Pac-12 women’s basketball report: Stanford wins last conference title, three bubble teams all lose

Tara VanDerveer and Stanford were supposed to have a down year. Instead, they won the Pac-12 convincingly.

On Thursday night, the Stanford Cardinal — already assured of a share of the Pac-12 women’s basketball championship — clinched the outright title in the final season of Pac-12 women’s hoops by beating Oregon State in Corvallis. Stanford winning the Pac-12 women’s basketball title is a very regular and common occurrence. The Cardinal have won 27 Pac-10 or Pac-12 titles dating back to 1989. Legendary coach Tara VanDerveer has won 26 of those titles. Yet, this most recent title is special.

We will explain why this latest Pac-12 championship for Stanford is so remarkable, and we’ll also go through the Pac-12 women’s basketball bubble watch, in the slides below: