Pacific Ten Conference

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Pacific Ten Conference

Data
Established	1959
Members	10
Sports fielded	22 (11 men's, 11 women's)
Region	West Coast of the United States
States	4 - Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington
Past names	Athletic Association of Western Universities, Pacific-8 Conference
Headquarters	Walnut Creek, California
Locations

The Pacific Ten Conference (Pac-10) is a college athletic conference which operates in the western United States. It participates in the NCAA's Division I (Division I Bowl Subdivision for football).

[edit] Membership

[edit] Full members

Institution	Athletics	Location	Founded	Affiliation	Enrollment	Team Nickname
University of Arizona	Arizona Wildcats	Tucson, Arizona	1885	Public	37,036	Wildcats
Arizona State University	ASU Sun Devils	Tempe, Arizona	1885	Public	61,033	Sun Devils
University of California, Berkeley	California Golden Bears	Berkeley, California	1868	Public (University of California system)	33,000	Golden Bears
University of Oregon	Oregon Ducks	Eugene, Oregon	1876	Public (Oregon University System)	20,339	Ducks
Oregon State University	Oregon State Beavers	Corvallis, Oregon	1868	Public (Oregon University System)	19,362	Beavers
Stanford University	Stanford Cardinal	Stanford, California	1891	Private/Non-sectarian	14,654	Cardinal
University of California, Los Angeles	UCLA Bruins	Los Angeles, California	1919	Public (University of California system)	38,000	Bruins
University of Southern California	USC Trojans	Los Angeles, California	1880	Private/Non-sectarian	32,160	Trojans
University of Washington	Washington Huskies	Seattle, Washington	1861	Public	42,708	Huskies
Washington State University	Washington State Cougars	Pullman, Washington	1890	Public	23,121	Cougars

[edit] Associate members (men's soccer)

San Diego State Aztecs

[edit] Associate members (wrestling)

[edit] History

The roots of the Pac-10 Conference go back to December 15, 1915, when the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was founded at a meeting at the Oregon Hotel in Portland, Oregon. Charter members were the University of California (now University of California, Berkeley), the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State College (now Oregon State University). The conference began play in 1916.

One year later, Washington State College (now Washington State University) joined the league, followed by Stanford University in 1918.

In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission of the University of Southern California and the University of Idaho. The University of Montana joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the addition of UCLA.

For many years, the conference split into two divisions for basketball--a Southern Division comprised of the four California schools and a Northern Division comprised of the six schools in the Pacific Northwest.

In 1950, Montana joined the Mountain States Conference. The PCC continued as a nine-team league through 1958.

Following a "pay-for-play" scandal at several PCC institutions, the PCC was dissolved and the Pac-10 was founded on July 1, 1959 as the Athletic Association of Western Universities, with Cal, Stanford, UCLA, USC and Washington as charter members. Washington State joined in 1962; Oregon and Oregon State joined in 1964. In 1968, the conference renamed itself the Pacific-8 Conference, or Pac-8 for short. In 1978, Arizona and Arizona State joined, creating the Pac-10 in its current form. The conference expressed interest in admitting the University of Texas after the collapse of the Southwest Conference. Texas expressed an interest in joining a strong academic conference, but joined three fellow SWC schools in forming the Big 12 Conference. Thus of Division I conferences, only the Ivy League has maintained its current membership for a longer time.

The Pac-10 claims the PCC's history as its own, since the eight largest schools in the old PCC all eventually joined the new league. However, the older league had a separate charter.

The Pac-10 is one of the founding members of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation, a conference organized to provide competition in non-revenue Olympic sports. All Pac-10 members participate in at least one MPSF sport, and for certain sports, the Pac-10 admits certain schools as Associate Members (which currently are San Diego State for men's soccer, and UC Davis, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, Boise State, Cal State Fullerton, Portland State, and Cal State Bakersfield for wrestling).

[edit] Pac-10 football rivalries

Big Game 2004 between Cal and Stanford

The Pac-10 is an anomaly in college sports, in that each school within the conference has its own in-state, conference rivalry. One is an intracity rivalry, and another is within the same metropolitan area. These rivalries (and the name given to the football forms) are:

Arizona-Arizona State (winner gets the Territorial Cup)
Washington-Washington State (winner gets the Apple Cup)
Oregon-Oregon State (The Civil War)
Cal-Stanford (The Big Game, winner gets the Stanford Axe)
UCLA-USC rivalry|UCLA-USC (winner gets the Victory Bell)

There are several other notable non-geographic football rivalries within the Pac-10 conference.

USC and Stanford have had a long-standing football grudge: they are the two private schools in the league and early on Stanford was the traditional football powerhouse on the West Coast^[1]. Cal and UCLA also share a rivalry rooted in their shared history as elite campuses within the University of California system, the culture clash between Northern and Southern California, and the sibling rivalry over the shared use of the same school song by both UCLA and UC Berkeley. Cal and USC also have a long history between each other, having played each other practically every year in football since 1916. USC leads the all-time series 59-30-5.

With the NCAA permanently approving 12-game schedules in college football in 2006, Pac-10 schools now play a full round-robin schedule for the first time since Arizona and Arizona State joined the conference in 1978.

[edit] Rivalries in other sports

All of the intra-conference rivalries in football are carried over into other sports. However, over the years UCLA and Arizona have developed a primarily basketball rivalry between the two schools due to the fact that both teams have historically dominated the conference. In the last few years, Stanford's success has also led to a rivalry with Arizona, which peaked in 2000 with both receiving #1 seeds in the NCAA tournament. In addition, certain nonconference rivalries have developed in other sports.

During the 1970s, UCLA and Notre Dame had an intense men's basketball rivalry. For several years, it was the only nonconference game in Division I basketball that was played twice a season (home-and-home). Unquestionably, the most famous game in the rivalry was on January 19, 1974, when Notre Dame scored the last 12 points of the game to nip UCLA and end the Bruins' record 88-game winning streak. This rivalry is now dormant, partly because Notre Dame is no longer independent in sports other than football.

In recent years, Gonzaga has developed an in-state rivalry in men's basketball with Washington and Washington State.

[edit] Past Conference Champions

[edit] Men's Basketball

PCC

1915-16-Oregon State/California
1916-17-Washington State
1918-19-Oregon
1919-20-Stanford
1920-21-Stanford/California
1921-22-Idaho
1922-23-Idaho
1923-24-California
1924-25-California
1925-26-California
1926-27-California
1927-28-USC
1928-29-California
1929-30-USC
1930-31-Washington
1931-32-California
1932-33-Oregon State
1933-34-Washington
1934-35-USC
1935-36-Stanford
1936-37-Stanford
1937-38-Stanford
1938-39-Oregon
1939-40-USC
1940-41-Washington State
1941-42-Stanford
1942-43-Washington
1943-44-Washington/California
1944-45-Oregon/UCLA
1945-46-California
1946-47-Oregon State
1947-48-Washington
1948-49-Oregon State
1949-50-UCLA
1950-51-Washington
1951-52-UCLA
1952-53-Washington
1953-54-USC
1954-55-Oregon State
1955-56-UCLA
1956-57-California
1957-58-Oregon State/California
1958-59-California

AAWU/Pac-8/Pac-10

1959-60-California
1960-61-USC
1961-62-UCLA
1962-63-Stanford/UCLA
1963-64-UCLA
1964-65-UCLA
1965-66-Oregon State
1966-67-UCLA
1967-68-UCLA
1968-69-UCLA
1969-70-UCLA
1970-71-UCLA
1971-72-UCLA
1972-73-UCLA
1973-74-UCLA
1974-75-UCLA
1975-76-UCLA
1976-77-UCLA
1977-78-UCLA
1978-79-UCLA
1979-80-Oregon State
1980-81-Oregon State
1981-82-Oregon State
1982-83-UCLA
1983-84-Oregon State/Washington
1984-85-USC/Washington
1985-86-Arizona
1986-87-UCLA
1987-88-Arizona
1988-89-Arizona
1989-90-Arizona/Oregon State
1990-91-Arizona
1991-92-UCLA
1992-93-Arizona
1993-94-Arizona
1994-95-UCLA
1995-96-UCLA
1996-97-UCLA
1997-98-Arizona
1998-99-Stanford
1999-00-Arizona/Stanford
2000-01-Stanford
2001-02-Oregon
2002-03-Arizona
2003-04-Stanford
2004-05-Arizona
2005-06-UCLA
2006-07-Oregon

[edit] See also

Pac-10 Tournament

[edit] Women's Basketball

1985-86-USC
1986-87-USC
1987-88-Washington
1988-89-Stanford
1989-90-Stanford/Washington
1990-91-Stanford
1991-92-Stanford
1992-93-Stanford
1993-94-USC
1994-95-Stanford
1995-96-Stanford
1996-97-Stanford
1997-98-Stanford
1998-99-UCLA/Oregon
1999-00-Oregon
2000-01-Arizona State/Stanford/Washington
2001-02-Stanford
2002-03-Stanford
2003-04-Arizona/Stanford
2004-05-Stanford
2005-06-Stanford
2006-07-Stanford

[edit] Football

Season	Champion	Conference Record
1959	UCLA	3-1
	USC	3-1
	*Washington	3-1
1960	Washington	4-0
1961	UCLA	3-1
1962	USC	4-0
1963	Washington	4-1
1964	*Oregon State	3-1
1964	USC	3-1
1965	UCLA	4-0
1966	USC	4-1
1967	USC	6-1
1968	USC	6-0
1969	USC	6-0
1970	Stanford	6-1
1971	Stanford	6-1
1972	USC	7-0
1973	USC	7-0
1974	USC	6-0-1
1975	California	6-1
1975	*UCLA	6-1
1976	USC	7-0
1977	Washington	6-1
1978	USC	6-1
1979	USC	6-0-1
1980	Washington	6-1
1981	Washington	6-2
1982	UCLA	5-1-1
1983	UCLA	6-1-1
1984	USC	7-1
1985	UCLA	6-2
1986	Arizona State	5-1-1
1987	UCLA	7-1
1987	*USC	7-1
1988	USC	8-0
1989	USC	6-0-1
1990	Washington	7-1
1991	Washington	8-0
1992	Stanford	6-2
1992	*Washington	6-2
1993	Arizona	6-2
	*UCLA	6-2
	USC	6-2
1994	Oregon	7-1
1995	*USC	6-1-1
1995	Washington	6-1-1
1996	Arizona State	8-0
1997	UCLA	7-1
1997	*Washington State	7-1
1998	UCLA	8-0
1999	Stanford	7-1
2000	Oregon	7-1
	Oregon State	7-1
	*Washington	7-1
2001	Oregon	7-1
2002	USC	7-1
2002	*Washington State	7-1
2003	USC	7-1
2004	USC	8-0
2005	USC	8-0
2006	California	7-2
2006	*USC	7-2

* Denotes Pac-10 representative in Rose Bowl

[edit] Baseball

Season	Conference
1916	CAL
1917	CAL
1918	ORE
1919	WASH
1920	CAL
1921	CAL
1922	WASH
Season		North	South
1923		WASH	CAL
Season	Conference
1924	CAL
Season		North	South
1925		WASH	STAN
1926		WASH	CAL
Season		North	CIBA
1927		WSU	STM
1928		ORE/WSU	STM
1929		WASH	CAL
1930		WASH	USC
1931		WASH	STAN
1932		WASH	USC
1933		WSU	CAL
1934		ORE	CAL
1935		ORE	CAL/USC
1936		WSU	USC
1937		ORE	CAL
1938		OSU/WSU	CAL
1939		ORE	USC/STM
1940		OSU	STM
1941		ORE	CAL/STM
1942		ORE	USC
1943		ORE	****CAL/USC
1944		WSU	UCLA
1945		WSU	CAL
1946		ORE	USC
1947		WSU	CAL/USC
1948		WSU	USC***
1949		WSU	USC***
1950		WSU***	STAN
1951		OSU	USC***
1952		OSU***	USC
1953		ORE	STAN***
1954		ORE***	USC
1955		ORE	USC***
1956		WSU***	USC
1957		ORE	CAL***/USC
1958		OSU	USC***
1959		WASH	USC***
1960		WSU	CAL/USC
1961		WSU	USC
1962		OSU	SC
1963		OSU	USC
1964		ORE	USC
1965		WSU	STAN
1966		WSU	USC
Season	Pac-8
1967	STAN
1968	USC
1969	UCLA
Season		North	CIBA
1970		WSU	USC**
1971		WSU	USC**
1972		WSU/ORE	USC**
1973		WSU	USC**
1974		ORE/WSU	USC**
1975		WSU	USC**
1976		WSU**	UCLA
Season		North	South
1977		WSU	USC**
1978		WSU	USC**
1979		WSU	UCLA
1980		WSU	ARIZ/CAL
1981		WASH	ASU
1982		OSU/WSU	ASU
1983		OSU	STAN
1984		WSU/PSU	ASU
1985		WSU	STAN
1986		OSU	UCLA
1987		WSU	STAN
1988		WSU	ASU
1989		WSU	ARIZ
1990		WSU	STAN
1991		WSU	USC
1992		WASH	ARIZ
1993		WASH	ASU
1994		OSU	STAN
1995		WSU	USC*
1996		WASH	USC*
1997		WASH*	STAN
1998		WASH*	STAN
Season	Pac-10			Record
1999	STAN
2000	ASU/STAN/UCLA
2001	USC
2002	USC
2003	STAN
2004	STAN			46-14 (16-8)
2005	OSU			46-12 (19-5)
2006	OSU			50-16 (16-7)

Note: Oregon dropped its baseball program following the 1981 season
*denotes North-South playoff champion
**denotes Pac-8 playoff champion
***denotes Pacific Coast Conference playoff champion
****California won the CIBA Division 1 and USC won Division
2. Cal defeated USC in a playfoff for the CIBA title.
LEGEND: PSU = Portland State, SC = Santa Clara

[edit] Softball

Season	Champion	Record
1987	California	34-15 (8-2)
1988	UCLA	53-8 (15-3)
1989	UCLA	48-4 (18-2)
1990	UCLA	62-7 (16-2)
1991	UCLA	50-5 (16-4)
1992	Arizona	58-7 (16-2)
1993	UCLA	50-5 (25-1)
1994	Arizona	64-3 (23-1)
1995	Arizona	66-6 (24-4)
1996	Washington	59-9 (23-4)
1997	Arizona	61-5 (26-1)
1998	Arizona	67-4 (27-1)
1999	UCLA	63-6 (22-6)
2000	Washington	62-9 (17-4)
2001	Arizona	65-4 (19-2)
2002	UCLA	55-9 (18-3)
2003	Arizona	54-5 (19-2)
2004	Arizona	55-6 (17-3)
2005	California/Arizona/ Oregon State/Stanford	52-15/45-12/43-16/43-16 (13-8)

[edit] Men's Soccer

The conference established men's soccer as a sponsored sport beginning in the 2000 academic year. Prior to then, most members who fielded a men's collegiate soccer team competed in the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation.

Season	Champion	Record	Runner-Up	Record
2000	Washington
2001	Stanford
2002	UCLA	16-3-3 (8-2-0)	California	14-6-2 (6-3-1)
2003	UCLA	20-2-1 (10-0-0)	Oregon State	13-7-0 (7-3-0)
2004	UCLA	14-4-2 (6-2-0)	California	13-4-3 (4-3-1)
2005	UCLA	12-5-3 (7-1-2)	California	14-4-3 (6-3-1)
2006	California	12-5-1 (7-3-0)	San Diego State	9-5-4 (5-2-3)

Note: Not all PAC-10 schools field a men's soccer team.

[edit] Women's Soccer

The conference established women's soccer as a sponsored sport beginning in the 1995 academic year.

Season	Champion	Record	Runner-Up	Record
1995	Stanford
1996	Stanford
1997	UCLA
1998	California/UCLA/USC
1999	Stanford
2000	Washington
2001	UCLA
2002	Stanford
2003	UCLA	20-2-3 (8-0-1)	Arizona State	13-5-3 (6-2-1)
2004	UCLA/Arizona	17-6-0/15-6-0 (6-3-0)	Washington	17-5-1 (5-3-1)
2005	UCLA	22-2-2 (7-0-2)	California	16-4-2 (7-1-1)
2006	UCLA	17-3-0 (8-1-0)	Oregon	12-6-2 (6-1-2)

[edit] Commissioners

[edit] PCC

Edwin N. Atherton 1940-44
Victor O. Schmidt 1944-59

[edit] AAWU

Thomas J. Hamilton 1959-68

[edit] Pacific-8

Thomas J. Hamilton 1968-71
Wiles Hallock 1971-78

[edit] Pacific-10

Wiles Hallock 1978-83
Thomas C. Hansen 1983-

[edit] Conference facilities

School	Football stadium	Capacity	Basketball arena	Capacity	Baseball stadium	Capacity
Arizona	Arizona Stadium	57,803	McKale Center	14,545	Kindall Field	6,500
Arizona State	Sun Devil Stadium	73,379	Wells Fargo Arena	14,198	Packard Stadium	7,785
California	California Memorial Stadium	73,347	Haas Pavilion	12,172	Evans Diamond	2,500
Oregon	Autzen Stadium	53,800	McArthur Court ("The Pit")	9,087	No baseball team	N/A
Oregon State	Reser Stadium	46,200	Gill Coliseum	10,400	Goss Stadium at Coleman Field	3,000
Stanford	Stanford Stadium	50,000	Maples Pavilion	7,392	Sunken Diamond	4,000
UCLA	Rose Bowl	92,542	Pauley Pavilion	12,829	Jackie Robinson Stadium	1,250
USC	Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum	92,000	Galen Center	10,258	Dedeaux Field	2,500
Washington	Husky Stadium	72,500	Bank of America Arena at Hec Edmundson Pavilion	10,000	Husky Ballpark	1,500
Washington State	Martin Stadium	35,117	Beasley Coliseum	12,058	Bailey-Brayton Field	3,500

[edit] Reference

^ Beano Cook, Longstanding West Coast rivalry, ESPN Classic.com, Sept. 26, 2001, Accessed June 14, 2006

[edit] External links

NCAA Division I Bowl Subdivision Football Conferences:

Atlantic Coast Conference^* – Big 12 Conference^* – Big East Conference^* – Big Ten Conference^* – Conference USA – Mid-American Conference – Mountain West Conference – Pacific Ten Conference^* – Southeastern Conference^* – Sun Belt Conference – Western Athletic Conference – Independents

* – BCS Conference

Pacific Ten Conference
Arizona • Arizona State • Cal • Oregon • Oregon State • Stanford • UCLA • USC • Washington • Washington State

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