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The modern Pac-12 Conference formed after the disbanding of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC), the principal members of which founded the Athletic Association of Western Universities (AAWU) in 1959. The conference previously went by the names Big Five , Big Six , Pacific-8 , and Pacific-10 .
Women's-only conference; known in its final season of 1985–86 as the Pacific West Conference (not to be confused with the current NCAA Division II conference). Disbanded when the Pac-10, home to the final five conference members, began sponsoring women's sports. Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association: Division II: 2010: 2015: Lacrosse ...
Pacific Coast Conference, [a] Athletic Association of Western Universities, Pacific-8, Pacific-10 Missouri Valley Conference [12] MVC / Valley 1907 NCAA: Shares founding members with Big Eight Conference: Big Eight Conference [13] Big 8 1907 1996 NCAA
By 1968, it was rebranded as the Pacific-8 (Pac-8, for short) and became the Pac-10 in 1978 when it brought aboard Arizona and Arizona State from the Western Athletic Conference.
The 2008 Pacific Life Pacific-10 Conference men's basketball tournament was held between March 12 and March 15, 2008, at Staples Center in Los Angeles. All ten schools in the conference qualified for the tournament. Number one seed UCLA defeated number two seed Stanford 67–64 to win the conference tournament.
They were founding members of the old Western Athletic Conference before they left to turn the Pac-8 into the Pac-10. Forty-five years later, the two are set to make another conference move together.
UCLA coach Cori Close recalled a different meeting in 2012 when Pac-12 women's basketball was at its low point, and the conference coaches agreed on a set of principles to raise the league's profile.
The Mountain West Conference announced that Boise State had accepted their invitation to join from the Western Athletic Conference (WAC), while Nebraska ended its longstanding affiliation with the Big Eight/Big 12 to join the Big Ten Conference. Both moves would take effect starting with the 2011–2012 academic year.