After five years as an all-California league, the Big West Conference will once again say aloha to the University of Hawaii.
The Big West will announce the addition of Hawaii today at a press conference scheduled for 2 p.m., a source close to the situation told the Daily 49er.
Cal State Bakersfield and UC San Diego, both also up for consideration, will not be added, the source said.
Hawaii, a member of the Western Athletic Conference for 32 years, is expected to end its reign as the longest-tenured institution in the conference. Its football program is expected to join the Mountain West Conference, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Friday.
Both conferences held meetings this week to discuss expansion, which the Big West has not done since UC Davis was added in 2007. The Big West lifted its five-year membership moratorium Nov. 16 to allow for the possibility of expansion.
Hawaii, a member of the Big West for 11 years in women’s athletics, will become the first non-California institution to join the conference since Idaho and Utah State both left in 2005.
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