California Basketball Association
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| Established | 1952 |
| Association | NCAA |
| Division | Division I non-football |
| Members | 10 |
| Sports fielded | 14 (men's: 6; women's: 8) |
| Region | Western United States |
| Former names | West Coast Athletic Conference (1956–1989) California Basketball Association (1952–1956) |
| Headquarters | San Bruno, California |
| Commissioner | Lynn Holzman (since 2014) |
| Website | www |
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The West Coast Conference (WCC) is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated in NCAA Division I consisting of ten member schools across the states of California, Oregon, Utah and Washington.
All of the current members are private, faith-based institutions. Seven members are Catholic Church affiliates, with four of these schools being Jesuit institutions. Pepperdine is an affiliate of the Churches of Christ. Brigham Young University is an affiliate of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS). The conference's newest member, the University of the Pacific (which re-joined in 2013 after a 42-year absence), is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, although it has been financially independent of the church since 1969.
During the massive upheaval of conference affiliations in the 1990s, the WCC remained very stable. Before the 2010 realignment that eventually led to Brigham Young joining the conference, the last change of membership was in 1980, when Seattle University left the conference. At the time, only the Ivy League and Pac-10 (now Pac-12) had remained unchanged for a longer period.
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