A few months after competing in the national championship game and losing star guard Aari McDonald, the Arizona Wildcats will fall back to the middle of the Pac-12 according to the conference coaches. The Pac-12 coaches preseason poll placed the Wildcats fifth.
Eleven of the 12 league coaches selected Stanford to win the Pac-12 with the other vote—that of the Cardinal’s Tara VanDerveer—going to Oregon. Behind the Cardinal and Ducks are the UCLA Bruins. Those three teams are the only ones to garner over 100 ranking points in the poll.
Behind the top three, Oregon State sits with 86 points and Arizona with 83.