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The final Pac-12 volleyball season in its current form officially came to a close with the crowning of Texas as the NCAA National Champion for a second straight season. Five Pac-12 squads made the 2023 NCAA Tournament and four - Stanford, Oregon, Arizona State and Washington State - all advanced to the round of 16 with the Cardinal and Ducks moving on to the Elite 8 in back-to-back seasons. The four teams in the Sweet 16 were tied with the Big 10 for most of any conference in the country, while it was the most league teams to advance to the second weekend since 2018. 

Washington State's run ended against Final Four participant Pittsburgh and Arizona State's historic season was cut short by Pac-12 foe Stanford. The Cardinal avenged their only conference loss of the season to the Sun Devils in the Regional Semifinals before falling to the eventual National Champions in Texas in the Regional Final. Oregon's second consecutive Regional Final appearance concluded with a loss to Wisconsin. 

Overall it was an exciting and competitive regular season as the Pac-12 was arguably the strongest and deepest league in the country in 2023 as evidenced by its 96-31 (.756) regular season non-conference record, which was the best in the country. 

Stanford finished 19-1 in conference play for a second straight year to capture back-to-back Pac-12 Championships. The 2023 title was its fifth in the last seven seasons and 21st overall as members of the Pac-12. Oregon finished second for the third time in the last four years while Washington State turned in another top-three finish for its league-high eighth consecutive NCAA postseason appearance. Arizona State, under first-year head coach J.J. Van Niel, had a historic season, setting a program record for most league wins with 14, leading the Sun Devils to their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2015 and reaching the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1995.

2023 AVCA ALL-AMERICA AWARDS 

• A total of 10 Pac-12 women's volleyball student-athletes were recognized as first, second and third team All-Americans on Wednesday when the American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced its 2023 Division I All-America teams. 
• Six of the league's 10 selections were tabbed first-team honorees, which is the most for the Pac-12 since the conference had six in 2014. It was also the most selections of any conference in 2023 and three more than the next closest league with the Big 10 having three, the ACC and Big 12 with two apiece and the SEC with one. The 10 first, second and third team honorees were tied for most in the nation with the Big 10.
• Five different Pac-12 programs were represented in the honors, with Stanford tying Nebraska for the most by any institution with four selections.
• Washington State's Magda Jehlarova became a four-time All-American with her second consecutive first-team selection, while USC's Skylar Fields and Stanford's Kendall Kipp each picked up their third All-America honors with their second straight first-team nods. Joining the trio on the first team were Stanford's Kami Miner, Oregon's Hannah Pukis and Arizona State's Marta Levinska. Miner and Pukis were both second team honorees a year ago, while Levinska is ASU's first All-American since 2015 and first Sun Devil to be named to the first team since 1988.  

2023 AVCA ALL-REGION AWARDS 

• The American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) announced its annual All-Region awards on Tuesday, December 5 and 25 student-athletes and one coach from Pac-12 women's volleyball were honored. 
• In the Pacific North Region, Stanford's Kendall Kipp earned her second consecutive Regional Player of the Year award, while California's Maggie Li became the Bears' first ever Pacific North Region Freshman of the Year. In the Pacific South Region, USC's Skylar Fields was tabbed the region's Player of the Year and Arizona State first-year head coach J.J. Van Niel picked up the first Regional Coach of the Year award in program history.
• In all, 13 from the Pac-12 earned Pacific North Region First Team selections and four more were tabbed Pacific North Honorable Mention. Stanford and Oregon led the way with six selections apiece in the region, followed by Washington State with three and California and Washington with one each.
• In the Pacific South Region, all eight Pac-12 selections were first team honorees, led by Arizona State's program-record four selections. USC and UCLA each garnered two in the region. 

2023 ALL-PAC-12 AWARDS 

• The 2023 All-Pac-12 postseason honors were announced this week at the conclusion of the regular season and three of the five individual award winners were repeat honorees - Stanford's Kendall Kipp was again selected as the Pac-12 Player of the Year, while Cardinal setter Kami Miner was named the Pac-12 Setter of the Year for a second straight year and Stanford libero Elena Oglivie picked up her second consecutive Pac-12 Libero of the Year honor.
• California's Maggie Li became just the third Bear all-time to be named the Pac-12 Freshman of the Year and the first since 1990 after a stellar collegiate debut season that saw her win six Pac-12 Freshman of the Week awards, tied for second-most in conference history.
• In just his first season as a head coach, Arizona State's J.J. Van Niel was named the Pac-12 Coach of the Year, the first honor by a Sun Devil head coach since 1992. Van Niel, who is only the third league coach all-time to win the award in his debut season, led the Sun Devils to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015.
• 12 of the 18 All-Pac-12 honorees were repeat selections from a year ago with Washington State's Magda Jehlarova becoming the first in conference history to earn the award five times during a career. Her teammate - Pia Timmer - along with Oregon's Hannah Pukis and Stanford's Caitie Baird are now three of just 28 women's volleyball student-athletes in Pac-12 history who are four-time honorees. 

COLLEGE SPORTS COMMUNICATORS (CSC) ACADEMIC AWARDS

• Four from the Pac-12 were named College Sports Communications (CSC) Academic All-Americans in 2023, led by two-time Pac-12 Player of the Year Kendall Kipp (First Team). Kipp's teammate Caitie Baird was a second-team selection, while Washington State's Magda Jehlarova and Iman Isanovic were both third-team selections. Baird, Jehlarova and Isanovic were three of eight repeat selections in Division I. 
• The College Sports Communicators (CSC) released its annual Division I Academic All-District Volleyball Teams on December 12 and 30 Pac-12 student-athletes were honored, led by four from Stanford. 

FINAL AVCA TOP 25 

• Five Pac-12 squads appeared in the final American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Coaches Top 25 poll of the 2023 season with Stanford at No. 5, Oregon at No. 7, Washington State at No. 11, Arizona State at No. 16 and USC at No. 24. All five represented the conference in the 2023 NCAA Tournament and reached the second round or better.
• Earlier in the season, the Pac-12 saw a two-week run of three in the top five, but that came to an end on Oct. 16, but was the only conference to have 3 in the top five at any point.
• Stanford was one of three teams, joining National Runner-Up Nebraska and Wisconsin, who has spent the entirety of the season - from pre-season through the final poll - in the top five. Oregon joined Stanford in the top 10 all season long as well. Washington State spent weeks three through 12 in the top 10, while Arizona State spent time in the top 25 from Week 5 to the final poll after entering the poll for the first time since 2018. The Trojans climbed into the poll during week 10 and remained in the top 25 until the final poll. 
• WSU's three-week stint in the top five earlier this season was its longest in program history, while the No. 4 ranking was also its highest, besting the previous high of No. 5 back in October of 1995. The week-three jump from No. 11 to No. 7 was the Cougars' first time in the top 10 since 2016.   

FINAL RPI - REGULAR SEASON 

• In the ninth and final RPI update of the 2023 regular season on Nov. 26, three Pac-12 teams rank in the top 15 and four are in the top 25.
• Stanford stayed at No. 2, while Oregon checks in at No. 8, Washington State at no. 13 and Arizona State at No. 23. 
• USC, which made a 21-spot rise five weeks ago is at No. 33. 
• To end their seasons, UCLA was at No. 55, Washington finished at No. 70, California at No. 78, Utah at No. 116, Oregon at No. 151 and Arizona at No. 158.

GAMECHANGER/AVCA DIVISION I NATIONAL PLAYER OF THE WEEK

• After not seeing any national weekly honors through the first two months of the season, the Pac-12 earned the Gamechanger/AVCA Division I National Player of the Week honor in back-to-back weeks with Arizona State senior and three-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week this season Marta Levinska earning the conference's first American Volleyball Coaches Association (AVCA) Division I National Player of the Week award of the season on Oct. 31 followed by USC All-American senior Skylar Fields, also a three-time Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Week in 2023, earning her third career national weekly honor on Nov. 7.
• The two honorees this season match the total from last fall, while Fields picks up the award in two consecutive years.
• Levinska was the fifth Sun Devil in program history to earn the honor and Fields collected the 13th national weekly honor in Trojan history.

AMONG THE NCAA LEADERS (Team)

• At the conclusion of the season, four Pac-12 teams ranked in the top 15 in the country in hitting percentage. Stanford finished first (.316), followed by Arizona State in 9th (.288), Washington State in 10th (.286) and Oregon in 15th (.282).
• Two teams finished in the top 10 in kills per set, with Stanford 4th in the NCAA (14.52) and Oregon at 10th (14.04). 
• Oregon was the league's top-ranked blocks per set squad in 12th (2.71), with Stanford the next best at 22nd (2.64). 
• Arizona State finished fourth in the country with 2.01 aces per set, followed by Stanford in 20th at 1.87 per set. 
• Stanford ranked second in the NCAA in assists per set (13.68) followed by Oregon in 10th (13.10). 
• Defensively, Oregon finished 10th in opponent hitting percentage at .157.

AMONG THE NCAA LEADERS (Individual)

• Two finished ranked in the top-10 in assists per set - Stanford's Kami Miner in 4th (11.73) and Oregon's Hannah Pukis in 8th (11.01).
• USC's Skylar Fields ranked 6th in the country in attacks per set (12.49).
• Washington State's Magda Jehlarova finished 15th (1.39) in blocks per set with Stanford's McKenna Vicini finishing 20th (1.33).  
• WSU's Jehlarova ranked 8th overall in hitting percentage (.424), followed by Oregon's Kara McGhee in 11th (.415).  
• USC's Fields owned the Pac-12's top kills per set average at 5.14, which was second-best in the country and Arizona State's Marta Levinska was seventh overall (4.72).
• USC's Fields also had the conference's top points per set mark at 5.55, which was third in the nation, while ASU's Levinska was 8th at 5.41 and Stanford's Kendall Kipp ranked 17th at 5.03. 

BY THE NUMBERS

• Stanford (28-3) was one of just 6 teams in the country to have three or fewer losses at the end of the regular season. Stanford and Oregon's 29 wins were tied for sixth-most among all teams.
• Washington State fifth year senior Magda Jehlarova officially became the NCAA all-time blocks leader in the rally scoring era (since 2001) on the last week of the regular season and is the just eighth player in the NCAA to reach the 700 mark since 2001. In September, Jehlarova became Washington State's all-time blocks leader, breaking the old mark of 615 set by former Cougar Carrie Couturier from 1988-91. In a second-round NCAA tournament win over Dayton, Jehlarova officially became the Pac-12 record holder (includes pre rally scoring era) for most all-time blocks and she finished her career with 769, breaking the previous mark of 757 set by UCLA's Marissa Hatchett, who played for the Bruins from 1989-92. 
• On Oct. 2, Jehlarova earned her second Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Week award of the season and the 10th of her career, giving her 11 combined defensive and offensive weekly awards to set a new conference record for most career weekly honors, surpassing former Washington standout Krista Vansant (2011-14). 
• USC's Skyar Fields finished her career as the NCAA active career leader for kills with 2,141 after surpassing the 2,000 career kills mark against Arizona State on Nov. 5.
• Pac-12 Freshman of the Year, Cal's Maggie Li, who earned her sixth Pac-12 Freshman of the Week honor on Nov. 20, became the first freshman in Pac-12 history to start the season with three consecutive Pac-12 freshman weekly nods. She is also the first ever Bear to earn a weekly award in three consecutive weeks. She finished her first season as the Pac-12's top freshman in kills, kills per set, points and points per set, ranking among the conference's top-five overall players in all of those categories.

REGULAR SEASON NON-CONFERENCE WRAP

• Pac-12 programs closed regular season non-conference play at 96-31 (.756), the best mark among all leagues in 2023 (ACC .741, SEC .731; Big 12 .707; Big 10 .671), and a marked improvement over the last two seasons - 84-37 (.694) in 2022 and 78-36 (.684) in 2021.
• The Pac-12 went 11-8 overall against opponents ranked in the Top-25 of the AVCA Poll, with its top-three ranked teams - Stanford, Oregon and Washington State, going 10-4 against ranked foes. The four losses all came against top-10 opponents, while eight of the 10 wins came on the road or at neutral sites.
• USC added a ranked win on the road, taking down No. 17 Purdue on the final weekend of non-conference play.

HISTORICALLY SPEAKING

• Pac-12 institutions have won 17 of the 43 all-time NCAA championships in women’s volleyball, four more than the next closest conference (Big Ten), and four of the past 13.
• The Conference has had at least five teams earn NCAA Tournament bids in 25 consecutive seasons and eight postseason berths in five of the past 11 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 23 NCAA championship matches have included at least one Pac-12 program.
• At least one Pac-12 team has played in 27 of the 43 NCAA title matches all-time, the most of any league. At least one Big Ten team has been in 23 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 seven years of the NCAA tournament.
• Since 2010, the Pac-12 has the second-most NCAA Tournament berths of any league with 94.
• The Pac-12 has had 10 or more first, second and third-team All-America selections in 14 of the last 19 seasons. 
• Since 1990, Pac-12 players garnered AVCA Player of the Year honors 15 times, including the seven of the last 13  - 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.

FINAL CONFERENCE STANDINGS (Expanded Standings) 

2023 PAC-12 WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL WEEKLY AWARDS