Big 12 Adding Women Lacrosse in 2024-2025

[intheknow247]

My guess is conference is filled out by

- Vandy
- SDSU
- UC Davis

Not likely Vandy would leave the AAC. Regionally, the AAC is a much better fit and the lacrosse better than what Vandy will get playing against Cincy, CU, and ASU. It would seem likely if the BIG12 is making this move the SEC will not be far behind.

Big 12 made it after a push from members since they now had 3 teams in conference after realignment. Only 2 current SEC schools so unless there are some more coming along, unlikely...

[laxfan9999]

Once Florida State and Clemson join the SEC for football, the SEC will have 4 women's lacrosse teams.

[watcherinthewoods]

Once Florida State and Clemson join the SEC for football, the SEC will have 4 women's lacrosse teams.

5 if the movers include UNC, as has been rumored.

[Puck Swami]

Geographically, Denver would make a lot of sense. They are affiliate members of the PAC12 in women’s gymnastics so they have a relationship with the conference.

Denver is a Big 12 affiliate in women's gymnastics, not Pac-12.

I don't think there is any chance Denver would move to the Big 12 for lax.

Denver loves playing in the Big East for a number of good reasons:

1) Big East is a better lax conference
2) The Denver roster is 60-70% from the east coast - they can draw 50-100 fans to away games on the the east coast with parents and siblings alone.
3) Denver has a good chunk of its general student body and alumni coming from the east, and as a private school, the Pioneers love the east coast visibility and brand association that comes from playing schools such as Georgetown, Villanova, etc. Denver covets full pay students from the affluent suburbs of east coasts cites and prep schools, as those full-pay east coast kids help subsidize the less affluent first gen students that Denver also wants for diversity reasons. As a 70% tuition-dependent school, this is one of the the big reasons that DU invests millions in lacrosse -it an admissions tool.
4) The DU men's team also loves playing in the Big East for the same reasons.
5) DU is getting on an airplane to play almost all of its away games anyway, and the Pios are quite used to east coast travel.
6) the DU women already play Colorado annually. There is no big desire to go to other Big 12 towns.

[Lax832s]

Will wvu have a team for 2025-2026

[Kleizaster]

Once Florida State and Clemson join the SEC for football, the SEC will have 4 women's lacrosse teams.

5 if the movers include UNC, as has been rumored.

UNC and Duke are guaranteed to be a packaged deal so 6

[Laxfan212]

Will wvu have a team for 2025-2026

WVU hasn’t announced any plans for a team yet.

Just because a conference has a sport doesn’t mean every school in the conference will have all of the sports available. ACC, CAA, ASU, etc. have wlax but not every team in those conferences has wlax.

[pvolpp]

I would have to think that Colorado likes the new configuration of the conference now that they don't have to run through USC and Stanford twice each year (with a potential third game in the conference championship).

Agree that Davis and SDSU make sense as the 4th and 5th teams; the 6th team seems to be the one that is the unknown. Will be interesting to see.