The changes keep coming in conference realignment. With the Pac-12 Conference, as we know it, coming to an end, Washington State and Oregon State are looking for what’s next.
They formed an alliance with the Mountain West Conference in football and will play a schedule against those programs in 2024. The latest news is that they will join the West Coast Conference (WCC) in basketball and other non-football sports in a surprising turn of events. That vote occurred Thursday morning, as reported by Ross Dellenger of Yahoo! Sports.
It certainly was a shock to much of the sports world, but now Oregon State and Washington State are essentially all set to play Gonzaga and others next season … assuming Gonzaga doesn’t move to the Big 12 or elsewhere.
Let’s see what Pac-12 fans and others around the country had to say about this latest realignment curveball: