The Pacific Ten Conference is a group of universities in the Western United States that compete against each other in sports in Division I, or at the highest level of competition. It was founded in 1959. The current members of the conference are:
“Two Pacific 10 Conference teams are playing in the NCAA women's soccer semifinals -- first Stanford and Notre Dame (ESPN2) and then North Carolina against UCLA (ESPNU). Bruins basketball fans can fantasize that this is the NCAA Final Four.”
"The Pac-10 has proposed NCAA legislation that would ban printed media in all sports, and is calling for a ban on international tours for teams and on schools paying for football teams to stay at hotels the night before home games."