The clock is winding down on the Pac-12 Conference as we’ve known it. As the teams gather in Las Vegas for the league tournament, we ask: Who are the 50 greatest women’s basketball players who’ve come from the Pac-12?
There is a USC legend in the top spot of our list, but it’s not Cheryl Miller. That’s because the two-time NCAA champion didn’t play in the Pac-10/Pac-12. The league didn’t begin governing women’s sports until the 1986-87 academic year, right after Miller finished her college career.
Thus, names such as Miller, USC teammate Cynthia Cooper or UCLA‘s Ann Meyers won’t be on this list, since they played in the Western Collegiate Athletic Association (named the PacWest in its final year). Also at that time, five schools now in the Pac-12 were in the Northern Pacific Conference.
So the players we are ranking here competed at Arizona, Arizona State, California, Oregon, Oregon State, UCLA, USC, Stanford, Washington and Washington State since 1986-87, and at Colorado and Utah since 2011-12 (when those schools joined the Pac-10 to make it the…
