A serious information dump on Friday within the convention realignment world. Beginning in 2025-2026, Grand Canyon and Seattle College shall be becoming a member of the West Coast Convention.
The 2 universities will compete in fourteen of the WCC’s sixteen sponsored sports activities. Each establishments sponsor males’s basketball, girls’s basketball, baseball, softball, males’s soccer, girls’s soccer, volleyball, males’s tennis, girls’s tennis, males’s golf, girls’s golf, males’s cross nation, and ladies’s cross nation. Grand Canyon will compete in seaside volleyball and Seattle will compete in rowing.
Listed below are some notes after listening to this report:
– Gonzaga’s talks with the Massive 12 and the Massive East have stalled out in the meanwhile.
– Grand Canyon and Seattle U make themselves the tenth and eleventh full-time member of the WCC.
– The league could have 13 members for one season in 2025-2026.
– Washington State and Oregon State are unlikely to remain within the convention after 2025-2026 however they do have an open invitation to remain from the commissioner, Stu Jackson, who did a incredible job placing this all collectively.
– How does this have an effect on the WCC schedule? 18 video games or 20 video games? What in regards to the WCC Event?
– The Western Athletic Convention is falling aside.
Here is how the West Coast Convention seems to be now:
Grand Canyon (beginning in 2025-2026)Seattle U (beginning in 2025-2026)WSU (for the subsequent two seasons)OSU (for the subsequent two seasons)Gonzaga Saint Mary’sUSFSanta ClaraLMU San DiegoPepperdinePortlandPacific
— Slipper Nonetheless Matches (@slipperstillfit) Might 10, 2024
I truthfully like this convention realignment transfer. I’ve been asking for the Lopes to hitch the convention for therefore lengthy. They’re a excessive stage basketball program with a loopy fanbase/scholar part. I perceive that some don’t like this transfer since Grand Canyon is the biggest non-public for-profit establishment nevertheless it’s Christian-based and matches the West Coast Convention requirements that they’re on the lookout for. Seattle U can also be a non-public Jesuit Catholic College.
The Lopes have been to the NCAA Event three of the final 4 seasons and as for Seattle U, the Redhawks have had 20+ wins in every the final three seasons. The WCC lives off its basketball competitors and this improves their possibilities of turning into a three-bid NCAA Event convention each season.
The convention expands to the state of Arizona for the primary time in its historical past. It should now additionally embody the #11 and #13 media markets in Phoenix and Seattle, respectively.
Additionally, take into consideration when Gonzaga visits Grand Canyon and vice versa. It’s going to be a battle of the coed sections between the Kennel and the GCU Havocs. Some wild atmospheres in these matchups.
Arden Cravalho is a Gonzaga College graduate from the Bay Space… Comply with him on Twitter @a_cravalho