Gonzaga's women's basketball team has been selected as the preseason favorite to win the revamped Pac-12 Conference, while Washington State University was projected to finish sixth in the league's annual coaches' poll released Friday.
The Bulldogs, coming off a strong season, topped the voting among the conference's head coaches. Washington State, which returns key players from last year's squad, landed in the middle of the pack at sixth place.
The new-look Pac-12 features a different membership structure following conference realignment, making this the first preseason poll for the reconfigured league. Both programs will open their seasons in November with non-conference schedules before beginning conference play in December.
