2020 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament

2020 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament
2020 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2019–20
Teams	12
Site	Mandalay Bay Events Center; Las Vegas, NV
Champions	Oregon (2nd title)
Winning coach	Kelly Graves (2nd title)
MVP	Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon)
Attendance	34,138
Television	Pac-12 Network, ESPN2
	Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournaments ← 2019 2021 →

The 2020 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament presented by New York Life was a postseason tournament held March 5–8, 2020 at Mandalay Bay Events Center on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada.^[1]

2019–20 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 2 Oregon†	17	–	1	.944	31	–	2	.939
No. 10 UCLA	14	–	4	.778	26	–	5	.839
No. 7 Stanford	14	–	4	.778	27	–	6	.818
No. 13 Arizona	12	–	6	.667	24	–	7	.774
No. 14 Oregon State	10	–	8	.556	23	–	9	.719
No. 25 Arizona State	10	–	8	.556	20	–	11	.645
USC	8	–	10	.444	17	–	14	.548
Utah	6	–	12	.333	14	–	17	.452
Colorado	5	–	13	.278	16	–	14	.533
Washington	5	–	13	.278	13	–	17	.433
Washington State	4	–	14	.222	11	–	20	.355
California	3	–	15	.167	12	–	19	.387

† 2020 Pac-12 Tournament winner As of December 25, 2024 Rankings from AP poll

Seeds

Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order: Tie-breaking procedures for determining all tournament seeding was:

For two-team tie

1. Results of head-to-head competition during the regular season.

2. Each team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular standings, and then continuing down through the standings until one team gains an advantage. When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.

3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.

4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.

For multiple-team tie

1. Results (won-lost percentage) of collective head-to-head competition during the regular season among the tied teams.

2. If more than two teams are still tied, each of the tied team's record (won-lost percentage) vs. the team occupying the highest position in the final regular season standings, and then continuing down through the standings, eliminating teams with inferior records, until one team gains an advantage.

When arriving at another group of tied teams while comparing records, use each team's record (won-lost percentage) against the collective tied teams as a group (prior to that group's own tie-breaking procedure), rather than the performance against individual tied teams.

After one team has an advantage and is seeded, all remaining teams in the multiple-team tie-breaker will repeat the multiple-team tie-breaking procedure.

If at any point the multiple-team tie is reduced to two teams, the two-team tie-breaking procedure will be applied.

3. Won-lost percentage against all Division I opponents.

4. Coin toss conducted by the Commissioner or designee.

Seed	School	Conf	Overall	Tiebreaker 1	Tiebreaker 2
1	Oregon	17–1	28–2
2	UCLA	14–4	25–4	1–0 vs Stanford
3	Stanford	14–4	25–5	0-1 vs UCLA
4	Arizona	12–6	23–6
5	Arizona State	10–8	20–10	1–1 vs Oregon State	0–1 vs. Oregon
6	Oregon State	10–8	22–8	1–1 vs Arizona State	0–2 vs. Oregon
7	USC	8–10	16–13
8	Utah	6–12	13–16
9	Washington	5–13	13–16	1-0 vs Colorado
10	Colorado	5–13	16–13	0-1 vs Washington
11	Washington State	4–14	11–19
12	California	3–15	11–18

Schedule

Thursday-Sunday, March 5–8, 2020

The top four seeds received a first-round bye.

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup^#	Television	Attendance
First Round – Thursday, March 5
1	1	11:30 AM	#5 Arizona State 67 vs. #12 California 71	P12N	3,361
1	2	2:00 PM	#8 Utah 72 vs. #9 Washington 63		3,361
2	3	6:00 PM	#7 USC 69 vs. #10 Colorado 54		4,387
2	4	8:30 PM	#6 Oregon State 82 vs. #11 Washington State 55		4,387
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 6
3	5	11:30 AM	#4 Arizona 86 vs #12 California 73	P12N	6,782
3	6	2:00 PM	#1 Oregon 79 vs #8 Utah 59		6,782
4	7	6:00 PM	#2 UCLA 73 vs. #7 USC 66		5,548
4	8	8:30 PM	#3 Stanford 68 vs. #6 Oregon State 57		5,548
Semifinals – Saturday, March 7
5	9	6:00 PM	#4 Arizona 70 vs. #1 Oregon 88	P12N	7,266
5	10	8:30 PM	#3 Stanford 67 vs. #2 UCLA 51	P12N	7,266
Championship Game – Sunday, March 8
6	11	5:00 PM	#1 Oregon 89 vs. #3 Stanford 56	ESPN2	6,794
*Game Times in PT.

Bracket

First round Thursday, March 5 P12N			Quarterfinals Friday, March 6 P12N			Semifinals Saturday, March 7 P12N			Championship Game Sunday, March 8 ESPN2

			1	#3 Oregon	79

			8	Utah	59
8	Utah	72

9	Washington	63
						1	#3 Oregon	88

						4	#13 Arizona	70



			4	#13 Arizona	86

			12	California	73
5	#24 Arizona State	67

12	California	71
									1	#3 Oregon	89

									3	#7 Stanford	56



			2	#8 UCLA	73

			7	USC	66
7	USC	69

10	Colorado	54
						2	#8 UCLA	51

						3	#7 Stanford	67



			3	#7 Stanford	68

			6	#14 Oregon State	57
6	#14 Oregon State	82

11	Washington State	55

Note: * denotes overtime

All-Tournament Team

Source:^[2]

Name	Pos.	Year	Team
Ruthy Hebard	F	Sr.	Oregon
Lexie Hull	G	So.	Stanford
Sabrina Ionescu	G	Sr.	Oregon
Aari McDonald	G	Jr.	Arizona
Michaela Onyenwere	F	Jr.	UCLA
Kiana Williams	G	Jr.	Stanford

Most Outstanding Player

Name	Pos.	Year	Team
Sabrina Ionescu	G	Sr.	Oregon

References

^ "2020 Pac-12 women's basketball tournament". Pac-12. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2019.
^ "Pac-12 Women's Record Book" (PDF).

External links

Official website – Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament

[1] "2020 Pac-12 women's basketball tournament". Pac-12. Archived from the original on July 3, 2015. Retrieved March 13, 2019.

[2] "Pac-12 Women's Record Book" (PDF).

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