Ten Burning Questions For the Pac-12 in 2024-25

As we get closer to the start of the 2024-25 collegiate season, there will be plenty of preview-related articles on this site. This year’s conference previews will look much different than in the past because of the conference movement outside of the wrestling world. Perhaps no conference has been impacted by this more than the Pac-12 (okay, maybe the EIWA too!). 

The Pac-12 is coming off an excellent year where three of its teams finished in the top-20 at the 2024 NCAA Championships. Nine wrestlers earned All-American honors. That’s the second-highest figure for the league since 2011. 

Even with the new changes, there’s still plenty of talent out west (or down south) as two Pac-12 teams appear in the preseason dual rankings and three are in the tournament rankings. 

To learn more about the Pac-12 in 2024-25 we have ten important questions: 

1. How has the conference changed? Will it impact the conference tournament? 

The landscape of college sports continues to change on a yearly basis - sometimes much quicker than that. The Pac-12, as an athletic conference, has been decimated by defections to the ACC, Big Ten, and Big 12. As of 2023-24, the Pac-12 as a wrestling conference, included six teams; three that were full-time conference members and three other affiliated members. 

In the offseason, Stanford left for the ACC and Arizona State moved to the Big 12. Those are two huge losses as Arizona State had won six of the last eight Pac-12 championships and both schools finished in the top-16 at the 2024 NCAA Tournament - with a handful of talented starters coming back to both teams. 

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