Arizona coach Niya Butts calls to her team in the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against Southern California in the Pac-12 women's tournament, March 6, 2014, in Seattle. USC beat Arizona 59-54. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)

 Ted S. Warren

Arizona’s women’s basketball team received 12 votes (from 12 voters) in the Pac-12 women’s basketball preseason poll. That’s as humbling as it gets.

Niya ButtsΒ has gone 28-80 in her six conference seasons at Arizona, but that’s not the worst six-year stretch in school history. From 1987-92, UA women’s basketball teams went 21-87 in league games.

It doesn’t have to be that way.Β Joan Bonvicini’sΒ UA women’s basketball teams went to seven NCAA tournaments in a nine-year stretch, 1997-2005. It can be done.

The Wildcats will stage their annual Media Day on Monday at McKale Center. Unlike media days for UA football and men’s basketball, the women’s media session will include a free lunch.

It would be nice if someday soon UA women’s hoops doesn’t need to serve lunch to draw a captive audience.

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