UC San Diego formally admitted to West Coast Conference

UC San Diego was formally admitted to the West Coast Conference on Wednesday, increasing the convention to 10 groups starting within the 2027 season.

“We continually identify valuable opportunities to expand our membership, and the addition of UC San Diego greatly aligns with the goals of the West Coast Conference,” commissioner Stu Jackson mentioned in an announcement. “UC San Diego’s meteoric rise during its recent NCAA Division I transition is the result of strong leadership, strategic investment and deliberate planning for postseason success.”

The Tritons accomplished their transition to NCAA Division I in 2024 and made historical past by qualifying each their males’s and ladies’s basketball groups for the NCAA event of their first yr of eligibility.

The Tritons will compete in 14 of the WCC’s 16 sponsored sports activities, together with males’s and ladies’s basketball, soccer, volleyball, baseball and softball.

UC San Diego sponsors 24 sports activities and can search a convention affiliation for the remaining 10.

The addition of UC San Diego comes within the wake of Gonzaga’s choice to go away the WCC for the Pac-12, which is able to start in 2026. Seattle formally joined the convention this yr.