Arizona women’s basketball won’t be playing someone the caliber of the team it played last week or the one it will play later this week, but the game against Texas Southern is important for many other reasons. There’s the experience question for all of Arizona’s newcomers, but the bigger reason is its place in the Pac-12/SWAC Legacy Series.
The Pac-12/SWAC Legacy Series was announced in Sept. 2021 as the first formal scheduling agreement between an HBCU conference and an Autonomy 5 league. In the Pac-12’s media release earlier this year, the league office stated that its purpose is “to create both a forum for competition, as well as promotion and education around issues of anti-racism and social justice.