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2011–12 West Coast Conference Women's Basketball Season
The 2011–12 West Coast Conference women's basketball season began with practices in October 2011 and ended with the West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament, 2012 West Coast Conference women's basketball tournament from February 29- March 5, 2012 at the Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, Las Vegas. The regular season began on the weekend of November 11, with the conference schedule starting on December 29. This was the 27th season for WCC women's basketball, which began in the 1985–86 season when the league was known as the West Coast Athletic Conference (WCAC). It was also the 22nd season under the West Coast Conference name (the conference began as the California Basketball Association in 1952, became the WCAC in 1956, and dropped the word "Athletic" in 1989). In July 2011, a new faith based, private school 2010–13 Mountain West Conference realignment#BYU, joined the conference. BYU Cougars women's basketball, BYU came from the Mountain West Conference, Mount ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Division I (NCAA)
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athletic powers, with large budgets, more elaborate facilities and more athletic scholarships than Divisions II and III as well as many smaller schools committed to the highest level of intercollegiate competition. This level was previously called the University Division of the NCAA, in contrast to the lower-level College Division; these terms were replaced with numeric divisions in 1973. The University Division was renamed Division I, while the College Division was split in two; the College Division members that offered scholarships or wanted to compete against those who did became Division II, while those who did not want to offer scholarships became Division III. For college football only, D-I schools are further divided into the Football Bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
