2023–24 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season

The 2023–24 Pac-12 Conference men's basketball season began with practices in October followed by the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season, which started November 6, 2023. Conference play will begin on December 27, 2023. This is the twelfth season under the Pac–12 Conference name and the 65th since the current Pac−12 charter was established in 1959. Because the Pac-12 includes the history of the Pacific Coast Conference, which existed from 1915 to 1959, in its own history, this is the 109th season of Pac-12 men's basketball.

It was the final season of Pac-12 competition, with UCLA, USC, Oregon & Washington moving to the Big Ten Conference; Colorado returning to its previous home of the Big 12 Conference, with Utah, Arizona & Arizona State following suit; California and Stanford moving to the Atlantic Coast Conference, and Oregon State and Washington State moving to the West Coast Conference after the 2023–24 academic year.

The Pac-12 tournament took place on March 13−16, 2024 at the T-Mobile Arena on the Las Vegas Strip, just outside the city limits of Las Vegas.

Preseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable preseason watch lists.

Pac-12 media days
The Pac-12 conducted its 2023 Pac-12 media days in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 11, 2023, on the Pac-12 Network.

The teams and representatives in respective order are as follows:
 * Arizona – Tommy Lloyd (HC), Oumar Ballo & Pelle Larsson
 * Arizona State – Bobby Hurley (HC), Frankie Collins & Jamiya Neal
 * California – Mark Madsen (HC), Keonte Kennedy & Grant Newell
 * Colorado – Tad Boyle (HC), Tristan da Silva & KJ Simpson
 * Oregon – Dana Altman (HC), Jermaine Couisnard & N'Faly Dante
 * Oregon State – Wayne Tinkle (HC), Tyler Bilodeau & Jordan Pope
 * Stanford – Jerod Haase (HC), Brandon Angel & Spencer Jones
 * UCLA – Mick Cronin (HC), Adem Bona & Lazar Stefanovic
 * USC – Andy Enfield (HC), Boogie Ellis & Kobe Johnson
 * Utah – Craig Smith (HC), Branden Carlson & Rollie Worster
 * Washington – Mike Hopkins (HC), Keion Brooks Jr. & Sahvir Wheeler
 * Washington State – Kyle Smith (HC), Andrej Jakimovski & Joseph Yesufu

Source:

First-place votes shown in parentheses.

Pac-12 Preseason All-Conference

 * First Team


 * Second Team
 * Honorable Mention:
 * Arizona: Pelle Larsson Sr.
 * Colorado: Cody Williams, Fr.
 * Oregon: Kwame Evans Jr., Fr.
 * UCLA: Aday Mara, Fr.

Midseason watchlists
Below is a table of notable midseason watch lists.

Final watchlists
Below is a table of notable year end watch lists.

Regular season
The Schedule will be released in late October. Before the season, it was announced that for the seventh consecutive season, all regular season conference games and conference tournament games would be broadcast nationally by ESPN Inc. family of networks including ABC, ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU, FOX and FS1, CBS Sports, and the Pac-12 Network.

Pac-12/SWAC Legacy Series
On September 20, 2021, the Pac-12 and Southwestern Athletic Conference debuted the Pac-12/SWAC Legacy Series, an educational and basketball scheduling partnership between the two collegiate athletics conferences, to tip off the 2023–24 season. The Legacy Series incorporated an array of educational opportunities for competing teams and student-athletes featuring expert speakers and prominent alumni, community engagement, campus traditions, historic site visits, and book/film discussions.

Team rankings are reflective of AP poll when the game was played, not current or final ranking

Records vs other conferences
The Pac-12 has a record of 87–46 in non-conference play for the 2023–24 season. Records shown for regular season only.

Regular season

Postseason

Record against ranked non-conference opponents
This is a list of games against ranked opponents only (rankings from the AP Poll at time of the game):

† denotes neutral site game

Conference schedule
This table summarizes the head-to-head results between teams in conference play.

Through 2024 Season

Points scored
Through 2024 Season

Rankings
* AP does not release post-NCAA tournament rankings

Coaches
Note: Stats shown are before the beginning of the season. Pac-12 records are from time at current school.

Notes:

† On March 8, 2024, Washington announced Mike Hopkins would coach the remainder of the season and be relieved of his duties after the Pac-12 Tournament. †† On March 14, 2024, Stanford fired Jerod Haase following their loss to Washington State in the Pac-12 tournament.

††† On March 25, 2024, Washington State head coach was announced as the new head basketball coach for Stanford following his exit from the NCAA Tournament.


 * Pac-12 records, conference titles, etc. are from time at current school and are through the end the 2022–23 season.
 * NCAA tournament appearances are from time at current school only.
 * NCAA Final Fours and Championship include time at other schools.

Pac-12 tournament
The conference tournament was played March 13−16 at the T-Mobile Arena in Paradise, Nevada; the top four teams had a bye on the first day. Teams were be seeded by conference record, with ties broken by record between the tied teams followed by record against the regular-season champion, if necessary.

NCAA tournament
The following teams from the conference that will be selected to participate:

National Invitation Tournament
The following team from the conference that will be selected to participate:

Pac-12 Players of the Week
Throughout the regular season, the Pac-12 offices will honor 2 players based on performance by naming them player of the week and freshman of the week.

All-Americans
To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors based on a point system computed from the four different all-America teams. The point system consists of three points for first team, two points for second team and one point for third team. No honorable mention or fourth team or lower are used in the computation. The top five totals plus ties are first team and the next five plus ties are second team.

Sources:

*Associated Press All-America Team

*National Association of Basketball Coaches All-America Team

*Sporting News All-America Team

*USBWA All-America Team

All-District
The United States Basketball Writers Association (USBWA) named the following from the Pac-12 to their All-District Teams:


 * District VIII

All-District Team

Player of the Year
 * District IX

All-District Team

The National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) named the following from the Pac-12 to their All-District Teams:


 * District 19
 * First Team
 * Keion Brooks Jr. – Washington
 * Isaac Jones – Washington State
 * Caleb Love – Arizona
 * KJ Simpson – Colorado
 * Jaylon Tyson – California
 * Second Team
 * Oumar Ballo – Arizona
 * Adem Bona – UCLA
 * Branden Carlson – Utah
 * Pelle Larsson – Arizona
 * Myles Rice – Washington State
 * Coach of the Year
 * Kyle Smith – Washington State

All-Pac-12

 * ‡ Pac-12 Player of the Year
 * ††† three-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree
 * †† two-time All-Pac-12 First Team honoree


 * Honorable Mention
 * Isaiah Collier, (USC, G)
 * Frankie Collins, (ASU, G)
 * Jordan Pope (Oregon State, G)
 * Deivon Smith, (Utah, G)
 * Jaylen Wells, (Washington State, F)

All-Freshman Team
‡ Pac-12 Freshman of the Year
 * Honorable Mention
 * Kanaan Carlyle, (Stan, G)
 * KJ Lewis, (Ariz, G)

All-Defensive Team

 * ‡Pac-12 Defensive Player of the Year
 * †† two-time Pac-12 All-Defensive Team honoree
 * Honorable Mention
 * Keshad Johnson, (Ariz, F)
 * Spencer Jones, (Stan, F)
 * Joshua Morgan, (USC, C)
 * KJ Simpson, (Col, G)

Scholar Athlete of the year
The Pac-12 moved to seasonal Academic Honor Rolls, discontinuing sport-by-sport teams, starting in 2019−20 ''Source:

2023–24 Season statistic leaders
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Home game attendance
Bold – At or exceed capacity

†Season high