One day after it was reported that the two sides were finalizing details, the West Coast Conference announced UC San Diego will join the league starting July 1, 2027.
“This is a monumental day for the West Coast Conference,” said University of the Pacific President and Chair of the West Coast Conference Presidents’ Council, Christopher Callahan. “Under the leadership of Chancellor Pradeep K. Khosla, UC San Diego is a thriving institution and its recent transition to NCAA Division I competition is a national success story. I applaud Commissioner Stu Jackson, the Presidents’ Council and University of San Diego President James T. Harris for their outstanding efforts to identify expansion opportunities that bring great value and further position the West Coast Conference as a premier league.”
UC San Diego becomes the first public institution to join the WCC since 1979, when Nevada departed for the Big Sky. The Tritons will compete in 14 of the WCC’s 16 sponsored sports: men’s and women’s basketball, soccer, volleyball, cross country, tennis, and rowing, as well as men’s water polo, men’s baseball, and women’s softball.
This move gets the WCC back up to ten member schools in 2027-28 after the departure of Gonzaga and affiliate members Oregon State and Washington State, which will drop the conference to just nine schools for the 2026-27 athletic year…