Brooke Botkin (Houston, Texas) and junior setter
Raquel Lázaro (Málaga, Spain) were each named to the preseason all-conference team and the Trojans as a team were picked to finish fifth in the final standings under first-year head coach
Brad Keller.
For the first time in the program s Pac-12 history, Utah was voted as the preseason favorite for the upcoming 2020 season to be held during the winter and spring of 2021. The Utes secured nine first-place votes and totaled 119 points for their highest preseason poll position since joining the Pac-12 in 2011. Utah s previous high was fourth in 2017.
Only two points separated second place through fourth place. 2019 league runner-up Washington was voted second (100 points), reigning Pac-12 champion Stanford was picked third (99 points), and UCLA was slotted at fourth (98 points). Each team received one first-place vote. USC (81 points) and Washington State (71 points) completed the top half of the preseason poll at fifth