Killed by greed and poor management in the summer of 2023, the PAC-12 has increased and rebuilt.
Continuous to launch on July 1, 2026, the new PAC-12 will have only two teams of its latest version, the left in the state of Oregon and the state of Washington. They join the Beavers and Cours to reinforce this conference are the members of the West Mountain to formulate, Boise State, the state of Fresno, the state of Colorado, the state of San Diego and the state of Utah. Gonzaga brings its historical history in basketball, which comes from the West Coast Conference as a solitary member of football, while Texas State completes the League League of nine teams as a more eastern member.
Almost at the same time, the PAC-12 announced the incorporation of Texas State of the Sun Belt, revealed that CBS will be his anchor companion of a new television agreement through 2031. Fanters of university sports will see these nine schools a whole in CBS, CBS.
Since its launch, the arm of the social networks of the PAC-12 has been busy promoting its successes in basketball and male football. And in fact, they now have signature marks in both. Boise State comes an appearance in the American football and Gonzaga playoffs has been in a couple of four finals and two eight eight eights in the last decade. Seven of the nine teams of the new PAC-12 have made at least one Male NCAA tournament since 2021.
But what about female basketball? How good is a league can be the new PAC-12 in that sport?
It depends on how one sees the new PAC-12. If you expect this league to return to its old way where you were competing for the national championships and putting more than half of your membership in the NCAA tournament every year, you are likely to disappoint you. This new version of the PAC-12 simply does not have the same depth of talented equipment as the previous one.
However, if you are a little clearer but also optimistic, it carries the belief that could be among the best Mid-Mojor conferences in sport and be a multipurpose conference most of the seasons, I think your expectations will be with.
Among the nine teams in this conference, there is a clear top, medium and lower in women’s basketball.
Let’s start at the bottom with the state of Fresno, the state of Texas and the state of Utah. These are the only three teams in the new PAC-12 that Harbor appeared in an NCAA tournament in the last decade.
If there is a team on which to be optimistic, it is likely state of Fresno, the program that cools to the Cavier Twins and has produced two seasons of 20 victories or more in the last decade. The Bulldogs, after Jaime White’s retirement, just hired a new chief coach at Ryan McCarthy. He arrives in Fresno after 13 seasons in Division II of Alaska Anchorage, where he had a percentage of 82.2 victories, produced six All-America and tok his team to the national championship game. If you can turn in Fresno, it will raise the floor of this league.
The state of Utah has endured six consecutive losing seasons and has never been in the NCAA tournament. Wesley Brooks, who has worked with Kevin McGuff, Kim Barnes Arico and Lynne Roberts, is about to enter the second season there. Of the nine teams in the new PAC-12, the state of Utah is the only one that never ends a season in the last 10 years with a rating of repeated statistics better than 10.0. As a reference, 91 teams had HHS ratings of 10 or better this season, including Gonzaga, which has a rating north of ESO for 10 consecutive seasons.
The state of Texas is dancing in March Madness since 2002 on a similar ship, since it has been dancing in March Madness. Zenaarae Antoine is the 15th season in the Bobcats helmet with a percentage of victories of 50.1. If you arrive at its 16th season, it will be the fourth different conference in which you have trained Texas State. The bobcats have won two division titles under their watch and were champions of the regular Sun Belt season in 2023.
Now to the middle, which leads us to the state of Boise, the state of Colorado and the state of San Diego. Each of these schools has had some form of varying degrees or constant success in the last decade.
The state of Colorado, for example, has an appearance in the NCAA tournament, four WNIT trips and seven seasons of 20 wins or more including the last four-year season in the 2015-16 season with Ryun Williams. They carry a consistent team of Mid-Mojor decent to good.
The same could be said of Boise State, he thought that the Broncos have leveled a little since they won four consecutive titles of Mountain West from 2017 to 2020. They have enjoyed three consecutive winning seasons thought and returned to the Wnitned to the Wnited to the Wnited to the Wnited to Wnited. In the last decade, Boise State also has five victories about Power 4 opponents, most middle and low class teams in the new PAC-12.
The state of San Diego is in an upward trend under Stacie Terry-Hutson, who has just trained the Aztecs to the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2012. They have enjoyed three consecutive seasons of 20 or more victories and only added three players in the transferors.
Here is the upper class of the League, which presents three teams that have enjoyed national success in women’s basketball in the last decade: Oregon State, Washington State and Gonzaga.
The Beavers are the lonely team in this league with an appearance in Final Four in their credit, going there in 2016. Since then, under Scott Rueck, they have gone to two eight more elite. Even while playing at the West Coast Conference last year, after being decimated with the transfer portal outings, the Beavers still went to the NCAA tournament, marking their seventh trip to march Madness in the last decade.
“Those who have the attention of the legs know the story and know how significant it is,” said Rueck in Chapel Hill in March after the Beavers lost to North Carolina in the first round of the NCAA tournament. “I could not be happier for what we have achieved, more proud, and it has been an absolute joy … The state of Oregon is the state of Oregon. We will be a team that takes care of you and it is competitive every night and makes Prosyt. It has evidence now if they previously wondered.”
In the low season, the Beavers lost zero players on the portal while they won two.
Of the nine teams in the new PAC-12, Oregon State has most of the victories about opponents classified in AP in the last 10 years with 43. Having produced sport stars such as Sydney Weise, Mikayla PIVEC and the base of the Raegen Marquee base.
But Gonzaga is there with the Beavers with seven trips in the NCAA tournament in the last 10 years, 20 victories about Power 4 teams and eight victories about classified opponents. The Zags have won 20 or more games in nine of the last 10 seasons and went to Sweet 16 in 2024. With Lisa Fortier to the helm, they have dominated the eight of the west coast conference of the last nine regular Aswerions.
The other team that mentions here is the state of Washington, which is customary to three consecutive NCA tournaments between 2021 and 2023 and won a PAC-12 title. Kamie Ethridge squadrons have won more than 20 games in each of the last two seasons, but March’s madness was lost. Even so, in the last 10 years, the state of Washington has 14 victories on classified opponents. Ethridge, a former Wade trophy winner and national champion in Texas, will keep Wazzu competitive regardless of what conference they are in.
When the new PAC-12 begins to play in the 2026-27 season, it is not unconscious to see it as a three licenses league for the NCAA tournament. The Ivy League has just achieved this season, and the A-10 got two teams. It will require exclusive brands such as Oregon State, Washington State and Gonzaga playing at their best and winning some difficult games out of conference to increase their net qualifications. And if the other six teams in the league can raise their game and overcome some good teams in the part of the season without a conference, that will only help.