List of Big West Conference baseball champions explained

This is a list of Big West Conference champions in college baseball. The Big West Conference is composed of nine schools which participate in baseball, with each school playing all of the others in three game series. The team with the best record is named champion, and wins the league's automatic bid to the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.

The conference began sponsoring baseball under the name Pacific Coast Athletic Association in 1970 and crowned a champion each year through 1976. Beginning in 1977, the league joined with the West Coast Conference for baseball, with competition in two separate conferences - the Northern California Baseball Association and the Southern California Baseball Association. This arrangement lasted through the 1984 season, when the league once again began sponsoring baseball for its members. In 1988, the conference adopted the Big West name. In 1990, the league held a divisional playoff, and in 1997 and 1998, the league held a tournament to determine its champion.^[1] in 2025, the league is bringing back a tournament to determine its champion.

Champions

Pacific Coast Athletic Association

Year	Regular Season Champion	Record
1970	23	11–4
1971	21	13–8
1972	17	14–4
1973		13–5
1974	12	18–5
1975		14–7
1976	26	17–4

Northern California Baseball Association

Year	Champion	Record
1977	21	26–10
1978		23–8
1979	26	23–13
1980	24	31–3
1981	20	26–10
1982	13	30–6 26–10
1983	11	22–8
1984	14	28–2

Southern California Baseball Association

Year	Champion	Record
1977		17–7
1978	21	24–4
1979		23–4
1980	23	20–8
1981	9	22–6
1982		23–5
1983	20 13	22–6
1984		22–6

Pacific Coast Athletic Association/Big West Conference

Year	Regular Season Champion	Record
1985	12 (North) (South)	23–7 21–9
1986	9	18–3
1987	7	18–3
1988		20–1
1989	8 12	17–4
1990		13–5
1991	6 Fresno State	15–6
1992	23	18–5
1993	3	17–4
1994		16–5 16–5 15–5
1995		18–3
1996		15–6
1997	(North) 24 / 21 (South)	20–10 22–8
1998	(North) 11 (South)	17–10 25–5
1999		25–5
2000	22	21–9
2001		14–4
2002	28	19–5
2003	11	16–5
2004		19–2
2005	9	16–5
2006	4	18–3
2007	7	16–5
2008	11 19	16–8
2009		22–2
2010	12	21–3
2011	18	19–5
2012	19	17–7
2013		23–4
2014	19	19–5
2015		19–5
2016	28	17–7
2017	9	20–4
2018		18–6
2019		19–5
2020	Season cancelled in March due to the coronavirus pandemic
2021		32–8
2022		27–3
2023	UC San Diego	21–9
2024	TBD

Notes and References

Web site: Big West Conference Baseball Record Book . 11-14 . Big West Conference . October 28, 2012 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140114053711/http://www.bigwest.org/sports/baseball/info/records.pdf . January 14, 2014 .