Pac-12 Women's Basketball Weekly Rundown - February 21, 2024

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>>  Latest AP Top-25 poll: No. 3 Stanford, No. 7 USC, No. 9 Oregon State, No. 11 Colorado, No. 12 UCLA and No. 18 Utah.
   >> The Pac-12 has placed five or more teams in the AP Top-25 in every poll this season.

>>  NET rankings (through games 2/19): No. 2 Stanford, No. 6 Utah, No. 7 UCLA, No. 11 USC, No. 16 Colorado, No. 18 Oregon State, No. 25 Washington State, No. 42 Arizona, No. 53 Washington, No. 61 California, No. 92 Oregon and No. 114 Arizona State.

>>  The Pac-12 had five teams selected in the first NCAA Division I Women’s Basketball Committee Top-16 reveal of the season last week: No. 1-seeds Stanford (No. 2 overall) and Colorado (No. 4 overall), No. 2-seed UCLA (No. 7 overall) and No. 3-seeds USC (No. 9 overall) and Oregon State (No. 11 overall).
   >> The five selections are the most of any other conference.

>>  Five Pac-12 coaches were named to the Werner Ladder Naismith Women’s Coach of the Year Watch List: Colorado’s JR Payne, Oregon State’s Scott Rueck, Stanford’s Tara VanDerveer, UCLA’s Cori Close and USC’s Lindsay Gottlieb.

>>  Stanford can clinch at least a share of the 2023-24 Pac-12 regular-season title with victories this Friday and Sunday.

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CONFERENCE STANDINGS (Expanded Standings)

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