Big West Conference - Softball

The Big West is an NCAA Division I athletic conference founded in 1969 and comprising 12 member institutions. It sponsors 19 NCAA Division I championships, including softball, and provides championship experiences for student-athletes and member communities. Big West softball uses regular-season conference play and a six-team postseason championship. The 2026 tournament was held at Anderson Family Field at Cal State Fullerton from 6 to 9 May in a four-day double-elimination format, with the top two seeds receiving first-round byes and the champion earning the conference’s automatic berth in the NCAA Softball Championship. Cal State Fullerton won the 2026 title, defeating UC Santa Barbara 1-0 in the final. UC Santa Barbara won the inaugural 2025 Big West Softball Championship. The conference publishes standings, schedules, results, tournament brackets, championship history and official news through BigWest.org.