2016 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball tournament

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.

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

2015–16 Pac-12 Conference women's basketball standings

	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)

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

	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	66OT
											10	California	67
											3	#12 UCLA	73OT
						3	#12 UCLA	72
						11	Arizona	51
	6	Oregon	68
	11	Arizona	74

All-Tournament Team

Source:

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

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

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