SAN FRANCISCO
The Pac-12 Conference has released the weekly matchups and site designations for the leagues 2022-23 womens basketball season.
The announcement reflects the games being played and the home/away designations each weekend of the Pac-12 regular season. Specific dates and times for each game will be announced after television selections are finalized. Some games may shift outside of the Conferences traditional Friday-Sunday windows pending those television selections and other factors.
Games on the first full weekend of the regular season are scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 29 through Monday, Jan. 2 to provide programs scheduling options as they return from the holidays. The season's final weekend will be played on Thursday, Feb. 23 and Saturday, Feb. 25, to avoid a quick turnaround for teams playing on the first day of the Pac-12 Tournament. The 2023 Pac-12 Womens Basketball Tournament, presented by New York Life, is scheduled for March 1-5 at Michelob ULTRA Arena at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas.
New this season, all rivalry games have been separated, with the first played on a mutually agreed-upon date in the month of December and the second during the traditional nine-week Conference schedule.
The Conference schedule will remain at 18 games in 2022-23. A shift to a 20-game league calendar, announced last summer following approval by the Pac-12 Council, was brought up for reconsideration by the Conference membership prior to the start of last season, which re-voted and decided to maintain the current, 18-game structure.
Over the last seven seasons, the Pac-12 leads all conferences in Final Four appearances (7), NCAA Tournament wins (76), NCAA Tournament winning percentage (.685), regular-season, nonconference winning percentage (.793) and WBCA All-Americans (15).
Ten All-Conference, five All-Freshman, and two All-Defensive Team honorees are set to return for the 2022-23 season, including the leagues Player of the Year (
Haley Jones
, STAN), Defensive Player of the Year (
Cameron Brink
, STAN) Freshman of the Year (
Gianna Kneepkens
, UTAH), Sixth Player of the Year (
Quay Miller
, COLO) and co-Most Improved Player of the Year (
Bella Murekatete
, WSU).
Of the 24 women selected to play in the 2022 McDonalds All American Game, a national-best 11 are slated to join the Pac-12 this coming season in Arizona's
Paris Clark
and
Maya Nnaji
, Oregon's
Chance Gray
and
Grace VanSlooten
, Oregon State's
Raegan Beers
and
Timea Gardiner
, Stanford's
Lauren Betts
and
Indya Nivar
, UCLA's
Gabriela Jaquez
and
Kiki Rice
, and USC's
Aaliyah Gayles
.
Pac-12 programs signed 23 student-athletes from the 2022 espnW HoopGurlz Top 100 who will be freshmen on campus this fall, including seven of the top 10 (#1
Lauren Betts
, STAN; #2
Kiki Rice
, UCLA; #6
Timea Gardiner
, OSU; #7
Chance Gray
, ORE; #8
Aaliyah Gayles
, USC; #9
Maya Nnaji
, ARIZ; #10
Raegan Beers
, OSU). Six of the nations top 14 classes have been put together by Conference programs, including each of the top three and five of the top eight - No. 1 UCLA, No. 2 Oregon, No. 3 Oregon State, No. 5 Stanford, No. 8 Arizona and No. 14 Washington.
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Pac-12 Womens Basketball 2022-23 Conference Matchups
December
Oregon State at Oregon - December 11
Washington State at Washington - December 11
Colorado at Utah - December 14
UCLA at USC - December 15
California at Stanford - December 23
Arizona State at Arizona - December 29
Weekend of Dec. 29-Jan 2
Arizona/Arizona State at California/Stanford
Colorado/Utah at Washington/Washington State
UCLA/USC at Oregon/Oregon State
Weekend of Jan. 6-8
Oregon/Oregon State at Arizona/Arizona State
Stanford at California
USC at UCLA
Utah at Colorado
Washington at Washington State
Weekend of Jan. 13-15
Arizona/Arizona State at Colorado/Utah
California/Stanford at UCLA/USC
Washington/Washington State at Oregon/Oregon State
Weekend of Jan. 20-22
Arizona at Arizona State
Colorado/Utah at California/Stanford
Oregon at Oregon State
UCLA/USC at Washington/Washington State
Weekend of Jan. 27-29
Oregon/Oregon State at California/Stanford
UCLA/USC at Colorado/Utah
Washington/Washington State at Arizona/Arizona State
Weekend of Feb. 3-5
Arizona/Arizona State at UCLA/USC
California/Stanford at Washington/Washington State
Colorado/Utah at Oregon/Oregon State
Weekend of Feb. 10-12
California/Stanford at Arizona/Arizona State
Oregon/Oregon State at UCLA/USC
Washington/Washington State at Colorado/Utah
Weekend of Feb. 17-19
Colorado/Utah at Arizona/Arizona State
Oregon/Oregon State at Washington/Washington State
UCLA/USC at California/Stanford
Weekend of Feb. 23-25
Arizona/Arizona State at Oregon/Oregon State
California/Stanford at Colorado/Utah
Washington/Washington State at UCLA/USC