WCC Releases 2021-22 Women’s Basketball Conference Schedule

SAN MATEO, Calif. – The West Coast Conference released its 2021-22 women's basketball conference schedule on Wednesday.

The race for the WCC regular season crown will stretch over a nine-week span, featuring 18 conference games. Conference play is slated to begin on Thursday, Dec. 30, 2021 and will conclude on Saturday, Feb. 26, 2022.

No fewer than six WCC programs finished in the top-125 in the final NET rankings, including 2021 NCAA Tournament participant BYU (42) and WCC winner Gonzaga (17).

Including BYU and Gonzaga’s tournament bids, it marks the sixth time since 2012 that multiple WCC teams have qualified for March Madness. In addition, San Francisco competed in the WNIT, while Portland advanced to the finals of the Women’s Basketball Invitational.

Always a highly-anticipated matchup, BYU and Gonzaga will meet twice in the second half of the WCC schedule, matching up Feb. 5 in Spokane and Feb. 19 in the Marriott Center.

Last year the top two WCC teams split their regular season contests. The Cougars came up short in Spokane 63-56 but avenged the loss two weeks later with a 61-56 win over then No. 16 Gonzaga in Provo. The two met again in the WCC Championship game with the Bulldogs hitting a last-second jumper to win the tournament title in a 43-42 heartbreaker.

In addition to games against the Zags, the conference schedule features an early Jan. 6 road trip to San Francisco, who finished third in the standings last season. BYU defeated the Dons 85-55 in the semifinals of the WCC tournament last year.

The conference schedule for the Cougars opens with back-to-back home games in Provo against San Diego on Dec. 30 and Portland on New Year’s Day. San Diego finished No. 4 in the WCC last season.

After sweeping the series last year, BYU also hosts Saint Mary’s Jan. 13 and travels to Moraga Feb. 12.

A three-game road swing in the middle of the league schedule features challenges at LMU (Jan. 15), Pepperdine (Jan. 20) and a second game against San Diego (Jan. 22).

BYU ends the regular season with a road contest at Pacific on Feb. 26.

The Cougars’ non-conference schedule will be released at a later date.

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The 2022 UCU WCC Men’s and Women’s Basketball Tournament will take place March 3-8 at Orleans Arena in Las Vegas.

View the entire WCC Women's Basketball Conference Schedule