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 postseason championship event sponsored by the Pac-12 Conference since 1978, and the last for the immediate future, as 10 of the conference's previous 12 members, including all nine softball-sponsoring members, left for other conferences in August 2024. This left Oregon State as the only softball-sponsoring Pac-12 member (the other legacy member, Washington State, does not sponsor the sport).
As the tournament winner, UCLA earned the conference's automatic bid to the 2024 NCAA Division I softball tournament.
The tournament will resume in the 2027 season, with legacy softball member Oregon State joined by six new softball-sponsoring full members.
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.
SeedSchoolConf.Over.Tiebreaker#1UCLA 17−4 34−10 ―#2Stanford 17−7 42−12 ―#3Oregon 13−10 28−18 2−1 vs Washington#4Washington 13−10 31−12 1−2 vs Oregon#5Arizona 13−11 33−15−1 ―#6Utah 10−13 32−19 ―#7California 9−13 36−16 ―#8Oregon State 9−15 21−28 ―#9Arizona State 3−21 19−30 ―
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Schedule GameTime*Matchup#ScoreTelevision 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.
Team and tournament leaders Hitting minimums - 75% of Games 2.5 TPA/Game Pitching minimums - 1.0 IP/Game Source: Team Avg.RBIHome Runs Stolen Bases ERAWinsStrikeoutsSavesArizonaOlivia DiNardo.714Olivia DiNardo 6 Olivia DiNardo 2 Tayler Biehl 2 Miranda Stoddard 0.00 Brooke Mannon1Brooke Mannon 4Aissa Silva1Arizona StateLibby Walsh.500Tied 1 None 0 Audrey LeClair 2 Deborah Jones 3.77 Deborah Jones1Deborah Jones 7None0CaliforniaTied.333Acacia Anders 1 None 0 Tied 1 Ryann Orange 0.00 None0Haylei Archer 3NoneOregonAriel Carlson1.000Tied 1 None 0 Tied 1 Elise Sokolsky 1.66 None0Tied 1None0Oregon StateKiki Escobar.500Lici Campbell 1 None 0 None 0 Logan Hulon 3.00 None0Logan Hulon 5None0StanfordTaryn Kern.500Taryn Kern 2 None 0 Aly Kaneshiro 1 NiJaree Canady 0.00 NiJaree Canady1NiJaree Canady 13None0UCLAJanelle Meono.500 Tied 3 Sharlize Palacios 1 Tied 1 Kaitlyn Terry 3.11 Tied1Kaitlyn Terry 8None0UtahKaylah Nelsen.667Kaylah Nelsen 4 Shonty Passi 1 Tied 1 Mariah Lopez 2.91 Tied1Mariah Lopez 8Mariah Lopez1WashingtonGiselle Alvarez0.666Alana Johnson 2 Tied 2 Brooklyn Carter 1 Sidne Peters 9.03 None 0Sidne Peters3None0
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 KernStanford P Sarah LaddUtah P Mariah LopezUtah OF Kaylah Nelsen UtahC Sharlize PalaciosUCLAINF Carlie ScupinArizona P/OF Kaitlyn Terry UCLAINF Jordan Woolery UCLA
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