2016 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament explained

The 2016 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament was the postseason women's basketball tournament at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington from March 3–6, 2016. Oregon State defeated UCLA in the championship game to win their first Pac-12 Women's Tournament title in school history. With that win Oregon State received an automatic bid to the NCAA women's tournament.

Seeds

Teams were seeded by conference record, with ties broken in the following order:

• Record between the tied teams
• Record against the highest-seeded team not involved in the tie, going down through the seedings as necessary
• Higher RPI

Seed	School	Conf (Overall)	Tiebreaker
1	Oregon State	16–2 (25–4)	1–0 vs. ASU
2	Arizona State	16–2 (25–5)	0–1 vs. OSU
3	UCLA	14–4 (22–7)	1–0 vs. STAN
4	Stanford	14–4 (24–6)	0–1 vs. UCLA
5	Washington	11–7 (20–9)
6	Oregon	9–9 (20–9)
7	Utah	8–10 (16–13)
8	USC	6–12 (18–12)
9	Washington State	5–13 (14–15)
10	California	4–14 (13–16)
11	Arizona	3–15 (12–18)
12	Colorado	2–16 (7–22)

Schedule

Thursday-Sunday, March 3–6, 2016

The top four seeds received a first-round bye.

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First Round – Thursday, March 3
1	1	11:30 AM	7 Utah vs. #10 California	Pac-12 Network	3,059
	2	2:00 PM	6 Oregon vs. #11 Arizona
2	3	6:00 PM	8 USC vs. #9 Washington State		3,680
	4	8:30 PM	5 Washington vs. #12 Colorado
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 4
3	5	11:30 AM	2 Arizona State vs. #10 California	Pac-12 Network	3,747
	5	2:00 PM	3 UCLA vs. #11 Arizona
4	7	6:00 PM	1 Oregon State vs. #8 USC		5,789
	8	8:30 PM	4 Stanford vs. #5 Washington
Semifinals – Saturday, March 5
5	9	6:00 PM	10 California vs. #3 UCLA	Pac-12 Network	6,543
	10	8:30 PM	1 Oregon State vs. #5 Washington
Championship Game – Sunday, March 6
6	11	6:00 PM	3 UCLA vs. #1 Oregon State	ESPN	4,759
Game Times in PT.

Bracket

All-Tournament Team

Source:^[1]

Name	Pos.	Year	Team
Kristine Anigwe	F	Fr.	California
Jordin Canada	G	So.	UCLA
Ruth Hamblin	C	Sr.	Oregon State
Kelsey Plum	G	Jr.	Washington
Jamie Weisner	G	Sr.	Oregon State
Sydney Wiese	G	Sr.	Oregon State

Most Outstanding Player

See also

2016 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament

Notes

• March 4, 2016 – Head coach Niya Butts coached her last game for the University of Arizona

Notes and References

1. Web site: Pac-12 Women's Record Book .