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, United States. The conference's members are small A or AA high schools located in Daviess, Dubois,

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, Knox, and

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counties. The BCC was founded in 1968, with Barr-Reeve, Bloomfield, Loogootee, North Daviess, North Knox, South Knox, and Springs Valley. Barr-Reeve had to wait until 1969 to be released from the Patoka Valley Conference to play in the league, and Loogootee also had to wait until 1970 to leave the

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. The conference grew to 11 schools in the mid-1970s, but for the most part has stabilized at nine schools since then with the only exception being the 6 year period between the addition of Wood Memorial in 2000 and loss of Forest Park in 2006 where the count was at 10.

Member schools

# North Knox is a member of the Southwest Football Conference for football. # North Knox played in the

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1977-81, then played independently from 1981 to 1986 before rejoining the BCC. # Shoals played concurrently in the BCC and SWIAC from 1977 to 1979.

Former members

# Bloomfield played concurrently in the BCC and SWIAC for its entire BCC duration.

Membership timeline

DateFormat = yyyy ImageSize = width:750 height:auto barincrement:20 Period = from:1968 till:2020 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal PlotArea = right:30 left:0 bottom:50 top:5 Colors = id:barcolor value:rgb(0.99,0.7,0.7) id:line value:black id:bg value:white PlotData= width:15 textcolor:black shift:(5,-5) anchor:from fontsize:s bar:1 color:skyblue from:1968 till:1985 text: Bloomfield (1968-85) bar:2 color:skyblue from:1968 till:1986 text: North Daviess (1968-86) bar:3 color:skyblue from:1968 till:1977 text: North Knox (1968-present) bar:3 color:skyblue from:1986 till:end text: bar:4 color:skyblue from:1968 till:end text: South Knox (1968-present) bar:5 color:skyblue from:1968 till:1979 text: Springs Valley (1968-79) bar:6 color:skyblue from:1969 till:end text: Barr-Reeve (1969-present) bar:7 color:skyblue from:1970 till:end text: Loogootee (1970-present) bar:8 color:skyblue from:1970 till:1979 text:

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Wood Memorial The Wood Memorial Stakes is an American flat Thoroughbred horse race for three-year-olds held annually in April at Aqueduct Racetrack in Ozone Park, Queens, New York. It is run over a distance of 1 1/8 miles (9 furlongs) on dirt. The Wood Memoria ...

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Conference Championships

Football

* Football was discontinued as a conference sport after the 1977-78 school year. Mitchell and Springs Valley would move to the Patoka Lake Conference one year later, and North Daviess would be an independent until joining the Southwest Seven Conference.

Boys Basketball

* Champions before 1993-94 season unverified.

Girls Basketball

* Champions before 2000-01 season unverified.

State titles

Barr-Reeve Vikings (3)

* 2013 Volleyball (A) * 2015 Boys Basketball (A) * 2018 Girls Volleyball (A) * 2020 Girls Volleyball (AA) * 2021 Boys Basketball (A)

Loogootee Lions (2)

* 2012 Boys Basketball (A) * 2020 Girls Basketball (A)

North Knox Warriors (0)

Northeast Dubois Jeeps (0)

Shoals Jug Rox (0)

South Knox Spartans (0)

Vincennes Rivet Patriots (0)

1A Girls Basketball (2011)

Washington Catholic Cardinals (0)

Wood Memorial Trojans (1)

* 2017 Girls Basketball (A)

Runner-Up Titles, and State Finals Appearances

Barr-Reeve Vikings

*1998 Boys Baseball (A) *1998 Girls Volleyball(A) *2001 Girls Volleyball(A) *2002 Boys Basketball (A) *2007 Boys Basketball (A) *2008 Girls Volleyball(A) *2009 Girls Volleyball(A) *2010 Boys Basketball (A) *2014 Boys Basketball (A) *2015 Girls Basketball (A) *2016 Boys Cross Country - Single Class *2018 Girls Cross Country - Single Class *2019 Boys Basketball (A)

Wood Memorial Trojans

*2007 Girls Basketball (A)

Loogootee Lions

*2005 Boys Basketball (A) *1975 Boys Basketball (Pre-Class) *1970 Boys Basketball (Pre-Class) *2012 Girls Volleyball (A) *2007 Girls Volleyball (A) *2006 Girls Volleyball (A) *2005 Girls Volleyball (A) *2000 Girls Volleyball (A) *2021 Girls Basketball (A) *2020 Girls Volleyball (A)

Vincennes Rivet Patriots

*2009 Girls Basketball (A) *2009 Boys Baseball (A) *2010 Girls Basketball (A) *2018 Girls Basketball (A) *2019 Girls Basketball (A)

Washington Catholic Cardinals

*2005 Girls Basketball (A)

Former Member State Titles

Forest Park Rangers (3)

*2001 Softball (A) *2005 Boys Basketball (2A) *2006 Boys Basketball (2A)

Neighboring Conferences

Pocket Athletic Conference The Pocket Athletic Conference (PAC) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Indiana with its headquarters at Forest Park. Most of the conference's 13 members are mainly Class 2A and 3A public high schools currently located in Davi ...

* Patoka Lake Conference

References

External links

IHSAA Conference MembershipSouthwest Indiana Conference Histories
{{High Schools in Southwestern Indiana High school sports conferences and leagues in the United States Indiana high school athletic conferences Southwestern Indiana Education in Daviess County, Indiana Education in Dubois County, Indiana Education in Gibson County, Indiana Education in Knox County, Indiana Education in Martin County, Indiana