The Northern Pacific Conference (Nor-Pac) was formed for baseball for the 1975 season and comprised the

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programs in the

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not in the

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. The

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had dropped sponsorship of the sport after the 1974 season, and its three remaining baseball programs ( Gonzaga,

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, Boise State) joined

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, Seattle U., and An eighth team,

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, was added after the Idaho and Boise State dropped varsity baseball after the 1980 season, as did Seattle U., and the five-team Nor-Pac played a seventh and final season Puget Sound dropped its program and the remaining four (GU, EWU, PSU, UP) joined the Northern division of the Pac-10 (as affiliate members, baseball only) for 1982;

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also discontinued baseball after which had left just three teams (

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, and Oregon State). In the Pac-10, the champion of the seven-team Northern division met the runner-up of the stronger six-team Southern division in a best-of-three series for the conference's second berth in the NCAA tournament. Eastern Washington dropped baseball in 1990, and Portland State eight years later; after 1995, Gonzaga and Portland moved their baseball to the

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(WCC), where their other sports were. Baseball returned at Oregon in 2009, Seattle U. in 2010, and Boise State in 2020.

Champions

References

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