SURVIVED: How the Expansion Big 12 Outlived Pac-12, ACC, and More Realignment Coming to Strengthen
The Pac-12 will splinter after this school year, with 10 teams headed to new conferences and two teams clinging to the remnants of the once-proud conference.SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Waves of fans streamed into Scottsdale Stadium an hour before the start, anticipation building each minute closer to first pitch.
That left Washington State and Oregon State clinging to the remnants of a Pac-12 facing what's still an uncertain future. “What a great way for it to end, not only for the baseball season, but the sports' history for this conference,” Hale said.Credit: Stanford's women's golf team won its second national title in three years out of an all-Pac-12 final four and its men's gymnastics team also won a national championship. The Arizona State men won their first swimming and diving national title in March.
The Pac-12, founded as the Pacific Coast Conference in 1916, has claimed 561 team national championships — over 200 more than the next closest conference — and more than 1,200 individual titles.
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