The Washington women’s basketball team needed Oregon State and Stanford to stumble Sunday to capture a share of the Pac-12 regular-season title and improve its seeding heading into the postseason.
However, the Beavers and Cardinal provided no help to the Huskies, which begins next week’s Pac-12 Tournament as the No. 3 seed.
It’s the highest seed in the conference tourney for UW since 2003 when it was No. 2.
Oregon State claimed the outright Pac-12 championship – its third straight title – with a convincing 71-56 win to close the regular-season conference race at 16-2. The 10th-ranked Beavers (27-3) are the No.