2018 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament

2018 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2017–18
Teams	12
Site	KeyArena Seattle, WA
Champions	Oregon (1st title)
Winning coach	Kelly Graves (1st title)
MVP	Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon)
Attendance	28,558
Top scorer	Sabrina Ionescu (Oregon) (63 points)
Television	Pac-12 Network, ESPN2
Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournaments

2017–18 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball standings

	Conf							Overall
Team	W		L		PCT			W		L		PCT
No. 6 Oregon †	16	–	2		.889			33	–	5		.868
No. 15 Stanford	14	–	3		.824			24	–	11		.686
No. 9 UCLA	14	–	4		.778			27	–	8		.771
No. 13 Oregon State	14	–	4		.778			26	–	8		.765
California	11	–	7		.611			21	–	11		.656
Arizona State	10	–	8		.556			22	–	13		.629
USC	9	–	9		.500			20	–	11		.645
Utah	8	–	10		.444			18	–	14		.563
Colorado	5	–	13		.278			15	–	16		.484
Washington State	3	–	14		.176			10	–	20		.333
Arizona	2	–	16		.111			6	–	24		.200
Washington	1	–	17		.056			7	–	23		.233
† 2018 Pac-12 Tournament winner As of 26 March 2018 Rankings from AP Poll

The 2018 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament presented by New York Life was the postseason tournament that ended the 2017–18 season of the Pac-12 Conference. The tournament was held at KeyArena in Seattle, Washington from March 1–4, 2018. Regular-season champion Oregon won the tournament and with it the automatic Pac-12 berth in the NCAA 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	16–2 (27–4)
#2	Stanford	14–3 (20–9)
#3	Oregon State	14–4 (23–6)	1–1 vs. UCLA, 1–1 vs. ORE
#4	UCLA	14–4 (23–6)	1–1 vs. OSU, 0–2 vs. ORE
#5	California	11–7 (20–9)
#6	Arizona State	10–8 (19–11)
#7	USC	9–9 (19–10)
#8	Utah	8–10 (17–12)
#9	Colorado	5–13 (14–15)
#10	Washington State	3–14 (10–19)
#11	Arizona	2–16 (6–23)
#12	Washington	1–15 (7–21)

Schedule

Thursday-Sunday, March 1–4, 2017

The top four seeds received a first-round bye.

Session	Game	Time*	Matchup#	Television	Attendance
First Round – Thursday, March 1
1	1	11:30 AM	#8 Utah vs. #9 Colorado	P12N	3,532
	2	2:00 PM	#5 California vs. #12 Washington
2	3	6:00 PM	#7 USC vs. #10 Washington State		3,157
	4	8:30 PM	#6 Arizona State vs. #11 Arizona
Quarterfinals – Friday, March 2
3	5	11:30 AM	#1 Oregon vs. #9 Colorado	P12N	4,852
	6	2:00 PM	#4 UCLA vs. #5 California
4	7	6:00 PM	#2 Stanford vs. #7 USC		4,741
	8	8:30 PM	#3 Oregon State vs. #6 Arizona State
Semifinals – Saturday, March 3
5	9	6:00 PM	#1 Oregon vs. #4 UCLA	P12N	6,889
	10	8:30 PM	#2 Stanford vs. #6 Arizona State
Championship Game – Sunday, March 4
6	11	6:00 PM	#1 Oregon vs. #2 Stanford	ESPN2	5,387
*Game Times in PT.

Bracket

• All times are Pacific

	First round Thursday, March 1 P12N 11:30AM 2PM 6PM 8:30PM					Quarterfinals Friday, March 2 P12N 11:30AM 2PM 6PM 8:30PM					Semifinals Saturday, March 3 P12N 6PM 8:30PM					Championship Game Sunday, March 4 ESPN2 6PM
						9	Colorado	47
						1	#6 Oregon	84
	8	Utah	56
	9	Colorado	66
											1	#6 Oregon	65
											4	#9 UCLA	62
						5	California	74
						4	#9 UCLA	77
	5	California	71
	12	Washington	68
																1	#6 Oregon	77
																2	#16 Stanford	57
						7	USC	59
						2	#16 Stanford	69
	7	USC	47
	10	Washington State	44
											2	#16 Stanford	58
											6	Arizona State	46
						6	Arizona State	57
						3	#10 Oregon State	51
	6	Arizona State	76
	11	Arizona	47

All-Tournament Team

Source:

Name	Pos.	Year	Team
Lexi Bando	G	Sr.	Oregon
Monique Billings	F	Sr.	UCLA
Jordin Canada	G	Sr.	UCLA
Ruthy Hebard	G	So.	Oregon
Sabrina Ionescu	G	So.	Oregon
Kiana Williams	G	Fr.	Stanford

Most Outstanding Player

Name	Pos.	Year	Team
Sabrina Ionescu	G	So.	Oregon

See also

• 2018 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball tournament