Pac-12 preseason poll & media day

[Plebe]

No surprises here.

Pac-12 Women’s Basketball Coaches Vote Oregon Preseason Favorite

Oregon was selected by Pac-12 coaches to win the 2019 women's basketball Conference title.

pac-12.com

 

[nwhoopfan]

Ooh, Washington all the way up to #9. That may be a case of other teams being really bad, but hopefully UW will show some improvement this season.

 

[Zanzman]

Cal loses Anigwe and drops to 11

 

[triaddukefan]

Strange, the ACC had its Media day last week, but didnt release any preseason polls/All-ACC teams

 

[TerpWomenFan]

For the Big 10 they released the men but not the women. Women are always treated as second class citizens in the media.

 

[bennyskid]

No ballot had Stanford ahead of UO.
No ballot had OSU or UCLA ahead of Stanford.
No ballot had any of the other eight ahead of UCLA or OSU.
I'm not sure we even need to play the games. Can we just seed these four into the Sweet 16 and start the season there?

 

[sivad40]

Strange, the ACC had its Media day last week, but didnt release any preseason polls/All-ACC teams

The ACC will have another day to reveal on the ACC Network like they have been doing everything else so far.

 

[saywho]

If Stanford has one first place vote, one ballot had Stanford above Oregon i in order for Stanford to get a first place vote. That being said, it was Oregon's coach since they couldn't vote for themself.

 

[NWHoopFan2]

If Stanford has one first place vote, one ballot had Stanford above Oregon i in order for Stanford to get a first place vote. That being said, it was Oregon's coach since they couldn't vote for themself.

Oregon’s coach’s ballot doesn’t have Oregon on it, so there wasn’t a ballot with Stanford above Oregon.

 

[LETTERL]

I was checking out the schedules for the Pac 12. Oregon and Oregon State play each other twice in three days -- surrounding my birthday, January 25th. (Oregon State travels to Oregon on January 24th...and hosts Oregon on the 26th).

That's just strange.

I don't know why the conferences do that.

 

[CompSci87]

I was checking out the schedules for the Pac 12. Oregon and Oregon State play each other twice in three days -- surrounding my birthday, January 25th. (Oregon State travels to Oregon on January 24th...and hosts Oregon on the 26th).

That's just strange.

I don't know why the conferences do that.

It compresses the conference schedule by a week. Pac-12 WBB started doing that so that WBB's conference tournament could be a week before MBB's.

 

[biobioprof]

It compresses the conference schedule by a week. Pac-12 WBB started doing that so that WBB's conference tournament could be a week before MBB's.

The Pac teams geographically come in pairs so in both MBB and WBB teams tend to go on the road for two games vs a pair and then host two games vs a pair. When you play your geographic mate you can either do home and home the same week like the women, or use byes, which the Pac12 men seem to do.

 

[LETTERL]

That will be a brutal stretch for Oregon State. Prior to the two Oregon games, they play Stanford.

 

[LoTrader]

That will be a brutal stretch for Oregon State. Prior to the two Oregon games, they play Stanford.

Also for Oregon & Stanford

 

[DefenseBB]

The PAC12 is going to be interesting theatre this year....

 

[nwhoopfan]

I don't know why the conferences do that.

I think most of the Pac 12 schools split up their rivalry games so they aren't back to back. The coaches of the Oregon schools must be satisfied with this arrangement.

 

[bennyskid]

I think most of the Pac 12 schools split up their rivalry games so they aren't back to back. The coaches of the Oregon schools must be satisfied with this arrangement.

Actually, both Oregon coaches have expressed their displeasure about the back-to-back insanity.

After the initial schedule is produced, in some years, some pairs have been able to modify the schedule by putting one of the rivalry games in December. OSU/UO have never been able to do that due to other commitments.