Pac-10 Domination

The Pac-10 has won many championships in many sports over the years. They have also been dominant in some sports at certain times in the past. You can look to the 6 baseball championships they won in the 60's (3 each by the USC Trojans and Arizona State Sun Devils), and then again in the 70's when USC won 5 straight from 1970 to 1974 (as well as another in 1978, also with the Arizona Wildcats winning back to back in 76-77). Of course there was Men's basketball in the 60's and 70's with the UCLA Bruins winning 10 championships from the 1963-64 season to the 1974-75 season.

None of those stretches of dominance can measure up to how dominate Softball has been in the Pac-10. The first Women's College World Series was held in 1982 and was won by UCLA over Fresno State. The Pac-10 has actually won 21 of the 27 Softball World Series that have been held, even winning 10 in a row from 1988 through 1997. Even in 1995 when UCLA won and the championship was vacated by the NCAA Committee on Infractions, Arizona was right there to pick up the title since they were the runner up. Actually of the 54 possible contestants in the 27 years of the Championship Series final, the Pac-10 has had 36 teams represent the conference. There has been only two years that the Pac-10 didn't have a team in the Championship Series and that was 1983 and 1986. Eleven times the Championship Series has featured both teams from the Pac-10!

Now if that isn't dominance then I don't know what is, and if you don't think Women's softball is tough feel free to step into the batters box and try to hit a pitch coming at you between 60-70 miles an hour from 43 feet away.

Oh yeah, lets hope that the Pac-10 can add a 22nd title this year by way of the Washington Huskies. Go Lady Dawgs!!