Southern California Baseball Association Explained

The Southern California Baseball Association or SCBA was a baseball-only conference that existed from 1977 to 1984. It was made up of schools from the Big West Conference, then known as the Pacific Coast Athletic Association (PCAA), and West Coast Conference, then known as the West Coast Athletic Conference (WCAC). In 1977, the PCAA and WCAC realigned themselves for baseball only into a north conference (NCBA) and south conference (SCBA). In the league's inaugural season there were seven teams. The next year, UC Irvine joined, and from then until the demise of the conference the membership stood at eight schools. San Diego State left after the 1978 season but was immediately replaced by San Diego, and Cal State Los Angeles left after the next-to-last season of 1983 and was replaced for the league's final season by UNLV, the only non-California member in SCBA history. The SCBA was dominated by Cal State Fullerton who won the league title all eight seasons, while competing in four College World Series and claiming their first two national titles.

Member schools

Institution	Nickname	Location	Founded	Joined	Left	Primary conference for other sports at the moment	NCAA baseball tournament appearances	CWS appearances
Cal State Fullerton	Titans	Fullerton, California	1957	1976–77	1983–84	PCAA	32	17
Cal State LA	Golden Eagles	Los Angeles, California	1947	1976–77	1982–83	CCAA	4	1
Long Beach State	49ers	Long Beach, California	1949	1976–77	1983–84	PCAA	18	4
Loyola Marymount	Lions	Los Angeles, California	1911	1976–77	1983–84	WCAC	8	1
Pepperdine	Waves	Malibu, California	1937	1976–77	1983–84	WCAC	25	2
San Diego	Toreros	San Diego, California	1949	1978–79	1983–84	WCAC	6	0
San Diego State	Aztecs	San Diego, California	1897	1976–77	1977–78	PCAA (left to join WAC; now in MW)	9	0
UC Irvine	Anteaters	Irvine, California	1965	1977–78	1983–84	PCAA	9	2
UC Santa Barbara	Gauchos	Santa Barbara, California	1891	1976–77	1983–84	PCAA	7	0
UNLV	Rebels	Las Vegas, Nevada	1957	1983–84	1983–84	PCAA (now in MW)	10	0