Pac-12 Conference softball tournament

Pac-12 Conference softball tournament
Sport	Softball
Conference	Pac-12 Conference
Number of teams	9
Format	Single-elimination tournament
Current stadium	Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium
Current location	Stanford, California
Played	2023–2024
Last contest	2024
Current champion	UCLA
Most championships	UCLA Utah (1)

The Pac-12 Conference softball tournament was the conference tournament in softball for the Pac-12 Conference. The winner received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I softball tournament. After several years of consideration, the tournament began in 2023 and ended the next year.[1]

History

The Pac-12 was one of the few conferences to not host a conference tournament at the end of the regular season. The inaugural tournament was held in 2023 at Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium in Tucson, Arizona. The Pac-12 softball tournament was a single-elimination tournament and all nine of the Pac-12 schools which field softball teams qualified for the tournament. The winner earned the Pac-12's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament.[1]

The 2024 Pac-12 Conference tournament was the final tournament, as eight of the nine softball-sponsoring members of the Pac-12 Conference will leave for other conferences in 2025. Arizona, Arizona State, and Utah will join the Big 12 Conference.[2] California and Stanford will join the Atlantic Coast Conference.[3] Oregon, UCLA, and Washington will join the Big Ten Conference.[4][5]

Champions

Year	School	Site	MVP
2023	Utah	Rita Hillenbrand Memorial Stadium • Tucson, Arizona	Mariah Lopez
2024	UCLA	Boyd & Jill Smith Family Stadium • Stanford, California	Sharlize Palacios

By school

School	Championships	Years
UCLA	1	2024
Utah	1	2023
Arizona	0
Arizona State	0
California	0
Oregon	0
Oregon State	0
Stanford	0
Washington	0

• Note: Former Pac-12 schools are in italics.

References

1. "Arizona to host inaugural Pac-12 Softball Tournament in 2023". pac-12.com. June 13, 2022. Retrieved May 14, 2023.
2. "Big 12 Conference Adds Arizona, Arizona State and Utah" (Press release). Big 12 Conference. August 4, 2023. Retrieved August 4, 2023.
3. "The Atlantic Coast Conference Welcomes the University of California, Berkeley, Southern Methodist University and Stanford University as New Members" (Press release). Atlantic Coast Conference. September 1, 2023. Retrieved September 1, 2023.
4. "Big Ten Conference Statement" (Press release). Big Ten Conference. June 30, 2022. Archived from the original on July 1, 2022. Retrieved June 30, 2022.
5. "University of Oregon and University of Washington to Join Big Ten Conference in 2024" (Press release). Big Ten Conference. August 4, 2023. Archived from the original on August 4, 2023. Retrieved August 4, 2023.