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The Big West Conference

By Matt Shetler

 

            The Big West Conference (BWC) is a nine team conference that competes in seventeen Division I sports.  All active members are in California, making the BWC the only conference in America having all of its members in the same state.  The BWC headquarters are in Irvine, California and the commissioner of the conference is Dennis Farrell, a post he has held since 1992.
  
            The nine members of the BWC include: Cal Poly, Cal State Fullerton, Cal State Northridge, Long Beach State, Pacific, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UC Riverside and UC Santa Barbara.
  

            The conference was founded in 1969, using the name Pacific Coast Athletic Conference.  In 1988 it changed its name to the Big West Conference. Over four decades, the BWC has achieved both athletic and academic success.  There are fifteen former members of the BWC, including:  eight current teams of the WAC (Boise St., Hawaii, Fresno St., and Nevada among those), two members of the Mountain West Conference (including UNLV), three members of the Sun Belt Conference and One member of the MAC.
   

Although the BWC doesn’t sponsor football, the conference stacks up well against the rest of the nation, winning seventeen National Championships in sports such as soccer, basketball, baseball and volleyball.  The winner of the post-season basketball tournament receives an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament; Cal State Fullerton represented the BWC in 2008.  On the diamond, the BWC fields some of the best baseball programs in the nation, including Cal State. Fullerton, Long Beach St. and UC Irvine.
  

            The 2006-07 sports season proved to be another great one in BWC history.  The UC Santa Barbara Gauchos captured the NCAA men’s soccer team captured the NCAA National Championship; defeating PAC-10 nemesis UCLA 2-1 in the title game.  The College World Series featured two BWC teams for the third time in history.  UC Irvine and four-time national champion Cal State Fullerton represented the BWC and would not disappoint.
  

            The Anteaters (Irvine) and Titans (CSF) played one of the most dramatic games in CWS history.  The Anteaters pulled out a 5-4 victory in the longest game in CWS history, as of 2008.  A five hour and 40 minute battle, in 13 innings, saw the two BWC teams play one of the greatest games in CWS history.
  

            The Omaha crowd became part of “Eater Nation” for the week and witnessed another CWS classic the next night as the Anteaters defeated the Arizona St. Sun Devils 8-7 in ten innings.  Both games still talked about as two of the greatest in CWS history.story.
  

 

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