2016 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament

2016 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament
2016 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament
Classification	Division I
Season	2015–16
Teams	12
Site	KeyArena; Seattle, WA
Champions	Oregon State (1st title)
Winning coach	Scott Rueck (1st title)
MVP	Jamie Weisner (Oregon State)
Attendance	27,577
Television	Pac-12 Network, ESPN
	Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournaments ← 2015 2017 →

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.

2015–16 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 6 Oregon State †	16	–	2	.889	32	–	5	.865
No. 11 Arizona State	16	–	2	.889	26	–	7	.788
No. 13 Stanford	14	–	4	.778	27	–	8	.771
No. 10 UCLA	14	–	4	.778	26	–	9	.743
Washington	11	–	7	.611	26	–	11	.703
Oregon	9	–	9	.500	24	–	11	.686
Utah	8	–	10	.444	18	–	15	.545
USC	6	–	12	.333	19	–	13	.594
Washington State	5	–	13	.278	14	–	16	.467
California	4	–	14	.222	15	–	17	.469
Arizona	3	–	15	.167	13	–	19	.406
Colorado	2	–	16	.111	7	–	23	.233


† 2016 Pac-12 Tournament winner As of April 3, 2016 Rankings from AP Poll

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)

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

First round Thursday, March 2 P12N			Quarterfinals Friday, March 3 P12N			Semifinals Saturday, March 4 P12N			Championship Game Sunday, March 5 ESPN

			1	#8 Oregon State	63

			8	USC	53
8	USC	77

9	Washington State	73
						1	#8 Oregon State	57

						5	Washington	55



			4	#11 Stanford	65

			5	Washington	73
5	Washington	67

12	Colorado	51
									1	#8 Oregon State	69

									3	#12 UCLA	57



			2	#10 Arizona State	64

			10	California	75
7	Utah	63

10	California	66^OT
						10	California	67

						3	#12 UCLA	73^OT



			3	#12 UCLA	72

			11	Arizona	51
6	Oregon	68

11	Arizona	74

Source:^[1]

Name	Pos.	Year	Team
Jamie Weisner	G	Sr.	Oregon State

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