A conference places two teams in the national championship game in a year where the schedule had to be radically altered for the pandemic. The next year, only one game is scheduled between the two teams. It doesn’t seem like the best way to get exposure for your conference, but that’s what the Pac-12 opted to do with Arizona and Stanford women’s basketball this season.
The Wildcats and the Cardinal will face each other in Maples Pavilion on Jan. 30 on ESPN2, getting the kind of national attention the league rarely gets. There will be no return game in Tucson.