2024 Pac-12 Conference softball tournament
The 2024 Pac-12 Conference softball tournament was held from May 8 through May 11, 2024 at Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium in Stanford, California. This was the second and final postseason championship event sponsored by the Pac-12 Conference since 1978. As the tournament winner, UCLA earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I softball tournament.
| Teams | 9 |
|---|---|
| Format | Single-elimination tournament |
| Finals site | |
| Champions | UCLA (1st title) |
| Runner-up | Utah (2nd title game) |
| Winning coach | Kelly Inouye-Perez (1st title) |
| MVP | Sharlize Palacios (UCLA) |
| Television | Pac-12 Network ESPN2 ESPNU |
| Conf | Overall | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Team | W | L | T | PCT | W | L | T | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 6 UCLA †‡y | 17 | – | 4 | – | 0 | .810 | 43 | – | 12 | – | 0 | .782 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 7 Stanford y | 17 | – | 7 | – | 0 | .708 | 50 | – | 16 | – | 0 | .758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 12 Washington y | 13 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .565 | 32 | – | 15 | – | 0 | .681 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 24 Oregon y | 13 | – | 10 | – | 0 | .565 | 30 | – | 21 | – | 0 | .588 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 18 Arizona y | 13 | – | 11 | – | 0 | .542 | 37 | – | 18 | – | 1 | .670 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Utah y | 10 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .435 | 35 | – | 22 | – | 0 | .614 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| No. 19 California y | 9 | – | 13 | – | 0 | .409 | 37 | – | 19 | – | 0 | .661 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Oregon State | 9 | – | 15 | – | 0 | .375 | 21 | – | 29 | – | 0 | .420 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Arizona State | 3 | – | 21 | – | 0 | .125 | 20 | – | 31 | – | 0 | .392 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| † – Conference champion ‡ – Tournament champion y – Invited to the NCAA Tournament As of June 2, 2024[1] Rankings from NFCA/USA Today | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Seeds
The tournament featured nine teams in this conference (Colorado, USC & Washington State do not field teams). Teams will play once per day at the 2024 Pac-12 Softball Championship. The four-day event began with a play-in game between the eighth and ninth-place teams in the regular-season standings. That winner advanced to an eight-team, single-elimination bracket with the quarterfinals, semifinals and championship being contested on the following three days. The winner of the Pac-12 Softball Championship received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. The seedings were determined upon completion of regular season play. The winning percentage of the teams in conference play determined tournament seedings. There were tiebreakers in place to seed teams with identical conference records.[2]
| Seed | School | Conf. | Over. | Tiebreaker |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | UCLA | 17−4 | 34−10 | ― |
| #2 | Stanford | 17−7 | 42−12 | ― |
| #3 | Oregon | 13−10 | 28−18 | 2−1 vs Washington |
| #4 | Washington | 13−10 | 31−12 | 1−2 vs Oregon |
| #5 | Arizona | 13−11 | 33−15−1 | ― |
| #6 | Utah | 10−13 | 32−19 | ― |
| #7 | California | 9−13 | 36−16 | ― |
| #8 | Oregon State | 9−15 | 21−28 | ― |
| #9 | Arizona State | 3−21 | 19−30 | ― |
Bracket
| Play-in Game May 8 | Quarterfinals May 9 | Semifinals May 10 | Finals May 11 | ||||||||||||||||
| 1 | UCLA | 6 | |||||||||||||||||
| 8 | Oregon State | 1 | 9 | Arizona State | 0 | ||||||||||||||
| 9 | Arizona State | 3 | 1 | UCLA | 6 | ||||||||||||||
| 5 | Arizona | 5 | |||||||||||||||||
| 4 | Washington | 3 | |||||||||||||||||
| 5 | Arizona | 11 | |||||||||||||||||
| 1 | UCLA | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Utah | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Stanford | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 7 | California | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 2 | Stanford | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Utah | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
| 3 | Oregon | 4 | |||||||||||||||||
| 6 | Utah | 7 | |||||||||||||||||
Schedule
| Game | Time* | Matchup# | Score | Television | Attendance | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Play-in Game – Wednesday, May 8 | ||||||
| 1 | 6:00 p.m. | No. 8 Oregon State vs. No. 9 Arizona State | 1−3 | Pac-12 Network | 930 | |
| Quarterfinals – Thursday, May 9 | ||||||
| 2 | 10:00 a.m. | No. 3 Oregon vs. No. 6 Utah | 4−7 | Pac-12 Network | 1,245 | |
| 3 | 12:30 p.m. | No. 2 Stanford vs. No. 7 California | 4−2 | |||
| 4 | 4:00 p.m. | No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 9 Arizona State | 6−0 | 1,167 | ||
| 5 | 6:30 p.m. | No. 4 Washington vs. No. 5 Arizona | 3−11 | |||
| Semifinals – Friday, May 10 | ||||||
| 6 | 4:30 p.m. | No. 6 Utah vs. No. 2 Stanford | 2−1 | ESPNU | TBD | |
| 7 | 7:30 p.m. | No. 1 UCLA vs. No. 5 Arizona | 6−5 | ESPN2 | ||
| Championship – Saturday, May 11 | ||||||
| 8 | 7:00 p.m. | No. 6 Utah vs. No. 1 UCLA | 1−2 | ESPN2 | TBD | |
| *Game times in MST. # – Rankings denote tournament seed.[3] | ||||||
Team and tournament leaders
Hitting minimums - 75% of Games 2.5 TPA/Game Pitching minimums - 1.0 IP/Game Source:[4]
| Team | Avg. | RBI | Home Runs | Stolen Bases | ERA | Wins | Strikeouts | Saves | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arizona | Olivia DiNardo | .714 | Olivia DiNardo | 6 | Olivia DiNardo | 2 | Tayler Biehl | 2 | Miranda Stoddard | 0.00 | Brooke Mannon | 1 | Brooke Mannon | 4 | Aissa Silva | 1 |
| Arizona State | Libby Walsh | .500 | Tied | 1 | None | 0 | Audrey LeClair | 2 | Deborah Jones | 3.77 | Deborah Jones | 1 | Deborah Jones | 7 | None | 0 |
| California | Tied | .333 | Acacia Anders | 1 | None | 0 | Tied | 1 | Ryann Orange | 0.00 | None | 0 | Haylei Archer | 3 | None | |
| Oregon | Ariel Carlson | 1.000 | Tied | 1 | None | 0 | Tied | 1 | Elise Sokolsky | 1.66 | None | 0 | Tied | 1 | None | 0 |
| Oregon State | Kiki Escobar | .500 | Lici Campbell | 1 | None | 0 | None | 0 | Logan Hulon | 3.00 | None | 0 | Logan Hulon | 5 | None | 0 |
| Stanford | Taryn Kern | .500 | Taryn Kern | 2 | None | 0 | Aly Kaneshiro | 1 | NiJaree Canady | 0.00 | NiJaree Canady | 1 | NiJaree Canady | 13 | None | 0 |
| UCLA | Janelle Meono | .500 | Tied | 3 | Sharlize Palacios | 1 | Tied | 1 | Kaitlyn Terry | 3.11 | Tied | 1 | Kaitlyn Terry | 8 | None | 0 |
| Utah | Kaylah Nelsen | .667 | Kaylah Nelsen | 4 | Shonty Passi | 1 | Tied | 1 | Mariah Lopez | 2.91 | Tied | 1 | Mariah Lopez | 8 | Mariah Lopez | 1 |
| Washington | Giselle Alvarez | 0.666 | Alana Johnson | 2 | Tied | 2 | Brooklyn Carter | 1 | Sidne Peters | 9.03 | None | 0 | Sidne Peters | 3 | None | 0 |
All-tournament Team
The following players will be members of the 2024 Pac-12 Softball All-Tournament Team. Player in Bold selected as Tournament MVP.
| Position | Player | School |
|---|---|---|
| OF | Jadelyn Allchin | UCLA |
| P | NiJaree Canady | Stanford |
| 1B | Olivia DiNardo | Arizona |
| INF | Taryn Kern | Stanford |
| P | Sarah Ladd | Utah |
| P | Mariah Lopez | Utah |
| OF | Kaylah Nelsen | Utah |
| C | Sharlize Palacios | UCLA |
| INF | Carlie Scupin | Arizona |
| P/OF | Kaitlyn Terry | UCLA |
| INF | Jordan Woolery | UCLA |
References
- "Softball Standings". Pac-12.com. Pac-12 Conference. Retrieved June 2, 2024.
- "Arizona to host inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament in 2023". June 13, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- "Bracket set for inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament". May 7, 2023. Retrieved May 7, 2023.
- "2023 Pac-12 Softball Tournament Pac-12 Pitching Leaders" (PDF).