sports Award for volleyball has been bestowed upon a Pac-12 athlete 21 times in its 46 years of existence, including eight of the past 11. The Big Ten has had 11 student-athletes earn the honor, the Big West seven, the SEC two and the Big 12, WCC, A-10 and MWC each one.

CONFERENCE STANDINGS (Expanded Standings) 

UPCOMING SCHEDULE (Full Schedule)

2022 PAC-12 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL WEEKLY AWARDS

2022 GAMECHANGER/AVCA NATIONAL PLAYERS OF THE WEEK