SAN FRANCISCO — Oregon State has been picked to repeat as Pac-12 women’s basketball champion by the conference’s coaches.
Reigning Pac-12 Coach of the Year Scott Rueck’s Beavers won the Pac-12 regular-season crown last season for the first time in school history and are bumping perennial power Stanford from the top spot for the first time in 16 years.
Oregon State received the maximum 11 first-place votes for 121 points. Stanford was picked second with 104 points, the Pac-12 announced during its media day Wednesday. Arizona State was selected third with 102 points.
The last time Stanford wasn’t picked conference champion in the preseason coaches’ poll was 1999-2000, when UCLA was chosen to win.
California and UCLA are tied for fourth, followed by Washington, USC, Oregon, Colorado, Washington State, Utah and Arizona.
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