SAN FRANCISCO - Stanford has been selected as the preseason favorite to win the 2022-23 Pac-12 Womens Basketball regular-season crown in separate votes by the leagues head coaches and 28 media members who cover the league.

The Cardinal garnered all available 11 first-place votes and totaled 121 points in the coaches poll, and each of the 28 first-place votes and 336 points in the media poll.

Oregon was picked to finish second in the coaches poll with 101 points, one point ahead of third-place Arizona. The teams switched spots in the media vote, with the Wildcats second (291 points) and Ducks third (275 points).

Team Nos. 4-12 were the same in both polls, with UCLA leading that group in fourth and followed by Utah in fifth. The Utes, last season's Pac-12 Tournament runners-up, received the remaining first-place vote in the coaches poll. Oregon State was selected sixth to round out the polls' top half.

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 on Pac-12 rosters this 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 are 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 were 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.

2022-23 PAC-12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PRESEASON COACHES POLL
Coaches may not vote for their own teams.

2022-23 PAC-12 WOMEN'S BASKETBALL PRESEASON MEDIA POLL