The Pac-12 women's basketball regular season champion Stanford will once again return to NCAA Tournament, earning the Cardinal's 36th consecutive bid on Selection Sunday.
The Pac-12 women's basketball regular season champion Stanford will once again return to NCAA Tournament, earning the Cardinal's 36th consecutive bid on Selection Sunday. While Stanford lost to upstart USC 74-61 in the Pac-12 Tournament championship in Las Vegas on March 10, giving Southern California only its second Pac-12 Tournament title in team history, the Cardinal still earned a #2 seed in the Portland Regionals. USC is the #1 seed in the region.
Coached by women's basketball legend Tara VanDerveer and led by star Cameron Brink -- who announced her decision to enter the WNBA draft two days after Stanford lost the Pac-12 Tournament championship game -- the team's NCAA Tournament appearances have become an annual event.VanDerveer helmed the team to a pair of NCAA championships in the early '90s. This tournament marks VanDerveer's 38th all-time tournament appearance, the most of any coach all-time.
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