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The Pac-10 was the premier basketball conference this season, as it sent six teams to the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship. UCLA advanced to the Final Four, falling just short to Florida in the semifinals. The Bruins captured the Pac-10 regular season championship, while OREGON earned the Pacific Life Pac-10 Tournament crown. On the women's side, four teams competed in the NCAA Tournament. ARIZONA STATE reached the Elite Eight for the first time in school history, while STANFORD claimed the 2006-07 regular season title and the State Farm Pac-10 Tournament Trophy. The Conference continued its dominance in softball as all eight teams earned trips to NCAA regional play, the most out of any conference in the nation. ARIZONA claimed its eighth national title, and second in as many years, in a three-game championship series against Tennessee. It marked the 19th national championship by a Pac-10 team since 1982. With a 15-5-1 Conference record, ARIZONA picked up the 2007 Pac-10 crown, while earning the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship. OREGON STATE claimed the 2007 NCAA Division I Baseball Championship, becoming the first team in a decade to repeat as College World Series champion. The Beavers won all five of their CWS games, including a sweep of North Carolina in the best-of-three finals, and trailed for only one of 45 innings they played in Omaha. The Conference also swept NCAA men's and women's water polo honors. CALIFORNIA captured the men's title, while UCLA garnered the women's hardware, claiming the school's 100th NCAA team championship and becoming the first athletics program in the nation to reach the century mark. The ARIZONA STATE women claimed both indoor and outdoor track & field NCAA titles. The feat marked just the 13th time in NCAA women's history that a team has won both the indoor and outdoor team titles in the same year. STANFORD picked up two national championships, securing the men's golf title, as well as the women's cross country crown, its second in as many years. On the men's side, Pac-10 members have won 254 NCAA team championships, far ahead of the the 195 claimed by the runner-up Big Ten. Men's NCAA crowns have come at a phenomenal rate for the Pac-10 - 15 basketball titles by five schools (more than any other conference), 49 tennis titles, 45 outdoor track and field crowns, and 26 baseball titles. Pac-10 members have won 25 of the last 38 NCAA titles in volleyball, 33 of the last 48 in water polo, and 20 total swimming and diving national championships. Individually, the Conference has produced an impressive number of NCAA men's individual champions as well, claiming 1,146 NCAA individual crowns. On the women's side, the story is much the same. Since the NCAA began conducting women's championships 26 years ago, Pac-10 members have claimed at least four national titles in a single season on 18 occasions. Overall, the Pac-10 has captured 105 NCAA women's crowns, easily outdistancing the SEC, which is second with 70. Pac-10 members have dominated a number of sports, winning 19 softball titles, 17 tennis crowns, 11 of the last 17 volleyball titles, 11 of the last 18 trophies in golf and eight in swimming and diving. Pac-10 women athletes shine nationally on an individual basis as well, having captured an unmatched 488 NCAA individual titles, an average of more than 18 champions per season. The roots of the Pacific-10 Conference date back over 90 years to December 2, 1915, when the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC) was founded at a meeting at the Oregon Hotel in Portland, Ore. Original membership consisted of four schools - the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington, the University of Oregon, and Oregon State College (now Oregon State University). All still are charter members of the Conference. Pacific Coast Conference play began in 1916. One year later, Washington State College (now Washington State University), was accepted into the Conference, and Stanford University joined in 1918. In 1922, the PCC expanded to eight teams with the admission of the University of Southern California and the University of Idaho. Montana joined the Conference in 1924, and in 1928, the PCC grew to 10 members with the addition of UCLA. The Pacific Coast Conference competed as a 10-team league until 1950, with the exception of 1943-45, when World War II curtailed intercollegiate athletic competition to a minimum. In 1950, Montana resigned from the Conference and joined the Mountain States Conference. The PCC continued as a nine-team Conference through 1958. In 1959, the PCC was dissolved and a new Conference was formed - the Athletic Association of Western Universities. Original AAWU membership consisted of California, Stanford, Southern California, UCLA, and Washington. Washington State became a member in 1962, while Oregon and Oregon State joined in 1964. In 1968, the name Pacific-8 Conference was adopted. Ten years later, on July 1, 1978, the University of Arizona and Arizona State University were admitted and the Pacific-10 Conference became a reality. In 1986-87, the league took on a new look, expanding to include 10 women's sports. Currently, the Pac-10 sponsors 11 men's sports and 11 women's sports. Additionally, the Conference is a member of the Mountain Pacific Sports Federation (MPSF) in four other men's sports and two other women's sports. Edwin N. Atherton was named the Conference's first Commissioner in 1940. He has been succeeded by Victor O. Schmidt (1944), Thomas J. Hamilton (1959), Wiles Hallock (1971), and current Commissioner Thomas C. Hansen in 1983. The Pacific-10 Conference offices are located 25 miles east of San Francisco in Walnut Creek, Calif.